I have a 110 that I got cheap at Walmart a few years ago. It's a nice knife for how cheap it was, but it's a brick that's kind of a pain in the ass to pocket carry, always ends up laying sideways at the bottom. If I ever get a drill press I'm tempted to drill and tap it for a clip.
This. I bought a $900 sharpener and a bunch of cheap filet knives from a bait shop. They're sharper than a razor and cost me $2.50 each. Frick paying for overpriced boutique steel
Its saber grind gets wickedly sharp, If you do your job at sharpening, it gets hair-splitting sharp. The golden parts will get dark if you carry it. You Will need to work on them at least once a month. A product called Brasso leaves the golden like new.
The knife is a compromise because it is heavy and bulky. It weights more than an extra mag in your pocket. There are advantages though. You can get thumbstuds for It pretty easily, and it is a really good, pointy design that gets scary sharp. I stopped carrying because I barely use a knife in my daily routine, and it is just too heavy. The Buck 110. One and only
Buck has a ton of options for everyone. My pocket knife cost me like $6 got it from their "web specials" section. It has opened many grain sacks and hay bales. You can spend $300 or $10. Im so sick of people thinking you have to spend 3/4 of a pay check to get a decent knife. I have a bucklite max, a 119 and their paklite skeletonized skinner and guthook. Someday I will get a really nice knife from them.
>Im so sick of people thinking you have to spend 3/4 of a pay check to get a decent knife.
The internet has made it too easy to google "what is best x". Nobody really ever learns through experience what is good or not.
IMHO that is a problem. There is rarely any one "Best X", but people sure seem to think there is. What's best for one person may not be best for someone else. It's entirely situationally dependent.
i own one and carry it sometimes. i also own a bunch of case folders that my grandfather left to me when he died 40 years ago, but i don't carry those. they are fine instruments but are not optimized for the modern way of carrying. i do like lockbacks in general though and my edc is a spyderco endura 4 g10.
I was gonna argue, but I just saw that even Walmart wants $60 for them now. I think mine was like $35 when I got it there a year ago and for that price it's pretty hard to complain.
I have had a few Bucks, lost a few in moves and stuff.
Currently have a 119 and the packlite boning knife.
The packlite boning knife is fricking amazing for game processing, but like the homosexuals they are, buck discontinued it.
I dunno what the 119s cost now, but probably too much.
Yeah it gets old, majority of these guys are the type that buy a knife and never sharpen it or send it off to be sharpened. 420hc takes a keen edge, it is easy to sharpen, and has decent edge retention. It was the right move for buck, I have an old 110 in 440c and while it is great steel...it is pita to sharpen. Guess it isn't really any different than people taking shit about 1075 or 1095 because it isn't the latest and greatest powdered super steel.
This. Im old fart. I carried one on the streets of Chicago on my belt. As did other young men who carried knives every day as you multitool guys do today. Carried a 110 as an Eagle Scout, then as a young man. You could punch with it, you could strike with it, and if the future cancer researcher tried to corner you in a alley on the way home from a bar and asked for your wallet, you could cut with it if you could catch them. Today is different, I carry a multitool and moved from Chicago. Frick that place lol.
Go for the 112. Just a little bigger but all around a better size. 110's are borderline too big. I just hate 420hc, but fir a field knife I prefer it as is easier to dress up with a pocket steel.
Pro tip: the leather sheath the 110 comes with is also the perfect size to hold a 1911 magazine. Shove a loaded mag into the sheath, let it sit for a few days to stretch, and its good to go.
I used to buy a 110 whenever I went to walmart when they were $30 because they were $50-60 everywhere else...now they are $60 at walmart too. It's a good knife.
It's not a good knife design. It appeals to people that like brass fittings. Clip points are going to snap as fast as any other point if you try moving screws with it. It's going to take more effort and a sanding belt to actually fix a chipped point like that. You're going to lose a ton of material fixing it than other designs. You can start out with a different design and grind it down to that over time if you frick up and chip your knife doing stupid shit you knew you weren't suppose to do with it. I don't like clip points. It looks like someone fricked up a seax design blades edge and reground it and they tried to make it look modern.
