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Why I have a fondness for the Buck 110 Folding Hunter

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Re: Why I have a fondness for the Buck 110 Folding Hunter
Reply #510 on: March 24, 2019, 04:43:41 PM
The 110 my favourite knife  :tu:

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Re: Why I have a fondness for the Buck 110 Folding Hunter
Reply #511 on: March 24, 2019, 05:05:24 PM
Cool B&W there W.
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Re: Why I have a fondness for the Buck 110 Folding Hunter
Reply #512 on: March 24, 2019, 05:06:38 PM
Thanks toolguy  :cheers: :like:
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Re: Why I have a fondness for the Buck 110 Folding Hunter
Reply #513 on: March 24, 2019, 05:09:27 PM
That blade is gorgeous toolguy  :dd: :like: :like:

Which one?

There are three in my post.If I had to choose I like the bottom blade best.
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Re: Why I have a fondness for the Buck 110 Folding Hunter
Reply #514 on: March 24, 2019, 05:12:18 PM
Which one?

There are three in my post.If I had to choose I like the bottom blade best.
Yes the bottom pic has the best looking blade :tu: :like:
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Re: Why I have a fondness for the Buck 110 Folding Hunter
Reply #515 on: March 24, 2019, 05:33:42 PM
Here are few more Buck 110's with Damascus blades.

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Re: Why I have a fondness for the Buck 110 Folding Hunter
Reply #516 on: March 24, 2019, 05:36:45 PM
Very nice I like the blade in the top pic that is just gorgeous  :like: :tu:
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Re: Why I have a fondness for the Buck 110 Folding Hunter
Reply #517 on: March 24, 2019, 05:38:17 PM
Here is the B&W version.
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Re: Why I have a fondness for the Buck 110 Folding Hunter
Reply #518 on: March 24, 2019, 05:40:06 PM
Nice B&W pics toolguy  :dd: :like:
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Re: Why I have a fondness for the Buck 110 Folding Hunter
Reply #519 on: March 24, 2019, 05:43:24 PM
Nice B&W pics toolguy  :dd: :like:

They need more work,they're not as cool as your pic.
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Re: Why I have a fondness for the Buck 110 Folding Hunter
Reply #520 on: March 24, 2019, 05:49:26 PM
I have always liked B&W pics
You just don’t want to make them look too dark  :cheers: :tu:
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Re: Why I have a fondness for the Buck 110 Folding Hunter
Reply #521 on: March 24, 2019, 06:01:51 PM
Beautiful 110 Toolguy!
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Re: Why I have a fondness for the Buck 110 Folding Hunter
Reply #522 on: March 24, 2019, 07:49:20 PM
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Re: Why I have a fondness for the Buck 110 Folding Hunter
Reply #523 on: March 24, 2019, 07:52:52 PM
Cool pic TLW  :like: :tu:
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Re: Why I have a fondness for the Buck 110 Folding Hunter
Reply #524 on: March 24, 2019, 08:23:51 PM
Hiking with the 3 Dot

A good good knife to have on a hike!    :like:
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Re: Why I have a fondness for the Buck 110 Folding Hunter
Reply #525 on: March 24, 2019, 08:24:55 PM
Here are few more Buck 110's with Damascus blades.

Toolguy those are beautiful and TR approved!      :like:   verah much.
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Re: Why I have a fondness for the Buck 110 Folding Hunter
Reply #526 on: March 25, 2019, 02:43:25 AM
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A good good knife to have on a hike!    :like:
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Re: Why I have a fondness for the Buck 110 Folding Hunter
Reply #527 on: March 25, 2019, 04:27:09 AM
The Buck 110 is the seminal, lock-back blade.



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Re: Why I have a fondness for the Buck 110 Folding Hunter
Reply #528 on: March 25, 2019, 04:51:11 AM
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Re: Why I have a fondness for the Buck 110 Folding Hunter
Reply #529 on: March 25, 2019, 12:30:23 PM
Cool pics eTripper :like: :tu:
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Re: Why I have a fondness for the Buck 110 Folding Hunter
Reply #530 on: March 25, 2019, 01:49:20 PM
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Re: Why I have a fondness for the Buck 110 Folding Hunter
Reply #531 on: March 27, 2019, 07:04:11 PM
I got-out my 'Big 110' yesterday for a perimeter-walk.  :D

"Those who do evil to others:  the killers, the rapists, psychos, sadists.  Will come to know me well.  Frank Castle is dead!  Call me . . . The Punisher."

