Author Topic: Buck Folder#110 (Read 1098 times)

Doc Lisenby · « **on:** November 22, 2005, 03:41:49 AM »

I have had one of these for years and it has given me good service. Does anyone know the type of steel used in this knife?

Joel · « **Reply #1 on:** November 22, 2005, 07:03:37 AM »

The older ones like yours(and mine) were made from 425M stainless. They were about the only ones to use that steel a lot. The steel is a fairly simple stainless with .5% carbon, but it had a great heattreat, and originally a convex (moran) edge. Buck received a lot of complaints that the knife was hard to sharpen, which was true if you tried to put a conventional flat edge bevel on a convex edge. They then switched to a more conventional flat edge grind, and that apparently solved the problem. Somewhere along the way, in the last few years, Buck switched over to their 420HC steel, and a good knife went bad as far as I"m concerned.

Doc Lisenby · « **Reply #2 on:** November 22, 2005, 08:18:34 AM »

Well, you proved to me that you know knives, again. Now how do I get in touch with you to make me a knife?
Doc

tucoblue · « **Reply #3 on:** November 22, 2005, 07:26:50 PM »

Is there a way you can determine the older #112 with the 420m from the newer #112? Mine is from the early to mid '80s and it is pretty good as far as holding an edge.

Joel · « **Reply #4 on:** November 22, 2005, 07:35:35 PM »

Far as I can recall, Buck didn't switch over to the 420HC until sometime in the late '90's, possibly later; so your blade should be 425M.

Joel · « **Reply #5 on:** November 22, 2005, 07:39:49 PM »

Doc,
I PM'd you.

James B · « **Reply #6 on:** December 12, 2005, 05:45:02 PM »

I have one of the old ones too. I really like mine. I think I will pick up a new one a Cabelas in the new s30v steel. I looked at them on their site yesterday.

Doc Lisenby · « **Reply #7 on:** December 13, 2005, 04:09:35 AM »

James, I checked Cabelas site and couldn't tell which #110 is made of S30v. How did you determine this?
Doc

James B · « **Reply #8 on:** December 13, 2005, 01:50:44 PM »

I think I went to the regular search box. Not Cabelas and typed in s30v knives by Buck and the cabelas site with those knives is what came up. I tried to find them by just going to Cabelas but couldn't find them. When it came up, it showed all the s30v knives. I think the 110 was about 55.00. I will try it again. Ok this tome I went to the cabelas site and went to their little search box and typed in alska guide series s30v knives. They came up with eleven models under that heading. Try that.

Doc Lisenby · « **Reply #9 on:** December 13, 2005, 02:14:41 PM »

Ok, I got this time but to my dismay it has to be back-ordered and will take 6-7 weeks. I will try again after Christmas. It is $59.
Thanks for the info.
Doc

Tony · « **Reply #10 on:** December 14, 2005, 01:15:14 AM »

I thought I would pass on some information about the steel that Buck has used for their knives over the years and this information came directly from Joe Houser who is the Director of Consumer Relations for Buck. Here is is response "Before 420, Buck used a special steel known as 425mod. The mill had to run this steel special for us though and that caused a lot of problems. We did tests and found out that 420hc was just as good as 425mod so we made the change in about 1992.Incidentally, before 425mod Buck used 440c. The switch from 440c to 425mod occurred in 1981."

I hope this information helps out and as far as the Buck 110 with CPM S30V goes, I have one that I bought from Cabelas and I think it is an outstanding knife.

Doc Lisenby · « **Reply #11 on:** December 14, 2005, 04:01:43 AM »

Thanks Tony. Nice to get information from "The Horse's Mouth". It would have helped if they had just put it on the knife or serialized them so we could find out which steel was used.
I noticed that the new 110 blade is coated with aluminum nitride or something. Is this just cosmetic or does it have a practical advantage? I worry about platings on knife blades because heat is required to apply most of them.
I'd prefer that knives aren't heated after the heat treatment.
Doc