Buck’s Buck of the Month program usually dresses up a familiar knife in new materials and calls it a day. November’s entry goes a different direction. The 667 Alpha Cleaver takes Buck’s Alpha fixed blade platform and rebuilds it as a camp kitchen tool, with a 5 3/8 inch cleaver blade in BOS heat treated 3V steel, layered G10 handles, and a textured sheath. It costs $225, Buck made 500 of them, and Buck’s own store is where you buy one.
The shape tells you the job. A cleaver profile gives you a tall, flat edge that slices on a board and scoops what you just cut, and it shrugs off work that would roll a thinner hunting edge, though that same tall blade makes it a specialist. This isn’t the one knife you take into the woods for everything. It’s the one that lives in the camp kitchen kit.
Price: $225.00
Where to buy: Buck Knives
Built for campfire cooking and outdoor work
Buck describes the 667 Alpha Cleaver as built for campfire cooking and outdoor tasks, and its own photos back that up: the knife works over a cutting board and next to a cast iron pan, not on a display shelf. The flat profile keeps the whole edge in contact with the board, so it pushes through onions, potatoes, and a tri-tip without the rocking motion a curved belly needs.
The tall blade doubles as a bench scraper. Slide the flat under a pile of sliced steak and you can move it to the pan in one trip, and the stonewashed finish hides the scratches that kind of work leaves behind. The Alpha line is Buck’s premium fixed blade family, and its hunting versions point the same build quality at game. This one points it at dinner.
The geometry helps at the board, too. The handle sits high above the edge line, so your knuckles clear the cutting surface through the whole stroke, and the 5 3/8 inch edge is long enough to portion a roast yet short enough to stay handy over a camp stove. It’s less a shrunken kitchen cleaver than a field tool that happens to cook.
3V steel and a full flat grind
The blade is 3V steel with Buck’s BOS heat treatment, and the flame stamp on the flat marks it. 3V is a sensible pick for a cleaver. It’s a high toughness tool steel that handles chopping impacts better than the hard stainless grades, and the trade is upkeep: 3V isn’t stainless, so it wants a wipe-down after wet work instead of neglect.
At 0.140 inch thick with a full flat grind, the stock carries enough spine for splitting kindling-sized pieces while still thinning toward an edge that slices cleanly. Jimping along the spine gives your thumb a purchase when you choke up for board work. It’s a working grind, not a show grind.
Maintenance stays simple. The blade is uncoated stonewash, so there’s no finish to wear through at the edge, and a flat grind touches up on a basic stone without a jig or a system. For a knife that lives in a cook kit and gets washed in a basin, that plain practicality is worth more than a coating.
Layered G10, black nitride hardware, and a textured sheath
The handle is layered G10 in black and coyote brown, and the layers show as contour lines along the grip once the scales are shaped. Black nitride fasteners hold them on, and there’s a lanyard hole at the butt if you want a fob on a knife this size.
It ships with a black plastic sheath with a textured face. Plastic is the right choice here. It rinses clean after food work, it won’t soak up grease the way leather does, and it keeps the $225 pointed at the blade instead of the carry.
The Buck of the Month catch still applies
None of that changes the program’s basic math. Buck made 500, they sell through Buck’s site, and when they’re gone the cleaver goes back to being a one-month experiment. When we checked on Friday morning, Buck’s store showed 289 left, so the first wave of collectors has already taken its cut.
If you’d rather have a Bowie, October’s Buck of the Month 120 General is the same $225 in a very different shape. The cleaver is narrower in purpose than the 120, and that’s the trade: you give up the all-around hunting profile and get the better food tool in return.
The $225 ask is holding steady across the program, too. October’s 120 General cost the same with 750 made, and September’s entry ran $250, so November sits right on the program’s going rate while changing both the shape and the steel at once. There’s no novelty markup on the cleaver profile. You’re paying the standard BotM price for the month’s most unusual shape.
Price: $225.00
Where to buy: Buck Knives
The cleaver fits a camp cooking kit, or a Buck of the Month run that needs the one entry that can cook dinner. It’s a specialist, and the standard hunting profiles cover more ground at this price if you need one fixed blade to do everything. As a specialist it’s a good one, and 500 pieces won’t wait around while you decide.
