nick681
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Lately I have been giving some thought to my small collection of Busses and where to go with it from here.
The whole thing started with just one. I began with the search for a single high quality knife. I looked in all the knife magazines for several months and was really only impressed with three knives, The Busse Combat Steel Heart, The Chris Reeves Project I, one of the Entrek knives. The thing that swung the decision was the ad I saw in one of the knife magazines where Jerry said "If they dont gaurantee their knives why buy them? I guarantee my knives against all damage" or words to that effect. That really impressed me that this guy was willing to do that. There was no pussyfooting around with this guy I thought, he means business. Anyway a couple of years went by and I had went through a couple of different knives, one of them I still have. I enjoyed them but they just weren't what I really wanted. Then I decided to take the plunge and spend the money on one really good knife. I began to look around on the forums and decided to go with the Busse Steel Heart. I remembered that ad from so long ago and bought a nice SH Steel Heart from one of the forumites. I never used the damn thing, it was too big to carry on my web gear so I traded it for a new Natural Outlaw, ( I know, I know, the damn thing was mint too). I thought that was it, I would enjoy this one knife and tune in to the other forumites adventures. This however was not to be.
Next thing I know a dealer was getting rid of the last remaining Basic 3's, then another dealer was getting rid of his remaining Assault shakers, then the ZT's came out, it has been downhill from there as the rest of you know from experience. And the thing is I have never handled one of these knives before buying, as I have never met anyone in person who owns one.
Suddenly I have found myself with a collection, small by INFI HOG standrds but a collection none the less. My question now is what do I want to concentrate on. I have seen some people who focus on one aspect of the Busse experience, be it BM's, SH's, or in the instance of Eric the Variant HOG
, variants. I have the NO's covered except for the Combat Grade Zero Tolerance NO. I am now trying to obtain a collection of 5/16" "Fatty " Busses. I'm halfway there, I just need a SH Battle Mistress smooth handle w/ slotted bolts and a SH Badger with smooth handle and smooth bolts (hint hint 
) . Now I have to decide where to go from here. The remaining Basics hold some charm.... Who knows?
My question is do any of the rest of you have a specific focus, or do you just buy whatever you like at the time. I would be interested to know the thought process that has gone into your Busse Collection. Lets hear your story.
Nick
~Nuclear INFIdel and Aspiring INFI Hog~
The whole thing started with just one. I began with the search for a single high quality knife. I looked in all the knife magazines for several months and was really only impressed with three knives, The Busse Combat Steel Heart, The Chris Reeves Project I, one of the Entrek knives. The thing that swung the decision was the ad I saw in one of the knife magazines where Jerry said "If they dont gaurantee their knives why buy them? I guarantee my knives against all damage" or words to that effect. That really impressed me that this guy was willing to do that. There was no pussyfooting around with this guy I thought, he means business. Anyway a couple of years went by and I had went through a couple of different knives, one of them I still have. I enjoyed them but they just weren't what I really wanted. Then I decided to take the plunge and spend the money on one really good knife. I began to look around on the forums and decided to go with the Busse Steel Heart. I remembered that ad from so long ago and bought a nice SH Steel Heart from one of the forumites. I never used the damn thing, it was too big to carry on my web gear so I traded it for a new Natural Outlaw, ( I know, I know, the damn thing was mint too). I thought that was it, I would enjoy this one knife and tune in to the other forumites adventures. This however was not to be.
Next thing I know a dealer was getting rid of the last remaining Basic 3's, then another dealer was getting rid of his remaining Assault shakers, then the ZT's came out, it has been downhill from there as the rest of you know from experience. And the thing is I have never handled one of these knives before buying, as I have never met anyone in person who owns one.
Suddenly I have found myself with a collection, small by INFI HOG standrds but a collection none the less. My question now is what do I want to concentrate on. I have seen some people who focus on one aspect of the Busse experience, be it BM's, SH's, or in the instance of Eric the Variant HOG
, variants. I have the NO's covered except for the Combat Grade Zero Tolerance NO. I am now trying to obtain a collection of 5/16" "Fatty " Busses. I'm halfway there, I just need a SH Battle Mistress smooth handle w/ slotted bolts and a SH Badger with smooth handle and smooth bolts (hint hint ) . Now I have to decide where to go from here. The remaining Basics hold some charm.... Who knows?My question is do any of the rest of you have a specific focus, or do you just buy whatever you like at the time. I would be interested to know the thought process that has gone into your Busse Collection. Lets hear your story.
Nick
~Nuclear INFIdel and Aspiring INFI Hog~
)and other rare Busses. I've got a few of the Fatties (SH BM, SH SH, SH BA) but everything is negotiable if there are variants on the line 
