Buck Fixed Blade
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Highhawk1948
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Buck Fixed Blade
Purchased a Buck "AKONUA" fixed blade knife the other day. Anyone tell me what Akonua means?
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jerryd6818
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Re: Buck Fixed Blade
Quoted from Bob Witt on KnifeForums.com -- http://www.knifeforums.com/forums/showt ... id/827090/
"As I understand it, Al Buck & Family went on an extended African Safari in the late seventies or early eighties - the result, upon their return is that they felt that they needed to add large game - specifically, skinning knives to the Buck "line-up."
The result was the "Kalinga" and the 'Akonua." The Akonua, is simply a slimmed down version of the better known, Kalinga. Both names originate from Africa."
"As I understand it, Al Buck & Family went on an extended African Safari in the late seventies or early eighties - the result, upon their return is that they felt that they needed to add large game - specifically, skinning knives to the Buck "line-up."
The result was the "Kalinga" and the 'Akonua." The Akonua, is simply a slimmed down version of the better known, Kalinga. Both names originate from Africa."
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The Few. The Proud.
Jerry D.
This country has become more about sub-groups than about it's unity as a nation.
"The #72 pattern has got to be pretty close to the perfect knife."
--T.J. Murphy 2012
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Highhawk1948
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Re: Buck Fixed Blade
Thanks for the answer. Makes sense to me.
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