Jerry Busse
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Cliffs Basic # 7 could take no more. After having sent Cliff a Basic # 7 a little over 2 years ago with the instructions to test it to the point of total destruction, we thought we would be hearing from him within a couple of weeks. More than 2 YEARS later we finally received the death notice. Cliffs Basic # 7, after having been beaten senseless and tested more heavily than any other knife in Cliffs disturbed history, gave up the ghost while being beaten on with the sledge hammer end of a hatchet. Its frail, anorexic blade could take no more. Witnesses say that a note was found in the pocket of the sheath. . . It read something like this:
Dear Cliff,
What the. . . .? I am a knife. . . . not a railroad spike! I do not know what voices you hear and I do not know what they tell you to do. I can take no more! Im breaking out of here . . . Literally! Tell your Mistress Ill continue to think of her. . . . .
Later Creep!,
Your once Basic #7. . . . and now Basic #5 ¾ .
We at Busse Combat celebrate the fact that Cliff was finally able to destroy his Basic #7. It couldnt have happened to a more deserving knife. . . . .
Cliff will be giving the eulogy. (How inappropriate is that? The killer offers his final words over his latest victim?) It's sick!
Heres a side by side comparison of what were once, two identical Basic #7 test blades. The top one is Cliffs Basic #7. The bottom one is the shops Basic #7 test blade. Notice any difference? If you truly want to know what level of use and abuse your knives can take. . . .send them to Cliff. Over the 2 years that he tested the Basic # 7, he reground it by many, many re-sharpenings, and modified it by expanding the choil, and grinding a wire cutting notch in the top of the ricasso. He then burned the handle, cut the handle, and put some type of, what I believe to be fiberglass, goop over the handle to make it fit his hand better. I love to see one of our blades that has had this much use pounded into it. It gives them Character.
Below is a close up of the two handles. Note the expanded choil in front of the guard and the wire breaking notch ground into the top of the ricasso. Nice, personal, additions.
Below is what is left of Cliffs Basic # 7. . . two years after he began heavy, abusive testing. The sheath, I believe, had hung in there, but once the knife finally died, Cliff killed it to see how tough it really was.
Well be sending Cliff one of our new 1 thick models sometime next week
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Yours in nuclear testosterone,
Jerry Busse
Dear Cliff,
What the. . . .? I am a knife. . . . not a railroad spike! I do not know what voices you hear and I do not know what they tell you to do. I can take no more! Im breaking out of here . . . Literally! Tell your Mistress Ill continue to think of her. . . . .
Later Creep!,
Your once Basic #7. . . . and now Basic #5 ¾ .
We at Busse Combat celebrate the fact that Cliff was finally able to destroy his Basic #7. It couldnt have happened to a more deserving knife. . . . .
Cliff will be giving the eulogy. (How inappropriate is that? The killer offers his final words over his latest victim?) It's sick!
Heres a side by side comparison of what were once, two identical Basic #7 test blades. The top one is Cliffs Basic #7. The bottom one is the shops Basic #7 test blade. Notice any difference? If you truly want to know what level of use and abuse your knives can take. . . .send them to Cliff. Over the 2 years that he tested the Basic # 7, he reground it by many, many re-sharpenings, and modified it by expanding the choil, and grinding a wire cutting notch in the top of the ricasso. He then burned the handle, cut the handle, and put some type of, what I believe to be fiberglass, goop over the handle to make it fit his hand better. I love to see one of our blades that has had this much use pounded into it. It gives them Character.
Below is a close up of the two handles. Note the expanded choil in front of the guard and the wire breaking notch ground into the top of the ricasso. Nice, personal, additions.
Below is what is left of Cliffs Basic # 7. . . two years after he began heavy, abusive testing. The sheath, I believe, had hung in there, but once the knife finally died, Cliff killed it to see how tough it really was.
Well be sending Cliff one of our new 1 thick models sometime next week
Yours in nuclear testosterone,
Jerry Busse
