Can we PLEASE get a CG SAR8 eventually?

I am not sure a CG SAR8 will happen .... all knives went to Skunk in the SAR releases and I guess he must have "underwritten" their creation .... and when you look at the uses of a Woods Knife for food prep and gralloch work having a blade which can be seen to be clean is a useful feature ... and my guess is that is why/how they were ordered in the spec they were.

Plus if you look at the convexing of the blade profile ... which needs to be done on belts ... the savings in time etc for a dimpled Infi finish which can be painted over on the flat and sabre grinds might not be the same. In simple terms it might not have been much more of a job to finish them up to Satin/BBDC ? Certainly my NMFBM and my NMSFNO which share the same type of grind were a pretty easy task to give a ghetto satin finish compared to my Skinny Ash and a few other painted Busse's I have done with flat and sabre grind profiles.

However.... some of the ease with which these knives were done could be because the shape of the blade lent itself so easily to working on my belt sander ....

Anyway ... like I said ... unless Skunk wanted to put in for a big order it might not happen ... and look at how many have been sold and how many more people were just waiting for a CG version ... my guess is the demand has nearly been reached... at least for a while.
 
Smooth bolt on CG means polished spine, since the handles are shaped after the bolts are attached. That might add to the cost. Honestly, I want this thing to be as inexpensive as possible. I want a SAR8 without paying the satin tax.
 
On the different bolt front ... I like the idea of hex bolts which can be used to remove the grips and sterilise the knife/grips completely .... and if you have G10 grips ... they will totally sterilise ... useful when the Media starts getting it's panties in a wad over who is removing fingers from corpses to help identify Terrorists who would happily incinerate or crush another 3000 innocent people in another 9/11 ... go figure ???
 
I'd be more interested in the CG SAR8 than paying for satin. Don't see too many user SAR8's right now and that is sad :(
 
Iboschi said:
I'd be more interested in the CG SAR8 than paying for satin. Don't see too many user SAR8's right now and that is sad :(
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Give me another month or so... once spring hits I'll have plenty of "after" shots with mine. I don't carry a camera with me to the woods, so no in-use ones ;)
 
MustardMan said:


I haven't seen a single person say "man, what we need is more satin SAR8 SE's with different handle combos."
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People always seem to want what they can't have...If Busse only came out with black g10 people would complain about no green linen, (which would be sweet). oh well, i think I'll have a beer:D
 
I've got a SAR8 LE and I would still buy the CG version if it came out.

For me it's in the top 5 Busses I own.
 
I'd buy a CG SAR-8 in black coating and black canvas for $297 in a heartbeat, but any more expensive and I'm out. it, and others like SHs/FSHs of any variety, are disproportionately expensive in my opinion. there's a huge "style/design" tax in them.

I'm in the group, and perhaps a small one, that has a problem with $ vs Size. When I can get a BWM for $350, there's no way I'm paying more for a smaller and loosely similar knife... No way. And the fancy do-dads/handles don't appeal to me anyway.

And even more so, the $ gap b/w big and small ought to be bigger IMO. Granted, I know it doesn't really work that way (or, at least, that's not the way the fine folks at Busse price the knives) - but it does influence my buying.

for example:

a $500 NMFBM makes sense
a $350 BWM makes sense
a $250 Tankbuster makes sense

a $250 Culti does not
a $300 GW does not
a $500 SAR-8 definitely doesn't

to me...

;)
 
I definitely agree that the prices are a bit wonky sometimes. My NMSFNO was priced at $388, with the hand shaped magnum handle upgrade, which I think costs around $50. Charging an extra $50 for slightly thicker and smooth handles is a bit much, and I definitely feel like "premium" features have a pretty steep markup in these parts.


Lucky for me, I bought my NMSFNO in the first hour of BLADE, so I got a nice discount on it, but the prices do seem kinda nuts sometimes.


A SAR8CG, at $325 or so, seems completely reasonable to me. $297 would be even better, but I ain't holdin my breath ;)
 
I had no issue paying the $500. I've watched Busses for a long time, waiting for the right one. The SAR-8 SE was the right one. It combined everything I was looking for in a largeish camp knife.
 
Skrapmetal said:
I had no issue paying the $500. I've watched Busses for a long time, waiting for the right one. The SAR-8 SE was the right one. It combined everything I was looking for in a largeish camp knife.
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makes sense.

I, too, am willing to do the same when I find something that's "just right".
 
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