what's wrong whit Buck Knives?

[jill jackson]

The one I had that just about fell apart (110) certainly seemed poorly made. Even at the 27.99 price I paid. I'd used other knives that cost about the same, to snap cut green thorns off my hiking trails 0 performed as poorly. I was told mine was not normal and others berated me badly, saying they'd used their 110's for decades and without even a touch of any blade play, let alone being loose in 4 directions like mine was. So, I believed I'd got a bad one. I bought another of the 50 year 110' s and haven't tried it out at all. It's still brand new. Maybe I will give it a try and report back. It seems to be made well. I guess I'll carry it tomorrow and see if it holds up doing that light work, that even cheaper liner locks weren't loosened up by.

 

[Duane Sanders]

If you bought based only on performance alone you wouldn't be in this thread in the 1st place talking about how great 420HC is.

Watch the video. If you got over your snobbery and your you only use sophisticated knives you would understand why the video played out the way it did.

You're not doing yourself any good. Anyone who uses bucks and has used other brands and steels to compare them to know you are being a little eccentric.

You have much to learn. Put on some hiking pants and go construct a camp with one knife, then repeat with a buck reaper. Honestly though your knife handling in your videos is nowhere near safe. That super steel would split your leg right open on a bad hit in some of them videos. I actually reccomend learning some knife safety classes then get back into knives, THEN make some videos.

 

[jill jackson]

It looks better fitted than my two vintage LB7's, which are very tight, although I haven't used any of them. The Buck is on your left.

 

[AusLoX]

This thread does need more pics. If the $30 buck 110 is not up to par for your taste then try out a custom.

Buck 110 Custom in 5160 steel in charcoal scale color. #46/100 in this color. There is a lighter color Oak scale version which I posted a pic of a few pages back. $59 shipped to my door. F&F is perfect. I'll have to post pics later of my 1990s buck 110 next to my 50th anniversary next to the 5160 for comparison.







Buck makes something for everyone as far as materials, F&F, and price as long as you enjoy the design. If they don't like any of the designs that buck offers, then that understandable and they're not for everyone. The quality is there though, if desired.

 

[Alberta Ed]

Never had a problem with Buck's 420HC. Like it better than the old 440C, which was difficult to sharpen. My 119 in 420HC held up fine throughout field dressing (gut, skin, quarter) a moose, though it needed a touch-up afterwards, but the same goes for my CS Master Hunter in Carbon V.

 

[Cobalt]

This thread does need more pics. If the $30 buck 110 is not up to par for your taste then try out a custom.

Buck 110 Custom in 5160 steel in charcoal scale color. #46/100 in this color. There is a lighter color Oak scale version which I posted a pic of a few pages back. $59 shipped to my door. F&F is perfect. I'll have to post pics later of my 1990s buck 110 next to my 50th anniversary next to the 5160 for comparison.

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Buck makes something for everyone as far as materials, F&F, and price as long as you enjoy the design. If they don't like any of the designs that buck offers, then that understandable and they're not for everyone. The quality is there though, if desired.

Very nice. I certainly would take that steel over any of their other offerings.

 

[Quiet]

You couldn't be anymore wrong. You think, and you are thinking, that people buy Bucks because that's all they can save their pennies for. You're not getting that people buy them because they are a better knife than other options. People would gladly pay twice the price for another brand if it could out do the buck choices.

I could buy knives that make your Busse and striders look like bubble gum machine knives if I wanted to. I am just too practical to be that stupid. I know no matter what, that at any price I will put any knife in its grave from using it. It takes years up to a decade. Once you've done it and see the actual difference you will learn a lesson. The only knives that will be handed down to the next generation will be whatever knife happens to be the last I buy. Knives that see use do not last a life time and if one does last a life time it wasn't used much.

That's no issue for the flavor of the week crowd and you. You won't have the same knife in your pocket next year at this time. If you did and used it everyday you'd understand why people buy Bucks.

This is what you look like the buck users replying.

Humans couldn't have built the pyramids so ALIENS!
Bucks can't be good knives because ESEE!

Your economics models have nothing to do with it either. It's all about the knife. It would be nice if you stop deflecting.

There's so much that's incorrect in this post that it makes my head hurt. Criminy.

 

[shinyedges]

Agreed +1

There's so much that's incorrect in this post that it makes my head hurt. Criminy.

 

[BITEME]

I have one of the 110, 5160 customs and I actually did a little test,got a piece of oak(my outside woodpile) did 100 good cuts,still was catching my thumb nail shaving arm hair and would still slice newspaper easily,I then cut a large priority box ~30-40 slices,still caught thumb nail ,removed hair but not as aggressively, sliced phonebook paper but was catching a little bit in a few areas.touched up with a few light strokes on the ceramic stick and back to original sharpness....Not too sure why the carton seemed to have a greater impact then the wood?

