13 Facts About Buck Knives

Buck Knives is an American knife manufacturer founded in Mountain Home, Idaho and now located in Post Falls, Idaho.

Buck Knives has a long history through five generations of the Buck family from 1902 to the present day.

Hoyt H Buck became a blacksmith's apprentice in Kansas in 1899 at the age of 10.

Buck Knives learned to make knives and at 13, in 1902, developed a method to heat-treat steel for hoes and other tools so that they would hold an edge longer.

Buck Knives made his first knife in 1902 in Mountain Home, Idaho.

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Since 1993, Buck Knives has mostly used 420HC stainless steel for Model 110 blades, although CPM S30V steel has been used for some production runs.

In 2017, Buck Knives introduced the Buck Knives 110 Auto Knife an automatic version of the 110, designed for one handed use.

In 2018, Buck Knives introduced two new lightweight editions of the 110, a thick-handled FRN version called the LT, and a thin-handled FRN version called the Slim; both FRN versions rely on the FRN by itself for handle strength without reinforcing steel backplates, with the LT sturdier for use in field dressing medium and big game; it comes with the classic Buck Knives belt sheath.

In 1984, Buck Knives introduced a survival knife with a hollow handle for storage and a 7.

Al and Chuck Buck Knives were inducted into the Blade Magazine Cutlery Hall of Fame at the 1982 and 1996 Blade Shows respectively in Atlanta, Georgia in recognition for the impact that their designs and Company has made upon the cutlery industry.

Buck Knives is an American manufacturer of different styles of knives including the first successful folding lock-blade, introduced in 1964.

Folding lock-blade knives and "Buck Knife" thereby became strongly linked in the mind of the US public, and the Buck design was much imitated, so that a Buck knife has come to mean any folding lock-blade design, even while Buck Knife is a trademark and not limited to folding lock-blades.

Buck Knives has produced art knives for and under license with other companies and organizations such as: the National Rifle Association, the Boy Scouts of America, Colt Firearms, Anheuser-Busch, Republic Studios, Harley Davidson, Indian Motorcycles, Ford Motor Company, Chevy Truck, Elvis Presley Estate, John Wayne Estate, Roy Clark, Purina, NHRA, Boeing, Monroe Auto and Ducks Unlimited.