BUSSE HANDLES-need help

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figured this would be the best place to ask. can anyone describe to me the difference between magnum machined handles and hand shaped magnum handles. any help is greatly appreciated. thanks

-from a guy about to get his first busse.
 
Welcome to the forums. Your question would get more responses in the Busse subforum.
 
figured this would be the best place to ask. can anyone describe to me the difference between magnum machined handles and hand shaped magnum handles. any help is greatly appreciated. thanks

-from a guy about to get his first busse.

Yeah, post this in the Busse forum.
 
An ALFA-Hog??

I was one of the founders and first Prez of the Alabama ALFA Romeo Owner's Club back in the mid-late seventies. I bought a '73 2000 Berlina new from a new dealer whose ALFA sign was still in a crate in his front lot - their first sale - $5,248, inc s/t, 1/'74 - replaced my '70 Audi 100LS, which I had just totalled ($3,771 inc s/t 11/'70). I recycled my Blaupunkt radio. I owned nine more Alfa's, inc parts cars, over the next 10+ years. It cost a small fortune to keep them running - the only US-made consumable was the oil filter - which also fit a Ford farm tractor. The only knife I bought during those years was a Vic SAK and a Buck 110 - I was constantly broke - and, of necessity, a great ALFA mechanic, rebuilding engines and trannies. I never owned an Alfetta - but I did have a rare '65 1600 Giulia GTC - fun four seat convertible.

Now I drive Chrysler/Jeep products - and I can afford some knives... a Busse is somewhere in my future, although I could have done body work on one of those Alfa's if I had one back then!

Alfa's in South Africa - cool! I still have some manuals, etc - and some old Pocher kits. Thanks for the trip back to my Alfa days - I even had a vanity car tag "ALFANUT". Now I have a retired educator tag: "NO JOB" - but I have a few more knives!

Stainz
 
the hand shaped magnums tend to be smooth. whereas the machined normally have a groove pattern of some type.

both are thicker than standards, and will have the large palm swells.
 
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