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Kodiak Jack

Kodiak Jack

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A few quick questions - how do you approach Busse Combat with customizing a Busse knife? Is it better to email or call? I have two brown bear jaws and I would love to turn them into smoothed out scales for a game warden - does anyone know if this would fly? Sorry if this "custom" question has been asked before but the search option came up dry. Thanks for the info and if it happens...stay tune for future pics!

Kodiak
 
I would strongly suggest calling. Most people will report good communication through this avenue. I am rarely available during regular business hours, so I have to plan calls to Busse delicately. But, I do get through. On the other hand, I have not had a single email answered/replied out of at least six in the last year.

Good Luck! Once you talk to anyone there, you are certain to have answers and then some.
 
Send him a picture, complete with your planned specs...and a sneakily displayed bottle of JW Blue just barely in sight...perhaps with his name on it?

You never know what will do the trick.

Of course, calling is correct. Someone once said something about: '...customs cost $100/inch.' Don't know if it is true.

Good luck -- and keep us posted!
 
KnifeAddictAK said:
Very quietly sneak up behind him with a bottle of JWB :cool: :D
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Finally!. . . Someone who gets me!!!!! :thumbup:

OldPhysics said:
Send him a picture, complete with your planned specs...and a sneakily displayed bottle of JW Blue just barely in sight...perhaps with his name on it?
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Old Albert ain't got nuthin' on you!!!!!. . . . You are a Genius!!!!!:D






Kodiak Jack,

Brown bear jaws make great looking handles on traditional style blades with stick tangs when you use the entire jaw. I have worked with quite a few black bear jaws in my younger days. You need to pull the teeth out and epoxy them back in place. Then, using a very short stub tang, you fill the hollow jaw with epoxy and set it in place. Unless brown bear jaws are different than black bear jaws, their thin side walls make them impossible to use as slab handles.

Hope this helps!

Jerry
 
Jerry Busse said:
Brown bear jaws make great looking handles on traditional style blades with stick tangs when you use the entire jaw. I have worked with quite a few black bear jaws in my younger days.
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I'd love to find some of those black bear Busses from the early days, any clues to where they are hiding

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Jerry, Eric, and all - looks like I have some prep work to do with those jaws. I will draft up my ideas and if a bottle of JWB will help - then I best get moving. Thanks.

Brett - aka Kodiak
 
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