Question about blade length of Buck 110

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Doug S

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I was reading in one of the other threads, that the Buck 110 originally had a longer blade than the current production models. Can someone tell me what the original blade length was, and when did Buck make the change to the shorter blade length? Thanks.
 
I'm surprised this doesn't come up more often. I guess people just don't notice.

Recent 110s seem to be about 3 5/8ths inches and the shrinkage seems to have started late in or just after the Third Versions--maybe about 1972 or 73.

I don't know the exact time frame, but some 110 guru will chime in.

I have a Third that goes about 3 13/16ths and it has seen some wear so it may have been slightly longer.

It's not all science......some is perception.

Since the older 110s were also much slimmer and more graceful.......people tend to see them as longer than they really are, so the difference is partly optical illusion. The new ones are fat and decidedly less graceful looking.

To balance that inaccuracy, people are sometimes measuring old knives that have lost a bit of blade length since that happy time they were fresh and new.

Your mileage (and measurements) may vary. I look forward to hearing from others who have noticed this.

:)
 
BG, I was wondering how you measure? Is it just the sharpened part? I have never figured out blade measurement.
 
On 110s and 112s and such, I press the end of the tape against the middle of the bolster where it sticks out the farthest and then take a reading at the tip.
 
You are welcome.....maybe Buck 110 or Dave 110 will weigh in on this.

Always love to hear from the experts.

I suppose they're watching the football game.
 
Or......maybe they're just getting too old to type.

I was afraid this might happen as the years went by and arthritis attacked.

:D
 
Well, I don't think so.

It's not a controversial topic as far as I know.

Those two (Dave 110 and Buck 110) have been quiet lately.....maybe when you get to be at their level of 110 guru-ism--you reach a supreme level of tranquility.

And........you just mostly sit among the knives in your great and beautiful collection and enjoy the view and smile and meditate.

That's just my opinion as a grasshopper.

:)
 
I was just looking at an old Outdoor Life from 1981. In it is an advertisement for the Buck 110 which states the 110 has a 4in blade. So either the blade has been slightly shortened, or maybe Buck was measuring the entire blade length including the tang.

I found it interesting that there were several "Folding Hunter" adds in the same magazine. Kershaw had a model 1040W brass framed, folding hunter add in the mag. They came with either "Thailand Water Buffalo Bone, or Malayan Sandalwood scales, and Uncle Henry/Schrade had their folding hunters, brass and wood framed Bear Paw, and Cub advertised with a guaranteed against loss for one year ad. Another magazine advertised the Titanium Buck 110.
 
Yes, Doug......looks like (for marketing and advertising purposes) they measured the blade along the top from tip to the separation where the blade folds.

In the early days we always referred to the 110 as having a four-inch blade. I don't think I ever measured one until some years ago when I heard it called a three and three-quarter inch blade.

People coming up with different lengths over the years may be mostly due to differences in the bolsters and having no single accepted way of measuring.

Funny thing is.....if you measure any full-length 110 blade along the top from tip to the separation line on top where it folds--it will pretty much always be four inches.

So measure it the Buck way and it is indeed a four-inch blade.

:)

(Love those old mag ads......I must go through some old magazines soon.)
 
BG42EDGE said:
Well, I don't think so.
It's not a controversial topic as far as I know.

Those two (Dave 110 and Buck 110) have been quiet lately.....maybe when you get to be at their level of 110 guru-ism--you reach a supreme level of tranquility.

And........you just mostly sit among the knives in your great and beautiful collection and enjoy the view and smile and meditate.

That's just my opinion as a grasshopper.
:)
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ah yess grashhopppper..is a good girls drink!!!
tranquality ... is that a new drink?
it gives one much prespective to sit with a jar o juce and jest admire tha silver blades wit the gold emblishments on the wall ...
by brother and i take them out to play wit them and jest look at them ... and rearange them in the box

as to the other 110 person .. i sent him a jar of shed juce and told him it needed to be cut and aged for a good while
me thinks he drank it un cut and he may be .. well i hopes he is still ok ... dont know fer sure as he tant'ed call me fer a good while...
as to not posting ... well shucks i never was one for nit picking detailes ... heck i dont even knows fer sure what year uses a > mark
so mostly you new bies want much detaile .. and gosh there are lots o youal that can look it up faster then i can!!!
most what i post is rummer and tailes from my calling every buck employee i can gets ta talk to me...
and as none of it is docutmente fact based at all ... well it falls under tall tail and story book
and i mostly like to jest keep the general info in my head any ways..

as to blade leanth ... yes the blades on the older ones are longer
but dat said .. all the older ones were hand finished so even new in box the blade from one to the next would be diffrent..
they were a thiner from back to edge also.. but again that dang hand finsh comes in to play.. and most are diffrent

i think there was likely a "go or no go" on what was acceptable to QC..
so any thing in between was good to go
i am not sure when the leanth got to be real close to exalty the same
but i am sure that as long as the hand work was as much as it was there were diffrences
the thing to keep in mind is that the early 110 were almost a hand made knife
demands of production caused most all the consistancy you see now...
darn i sure wish you could order a hand made 110 now...
hee hee hee used to be they almost looked the same now
gee you gots to put a year mark on them to tell the diffrence!!!
gosh i am becomeing to hate year marks all togeather!!!
year marks dont really make a tinkers darn to what the knife is
now if some thing changes.. yea make a mark like they did on the dots
or some thing to note a change of some kind
i dont think the current 110 is likely to cange at all any time soon...
shame to...

and no am not a gure rue .. what ever dat may be...
jest another country boy what likes his buck 110's... a lot...

edit = in my onion ..due to the amount of hand work that went in to one
there is not any way to tell for sure if a olde buck 110 is factory new for leanth or back to edge
or if has been sharpened once or twice .. as the finished size was never the same only close..
all that can be said is it appears to be factory new!!
 
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He actually IS a guru, by the way, even if he denies it.

He has a collection that boasts more Buck 110s than are owned by the entire populations of some smaller European nations.

He's just modest.
 
BG42EDGE said:
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He has a collection that boasts more Buck 110s than are owned by the entire populations of some smaller European nations.
He's just modest.
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naw there are lots of folks here that have larger collections of 110
they jest dont advertize them attall ... naw i wont say who they are either...
as i explain it i jest have the largest collection that is displayed at shows
it would be larger but table space is hard to come by...
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He actually IS a guru, by the way, even if he denies it.
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again - naw... a guru is one whos opion is respected by most and my thought are not shaired by many..
i have my own thoughts on lots of things "buck" that many dislike a lot
its jest i have learned the hard way to keep thoes thoughts that most dont like to me self!!
i is what is called a loose cannon...
and if i run for office with bcci youal will find out what that means...
or maybe not .. i might settel down and be a good guy... who knows ..???
now the question is if i did run for office would i need to behave on this here forum ?
and quits talking o shed juce and all de neet things i find funny in life or here?
 
The meetings will go better if you bring some shed juice for all the attendees.

:)
 
ya know i might jest do that!!!
but ya knows .. i think the meetings go jest fine wit out it ..
now
leroy likes it jest fine,,,
has apples swimming around 'n it ..
cides i forget to give him a dollar last time i see's him
so i guess i owes him a jar of it.... again...

how come ya donts get to the blade shows?
we alls has a good time...
bussy but lota fun meet'n an d greet'n
lota walking if ya is looking for stuff
and the club meeting is really great
some times ya can bid on really neat stuff dat
Joe finds and brings along ....
i tell all you folks out ther
dat that dang blade show is jest worth it to show up at..
 
How do you know I don't get to the blade shows?

I thought I was there!!!

I must be getting old.

:)
 
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