Has Buck ever made a "peanut" style knife?

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I'm referring to a 2 or 3-blade knife with more rounded edges than the typical buck stockman style knives.
 
I don't recall Buck making such a pattern. Unless made by Camillus and a Smokey Mountain Knife exclusive. DM
 
Aren't the Small and Medium Trappers similar to the Peanut pattern? These are still made, albeit Chinese knives, yes?
Of course the blade shapes are different...
 
Like David said, I have never seen one. But SMKW does do a lot of exclusives so you never know.
 
NativeCraft said:
I'm referring to a 2 or 3-blade knife with more rounded edges than the typical buck stockman style knives.
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My understanding is that "Peanut", like "Sodbuster", is a trademarked model names by Case, much like "Hunter" and "Ranger" are for Buck. In particular, the Case Peanut is, as I understand it, a small Serpentine Jack with some minor variations on bolster shapes that distinguish it from small Serpentine Jacks made by others like Camillus among many others. In this usage of the word "Jack", it is commonly taken to mean that the main and secondary blade are on the same end.

Sometimes, but not always, knives with the secondary blade on the other end are referred to pen knives. Then again, some knives with the secondary on the opposite end are called jack knives. The names morph.

Traditionally, the 3 blade stockman pattern is built on a serpentine frame, as opposed to a 3 blade cattle knife, which is built on an equal end (i.e. cigar shaped) frame. The core of Buck's 300 series are built on a serpentine frame, just like the Case Peanut is, but the only 2 blade serpentine Bucks that I know of have the secondary on the opposite end, more commonly (but not always) called a pen knife. I don't know of any 2 blade serpentine Bucks with both blades on the same end.

Perhaps 300 could shed some light on what Buck has done or not done?
 
Yes, he sounds especially literate today.....For something like a Case Peanut you will likely have to look over one of Buck offshore knives. I do not know of a Case Peanut copy made on American soil. I may have had one made from a 309 a long while ago I will have to search. As stated the 309 or 305 fall the nearest to the size of the Case Peanut. But blades are on opposite ends.... 300

Have this photo I was going to use on a Sunday show but what the heck. It is a single blade 303 special run, not many made.

Just needed the smaller blade added and it would be a heck of a slightly up-sized Peanut competitor.


The other guys talking about SMKWs sparked my memory and here is a off-shore made Buck with two blades but just slightly larger than a Case Peanut but a trapper secondary blade. Was issued by SMKWs a number of years back. Seems they had one with a Gold fish and if you received it you won some more prizes. I didn't win. I think this was Bill Dance edition. I think the 382 models are still made but are over 3in in length. A big peanut.


I found a photo of a 301 Camillus contract Buck with the spey blade broken. They were just two spring. So I ground the broken blade butt down to the bolster and made it a two blade. You could look for a old 303 and it wouldn't take much work to make a XL Peanut with a Sheepsfoot secondary blade.
 
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I don't know of any 2 blade serpentine Bucks with both blades on the same end.
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- Pinnah

They are no longer in production, but the Buck 311, 312, and 317 were two-bladed knives with both knives at the same end. Offhand, I can't think of others.

Bert
 
These first 3 are off shore productions







This next picture is a Barlow's 331/332 I believe made by Camillus for Buck as a SMKW exclusive.






The next are Trappers in limited runs.







Trapper regular production


 
I think Matt's little 380 is about as close as we can get to a Buck peanut....on or off-shore.....300
 
bertl said:
- Pinnah

They are no longer in production, but the Buck 311, 312, and 317 were two-bladed knives with both knives at the same end. Offhand, I can't think of others.

Bert
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Bert, thanks.

The 311 and 317 were made by Camillus, not Buck, correct?

I think of Trappers like the 311 and 312 as more of doglegs, not true serpentines.
 
MB please do not show pictures of those barlows any more. You are torturing me.
 
There you go, good job Matt. But, I would have to file off the serrations. I may have to go see how much moolaw they cost.
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