Concerns About Survive! Business and Misleading Lead Time Estimates

rcb2000 · Nov 7, 2016

XtianAus said:
Awesome photos rcb!! Keep them coming if you have anymore.

Plus i love seeing the survive and busse/kins together in photos! Always great seeing some of the best of the best side by side.

Thanks!

Not all my blades, from a camping trip a while back with the Busse gang

craytab · Nov 7, 2016

^That collection is bonkers.

100eyes · Nov 7, 2016

grogimus said:
Aaaaaand you have not paid for that knife after your refund, and you are owed nothing.

But... but... they had the audacity to mess with the wrong person! Clearly money isn't the point here, it's about justice!

rcb2000 · Nov 7, 2016

craytab said:
^That collection is bonkers.

Like I mentioned before, they are not all mine, but it was a crazy fun trip out with the hogs. I would say the majority of these belong to 2 great individuals over from the Busse forum.
Keep in mind these were only their users, I'm sure they had as many or more safe queens stashed away

craytab · Nov 7, 2016

rcb2000 said:
Like I mentioned before, they are not all mine, but it was a crazy fun trip out with the hogs. I would say the majority of these belong to 2 great individuals over from the Busse forum.
Keep in mind these were only their users, I'm sure they had as many or more safe queens stashed away

Any available bachelors?

rcb2000 · Nov 7, 2016

craytab said:
Any available bachelors?

hahah sorry all taken

It was a ton of fun, good food, campfire, bourbon, and lots of choppin

grogimus · Nov 7, 2016

rcb2000 said:
Like I mentioned before, they are not all mine, but it was a crazy fun trip out with the hogs. I would say the majority of these belong to 2 great individuals over from the Busse forum.
Keep in mind these were only their users, I'm sure they had as many or more safe queens stashed away

I've always thought of my CRKT Ken Onion chopper as a dirty little secret, glad to see someone else is willing to put it out there. 3rd picture, bottom left, 3rd, 4th, and 5th from the left. Are those Busse basic's, or Scrapyards?

Hard Knocks · Nov 7, 2016

rcb2000 said:
hahah sorry all taken

It was a ton of fun, good food, campfire, bourbon, and lots of choppin

I remember the pics from that trip. An insane amount of steel. So cool. :thumbup:

grogimus · Nov 7, 2016

Oh oh oh.. is that one of the recurved 1311's! Wow.

rcb2000 · Nov 7, 2016

grogimus said:
I've always thought of my CRKT Ken Onion chopper as a dirty little secret, glad to see someone else is willing to put it out there. 3rd picture, bottom left, 3rd, 4th, and 5th from the left. Are those Busse basic's, or Scrapyards?

It did well if I remember..
The 3/4 are Scrapyard 1311's, one is a variant
The 5th is a Busse Basic 11 I think,,

Hard Knocks · Nov 7, 2016

Did you get to try that Gravelle in the bottom pic rcb?

rcb2000 · Nov 7, 2016

grogimus said:
Oh oh oh.. is that one of the recurved 1311's! Wow.

The 1311 is consistently at the top 3 for Busse/kin best choppers,, and for around 250-300!!!
Why I don't have one yet is beyond me, I do love my 1111 though, poor mans Battle Mistress

timichango · Nov 7, 2016

Silver Needle said:
That's a really good point. I'm just glad the whole thing didn't get locked.

Amen to that.

rcb2000 · Nov 7, 2016

Hard Knocks said:
Did you get to try that Gravelle in the bottom pic rcb?

That belongs to Breavis5694, he's got another one he sent me a pic of,, I swear it was .5" thick,, beast of a knife

Hard Knocks · Nov 7, 2016

rcb2000 said:
That belongs to Breavis5694, he's got another one he sent me a pic of,, I swear it was .5" thick,, beast of a knife

I saw where Josiah was building some fattys. I really want an F6 in 3V, so far no luck.

grogimus · Nov 7, 2016

rcb2000 said:
The 1311 is consistently at the top 3 for Busse/kin best choppers,, and for around 250-300!!!
Why I don't have one yet is beyond me, I do love my 1111 though, poor mans Battle Mistress

I have a CGFBM, one of the Garth bronzed editions which seem to get no love, and it doesn't hold a candle to the 1111 or 1311. The 1311 destroys thinner, 2"'ish green wood, the 1111 is much better for dry, thicker wood from what I've seen. The CGFBM is still the knife that makes anyone who looks at my knives go "WOW!" though. I'd like to think that doesn't matter, but it does in some childish portion of my nugget

timichango · Nov 7, 2016

grogimus said:
I have a CGFBM, one of the Garth bronzed editions which seem to get no love

I'm not generally attracted to Busse knives there are exceptions though, and that knife in particular is crazy hot.

rcb2000 · Nov 7, 2016

timichango said:
I'm not generally attracted to Busse knives there are exceptions though, and that knife in particular is crazy hot.

And chops pretty darn well too [emoji41]

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

grogimus · Nov 7, 2016

timichango said:
I'm not generally attracted to Busse knives there are exceptions though, and that knife in particular is crazy hot.

I've never understood why the same knife in the bronzed edition draws about $600 second hand when a different coating is an automatic $1k. I love the faux verdigris on bronze, gives it some history. And it hits like a truck, just lacks the shock absorbtion of the Res-C handles.

grogimus · Nov 7, 2016

rcb2000 said:
And chops pretty darn well too [emoji41]

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yours is all wrong. It's worth about $400 more because it's not bronze

Let me know if you want to beat on a 1311. I'll miss it, but I think I'll survive