Mark, I am usually not a big fan of Buck designs, but this Selkirk looks like an instant classic. Great design, excellent price point, nice. You might consider offering it with a more traditional outdoorsy leather sheath. Also, you can expand this design to different sizes and styles of blade. The full-length tang, handle, integral hilt and pommel, and handle are classic and could be applied to future designs. I'm getting one! Thanks.
Just got one. The sheath is frustrating as hell to make any adjustment of it's hardware. Missing rubber spacing washers maybe, though I just unboxed it. Even with those it would be absurd to adjust. I really like the knife, and the Sparking Choil and Ferro Rod worked great for directing shower of burning hot sparks.
I have been keeping an eye out for a Buck Vanguard or Selkirk in 5160 or S30V blade steel. I understand that 420HC is Buck Knives main line of blade steel and I understand why. I also very much appreciate that Buck Knives has taken on more modern super steels as well. I own a Buck 119 in 420HC but I own one Buck in S30V, two in S35VN, two in S45VN, one in 5160, and one in D2. When the 040 Onset becomes available I'll definitely pick up one. As far as the Vanguard or Selkirk in 5160, I honestly wouldn't mind if either was coated or not. I've been known to force a patina on high carbon steel blades to stop rusting in its tracks upfront. Simply put I'm more apt to buy a knife in more modern or hard use high carbon blade steels. Not just for the sake of being modern but for the more durability and edge retention of them. Buck could even make either or both in S45VN and I would buy either or both. As a discerning consumer, I'm just not a fan of 420HC and honestly never have been.
just purchased this. the price is crazy reasonable. the cases is awesome and the fire steel was an excellent surprise. looking forward to using this knife soon. cheers!
Just my small version today. Seems durable and after some testing I say it's good for the money if you want a stainless knife that has a woodsy look only issues is it wasn't super sharp out box and the handle size is a bit small even with my small hands so the larger version likely is better overall. The scales seem secure even after some batonning and pommel hammering. it makes feathersticks well and control cuts are easy other than causing some stress on my thumb joint area due to the handle size but the large version would likely be much more comfortable.
Just got mine and unboxed it. Knife really looks and feels great, but after an hour walk in the woods which I'd already wasted 30 minutes struggling to get the damned belt spacer out of the way. I found that the hanger don't hang low enough for easy drawing of this medium knife. It can't be adjusted to hang lower, so upon returning home I once again got out my Victorinox and this time adjusted it for horizontal carry. There is no stock adjustable capability of diagonal carry. So now I got extra unnecessary parts on my table such as the spacer which was in the way previous, and there is no way to tighten down the screws as the nuts spin freely inside the assembly. It's so insanely aggravating, no way I'm putting back the extra one. Don't even try this except a well lighted table, with a catch tray and towel in it so the parts can't bounce the fuck off under shit. I'm going to try it on this way before proceeding in the tightening attempt madness again. I suspect it will be too wide to carry horizontal in front, and I'm not interested in carry such a knife behind me. What I am is pissed off and now my arthritis is making me rage. This sheath is fucking nightmare. I may have to strip off the Ferro Rod holder to carry it don't horizontal. It's too difficult to draw and reholster mounted vertical, as the hanger is insufficient. It was pretty in the snowy woods with my dog, but this crap has destroyed my pleasure and pissed me off enough that I will put it down for now. I believe I will grab a piece of leather and a stiching awl and save time and aggro by simply making another sheath for it, and I'll give this turd to somebody I don't like, along with it's annoying loose pieces. I should've realized this was crap, but I've not experienced any similar in design previously, and this insures I will not again. I can say that thus far, most plastic sheaths of any brand knife, have problems, and must be customized to overcome. This one is great for repeatedly pissing somebody off though, and really isn't reasonably useful. I should return it. Cold Steel makes some great bushcraft type knife's, and they cost less, to a bit more, but will not have this maddening sheath. Shit was probably tricked upon us by Communist conspirators to drive us mad. Too bad, I believe I'd love this knife.
