Believe it or not, both Hoyt Heath Buck and Al Buck would've easily imagined designer colors on Buck Knife handles. Long before there was black phenolic resin, there was colored Lucite. In the '50's Buck knives could be had in all sorts of colors, red, green, blue, multicolored, white.
One of the knives that I coveted most as a youngster was my maternal grandpa's red and white spaced Buck knife. The other knife that was high on the family covet list was a knife he had done up special that featured a photo of him and my Grannie and my Mom as a girl all posed next to a car fender set in a clear Lucite handle. I'm not at all clear on whether that knife was done up for him by Buck or by a local Alaskan knifemaker. Either way, I've got a standing reward for that knife. (And yes, it does have to be THE knife with my easily identifyable familiars in it.
Think of that marketing concept. In today's world with folks arguing the differences between G10 and Micarta, or boring tac handle one and boring tac handle two, there has existed for some 40-50 years the technology to personalize each knife with whatever picture the owner desires immortalized in clear Lucite.
(Free idea number 8 for Buck Knives, Inc.)
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