Why all the excitement over this knife?

DeSotoSky

DeSotoSky

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I don't get what the interest in this knife is and that makes me worry I'm not as Buck Smart as I like to think...:rolleyes:
A 180 Crosslock went for $355 after 34 bids! It's a completed auction so a link is fair game.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/200697606344?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649

Didn't they all have pat pend stamped on the liner lock and on the box? This is the box for my River Rafter.
I've always wondered what the actual patented feature was.
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I can't tell you why the bid is that high.

I had that exact knife, and hated it. I bought one when they were first released. Terrible lock. Injury waiting to happen.

If you treat it as a slip joint. (I've been cut a few times by my old one when the noodle lock folded, my older brother had to have surgery when his got him).

I took mine, and ground the edge off and rounded the tip and made a "kid" knife out of it for my little boy to play with.
 
DeSotoSky said:
I don't get what the interest in this knife is and that makes me worry I'm not as Buck Smart as I like to think...:rolleyes:
A 180 Crosslock went for $355 after 34 bids! It's a completed auction so a link is fair game.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/200697606344?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649

Didn't they all have pat pend stamped on the liner lock and on the box? This is the box for my River Rafter.
I've always wondered what the actual patented feature was.
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I don't know, but it makes me think I ought to put mine on ebay! I have the police model with the seatbelt hook & prying/screwdriver tip. Got it at the local hardware store as new old stock maybe 7 yrs back or so. I've still got the box and paperwork. It's in the top of this pic.

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You buying? :D
 
Jeez makes you wonder??

here are the two I have
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and a "Deputy" I paid 25 dollars for
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Bob
 
Irrational exuberance on the bidders part.
I had several 180's and they were all generic on the blade tang stamp and pat. pend. on the box. The only one worth over $100 was the special ATS-34 limited edition.

I have to give props to the seller for talking it up, but I am also glad that seller is not my neighbor.

A fool and his money are soon parted.
 
Auctions tend to cause otherwise sensible people to do to impratical things with their money. I speak from experience.

On the flip side though you can always look for solice in the old adage "you can never pay too much, but you can pay too early".
 
I have the camo crosslock hunterand the black solitaire model,both are excellent knives,i've never had the locks fail on either and both have done a few deer and bear over the years,without so much as anything ever happening to cause lock failure,although the lock does go way to the right on lock up,the frame keeps it from going farther i guess.LOL
 
So is the crosslock just a liner lock? I'm guessing not based on the patent marks but the descriptions given so far make it sound like an ordinary liner lock ...
 
The Cross lock madness has been going on for months. I saw a crosslock go for $100 and I immediately sold one of the ones I had just to see if I could score as well. Mine sold for $85 and it wasn't anything special, just a random crosslock in the box. All of then say pat. pending. Collectors do strange things...
 
GundaManiac said:
So is the crosslock just a liner lock? I'm guessing not based on the patent marks but the descriptions given so far make it sound like an ordinary liner lock ...
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Though some were single blade models, I think the new idea was that it had 2 blades, both with liner locks. You can easily roll it in your hand and open/close either blade one-handed. You don't even have to look or change ends, b/c both blades come out with the cutting edge and the point in the same orientation.
 
So the seller is saying that only the blade is stamped if I'm reading that correctly? Yeah, those kinds are harder to find. :)
Interesting story about the 180 is that the date code on all of them is the same...93 or 94 if I remember right.
This was the first time engineers decided to stamp something other than the blade. They put the date code mark on the liner lock. So the person in charge of sending in the blade stamps each year to have new date codes burned on, didnt send out the liner lock stamp tooling on the 180...Ever. Makes it hard to determine when a particular 180 was made, thats for sure.
 
The design had a few changes along the way,different types of pivot screws were used,and also the pocket clip /blade shape was slightly altered on the last of them,being the newer ones that still had plastic handles,then they went to the metal version complete overhaul.
 
This knife is back up, same pictures, different seller..... Buyers remorse or?
I bought a nice NIB Crosslock Deputy with the rare pre production "pat pend" marks for $35 this weekend....:D
 
I was thinking of selling mine ( about five of them) and showed them to a few dealers at a gun/knife show. No one even wanted them!!!...lol...Maybe Ebay will get them some day....lol....
 
This is really weird to me... I had one, years ago, and never really saw anything special about it. It was the blue one, with one drop point and one sheepsfoot with serrations. Wish I still had it; I'd trade it for eighty bucks in a heartbeat. ;)
 
i had a prototype of the cross lock i got from a buck eng,
some how Joe knew it was a real proto type
i gave it to a friend of Larry Oden that collects and displays
cross locks .. i dont know if he ever put it in his display tho...
but Joe did cert that it was a true proto
jest wish i knew what it was that tiped him off on it ...?
 
110 Dave said:
i had a prototype of the cross lock i got from a buck eng,
some how Joe knew it was a real proto type
i gave it to a friend of Larry Oden that collects and displays
cross locks .. i dont know if he ever put it in his display tho...
but Joe did cert that it was a true proto
jest wish i knew what it was that tiped him off on it ...?
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Dave, This is a proto. They were stamped BUCK ON THE MAIN BLADE AND CP WITH A NUMBER ON THE OTHER BLADE. THIS ONE IS 51. I DON'T KNOW IF THERE ARE THAT MANY PROTOS OR THE NUMBER MEANS SOMETHING ELSE.

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