recovered my old Buck 112 today

[kBob]

Mom offered me back the used Buck 112 I gave Dad in 1976 today. I took it.

I carried this knife on my trouser belt in the US Army in Europe in 73-75 and replaced it when I broke the tip. I reshaped the tip and packed it in my mess kit and carried the new one on my belt.

Never even crossed my mind at the time to try the guarantee as it would have been like leaving my battle buddy with a minor wound.

Dad admired the Buck 112 I got as a replacement so I offered him my old buddy which he wore a bit then retired to the glove box for a while then stuck in his dresser for a few decades.

Scales are dry as old bones and much lighter colored than I remember, brass is brown and the edge , well Dad wasn't me, is about like a butter knife.

Sorry, no pics, but you guys have likely seen a beat up old lock back before and, it's late.

-kBob

 

[Armored farmer]

Back about 1974 I gave my grandpa a buck 105 sheath knife. He was one of the first guys I knew of to try to hunt deer around here. They were scarce to say the least at that time.
Slip forward about 30 years... gramps and gram had both passed away. The other grandkids had pretty much ransacked the old farmhouse of anything valuable. My dad had the track hoe hired and idling in the yard to demolish the house and outbuildings. I went in for one last look around. I noticed that the drawer that gramps kept his hunting gear in was still in the built-in dresser, the rest were scattered on the floor. I pulled the drawer out and sure enough, there was his old Quail hunting coat, and the buck 105. It was almost like it was saved for me. That buck has dressed many deer for me since, too bad gramps never got to use it on a deer.

 

[bannockburn]

kBob

Great story! My Dad had an old Marbles hunting knife he bought after returning from Europe after WWII. It served him well for many years but eventually it found it's way to the garage and relegated to such mundane tasks as cutting the string he used to bundle up sticks and twigs he picked up from the lawn. I felt compelled to rescue that old knife so I offered Dad one of my Air Force survival knives that I had lying around in trade for his Marbles. He gladly accepted, perhaps sensing that I really appreciated that old knife and that now was a good time to pass it along to the next generation.

I cleaned it up and put a decent edge on it and now it holds a special and honored spot in my knife collection.

 

[hso]

Nice to see "old friends" come home. Look at the various restoration threads for advice on how to bring it back to newish.

 

[Deltaboy1984]

Great Story

 

[red rick]

I know it has a sentimental value to you like it is , but you could send it to Buck and they will replace the blade and make it look almost brand new for $10 dollars . I just had that done to one of my dad's Buck's , the blade was ground down to about half of it's width . It came back with a new blade , polished up and looking almost new again for about $16 dollars . It took about 2 months to get it back and I new that going in .