Worst thing you did to a Buck... and did it survive?

[Richard Gross]

I guess the worst I did to a Buck was to cut PVC pipe with my 110 a couple of years ago. Helping my Son-in-law put in a sprinkler system. I was working at one end of the yard and he the other. Too lazy to go a get the saw, just used the 110. Did an admirable jot too. Just need a bit of touch up on the edge and good as new.

 

[michdad]

I bought a 119 off of ebay (sorry) that was beat to s**t to give to a friend that did me a favor that was worthy of a gift. it did take a little to get it worth while to get it in shape to give as such, but it was worth the cost/effort. like anything else, might not be the best on the block, but it does go the miles, just understand what it is designed for and how to take care of. I do have quite a few Bucks, from pocket knife to hatchet and in between. Love "em, use them, abuse them.

 

[eatingmuchface]

go on www.knifetests.com and see the buck nighthawk one. knives should be abused. it's what they're for.

 

[wh4f]

knives should be abused.

Used!!! Not abused!!!!!!!

 

[Hawkeye5]

O.K. I will play.Me and another Offshore Oil field worker cut some nails in to
with our Buck 112'susing hammers.
' back in 1980something..I won, the nail I used was softer than his I
guess.So we had a rematch . Well we both lost.Put nail size dents in the
blades.Don't try this at home.LOL.Anyway we did not send them in for repair.
I think they both ended up in Davey Jones locker....

There yougo Thats my story.
Hawkeye

 

[F3Beam]

Way back then, I was changing the King Pins in my ol' 65 Ford Pickup and having a hard time getting them out. So, what do I do, I reach for my shiny Slimline series "Duke" to clean around the top so some WD40 might soak in better and broke about 3/32" off the tip. I guess those old King Pins were pretty hard themselves. I reground the tip and still have the knife, but it was never the same after that.

And even earlier than that, I had a 110 working in the logging woods with my Brother-in-law. He was under the hood of his truck and asked to use my knife...I handed it to him. He used it to short across the solenoid and start the D?&?@! truck. I learned a lot that day! Ha ha.

 

[GEL99]

The first knife I ever had was an old fixed-blade Buck. I must have been eleven years old at the time which would have made it 1977. I can't remember much about what the knife looked like but I remember my dad telling me, "Son that is a Buck knife. It is tough enough to cut nails." And sure enough, the kind people at Buck had even included a diagram on how to do just such a thing on the blade.

Within a day or so I caved in to temptation and got out the largest nail I could find in my dad's shop along with his old hammer. I set that nail down on the driveway and commenced to pounding on the backside of the blade with that old hammer. I got most of the way through that nail too before my dad caught me at it. He laughed his ass off and then conceded that perhaps the knife was not quite that tough.

He then taught me how to resharpen the blade on an old Arkansas whetstone lubed with mineral spirits. I eventually managed to resharpen the knife but never did get that notch out of the edge.

 

[GEL99]

ps ... He also told me that I would cut myself with that knife inside two weeks. He was certainly correct on that point!

 

[Buckaholic]

... I set that nail down on the driveway and commenced to pounding on the backside of the blade with that old hammer. I got most of the way through that nail too before my dad caught me at it. He laughed his ass off and then conceded that perhaps the knife was not quite that tough....

LOL...I have wondered if anyone ever really tried to do that.
What ever happened to that knife?

 

[Sword and Shield]

I've done the nail cut before. There's certainly a trick to it, but it can be done without messing the blade up.

 

[Buckaholic]

When I was a kid, back around 1976, I was driving my buds around in my dad's new Ford 150 pickup. Gas was goling up in price and we were broke.
I traded my 301 Stockman for $10 worth of gas. Shortly thereafter, on a quiet Easter morning around 1AM, I crashed into seven parked cars with the truck. Totaled.
Hope that knife is still around being used well.
That was the worst thing I ever did to one of my Buck knives.

Oh, the other worst thing I did regarding a Buck knife...I bought a Revolution. It's still around.

 

[GEL99]

What ever happened to that knife?

I carried that knife on family and scout camping trips for a couple of years. As with so many things from my childhood, it was eventually lost however.