100% There is something special about the 110 and 112! I can open mine with one hand and close 1 handed with no thumb stud. I like the weight in cutting. Thank you for sharing!
How you doing my friend? You’re right on point that the Buck 110 is a nostalgic classic for us kids in the 60’s and 70’s. And yes, we in the U.S. called it loosely, a “buck knife”. The first back lock knife I knew of, as everything else was non-locking folders at the time. As kids, we couldn’t afford the real thing so luckily, Pakistan made some terrible cheaply made copies available in any hardware store in Chicago. Strangely, I still have one of those that has followed me around in my travels in a cigar box for decades. I’m always surprised in a new place, opening boxes and this damn thing is still there. My real knives are well taken care of and wrapped in oil cloth but this Pakistani Buck copy is in a cigar box bouncing around with all sorts of strange trinkets from my childhood I never look at until I discover it in a moving box I haven’t opened since the last move. This thing has followed me around quite unintentionally and ignored, but it’s nice to see it again. Now, I’m going to share what we did with these Pakistani Bucks and you’ll know it as knife blasphemy. I even knew it back then. But it was less than 5 dollars at the time so what the hell. Switchblades were illegal in Chicago so we figured out a way to make these cheap Buck copies open one-handed with a flick of the wrist. All we did was oil the hell out of the pivot with cutting oil and work it for hours. The abrasive in the oil would wear the brass bolster until it was really loose. It would spring closed but whip open just as fast as an Italian Stiletto and lock. Many a knife fight was won with a suped up Pakistani Buck 110 copy. (I never fought anyone with a knife but this was Chicago so many did) I grew up and bought me a real Buck 110 and it’s a treasure I never carry or use. I don’t need to. It’s 50 years old and I have way more practical knives for my work on boats I’m not afraid to ruin or lose. My old Buck 110 sits with my really old knives I won’t use anymore. My typical boat knife these days is a Chinese made flipper. 10 dollars at harbor freight. D2 steel if you’re lucky. Disposable. Replaceable. I really like your thumb stud addition to the Buck 110. Now the classic is one handed opening. I remember opening knives with my teeth when I needed to. You’re addition of the thumb stud is really cool man. The classic Buck 110 was like a dream-knife to us as kids. Keep up the great videos my friend. Aloha from Seattle. 🤙🏼
100% There is something special about the 110 and 112! I can open mine with one hand and close 1 handed with no thumb stud. I like the weight in cutting. Thank you for sharing!
How you doing my friend? You’re right on point that the Buck 110 is a nostalgic classic for us kids in the 60’s and 70’s. And yes, we in the U.S. called it loosely, a “buck knife”. The first back lock knife I knew of, as everything else was non-locking folders at the time.
As kids, we couldn’t afford the real thing so luckily, Pakistan made some terrible cheaply made copies available in any hardware store in Chicago. Strangely, I still have one of those that has followed me around in my travels in a cigar box for decades.
I’m always surprised in a new place, opening boxes and this damn thing is still there. My real knives are well taken care of and wrapped in oil cloth but this Pakistani Buck copy is in a cigar box bouncing around with all sorts of strange trinkets from my childhood I never look at until I discover it in a moving box I haven’t opened since the last move. This thing has followed me around quite unintentionally and ignored, but it’s nice to see it again. Now, I’m going to share what we did with these Pakistani Bucks and you’ll know it as knife blasphemy. I even knew it back then. But it was less than 5 dollars at the time so what the hell.
Switchblades were illegal in Chicago so we figured out a way to make these cheap Buck copies open one-handed with a flick of the wrist. All we did was oil the hell out of the pivot with cutting oil and work it for hours. The abrasive in the oil would wear the brass bolster until it was really loose. It would spring closed but whip open just as fast as an Italian Stiletto and lock. Many a knife fight was won with a suped up Pakistani Buck 110 copy. (I never fought anyone with a knife but this was Chicago so many did)
I grew up and bought me a real Buck 110 and it’s a treasure I never carry or use. I don’t need to. It’s 50 years old and I have way more practical knives for my work on boats I’m not afraid to ruin or lose. My old Buck 110 sits with my really old knives I won’t use anymore. My typical boat knife these days is a Chinese made flipper. 10 dollars at harbor freight. D2 steel if you’re lucky. Disposable. Replaceable.
I really like your thumb stud addition to the Buck 110. Now the classic is one handed opening. I remember opening knives with my teeth when I needed to. You’re addition of the thumb stud is really cool man.
The classic Buck 110 was like a dream-knife to us as kids.
Keep up the great videos my friend.
Aloha from Seattle. 🤙🏼
Buck 110 was the first USA made knife I owned.