It's a knife, not a screwdriver, a prybar, or whatever else. I carry a Swiss Army Knife or a multitool to do non-knife shit, or if that's too much extra shit, you can get one of those keychain prybar/screwdriver things.
I don't like you because you seem like the type of person that doesn't recognize the most useful tool available is pliers. I'd love to run around like a savage with a tomahawk hammer axe that has a pry bar on it with nut notches. 9/10 the only useful tool is a pliers. Frick me for fricking up my blade using it. Like your dumb ass has a pliers to fix this problem. Jackass.
>It's not a good knife design. Clip points are going to snap as fast as any other point if you try moving screws...
There is a corner of hell reserved for people who use a blade when a screwdriver is called for.
Personally, I own an old one my grandpa used for hunting, once I cleaned it of boar fat, oiled the wood anew and sharpened the blade, it´s been as good as new.
It's exactly like a knife.
Not long enough
Ur dick not long enough
I have a 110 that I got cheap at Walmart a few years ago. It's a nice knife for how cheap it was, but it's a brick that's kind of a pain in the ass to pocket carry, always ends up laying sideways at the bottom. If I ever get a drill press I'm tempted to drill and tap it for a clip.
>cheap
>sold everywhere
>just werks
>steel is meh-tier
Yep. They’re perfectly okay knives. Nothing special about them other than making boomers nostalgic.
learn to sharpen and you wont worry about "blade steel or dropping money on shit youre going to lose anyways
This. I bought a $900 sharpener and a bunch of cheap filet knives from a bait shop. They're sharper than a razor and cost me $2.50 each. Frick paying for overpriced boutique steel
It's not that you can't get 420 sharp.
It's that it loses that edge quickly.
Dumb frick.
I like mine
simple, elegant, classic, well made
heavy, bulky, limited capability
for what it is, its a fantastic knife. but it is not in the same class as a Leatherman or any fixed blade knife.
I've carried for a couple of years.
Its saber grind gets wickedly sharp, If you do your job at sharpening, it gets hair-splitting sharp. The golden parts will get dark if you carry it. You Will need to work on them at least once a month. A product called Brasso leaves the golden like new.
The knife is a compromise because it is heavy and bulky. It weights more than an extra mag in your pocket. There are advantages though. You can get thumbstuds for It pretty easily, and it is a really good, pointy design that gets scary sharp. I stopped carrying because I barely use a knife in my daily routine, and it is just too heavy. The Buck 110. One and only
It is, without a doubt, one of the knifes of all time.
It is a compromised EDC piece. OTOH, it is The OG
I heard some dude managed to kill a grizzly with that knife in self defense, so it's a pretty effective weapon I'd say.
Nice made up bullshit
I like the lack of a reply, lmfao, these people
My favorite knife brand. I love Buck knives.
Ikr, the 891 is a really fantastic knife. I wonder why it's been discontinued.
Buck has a ton of options for everyone. My pocket knife cost me like $6 got it from their "web specials" section. It has opened many grain sacks and hay bales. You can spend $300 or $10. Im so sick of people thinking you have to spend 3/4 of a pay check to get a decent knife. I have a bucklite max, a 119 and their paklite skeletonized skinner and guthook. Someday I will get a really nice knife from them.
>Im so sick of people thinking you have to spend 3/4 of a pay check to get a decent knife.
The internet has made it too easy to google "what is best x". Nobody really ever learns through experience what is good or not.
They're solid, but nothing amazing. Pretty heavy.
IMHO that is a problem. There is rarely any one "Best X", but people sure seem to think there is. What's best for one person may not be best for someone else. It's entirely situationally dependent.
most people never learn the virtue of buying what is good enough instead of what is wholly superfluous
Buck has a long history of discontinuing their good designs.
Buck tool and the classic Kalinga come to mind...
i own one and carry it sometimes. i also own a bunch of case folders that my grandfather left to me when he died 40 years ago, but i don't carry those. they are fine instruments but are not optimized for the modern way of carrying. i do like lockbacks in general though and my edc is a spyderco endura 4 g10.
Overpriced for the steel.
>inb4 420hc cope posters
I was gonna argue, but I just saw that even Walmart wants $60 for them now. I think mine was like $35 when I got it there a year ago and for that price it's pretty hard to complain.
It's not Opinel or Victorinox tier, that much is clear.
