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No, this isn't one of those hypothetical threads that we've all seen so many of and no one ever gets down to whatever the number is.
Due to multiple hospitalizations, surgeries and then unemployment to cap it all off, I had to make exactly that choice.
Over the years, I guess I've owned better than 35 Busse blades and as the collection evolved it was mostly Straight Handles. Still my favorites of all the designs over the years.
So, what did I keep? What were the 2 Busse's that had the greatest function and form in my eyes?
Straight Handled Badger Attack in INFI with a .25" blade. I had had 7 or 8 of these puppies, mostly fatties in A2. The skinniest one that I kept was the best slicer of all, if not the most comfortable in the grip.
Custom Shop Active Duty with the (IIRC), .14" thick blade and a double cut finish. Most were satin as I've only seen 1 or 2 double cuts over the years. This was from the first run of AD's way back when. It is by far the best slicer of any Bussekin knife I ever owned.
Just about all of my Swamp Rat knives had to go also, but I was able to hang on to my first 'real' knife, the Howling Rat that I bought in 2001 or 2002 soon after SRKW first started. Also kept the Camp Tramp and Battle Rat purchased right after the Howler. The only 'newer' Rat I managed to hold on to was the HRLM, which I think is a superior design to the original.
Only 1 Scrap Yard, but it is the most used knife in the house. That would be the ScrapMuk. Sorry Jerry, I just couldn't wait for the Busse version, although looking at the threads, it is still eagerly awaited. My wife claimed it and it is in constant use in the kitchen. We both love the shape of the blade for so many uses and only my vegetable cleaver comes close for amount of use. I had traded a butt ugly green Skeleton Key for it and I think I got the best of that deal.
Well, those are my 2. A lot of thought went into those, especially when I had to start letting 'to the grave' blades go. Both have been EDC's and will be again when I heal enough to wear a belt. Being able to actually carry them on a daily basis meant a lot.
Hope no one else has to make this kind of decision other than in the hypothetical threads.
Rob
Due to multiple hospitalizations, surgeries and then unemployment to cap it all off, I had to make exactly that choice.
Over the years, I guess I've owned better than 35 Busse blades and as the collection evolved it was mostly Straight Handles. Still my favorites of all the designs over the years.
So, what did I keep? What were the 2 Busse's that had the greatest function and form in my eyes?
Straight Handled Badger Attack in INFI with a .25" blade. I had had 7 or 8 of these puppies, mostly fatties in A2. The skinniest one that I kept was the best slicer of all, if not the most comfortable in the grip.
Custom Shop Active Duty with the (IIRC), .14" thick blade and a double cut finish. Most were satin as I've only seen 1 or 2 double cuts over the years. This was from the first run of AD's way back when. It is by far the best slicer of any Bussekin knife I ever owned.
Just about all of my Swamp Rat knives had to go also, but I was able to hang on to my first 'real' knife, the Howling Rat that I bought in 2001 or 2002 soon after SRKW first started. Also kept the Camp Tramp and Battle Rat purchased right after the Howler. The only 'newer' Rat I managed to hold on to was the HRLM, which I think is a superior design to the original.
Only 1 Scrap Yard, but it is the most used knife in the house. That would be the ScrapMuk. Sorry Jerry, I just couldn't wait for the Busse version, although looking at the threads, it is still eagerly awaited. My wife claimed it and it is in constant use in the kitchen. We both love the shape of the blade for so many uses and only my vegetable cleaver comes close for amount of use. I had traded a butt ugly green Skeleton Key for it and I think I got the best of that deal.
Well, those are my 2. A lot of thought went into those, especially when I had to start letting 'to the grave' blades go. Both have been EDC's and will be again when I heal enough to wear a belt. Being able to actually carry them on a daily basis meant a lot.
Hope no one else has to make this kind of decision other than in the hypothetical threads.
Rob
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). It would definitely be one to hang on to, especially in INFI. That AD also sounds a lot like one I've got, a 2007 SE. It's DC and somewhere in the mid-teens in thickness. One of my favorite users, for sure. 
I think one of my 'keeper' SHSH's headed that way. Anyway, it was just one thing after another and all from different directions. Let's see. First, the news the company was re locating to SC in late 2006, my Mom died early 2007, house fire 2 days before my Moms funeral, heart attack with stent installed a week before the move, moved to SC after recovery, house fire in new house, another stent had to be installed, surgery for a colon blockage, colostomy, prostate cancer, prostate removed. Recovered, got laid off. All this within less than 2 years.