I think it's a real nice knife ,definitely a good hunting knife....excellent price for a custom shop knife,I don't think there is anything wrong with this buck knife.

 

[fq55]

I really hate to say it fellas, but this post is making it sound like people who like Buck's are idiots because there are better materials out there. I CHOOSE to carry a 112 or 110 almost everyday, and I don't feel like less of a man because none that I own are S30V. I like the style, the weight, the steel and everything about them. I don't care about the marketing, I don't care about the latest super steel, and I don't care about the price. I don't understand why so many people that obviously don't carry the knives have such a strong opinion about them. I must be in the minority in this forum, but I'm neither a Navy Seal or a homesteader living off the grid so my knife is a work tool, not a survival tool. I have two jobs and two kids and I can still find time to clean up the edge on my 112 after a long week. Unless Buck starts making the blades out of Play-Doh, I'm going to keep using them.

I don't see anyone in this thread questioning people masculinity because they own a 110, in fact I don't understand how anything in this thread could have been interpreted that way

 

[AusLoX]

Very nice. I certainly would take that steel over any of their other offerings.

Absolutely, there aren't many left last time I checked. I bought 4 total, 2 of which I'm giving to friends and family. Speak of the devil, the other 2 just showed up.

 

[fq55]

This thread does need more pics. If the $30 buck 110 is not up to par for your taste then try out a custom.

Buck 110 Custom in 5160 steel in charcoal scale color. #46/100 in this color. There is a lighter color Oak scale version which I posted a pic of a few pages back. $59 shipped to my door. F&F is perfect. I'll have to post pics later of my 1990s buck 110 next to my 50th anniversary next to the 5160 for comparison.

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Buck makes something for everyone as far as materials, F&F, and price as long as you enjoy the design. If they don't like any of the designs that buck offers, then that understandable and they're not for everyone. The quality is there though, if desired.

Very nice, I may have to try one of these out.

 

[Cobalt]

Absolutely, there aren't many left last time I checked. I bought 4 total, 2 of which I'm giving to friends and family. Speak of the devil, the other 2 just showed up.

lol. So you got 4% of the total. I would think that most Buck 110 fans would want one of these.

 

[AusLoX]

I have one of the 110, 5160 customs and I actually did a little test,got a piece of oak(my outside woodpile) did 100 good cuts,still was catching my thumb nail shaving arm hair and would still slice newspaper easily,I then cut a large priority box ~30-40 slices,still caught thumb nail ,removed hair but not as aggressively, sliced phonebook paper but was catching a little bit in a few areas.touched up with a few light strokes on the ceramic stick and back to original sharpness....Not too sure why the carton seemed to have a greater impact then the wood?

I think it's a real nice knife ,definitely a good hunting knife....excellent price for a custom shop knife,I don't think there is anything wrong with this buck knife.

Cardboard has sand in it and will dual a knife very quickly, much quicker than wood. It is a great hunting knife, especially the higher carbon steels with the toothier edge for ripping meat. Just curious, what color and # did you get on your 5160?

 

[Quiet]

Where did you guys grab those 5160s at?

 

[AusLoX]

lol. So you got 4% of the total. I would think that most Buck 110 fans would want one of these.

2% since each color has 100 each; but that besides the point. I'm giving 2 away as gifts. I'm keeping one of each color. I have a lot of knives...this is a knife forum and it's a sickness that many of us have.

 

[JD Bear]

I don't see anyone in this thread questioning people masculinity because they own a 110, in fact I don't understand how anything in this thread could have been interpreted that way

Out of everything in that post, that's what you pick out? Let me put it this way, I don't feel like a lesser knife enthusiast because my 110s aren't S30V. If that one part of a comment is all you got out of that, it seems to me like you're looking for something to pick apart.

 

[Cobalt]

2% since each color has 100 each; but that besides the point. I'm giving 2 away as gifts. I'm keeping one of each color. I have a lot of knives...this is a knife forum and it's a sickness that many of us have.

No doubt. I have no problem with that. I do the same.

 

[BITEME]

I got the dark one # 027,normally don't pick-up too many buck knives but a carbon steel with BOS heat treat sounded different,mostly just a novelty for me but hey it works nice...

 

[AusLoX]

I got the dark one # 027,normally don't pick-up too many buck knives but a carbon steel with BOS heat treat sounded different,mostly just a novelty for me but hey it works nice...

very nice. You got a low #. I'm thinking to let it patina fully.