Yellow Handles

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jake whitehorse

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Why doesn't Buck offer pocket knives with yellow handles?

After loosing several knives with black or brown handles, I will not buy another pocket knife without a yellow handle. My current knife is much easier to see due to the yellow handles and I've kept track of it for 6 years now.
 
Hi Jake and welcome to the forum. I´ve had the same problem, loosing a lot of knives, primary fishing knives (in the dark). I solved the problem, attaching a yelow lanyard cord to the knife. It really works! If you wish, there is also the possibility of attaching a mini-mag to it
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Jake,

We have offered our 300 series with yellow handles in the past but nobody bought them. We even tried red handles with the same result. If you really look hard, those yellow handled knives turn up for sale every now and then.
Hope this answers your question.

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Joe Houser
Director of Consumer relations
Buck Collectors club Administrator and member #123
 
Joe,
If nobody bought them, maybe you still have some to sell.
It seems rather odd that other knife makers are making and selling yellow handled knives. There must be something seriously wrong with Buck's marketing department.
jake
 
I have a 3-blade stockman 307 with a yellow handle. I think it is a beautiful knife. I would love to have one in red, too. Then again I would love to have all Buck knives.....lol.

Jake, I don't think there is anything wrong with Buck's marketing department. Buck Co. makes some of the most varied knives that I have ever seen made by a production knife Co. Why make something that doesn't sell?

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~Greg Mete~
Kodiak Alaska
JKM-Chai
 
I guess that is what I'm saying also. Case and Camillus both make a line of yellow handled kinves and have for years. The classic yellow handles go all they way back to the earliest days of knife production. But why yellow? Drop your knife in some brush or along a wooded trail and you'll have your answer. You can bet the bright yellow color was a godsend to farmers, ranchers, fur traders and other folks who might have dropped their knives along the way. It would seem that the Buck Co., that makes some of the most varied knives made by a production knife Co., could make a "Classic" line with yellow handles for us old timers. I think Buck's marketing department should share the secret and let Case and Camillus know that yellow handled knives don't sell.
 
Hi Jake,

Here's an idea that I had about the yellow handled knives not selling for Buck. I know that Case has been producing the yellow composition handled pocket knives for many years, so it's a traditional handle material for them, and people expect to see it on their new knives. And yes, they do still buy them with the yellow handle scales. But Buck's 300 series have for the most part been black handled, and the 700 series comes with wood scales, so when someone goes out looking for a 301, and see the black and yellow together, they will for the most part pick the black one since that is what they expect to see from Buck.

Just a guess on my part.
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By the way, the only knives I have lost are those little red handled Victorinox SAK's.



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Dave Fortman

~Buck Collectors Club~
~Lifetime Member #736~
 
You should take a look at the Crosslock model (180). They have colored inserts, some of whice are bright yellow. Two added features that I find attractive are: 1) one-hand opening 2) a pocket clip.

These can be found at www.buckknives.com under high tech folders.

Enjoy!

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Alan L. Burnham
Lifetime BCC #863
 
Maybe if enough folks show interest then Buck might try to sell yellow-scaled knives again. I would buy one. Right now I own a yellow-scaled Camillus trapper but I would probably prefer a Buck.
 
I have a yellow handled 303 Cadet that I just had updated with the E2K. It is one of my favorites. I also have a Case and Camillus as well as others with yellow handles but Buck is my favorite. I'd like to have any and all the 300 series in yellow.
 
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