First Busse

[schmittie]

Finally ordered my first Busse! I put in an order for a Crab Drop over the weekend. I’ve been holding out for something thin and I’m excited to see it in hand.

 

[Nuker]

Congratulations… sweet little knife.

Got a pic to post? (were visual beasts)

 

[Steven65]

Congrats! thINFI is brilliant!

 

[PeteyTwoPointOne]

Congrats on getting the best warranty in the biz!

I started small. My first Busse was a Game Warden...it's escalated a wee bit since then

 

[Nuker]

Congrats! thINFI is brilliant!

Crab Drop = Elmax

 

[Ironic]

Great knife! Excellent steel, excellent blade geometry, and there’s enough handle for excellent control with superbly comfortable ergonomics, all in a compact package. Just a brilliant choice! You’ll enjoy it!

 

[DennisM]

Finally ordered my first Busse! I put in an order for a Crab Drop over the weekend. I’ve been holding out for something thin and I’m excited to see it in hand.

You're hooked now! You'll eventually get use to eating Raman noodles, rice, beans and marked down foods so you can prioritize spending for future purchases. Some have been known to catwalk nights on busy streets to fund grails. That's okay though ... you'll quickly forget about what you did once your new Busse, or the like, arrives. It's all about priorities ...

 

[Don't drop it.]

Pics or it didn’t happen…I can wait about 2 weeks

 

[David Brown]

I love mine

And they look like this all you pic hounds

 

[schmittie]

I love mine

And they look like this all you pic hounds

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Thanks for the pic. It’s been me messaging you about a new leather/kydex sheath today. Appreciate your help!

 

[Steven65]

Crab Drop = Elmax

Yikes....my BAD

 

[grizzle]

Nice score! love the crabby shack and rest of elmax slicers

They cut like laser beams, but they are a little unforgiving of clumsy whisky hands in my experience

 

[whowantstoknow]

Great first choice. Excellent slicer and reasonably priced. A couple good friends got crab drops for Christmas from me.

 

[schmittie]

She landed on the porch today. Wow this thing is light! I like it a lot and am looking forward to getting a sheath from David Brown so I can carry it.

Question- what other Busse knives are like this, light and thin? Is there something in INFI that’s thin? A mini mean street is on my radar now….

 

[Nuker]

AMS & BAD come to mind.

 

[PeteyTwoPointOne]

I second Nuker 's suggestion of the AMS...looks like a paring knife, but that's where the similarity ends...you need one in your life, trust us on this

 

[willmtn1]

The anorexic Mean Streets and Basic 4 are great knives also!

 

[ScoMa]

SAR

 

[Ironic]

Question- what other Busse knives are like this, light and thin? Is there something in INFI that’s thin? A mini mean street is on my radar now….

As suggested, the BAD (Boney Active Duty) at about 1/8” blade thickness and the Leaner Meaner Street which is almost that thin. But the knives offered in the .09” blade thickness range like your Crab Drop in Elmax and the Galley Rat in MagnaCut really excel at that light, agile feeling you’re talking about. Anything thicker than a 1/10” blade, in a full-tang knife with a sub-5” blade, will be hard-put to compete for that light feeling. I don’t know of any INFI blades that thin. And it’s not really the blade weight that’s the problem. It’s the weight of the steel in the tang, which increases as they get thicker.

The Resiprene C (rubber) handled knives with reduced tangs are excellent in terms of lightness of feel in the short and mid-range blades, like the SYKCO Retriever currently being offered on the website. It’s about to be discontinued, though, so you’d have to move quickly.

 

[vxd]

CABS (choiless anorexic boss street)