Sitting discussing locking mechanism with you fine people this evening. It got me to thinking. It’s a tradition around these parts to ‘hand down’ knives thru generations. Does anyone else do this? If so I would love to see them. The two knifes below were my fathers. The Buck 110 was purchased around 1975, that blade has skinned literally hundreds of deer. It has since been retired. The second with the gut hook was one of the first custom knives my father built…
Early Work
I only pull these out once or twice a year. Clean em up & oil em. I imagine one day I’ll hand these down to my grandsons. Anyone have any inherited knives like this?
I haven't any inherited knives and do not usually comment in knife-threads, but I just want to say that I love your father's custom knife, it is beautiful!
I have a really old sod-buster my grandfather carried as long as I can remember.
I also have one of his other knives that looks just like it and it has really old wood grips (really old and looks liek a sodbuster as well). The patina has made the makers mark and location impossible to read. The steel in it holds an edge really well, and I have not sharpened it since I inherited it 15 years ago. My father said it was made in Germany many many years ago, and that he is not sure if it was his grandfathers or not.
Both are oiled up and wiped clean 1-2 times a year and each are wrapped in a silicon finger print cloth in the back along with the other stuff that have value too me and my family.
I am not sure if any of the knives I have right now will be handed down to my little one, but we will see. Maybe the custom Damascus/Cocobolla will find its way in to the hand me down list now that I think about it.
My father gave me a Buck 110 in the sixties and I still have it. Funny I just can’t bring myself to get a new knife, I just keep carrying it around but I almost hate it. It is just so heavy, but I feel like I would be hurting my father(who has been gone since 1980) if I give it up, is that weird or what? The leather carrying case has a hole in the bottom and the new cases cost over $20, so I can’t see buying one, given I really don’t want to carry it. As you may have guessed I really loved my father and this is a real memory of him. But I will be the end of the line, I am 70 and never had kids, so when I go, that will be it. Ed
+1 I understand completely. My father passed in 02. While I dont carry it. I have a weird take on that. They were dads & I feel odd carrying his knives. Even though he’s gone. Not sure why, guess in my mind its a respect thing.
Sure does! I was reading about the Buck 110 its the most copied knife design in the world. The Buck of mine says….
BUCK
·110·
U.S.A
On the base of the blade.
This Bali-Song was brought back to the States by my grandfather who was stationed in the Philippines in WWII. It’s about 70 years old to my best research…
I did find this kind of humorous. Being heavily into Marital Arts at the time of receiving this… I knew exactly what the green & red dots are for… The Green dot is the “Safe” handle, for those who have never practiced with a bali-song. You can hold the green dot handle & flip it how ever much you like. The back of the blade will only hit you. The Red dot is the handle that ‘Bites’… Holding the red dot handle means the blade will be coming into contact with skin…
Brought back from India by my father 1946. Kukri with the smaller Karda (sharpened secondary blade#) and a chakmak (used as a steel for burnishing the blade).
There’s nothing to give it scale but believe me it’ “full size”. :bigsmile:
Dad wasn’t a hunter or collector, he passed 3 knives to me just before he died (much too young):
- Case Kodiac Hunter
- Case XX-Changer
Buck 560 (110 with Ti grip instead of wood, made ’92)
The first 2 are NIB and were service awards from the 1 employer he had from mid-teens through his entire life. The Buck is nice and was probably the last knife he bought for belt carry.
BOINK!!!
