What's your oldest Buck?

Currently my oldest Bucks are from the 80's. An "81" Duke 500 "AZ Highway Patrol" and "84" 112 "Coiled Rattler"

 
:thumbup: ...You have two beauties there jb4570...Must be proud of both of them.
 
Thanks Darryls; my wife got them both for xmas gifts, am i spoiled or what. Today is my first attempt to post pic's. Thank you traxs for the directions on posting pic's.
 
300Bucks said:
Anything older in this flavor - is handmade. 301/303 Schrade contract




300Bucks,
i just found this forum while searching for information on a Buck that my father gave me years ago. It is like the stockman in your picture (on the left). can you tell me more about this particular knife? Mine has BUCK "made in USA" on the tang... nothing else, and is has the grooves in the handle.
Thanks
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Yep, sounds like the one on the left. Buck Stockman, first version, made beginning in 1966 for a couple of years before the grooved bolsters were phased out. New in box, I would buy everyone I could at $50 ,maybe just a half dozen at $75, and if I hadn't bought a knife in a month and the urge was bad, one near $100 I would weight the options on how I could pay that much and not feel guilty when the plate is passed in church.

Ones that show wear or a lot of sharpening much less. Made under contract for Buck by Schrade. With Bucks lifetime guarantee
they were too difficult to repair with it's solid bolsters and they ended up changing contractors to Camillus and design.
They feel good in the hand and have just the right amount of 'heft' to let you know they are up to most every small knife cutting task.
 
THANKS, this is great information that my Dad will love to hear. This one does have a lot of wear and sharpening, but still more valuable to me than you can imagine. This was Pop's everyday knife when I was growing up, and always the sharpest knife I had ever seen. I imagined that you could cut a piece of barb wire in two with it then turn around and peel an apple with peeling so thin you could see through. I was always telling him that I wanted him to leave me that knife in is will. When I was a teenager, he sold me that knife for a penny. He said since I always wanted it so much, he wanted me to have it. Today, some 25 or 30 years later, anytime a pocket knife is pulled out or discussed, Pop asked me if I have ever seen another Buck stockman like that one. He always tells the story of where and when he bought it, and how it has those grooves in the handles and he has never seen another one like it.
 
Gorilla, welcome to the Buck forum! Let's hear the story about how your father got the knife, we all enjoy those. My grandfather gave me a knife when I was a kid (not a Buck unfortunately, but a nice Marbles fixed blade), that I will treasure forever just because it came from him and my mother has a very small folder that her father carried all the time that has my name on it for the future.
 
Ok, I just can't seem to figure out this picture posting thing so just imagine a bunch of lucite handled Buck knives from the 40's...those are my oldest so far. They are really cool looking too, take my word for it! :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
Pretty pathetic when the moderator can't even figure out how to post pictures...:D
 
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