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Tool Talk => Edged Tools => Topic started by: VICMAN on April 04, 2022, 02:29:55 PM
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I just wanted to share a link on the History of the Buck 110 Hunter..
It is full of pictures of the different Variations as the 110 evolved, and has a lot of good information on them.
http://historyofthe110.com/
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Excellent read!! Thank you!
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Great resource ! :like:
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Excellent read!! Thank you!
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You are welcome zrxoa1! :cheers:
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Great resource ! :like:
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Very cool, thanks for posting. I love my 110.
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Very cool, thanks for posting. I love my 110.
You are welcome! :cheers:
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I thought I might ad why I have a fondness for the Buck 110:
The following explains how the Buck 110 changed the knife industry.
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 1964 when Buck introduced the 110 Folding Hunter most knives sold from about $2.00 to about $6.00, (in 1964 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 there is a fond place in my heart for the Buck 110.
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A valuable resource; hopefully I'll put it to good use someday. Thanks for sharing it!
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A valuable resource; hopefully I'll put it to good use someday. Thanks for sharing it!
You are welcome! :cheers:
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Thank you dks! :cheers:
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A valuable resource; hopefully I'll put it to good use someday. Thanks for sharing it!
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+1
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Thank you pfrsantos! :cheers:
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Very good :like:
Thanks for sharing it with us Vicman :cheers:
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Very good :like:
Thanks for sharing it with us Vicman :cheers:
Thank you McStitchy! :cheers:
You are welcome! :D
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Buck 110 was one of the first quality knives I owed. Holding a 110 you know you are holding a knife that'll do what its intended to do and then some.
Edit to add. Just had a look at the link :hatsoff:. Well done and worth the time to look at. Thank you.
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Just saw this thread! Thanks, VICMAN. :tu: :like:
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Buck 110 was one of the first quality knives I owed. Holding a 110 you know you are holding a knife that'll do what its intended to do and then some.
Edit to add. Just had a look at the link :hatsoff:. Well done and worth the time to look at. Thank you.
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You are welcome! :cheers:
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Just saw this thread! Thanks, VICMAN. :tu: :like:
You are welcome Nix! :cheers:
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Still one of my all time favorite knives! Love the 110 :like: :like:
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Still one of my all time favorite knives! Love the 110 :like: :like:
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:like: Great read there.
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:like: Great read there.
Thank you Pacu! :cheers:
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Good info there.
Back when I was a kid ANY lockback knife was called a BUCK. I had many lockbacks before I got my first real BUCK.
Thanks for sharing.
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Good info there.
Back when I was a kid ANY lockback knife was called a BUCK. I had many lockbacks before I got my first real BUCK.
Thanks for sharing.
You are welcome PitCarver! :cheers:
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Had a 112 Ranger for years in the US Coast Guard, a 110 @1977 too with my initials carved in the brass by an old Senior Chief. I don't take either out, I fear them being confiscated........
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Had a 112 Ranger for years in the US Coast Guard, a 110 @1977 too with my initials carved in the brass by an old Senior Chief. I don't take either out, I fear them being confiscated........
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I love the two I have still, my first was about 1975 .
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:hatsoff: Thanks for sharing. Good read.
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My father carried either a Buck 110 or something like it in his back pocket. As a kid in the 1980's at a the local county fair I picked up a "made in Pakistan" knock off that didnt last very long.
In the 1990's i went to buy one but bought the Browning knockoff instead, as it was lighter and less expensive.
I have a Buck 110 that was purchased new and given to me by a friend (Spartan) just a few years ago, a 2017. The quality was such that I really appreciated it, and went looking for more. I found a green Ecolite Paperstone (micarta?, resin?) version in an old hardware store dating to 2011, NOS. Was gifted another with the LT handles. These blades were all just RAZOR sharp.
Finally I found a used one on CL that I have tentatively dated to around 1978. I got it, an old Western, and an OG Buck 192 (different metal than today) from the same source. Anyway, now I have a very detailed map that will allow me to either confirm that, or definitively date it to some other year, presumably not far off from 78.
Thanks VIC