The knife is probably phenomenal, I've owned Bucks all my life, amongst others, but carried Buck first, so I still have trust in knife quality. The design of the knife and it's grind make sense to me, and it both looks and feels great, and the accompanying ferro rod worked great using both the specialized sparking choil cutaway, and also on the knife's spine. A shower of hot burning sparks is easily directed from such. The sheath is aggravating b*******. If you need to adjust the sheath hardware then your screwed several ways. Inserting 1/8" thick rubber washer over the threaded piece before reassembly will allow it to be tightened enough not to rattle. The sheath hardware is asinine to adjust at all, and does not hang the vertical knife low enough to easily draw and resheath, so I switched to horizontal, but the hardware to do so is hasselrama unrequited. I got it now, so I'll keep the knife and learn how it is. Hope Buck improves the sheath for this, because I think it's probably a very good quality knife, both design and implementation of materials.
Okay, it's okay in horizontal front right carry. I can sit down with it on, including the Ferro Rod holder and Ferro Rod. It would be comfortable and unnoticeable without the Ferro Rod holder though. It's slightly uncomfortable sitting down with Ferro Rod holder in place in horizontal right front carry, but it is totally doable. I will drop some contact cement to hold the spinning nuts. Better yet, I'll ditch the Ferro Rod and hanger assembly and lace it with coreless Paracord, for comfortable horizontal front right belt carry, oh yeah, it's far easier to yell louder than the whistle. I EDC my 7" CS Bushman with Ferro Rod attached, and I quick draw it and clean split a walnut in the air and reholster it easy without looking. The knife retainer on the CS Bushman ejects off the sheath though after a day or two, so you gotta make your own or maybe melt it in place. I tried super glue, it don't grab that plastic, so ditched the turd piece, and replaced it with one I made. Even so, the Bushman is a lot to carry around in a ridgid plastic sheath. Also the Uber tough and powerfully useful Bushman isn't so good for finer control work, so I decided to try this Selkirk. I've heard of Alexander Selkirk. I think he was a sailor, left marooned on a remote ocean island for seven years where he ran down and ate goats. I wouldn't have luck at that now, I can't even catch young women anymore, and I'm not going after the cripples.
Just bought my first Buck knife yesterday. The rod and notch work easily. I have my folding hunting knife and a cheaper bowie knife but did not have a survival knife. Many have said good things about this knife so now I have it. Are the grooves on the spine just in front of the handle for helping the grip while cutting? That's the only part that wasn't listed in the instructions.
You guys did a great job on this one except for one thing... the tip on mine is very thin. I wonder if they are all like this or mine is a defective grind? It starts to thin out much to soon and I am afraid it may snap.
Going for the 119. Was thinking of purchasing the Selkirk, but I believe it’s fake wood, correct? Also, those 3 screws that show don’t look really professional...
I just got mine today...the fire rod broke after a few try the plastic is very cheap...and fire rod is smaller now that what we see in this video I guess even the Buck company is downsizing...The knike looks ok
Love Buck knives. The design looks good and functional, one big issue is that it's made in china. Got a couple of Buck knives made in china and noticed the poor quality and poor workmanship. Make the knife in the USA and more folks would be interested and buy the knife.
Spent quite awhile looking at knives today and landed on this one. I was incredibly disappointed to find out this was made in china immediately before checking out. Because of course it isn't stamped on the knife, it's only on the label on the box. Why cheap out when you know your customers will pay for US made knives? . No new knife for me yet I guess...
Great knife, but the sheath is the worse. I wanted to covert to horizontal position. 1. There are no instructional videos for this sheath; I visited buckknives/about-knives/product-instructions/ as per card supplied, only to find no such address exists. 2. I visited this youtube channel as per card supplied, no such instructions here either. 3. So I browsed youtube, still nothing. 4. I figured it out myself, only to find that the 'nuts' used at the top are too long and every configuration I tried either needs more screws than what is supplied or leaves it lose... and way to fiddly to do. The belt spacer has a slot at the top, how on earth can it be pushed in without splitting the 'loop'? This could be placed at the square end(bottom), there is room for it! Surly Buck can come up with a much simpler method for this sheath.
Update; I purchased an assortment of 3/16 nuts and bolts, with mushroom head, for the 1" length I made sure to get extra nuts to act as spacers. Painted them all black. Now I have a VASTLY improved secure connection, that is far less fiddly. I've also dremmeled out a new spacer gap! Of course all of this could have been avoided with a well thoughtout sheath, which I pondered while on my way home from the hardware store; A single bolt in the center with a connected belt loop moulded with slots in one and groves in the other positioned at various angles. I wonder if anyone at Buck has actually tried using this sheath?
