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What is the age of this old Buck Knife?
Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 3:27 am
by sextonknifeworks
Does anyone know when this knife was made?
Re: What is the age of this old Buck Knife?
Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 3:48 am
by philco
Here's a link to a recent thread which may shed a little light on your knife's approximate age.
http://allaboutpocketknives.com/knife_f ... tang+stamp
Phil
Re: What is the age of this old Buck Knife?
Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 4:58 pm
by Joe Houser
When you see the BUCK* stamp on one of the 100 series fixed bladed knives, it means about 1967. We "think" it is there to mark when Buck switched from forgings of 440c to blanks of 440c.
FYI, the reddish colored handle spacers are bone hard fiber, a gasket material Buck used from 1963 to late 1969, when they changed to a reddish colored micarta.