Busse Sell Knives Without Handle Slabs?

[Father & Son Traditional Sharpening]

I've gotten to the point where I prefer to just do cord wraps on my knife handles, for the sake of easy replacement or removal in the field amongst other things. Is it possible to order knives without handles, just a bare tang that you can wrap or handle yourself?

 

[Blade Runner 7]

Nope.

 

[Father & Son Traditional Sharpening]

Nope.

This was my first guess, as I've never heard of this being an option. Bummer if this is true, as paying labor and materials on a part that has no use to you as an end user is a waste.

 

[David Brown]

skeleton key, skeleton warden, assault shaker, pure bred fighter series and those ones designed with no handles yes, but the ones that come with scales I have never seen them offered without.

But you can always call the shop and get info direct from Busse rather than ask a bunch of folks that do not work there

We would all just have to speculate.

They are very good at answering the phone, and talking to the nice ladies is always.............nice

 

[evltcat]

skeleton key, skeleton warden, assault shaker, pure bred fighter series and those ones designed with no handles yes, but the ones that come with scales I have never seen them offered without.

But you can always call the shop and get info direct from Busse rather than ask a bunch of folks that do not work there

We would all just have to speculate.

They are very good at answering the phone, and talking to the nice ladies is always.............nice

Dave took the post right outta my fingers!!!
+1 on the Pure Bread fighter, Assault Shaker, and calling the ladies at the Busse shop!!! :thumbup:

 

[Blade Runner 7]

Busse gives us more options than just about any other production company out there. They can't please everyone all the time.

 

[Father & Son Traditional Sharpening]

But you can always call the shop and get info direct from Busse rather than ask a bunch of folks that do not work there

We would all just have to speculate.

They are very good at answering the phone, and talking to the nice ladies is always.............nice

I know the ladies in the shop would get this answered for me, just figured I'd ask here thinking I might not have been the first to wonder this and it's been asked already. After all, there may be others who have similar ideas and would benefit from the discussion here.

Busse gives us more options than just about any other production company out there. They can't please everyone all the time.

I certainly agree, but they have most definitely made an effort to cater to most on reasonable requests.

 

[Blade Runner 7]

The amount of money you would save would be nominal. Just drill em out and save the slabs. You might change your mind down the road.

 

[Father & Son Traditional Sharpening]

The amount of money you would save would be nominal. Just drill em out and save the slabs. You might change your mind down the road.

I suspect you are right on with this, this is what I will likely end up doing.

 

[saniterra]

I have asked - within the last two weeks - if I could get my Busse without the scales attached. The answer was "no".

 

[Father & Son Traditional Sharpening]

Spoke with Lexi this morning, the shop does not ship any unfinished knives at all. Thanks Lexi!

Makes perfect sense, I should have thought of that…….

 

[kniferMan]

The amount of money you would save would be nominal. Just drill em out and save the slabs. You might change your mind down the road.

+ 1 on this. I've done ripe wrapped handles and I've also use screw's to attach/detach handle slabs. In fact, I'm about to replace my tb slabs with rope. I'll try to post pics when it's done. It's always nice to be able to put the original handles back on.