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Re: Why I have a fondness for the Buck 110 Folding Hunter
Reply #532 on: March 27, 2019, 07:15:48 PM
Beautiful pic!!
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Re: Why I have a fondness for the Buck 110 Folding Hunter
Reply #533 on: March 27, 2019, 07:52:00 PM
Nice pic eTripper  :like: :tu:
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Re: Why I have a fondness for the Buck 110 Folding Hunter
Reply #534 on: March 09, 2021, 09:35:08 AM
For those of you who are quite a bit younger than I am, in the 1960's  the main US knife manufacturers were Buck, Case, Schrade Walden Cutlery Corporation (a division of the Imperial Knife Associated Companies), Kabar, Camillus, and Western. There was no such thing as Cold Steel, Spyderco, Benchmade, Strider,Chris Reeve Knives, CRKT, etc.

In the early 1960's when Buck introduced the 110 Folding Hunter most knives sold from about $2.00 to about $6.00, (in 1963 Federal minimum wage was $1.25 an hour), so when Buck introduced knives starting at $16.00 many people said no one would buy them, but they used 440C stainless hardened to a Rockwell hardness of 58 to 60 RC which no one else was offering and they offered a lifetime warranty.

The Folding Hunter was originally designed as a knife that was solid like a fixed blade, but would give the horseman and hunter a knife he could carry safely when riding on horseback or in a vehicle. There is some danger with a fixed blade, if you fall on it regardless of the sheath design.

Buck envisioned it as a knife that would mainly be used by hunters just during hunting season each year, but the public saw the utility of it for edc use and it caught on rapidly and soon it was common to see a Buck 110 on the belt of the average working man.

It became the best selling knife in the world and was the most copied at that time. In 1964, they shipped 255 of them. In 1965, they shipped 2,500, and in 1966, 10,000, and it just kept growing from there. In the first 13 years they sold over 2 1/4 million Buck 110's.

Buck's warranty and use of a higher grade steel raised the bar for the other companies, and they ended up improving their products as a result. Owning a Buck knife meant holding a piece of quality craftsmanship built to last.

While it was not the first lockback knife,the Buck Folding Hunter is the knife that blazed the trail for all the other lockbacks that followed it. It is the knife that made it popular to carry a lockback for edc.

And that is why I have a fondness for the Buck 110 Folding Hunter.

Here are my Buck 110's with 3 Buck 112's on the right side.

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Good story and nice collection.
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Re: Why I have a fondness for the Buck 110 Folding Hunter
Reply #535 on: March 09, 2021, 02:10:07 PM
Nice thread bump.  :tu:
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Re: Why I have a fondness for the Buck 110 Folding Hunter
Reply #536 on: March 09, 2021, 02:49:45 PM
 :iagree:. This is the thread that finally moved me to get my first 110.
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Re: Why I have a fondness for the Buck 110 Folding Hunter
Reply #537 on: March 09, 2021, 03:02:23 PM
Me to! I had looked at the flea market but they wanted so much money for them thankfully I finally found one at a great price and one of the older ones with 440c steel
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Re: Why I have a fondness for the Buck 110 Folding Hunter
Reply #538 on: March 10, 2021, 01:38:50 AM
:iagree:. This is the thread that finally moved me to get my first 110.


  :ahhh     :tu:   Cant wait to see it buddy!    :like:

Me to! I had looked at the flea market but they wanted so much money for them thankfully I finally found one at a great price and one of the older ones with 440c steel

8)    Be looking forwards to see some pics of it.     :tu:      :like:
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Re: Why I have a fondness for the Buck 110 Folding Hunter
Reply #539 on: March 10, 2021, 03:01:42 AM
Here it is!  It's nothing fancy, just a 2018 model.  When I was in school, everyone had one strapped to their belt, or a Pakistani look alike.  I read this thread, and thought it was time to go get one after almost 40 years.  My son beat me to getting one for himself, and it's been his primary carry knife in the Coast Guard.  He absolutely loves his!
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