Wild and Unusual Buck Knives

I was browsing through the Buck section of a major outdoors site and spotted a
"Buck 893GCK Tactical Tanto Folding Knife"
*removed some of the description that again said it was a folding knife"
Comes with an injection molded polypropylene MOLLE compatible sheath with multiple carry options.
Handle: Black G10 Micarta®
Blade steel: Cerakote® Sniper Grey coated 5160 steel
Blade length: 5-1/2" (13.97 cm)
Overall length: 10-3/4" (27.30 cm)
Weight: 280.66 g (9.9 oz.)

Now I certainly have no use for this at all and quite frankly likely will never be tempted to buy it, but has anyone come across this?

Sorry for the weird "font" as I copied and pasted the listing and it frigged up what I'm typing.

Wait a minute, on closer examination, it looks suspiciously like a fixed blade and not a folder. Must be a misprint, so please disregard.
 
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Not sure these qualify as wild, but they are unusual. An early hatchet/118 combo.
The faux stacked leather scales are made of Lucite. I'm guessing this set was either a custom order or a prototype, perhaps to compete with Western's hatchet/knife camp sets that we're popular with boy scouts back then?
 

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Thank you for the info. I figured it had to be pre-1960 since they moved from the Morena Sreet house around then, or so I've been told. I was born just a few blocks from there in 1960. When I was a kid, nearly every boy in school had a 110 in his pocket. Back then, I had no idea Buck made these "belt-axe" sets, if I had, I would have wanted one. I still have the Western set I sported as a Boy Scout, which I bought used from a friend's brother (I'll try to post a pic). Perhaps it's one of the "cheaper sets" mentioned in the Buck ad. Lol. Is there a link to that catalog? I'd love to check it out. I found the Buck set in a hawk shop a few weeks ago. They also had a Beautiful Ridgid Hunter, but because of the price, it was either one or the other. I'm praying they still have it when I go back for it.
(p.s. If you look closely at the Western set you'll see that the knife isn't the original one that went with the set. A friend of mine dropped the original in the San Diego River. He later replaced it with the knife you see in the pic. Two years later, that same friend dropped my .22 Benjamin air rifle in the same river, in nearly the same spot. We retrieved it, but it was never quite the same after that.)
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BennyBlade said:
why did this thread die?
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The price of wild and usual? ;)
Here's a Remer Lucite handled 118 I had Leroy make from parts I was gifted., and a 110, printed circuit board, handled by Leroy I found on his site. Oops, I've already posted that one. I'll replace it with one for Vietnam in-country service also by Leroy.
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Glad this is back. Some awesomeness here for sure. I have the sprint run copper handled 841 or something? It's a numbered run but damn I don't know that it's on this level
 
pjsjr pjsjr Preston your lucite/barehead 50th Anny 110 is an eye catcher. I assume it started life as a run of the mill 50th 110. You mention "for Vietnam in-country service " do the colors signify something in particular?
 
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