Black Heart with Blood!

idahoskunk

idahoskunk

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I bought this from a vendor back east who swore this is the famed "Black Heart". supposedly this is the blade that was being machined when jerry got his hand blown off in his shop. there are some small stains that appear to be blood on the spine.:eek:

ok andrew, what do you know about this knife?:confused:

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:eek: You'll give Jerry a heart attack with that thing!! :eek:

And on his birthday too.

How do you find all these things? :D :D
 
if the dna test comes back positive then it will better than the lottery. i can clone my very own jerry!:cool:

or just make a bunch of jerry's and sell him the spare parts that he is going to need!:eek:

after all... he is over the hill now... and it's a down hill slide from here on out:D
 
Idaho, Some of your ideas are sick. Cool, mind you, but sick nonetheless.:D
 
I'm not one to dig up the past, but how did Jerry blow up his hand :( :confused: . If this is something that shouldn't be rehashed, just tell me to shut up :footinmou .

Idaho, you should put some of that tenacity towards world peace ;) .
I like the different logo, did all the older model have it that way ?
 
Interesting story,
Ask Jerry whose shop he was in when his hand was hurt.
Get a date.
The first Busse knife made with brass tubes was sold at the preparedness show, Las Vegas, NV. in the fall of 1999.
The logo on the knife is drop handle, one before current.
The handles are from the next to last batch.
OH, I get it you are Kidding!!;) ;)
 
Definitely not a refurbish job. Notice the flat coating? The blade was ground, heat-treated, coated, and then never finished due to circumstances . . .

It was originally drilled for bolts. When it came time to handle it, we used carbide to enlarge the holes. It was sent in to the company who was doing our laser engraving at the time, in order to see how the coating would react to the laser. It reacted quite well. It is the first knife that we ever had laser etched and is, to my knowledge, the ONLY Steel Heart II with the circled logo. Notice the incomplete circle at the bottom of the logo? I believe that that is unique as well. Many of the After Shocks had this same circled logo.

You are looking at a knife that began production in early 1998 and didn't reach completion until quite a while later.

Nice find!

Jerry
 
Idaho, man, you are all over your game. There is nobody getting near your in the INFI score department!
 
I bet he's from another planet... How else can you explain it? Rare Busse knives just jump into his lap. "Found this one in a dumpster behind Burger king". I can't believe his luck. Awesome knife.
 
wow, thanks for the verification jerry! i was hoping that this would be the real deal. the guy i got this one from was a shady fellow to say the least. he even told me he was there in "the shop" when the big blow out happened. he told me a story of how a big hunk of carbide or infi blew a cbl out of your left hand taking part of your hand with it?:eek: :cool: :confused:
musta been hard to grind for a while with only one paw?

thanks for commenting:D
 
I heard a rumor about a guy from somewhere out west that has been traveling all over the country from knife shop to knife shop in search of Busse knives; I wonder if it could be the skunk ... ??;)

Seriously, that is a nice looking knife, and the history makes it even more interesting - congratulations!:D

Gene
 
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