Interesting show on History channel about Buck.

[Fisher of Men]

I just wanted to share this with you all as I never really thought Buck was that good of a knife.....until today.

I was watching the History channel earlier today and I saw a real interesting documentary on the Buck Knife. Since I love knives this was a great program. I had no idea really where things started with Buck and I was glad to find out. The funny thing is that they were explaining how the Buck 110 folder came to be and how it's still the most popular one for the company today. Kinda funny since that's the first knife I remember seeing my father use... a Buck 110. I think I'll eventually have to get one as they look really solid. They even showed in detail how they are made from the beginning to the end in the factory. Surprisingly a great deal of the process is still done by hand. That's impressive.

They also showed how they make the Buck Revolution and how they cut their serated edges. Pretty cool.

Cheers,
Fisher of Men :)

[ken]

FoM-

Thanks for sharng this...Any idea when they will show it again?
Buck has always been down by me in the city of El Cajon, San Diego, California.

Great company and a good knife (American Made) and that means a lot.
Also they have stood the test of time.

Shame on you for not thinking Buck was that good of a knife. To bad that have decided to move to Idaho but our high energy prices force them to do so.

For a good piece of history do a internet search on the Buck "M9" bayonet.

Thanks,
ken

[crahen]

Once upon a time I collected engraved Buck 110 and 112. My BIG gripe with Buck is when they switched from 440C modified to junk steel.

Buck made part of their reputation on knives they didn't make :eek: The black handled traditional pattern knives were originally made by Schrade, then Camillus made them for years. Buck didn't start making them themselves until about the late 80s or 1990.

[ken]

Once upon a time I collected engraved Buck 110 and 112. My BIG gripe with Buck is when they switched from 440C modified to junk steel.

Buck made part of their reputation on knives they didn't make :eek: The black handled traditional pattern knives were originally made by Schrade, then Camillus made them for years. Buck didn't start making them themselves until about the late 80s or 1990.


Crahen-

The 110 was Buck's mainstay. I bough a 106 hatchet back in th late 70's
and they had there phenobic handled fixed blade knives out than so I'm not real sure of your dates.....none the less others have learned from Buck. Also I'm not real sure of Schrade or Camillus making them first, I don't know to much about them. I thougt they made mostly small folders. Room to learn though.

BTW you are still #1 in my book so I hope you don't really read tings into what I post..

see ya'
ken

[crahen]

Buck always made the 110 and 112. The small triditional pattern knives like the stockman, etc were the ones made originally by Schrade then Camillus, then buck themselves ;)

Ken-
Read things into what you post :confused: I have no problems with zingers ;)

Joke away :D

- Craig

[Scotch]

The name of the show is

Hands on History
Buck Knives.

I looked but it doenst seem to be on again.

[ken]

Scotch-
Thanks I'll keep a look out as this sounds like an interesting show, Buck Knives has a good following and a long history...


ken

[Scotch]

yeah you can do a search at http://www.historychannel.com/global/listings/listings_weekly.jsp?NetwCode=THC&timezone=1

It doenst seem like it will be on in the neer future,

[davec]

My Buck 110 in damascus steel is one of my pride and joys. It has some of the nicest stag I've ever seen.

I was going to suggest a Buck/Spyderco collaboration but since the signature Buck knife is the 110, didn't see how it could be done. Unless they could do a folding clipit version of the Kalinga. :)