Why dd Buck quit making the 111?

Where there is life then there is hope. I like both versions. What about the Classic with hard anodized (think bright colors) handle!

The 111 (wood inlay) and the 111 Classic (coined aluminum handle).



 
I'm guessing your speaking of the 111 with wood handles. I think it looked too much like the std. 110 and most didn't see the difference. So, this upgrade didn't sell very well. DM
 
Me personally, I'd guess the curved bolsters made the newest 111 more expensive enough over the regular 110, that most folks wouldn't buy it.

The classic 111, while it tried to play to the popularity of County & Western bars that flourished after "Urban Cowboy" came out, are gaudy as hell in today's world, and IIRC, they didn't hold up to well over time.
 
I would love to have a plain, wood and brass 111 that I could EDC. Preferably no engraving, cutouts or fancy scales.
 
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It took me several years before I could stomach that movie and then upon viewing it I didn't like it. The 111 Classic was originally a campers knife.
Then it took on the theme of a western cowboy engraver, Gary Gist. Today this model is a real piece of Buck history and the tooled leather sheaths are out standing. That era being passed, the model's form could be brought back with a light, durable metal handle toward it's first theme. DM
 
Picked this one up locally a month or so ago, my first 111 and even though it's a commemorative and not regular production I really like it. If Buck started making them again or even offered it as a Custom Shoppe version I'd be all over a few.

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They probably quit making the embossed Aluminum model because the dies wore out. These models are lighter and thinner than the brass and wood 110's. The Aluminum is dead soft because it needed to be smacked in the drop hammer. If you carry the 111 in its matching tooled leather sheath, the handle will stay in good shape.
 
letmesee ... seems last time I was in I d ho I hear some one say that the new 111 with the curved inlays
was hard to fit them in and lota sides did not fit as fine as Buck wanted them to ...
yep was a good looking knife but I can see were them inlays would be hard to fit ...
yep I liked the old 111 most don't know there were two diff designs on em...
 
I found this one, still NIB, last spring in a pawn shop - the shop owner offered it to me at a decent price, but I passed for a month - it is mighty gaudy to my eye! I finally went back and bought it just to have an example in my Buck collection. OH

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