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Hello, this is my first Buck...but not my last, not sure I waited so long. I just purchased this, but was having a hard time to find the exact year? I saw the 4dot timeline, but was trying to narrow it down a bit. Any help would be greatly appreciated. If you need other pics, I can do that. Thanks!

..110.. 1981-1986 the blade steel was 425 mod..

thanks garddogg56...is there any way to pinpoint the exact year within that time span?

G Michael, you have a later Four-Dot, so closer to 1984/85. Your knife has a radiused edge. The early period Four-Dot Model 110 knives had the same blocky (square) edges as the Two-Dot knives. OH

Ps Here is a picture of a Four-Dot of mine, has the blocky edges, so earlier in the Four-Dot era. OH

Thanks so much for dating my Buck! I shined it all up, what a knife. Now another I see myself collecting.

Hi,
From what I have read is the 81 has flat brass 82 has a hand radius on the thumb cut out the 83 has a total hand radius 84 has a sintered allover radius on the brass. I may be wrong on the 82 with just the thumb cut out hand radius, it maybe all but the thumb cut out had a hand done radius, I quit on the 4 dots a few years ago ,I just don't like 425m but it's suppose to be a good steel, Buck had the best tempering man at that time Paul Bos so it's probably good, I was surprised that the 425m still had sulfur gas bubble pits , it happens when the steel cools one of the large molecules maybe chrome, I forgot, cools faster than the other steel and attracts the sulfur then it converts to gas, it's explained in a British metallurgist publication a few years ago, I have it saved somewhere, because you like 425m I'l look for it.
have fun
George God bless

Hi again
I just looked at the pictures it sure looks like a 82 with a hand done radius on all of the brass except the cut out, I must have had well over 100 of them, I also thought you may want to know why Buck used 425m instead of their famous 440c , it's because you can't fineblank 440c and Buck re tooled to fineblanking tools after 1980 ,just a few things for you to research
Have a great time
George God bless

Hi, Your sheath should be cut straight across the entry, Buck stopped using a low entry or divot sheath in 81 they were still made in the U,S.A. not Mexico.
God bless

I keep this page handy when searching Buck tang stamps

https://www.buckknives.com/about-knives/how-old/