- Joined
- Jun 6, 2005
- Messages
- 3,531
My FBM is a longish story, but there will be many pictures at the end.
I originally ordered a FBMLE the day that the FBM hit the official site. I knew that I would have months to save, so I got to it. Selling all kinds of things, saving every bit I had, etc. I'm not exactly well off, and buying a knife that expensive is pretty much completely irresponsible, but, of course, I can't live my life without a FBM, so sacrifices had to be made.
I had more than half the cost saved when I had a crisis with my car insurance company, and driving, unfortunately, is a necessity, so I had to spend everything I had saved and then some, making paying for the knife impossible. I had to cancel it. It was brutal.
When the announcement was made that the FBM was coming down to make way for the Badger, I knew I had to act quick if I wanted my preferred combination. I placed a lucky order on the last night they were available and used my income taxes to pay for it. I was again drained of funds and had to wait.
The wait was mercifully short, and Amy told me it was shipping soon. I had recently moved, but I figured it would arrive before the forwarding started because I actually filed the address change after I paid for the knife, and I live in Ohio, so I figured a day or two, tops.
This is where it gets brutal. It doesn't show up for a week. Every day I call, every day I'm disappointed. The knife is a four hour drive away! How long can it take. Well, I finally find out after calling my post office that the knife has been forwarded to my new address, and I can't pick it up because it's in the magical land of forwarding, which, for some reason, isn't the post office. Go figure. I just have to wait, and it could take up to a week. Just kill me, right?
So, another week goes by. Slowest, most disappointing week ever. No knife. Now my paranoid mind has gone crazy. Some ignorant jerkoff has stolen my knife from the mail, no doubt. I start making frantic calls to USPS, and after getting redirected twenty times, they finally tell me that they can tell me nothing about this impenetrable fortess of forwarding, only that my knife is there, and they don't know when I'll get it. The worst part is that my new house is less than ten minutes away from my old one. This is ridiculous. They say to call Busse and ask them their forwarding policies in case they don't allow it and the knife was sent back to them.
This is where things start to finally get better. I call Amy and whine like a child to her, hoping for any kind of support or good news, but really expecting nothing. What I got was somebody very helpful and also genuinely concerned with my situation. Just talking to her made me feel a lot better, and she really did go out of her way to call people I couldn't and really find out what the deal is. I'm not sure what kind of strings she pulled, but the next day she said my knife was safe, and that it should be there within two days, and just a day later, here it finally is. I am proud to say that it is immaculate. As perfect and beautiful as I had hoped. Jerry is really getting things under control over there, and should be proud because the fit and finish on this knife is outstanding, right down to the perfectly applied, scary sharp edge. Blows away the quality and finish on any other Busse I've previously held.
A huge thanks to Amy for being so awesome and helpful. She really is as great as you guys make her out to be.
And without further delay, the pictures:
With my friend's (you may know him as the skeleton key kicker) LE.
I originally ordered a FBMLE the day that the FBM hit the official site. I knew that I would have months to save, so I got to it. Selling all kinds of things, saving every bit I had, etc. I'm not exactly well off, and buying a knife that expensive is pretty much completely irresponsible, but, of course, I can't live my life without a FBM, so sacrifices had to be made.
I had more than half the cost saved when I had a crisis with my car insurance company, and driving, unfortunately, is a necessity, so I had to spend everything I had saved and then some, making paying for the knife impossible. I had to cancel it. It was brutal.
When the announcement was made that the FBM was coming down to make way for the Badger, I knew I had to act quick if I wanted my preferred combination. I placed a lucky order on the last night they were available and used my income taxes to pay for it. I was again drained of funds and had to wait.
The wait was mercifully short, and Amy told me it was shipping soon. I had recently moved, but I figured it would arrive before the forwarding started because I actually filed the address change after I paid for the knife, and I live in Ohio, so I figured a day or two, tops.
This is where it gets brutal. It doesn't show up for a week. Every day I call, every day I'm disappointed. The knife is a four hour drive away! How long can it take. Well, I finally find out after calling my post office that the knife has been forwarded to my new address, and I can't pick it up because it's in the magical land of forwarding, which, for some reason, isn't the post office. Go figure. I just have to wait, and it could take up to a week. Just kill me, right?
So, another week goes by. Slowest, most disappointing week ever. No knife. Now my paranoid mind has gone crazy. Some ignorant jerkoff has stolen my knife from the mail, no doubt. I start making frantic calls to USPS, and after getting redirected twenty times, they finally tell me that they can tell me nothing about this impenetrable fortess of forwarding, only that my knife is there, and they don't know when I'll get it. The worst part is that my new house is less than ten minutes away from my old one. This is ridiculous. They say to call Busse and ask them their forwarding policies in case they don't allow it and the knife was sent back to them.
This is where things start to finally get better. I call Amy and whine like a child to her, hoping for any kind of support or good news, but really expecting nothing. What I got was somebody very helpful and also genuinely concerned with my situation. Just talking to her made me feel a lot better, and she really did go out of her way to call people I couldn't and really find out what the deal is. I'm not sure what kind of strings she pulled, but the next day she said my knife was safe, and that it should be there within two days, and just a day later, here it finally is. I am proud to say that it is immaculate. As perfect and beautiful as I had hoped. Jerry is really getting things under control over there, and should be proud because the fit and finish on this knife is outstanding, right down to the perfectly applied, scary sharp edge. Blows away the quality and finish on any other Busse I've previously held.
A huge thanks to Amy for being so awesome and helpful. She really is as great as you guys make her out to be.
And without further delay, the pictures:
With my friend's (you may know him as the skeleton key kicker) LE.
