Your Favorite Buck just Because it's YOURS 1 Fixed, 1 Folder Only

kyhunt, Buck offers Free sharpening. If you wanted to get a good edge on your 119. That looks to be a 1980 mfg. 119. I have one like it. The edge is thick. DM
 
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Thanks I most likely will end up sending it in. It was in pretty rough shape when I bought it in 2013 but figured I would do what I could. Cleaned up pretty good and got the chips out of the blade but I need to send it in to get it sharpened up. I worked on it just haven't been able to get it where I like it.

This is what it use to look like.




In this one you can see the chips on the belly.But for $35 shipped I was pleased to get it.
 
Send it to the Buck spa-it will be the best money you ever spent-I have a 119 my son gave me and have dressed many whitetails plus a bunch of other game with it,it looked worse than the one pictured-sent it back to Buck with a 70's 124 that looked rough and they came back looking brand new,and really sharp-was super impressed!Give it a try,you will be glad you did.
 
Here is my only Buck. 1990 119 (425m) . I just love the classic lines of this knife and find it super for all around tasks.

Kyhunt, I only recently started to really work at sharpening and I will say that it takes longer to get an edge on this than my aus8 or 1095 crovan blades.


 
Steve that is beautiful. I think I will send it in. I'm not new to sharpening but tis has such a thick edge on it.

If I have anymore questions on it I'll start a new thread as not to hijack this one. Sorry for the temporary hijack.
 
Don't have a Buck fixed blade yet. My favorite Buck folder would have to be the 110, closely followed by the 301 and 389.
 
My favorite Buck is my new (to me) 500 Duke. It's in really good shape, but it needs and good sharpening. Would people recommend sending it in to Buck, or to someone like Jason B.?

 
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Great looking knife VTer. The more I see those 500's the more I am convinced I need to acquire one for my collection.
 
VT, I'm sure he could sharpen it. I just find his manners quite distasteful. You send it to Buck and they have been known to cover the shipping as well. DM
 
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Fixed: Buck 102.

Folding: A difficult choice! But I'll go with the 112. A photo finish, with the 112 edging out the 307 by a nose.
 
@Kyhunt: If you run your thumb and forefinger from the spine to the edge, can you feel a slight swell just above the edge? If so, that old 119 might have the old "semi-hollow" grind.

@Kyhunt and VTer: I'm a total moron and klutz combined when it comes to sharpening. Despite my grandfather's best attempts, I never got good at sharpening.... until.... I got a Lansky guided rod system. The diamond stones work better than the standard stones for Buck's 440C. Even me, a total moron and klutz, have been able to get sharp edges with this system. In the years that have followed, I've made much more progress with free hand sharpening. For me, the Lansky system was like training wheels. I generally use a 17 DPS back bevel and a 20 DPS primary bevel on my Bucks. I would advocate practicing on junk knives before putting the diamond stone to that 119 and 500, both beautiful knives.

@Stumps: Who made that holster with the clip?


My favorite Buck folder is the 500.
Buck 500 Duke & Micra by Pinnah, on Flickr

No favorite fixed blade. My preference in fixed blades is for convex grinds. I really wish that Buck would introduce convex ground 420HC (or S30V) blades and compete against the likes of Bark River, or for that matter, Mora (nice blades once you convex them).
 
No fixed-blade Buck owned by me — none have quite caught my interest. And for a folder, it's probably the 112, despite the iconic status of the 110. But it's not any particular 112 because I have them in three vintages: a 2-dot, a 1989, and a 2012 (?). The last is a question because the knife lives about 1,500 miles southwest of where I am usually.

Here it is along the Marcus Landslide Trail in the MacDowell Sonoran Preserve, Scottsdale. The signpost it's on points to a rock-climbing area. Local climbers have a grand time on the rough granite, which is thermally decomposing into what looks like rock-granola but which geologists call "grus" (GROOS).

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And here's the 1989, with edge chip (reduced by sharpening since the photo). It's on the Potholes Trail at Devil's Lake State Park in Wisconsin. The rock is 1.7 billion-year-old Baraboo quartzite, a sandstone that was squeezed and heated for millions of years, turning it into a much tougher rock. (Oddly enough, Devil's Lake is another rock-climbing hot spot.)

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The 112 just looks great and feels great in my hand. I don't mind the weight or the somewhat chunky shape — it's a winner.
 
Knife edges naturally become convexed after multiple sharpening sessions. Or stropping sessions. Buck did use convex grinds for years in their early knives. I never noticed they cut better than the edge 2000 a full hollow grind. DM
 
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I have a 120 in 440-C from a custom shop with a Lignum Vitae handle. My favorite folder is a model 186 Titan. I had the Titanium handle anodized to reduce the propensity for being scratched. The finish is not totally uniform because the parts were cast rather than wrought. Because the thing is assembled with screws, I can drop many blades in it including all the Selector blades, all the high spec factory blades, and many custom blades including Stellite, Wootz, feather Damascus, chipped flint (knapped steel), etc.
I would post pictures, but BladeForums no longer allows pictures posted from iPads or iPhones. I must find a photo hoster and upload photos to the server. Then I must hunt for those photos and drag and drop and download in the proper format using all the proper brackets and backslashes. Give me a break. Was this convolu
 
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Was this convoluted process set up by nerds? I was quite content posting pictures from my phone and pad until somebody (Tapatalk?) queered the process and questioned the validity of my links and erased all my photos.
 
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