Your least favorite Bucks?

I won't buy a Strider knife from Mick. But the Buck Striders are fine knives and the three I have I accumulated on the basis of them being Buck Knives. Its a fine, well built knife and I like the one's I have and still plan to get a mini-folder.

As far as Mickey Burger is concerned...a man with issues to be sure.
 
DarrylS said:
...Actually...Buck made up a few 279's with walnut scales around 2003 for regular sales. There aren't many of them around so they are a bit hard to find...Great knife...I love mine even though it just sits around lookin' good...:)

Model Number: 279 WA Model Name : Alpha Folder Catalog Number: 5479
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I have one of those wallynutto 279 gizmos. Don't see too many of them. Now I know why. Thanks for the post Doc D.

Anyway, back to what I don't like...
Took me awhile to find these as they never get used:

Here are my hands down :thumbdn: two LEAST favorite Bucks:

850 Bravo Besh Wedge
Just can't get into it. I saw them online and bought two. One is unused in the box and in the closet time capsule. Found this one in a kitchen drawer pratically unused. I think I've used it once to remove some membrane off the back of some ribs I ended up smoking.

If someone could post what they do like about this...not just that they like it, but what and what they use it for, I would be very interested and open minded. Maybe I just don't get it as I stated at the start of this paragraph.


437 Revolution
Thought it looked cool so I bought it at REI years ago. Never really used it...well, now that I gave my son the Smidgen w/ the attached bottle opener, I put this in the kitchen to use as just that, a bottle opener.

Both a waste of my coin. Your mileage may vary.

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The 850 is my least favorite, too - but due to poor design/assembly. I bought mine from a vendor who took it and a mis-boxed 112 (Suppose to be a 112FG.) back and sent me two more. I looked at the second 850 - similar scale-fit problem. The G10 won't lay flat on one end - serious gap. It had been destined for a gift to my older son - had to go with something else - and non-Buck due to the aggravation. It - and it's box - are right here atop the PC still. That defective BCCI BG-42 110 cost me $11 to return for exchange - that's 7.4% of it's initial cost - it'd be ~16% of the 850's cost - and the problem is a design flaw.

I liked the 151 Kaala - I owned it less time than any Buck - ever! I 'gifted' it to a plumber-friend headed to the sand box for contract work. I wish I had thought of giving him the 850 instead... oh yeah, he's a friend...

Stainz
 
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Well the Tempest in my first photo, just went from being my least favorite, to being a friends MOST favorite yesterday. He's a few years younger and just had a fit when he saw it, so I sold it to him. He's a happy guy!:thumbup:
 
I think my least favorite is the Buck Approach. The wedge shape of the handle causes my hand to slip toward the blade :eek:

 
Buck bantam class is pretty bad, but not drastic... i would never recommend them to a collector, but maybe a kid for his first brand-name knife or somthing...
 
The only Buck Knife I have that I have an issue with is my Sirus. It's a beautiful knife, the blade config is awesome and the feel in hand is great. But being an A/O it has that darned Pocket Safe switch that is a pain in the Keester!!! If the knife were designed as a flipper it would be one of my all time favorites...

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@ bucka holic: i have the bravo (partially serrated) and use it all the time, cutting boxes,ropes, tow lines, wood and so on sometimes carefully dig or pry with it.
always with me in my 4x4 and when i go out detecting.

i like the knife, it is razor sharp, i like the tanto point but sometimes i miss the sharp point to open up things.
like the looks, like the G10 grips, feels solid and sturdy, and gives a reliable feel of having something, fool proof.
also still no play on the blade itself and so on.

had before a Buck lumina 777,

Also liked that one but while using it for a longer time, sweaty hands could make u slip on the plastic covers towards the knife. also the thumb stud was a bit annoying while cutting.

bravo above all!
 
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I like a lot of Buck's knives, but... plenty of them make me shudder. I'm really not a fan of the weird space-age-lookin' ones, like the Rush or Impulse or Bones, and the "tactical" ones mostly are not my thing. The TOPS collaborations give me a chuckle... Chunky, clunky, not-very-useful-looking, sorta awkward...

Then again, Buck is the one company I can think of (aside from Kershaw) that has this many different styles & types. They really offer something for just about everyone.
 
This might surprise some, but I have spent plenty of moneyon Buck knives and when I spent the money for a LUX pro I was dissappointed. I sent it back for a refund. In addition to the LUX Pro.
 
This utter waste of steel and aluminum was gifted to me by my ex-motherinlaw.....
I thought I could use the bottle opener.....but it's clumsy and uncomfortable...
I think I used it once to open some mail......:barf::barf::barf:




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Buck Bones.....Waste of money. Had terrible ergonomics.....I returned it and bought another Buck 110.
 


Wow, someone dug up an old thread here!

Mine is the China made canoe (pictured). It reminds me of the cheap pocket knives I used to carry as a kid when I was dreaming of someday owning a real Buck. The AG Russell Buck Canoe Moose is a real beauty though, on the opposite end of the spectrum from the China Buck canoe shown here.
 
I think it's a Halloween Zombie thread, coming back up after 2 years :-) All good though.

Bummed to hear a bad report on the Lux, I was thinking I may "need" one of those soon. Haven't seen one yet though.
 
ohen cepel said:
I think it's a Halloween Zombie thread, coming back up after 2 years :-) All good though.

Bummed to hear a bad report on the Lux, I was thinking I may "need" one of those soon. Haven't seen one yet though.
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I can only speak for myself but when the threead came out about the LUX pro someone said it looked like a fancy version of Calleague or Nobleman. That was the hammer hitting the nail on the head. It felt horrible in hand and I hated the re-curved blade. This is just my opinion though.
 
Since this old thread of mine has been resurrected, I think I'll have to say that I've changed my mind about my least favorites. I'm going to limit my most disliked Buck to the 110's and this one has to be it! When I got this one in the mail and looked it over, I couldn't figure out why on earth I bought it in the first place. :eek: I took one picture of it, put it back in the box and don't think I've seen it since. :barf:

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Plumberdv said:
Since this old thread of mine has been resurrected, I think I'll have to say that I've changed my mind about my least favorites. I'm going to limit my most disliked Buck to the 110's and this one has to be it! When I got this one in the mail and looked it over, I couldn't figure out why on earth I bought it in the first place. :eek: I took one picture of it, put it back in the box and don't think I've seen it since. :barf:

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Hmm... On the plus side, aren't those the things that become valuable later because no one bought them? Like the Barbie vomitorium playset or the GIJoe manicure/pedicure action figure?
Just trying to put a positive spin on that knife.:eek::)
 
When "less-popular" good knives are discontinued it's likely that they will later become popular collectibles and their value may increase a lot......they sometimes become revered and beloved classics (the folding Kalinga Pro is a good bet to be such a one).

Ugly knives, though.......almost never gain a lot of value--no matter how rare they may be.
 
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