Bought one for my dad for his birthday, he loves it. He cleans fish with it.
I have had a few Bucks, lost a few in moves and stuff.
Currently have a 119 and the packlite boning knife.
The packlite boning knife is fricking amazing for game processing, but like the homosexuals they are, buck discontinued it.
I dunno what the 119s cost now, but probably too much.
>Design cool new knifes
>Set up tooling to produce them
>Stop production after a year or two
Is that even a profitable business model ?
It is when you sell 420 trash for $60 that everyone spergs out about
>420 trash
You dont even use your knife. You are just a steel snob with a pocket knife.
Yeah it gets old, majority of these guys are the type that buy a knife and never sharpen it or send it off to be sharpened. 420hc takes a keen edge, it is easy to sharpen, and has decent edge retention. It was the right move for buck, I have an old 110 in 440c and while it is great steel...it is pita to sharpen. Guess it isn't really any different than people taking shit about 1075 or 1095 because it isn't the latest and greatest powdered super steel.
420 is trash.
For a pocket knife it doesn't matter too much, you shouldn't be hard on them anyways, but for fixed blades, 420 is fricking garbage.
It’s a good knife and a really good fist load if you don’t wanna stab whom ever
This. Im old fart. I carried one on the streets of Chicago on my belt. As did other young men who carried knives every day as you multitool guys do today. Carried a 110 as an Eagle Scout, then as a young man. You could punch with it, you could strike with it, and if the future cancer researcher tried to corner you in a alley on the way home from a bar and asked for your wallet, you could cut with it if you could catch them. Today is different, I carry a multitool and moved from Chicago. Frick that place lol.
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Go for the 112. Just a little bigger but all around a better size. 110's are borderline too big. I just hate 420hc, but fir a field knife I prefer it as is easier to dress up with a pocket steel.
Hmm, maybe I should try a 112. I like my 110 but as I said in an earlier post it's an annoying brick in the pocket.
Just be a chad and use the leather belt holster they give you when you buy the knife.
Works on my machine
Pro tip: the leather sheath the 110 comes with is also the perfect size to hold a 1911 magazine. Shove a loaded mag into the sheath, let it sit for a few days to stretch, and its good to go.
I used to buy a 110 whenever I went to walmart when they were $30 because they were $50-60 everywhere else...now they are $60 at walmart too. It's a good knife.
It's not a good knife design. It appeals to people that like brass fittings. Clip points are going to snap as fast as any other point if you try moving screws with it. It's going to take more effort and a sanding belt to actually fix a chipped point like that. You're going to lose a ton of material fixing it than other designs. You can start out with a different design and grind it down to that over time if you frick up and chip your knife doing stupid shit you knew you weren't suppose to do with it. I don't like clip points. It looks like someone fricked up a seax design blades edge and reground it and they tried to make it look modern.
It's a knife, not a screwdriver, a prybar, or whatever else. I carry a Swiss Army Knife or a multitool to do non-knife shit, or if that's too much extra shit, you can get one of those keychain prybar/screwdriver things.
I don't like you because you seem like the type of person that doesn't recognize the most useful tool available is pliers. I'd love to run around like a savage with a tomahawk hammer axe that has a pry bar on it with nut notches. 9/10 the only useful tool is a pliers. Frick me for fricking up my blade using it. Like your dumb ass has a pliers to fix this problem. Jackass.
>It's not a good knife design. Clip points are going to snap as fast as any other point if you try moving screws...
There is a corner of hell reserved for people who use a blade when a screwdriver is called for.
I agree.
But have also used many a pocket knife to use in screws, and never broke a tip.
Buck knife good
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They used to be better, but it's still worth their small price.
>small price.
This.
Eventually, I'm going to lose or break a knife. Don't want to lose something expensive. So, a buck knife. Buck fifty at most.
*cries in european*
Look on ebayKleinanzeigen and similar.
Personally, I own an old one my grandpa used for hunting, once I cleaned it of boar fat, oiled the wood anew and sharpened the blade, it´s been as good as new.
Heavy and slow to open, but folds pretty short, given its blade length. Blade is handy and well designed, easy to sharpen.
They're way too expensive for what they are outside the US (SAK are cheaper and better). Look cool tho.