When did Dymondwood first appear

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kossetx

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I've been hunting for "bugling elk" , the 4 dot 110 for a while. They come up fairly often but generally for more than I'm willing to pay. Recently I was able to get one. The sellers listing sounded like it was pulled from the Buck website, right down to using the term Dymondwood in it. I figured since they were calling the blade images deer they had no real idea. When I got the knife a few days ago I saw the faint line cuts across of the scales grain which usually indicates Dymondwood. Closer inspection showed it was truly Dymondwood. I was kinda surprised.

I know it went into production around '92 but it obviously appeared quite a while prior. Anyone know?

Thanks, pete
 
kossetx said:
When I got the knife a few days ago I saw the faint line cuts across of the scales grain which usually indicates Dymondwood
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Can you post a macro-photo showing what you have described? Are you talking about seeing the lamination layers when viewing the scales on edge (Those are not cuts across the grain.) or are you talking about the face of the scales?

Bert
 
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I wonder if that blade wasn't transplanted in a more recent frame. Preston
 
Bert, you can see it on edge but Buck many times sands through the layers on the face giving it a grain like look on the darker scales. On lighter scales it. Just looks like a flaw. Sorry, can't get good pics

Preston, you may have it. Maybe it was a later build out with an older blade. The blade is unused so there would have been no reason to put it in a newer frame otherwise. The frame is like the the 4 dots though. Not as radiused as newer 110's.

Maybe we'll never know...
 
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