willmtn1
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I've been diving down the Lil Smokey rabbit hole this afternoon and came across a post
Jerry Busse
made back in 2002 - here it is quoted from a thread started by 'thatmguy' titled "First Pic try - Busse Smokey"
"1/8" D-2. The Smokies were never officially classified as Busse knives as they were never actually produced under our company name. They were made by up and coming apprentices who were taught how to grind and shape handles on them. They were originally used as shop knives. . . . glue scrapers, string cutters, that sort of thing. Some of them made their way to shows and were sold as apprentice knives at very low prices. . . $55.00 - 75.00. They offer great bang for the buck.
If Mabel doesn't fail me I believe that they were made in the late 1980's and started to leak out of our shop a few years later in the early to mid 1990's."
The Lil Smokeys weren't released until 2015 and again in 2017 from what I can see.
Lil Smokey -
Does anyone have pics of an apprentice ground Smokey?
Jerry Busse
made back in 2002 - here it is quoted from a thread started by 'thatmguy' titled "First Pic try - Busse Smokey""1/8" D-2. The Smokies were never officially classified as Busse knives as they were never actually produced under our company name. They were made by up and coming apprentices who were taught how to grind and shape handles on them. They were originally used as shop knives. . . . glue scrapers, string cutters, that sort of thing. Some of them made their way to shows and were sold as apprentice knives at very low prices. . . $55.00 - 75.00. They offer great bang for the buck.
If Mabel doesn't fail me I believe that they were made in the late 1980's and started to leak out of our shop a few years later in the early to mid 1990's."
The Lil Smokeys weren't released until 2015 and again in 2017 from what I can see.
Lil Smokey -
Does anyone have pics of an apprentice ground Smokey?
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