Desert Ergo Steel Heart and Armorall sheath on eBay.

[highpointforge]

Well the knife literally fits Dwayne's sheath hand in glove. It fits like all my others fit his sheaths so that means somebody has some good machinery cranking out EXACT copies or it's legit. I'll contact Jerry though. The seller has a very high rating and eBay takes care of buyers really well these days. I've had maybe 3-4 problems on eBay since 2002 with a rating of 940 I think.

 

[highpointforge]

Emailed Busse and the man himself.

 

[highpointforge]

Jerry answered not 5 minutes later:

Alex,

Without seeing the knife in person I can't be 100% sure but based on the pics, I would say that you scored a genuine Busse Combat blade at a great price!!!

Congrats!

Jerry

 

[PeterPHWS]

Good to hear all is well :thumbup:

 

[highpointforge]

.....breathing a little easier!
I'll grab a bluing pen as well. Birchwood-Casey probably makes one.

 

[13ninjas]

Arrived today. Pics forthcoming.

Patiently waiting.

There were two swedge types on the ZTNOe's, I cant remember for the life of me why, but the two were rather distinct. Easily identified. It caused quite the stir as the collectors wanted both for a complete set.

I still drool at the thought of getting one someday.

Cool! Thanks for the info! :thumbup: I'm gonna have to try to learn more about this.

and eBay takes care of buyers really well these days.

And rapes sellers. :thumbdn:

 

[mamun1024]

Pretty sure the swedge on my NO-e matches the BM-e and SH-e swedge. Yours doesn't appear to. What's the deal with that?

There were two swedge types on the ZTNOe's, I cant remember for the life of me why, but the two were rather distinct. Easily identified. It caused quite the stir as the collectors wanted both for a complete set.

I still drool at the thought of getting one someday.

The first 30 of the ZTNO's had the deep swedge grinds. The later ones had the swedge like Matt's ZTNO, and I think they look better too.