Has Busse destroyed your interest in other fixed blades?

I have a few Busses but the majority of my 40 plus fixed blades are from custom makers I found here on BF.
 
No, but it sure has made me more picky with what fixed blades I'll consider.
Busse is one heck of a hard act to follow!!! :thumbup:
 
PatrickKnight said:
My Rats have pretty much ruined me for production knives but I always have a spot for a nice custom or semi custom.

My guess is Cobalt owns no less than 50 different makers/brands.
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For me all I need is an AK or waki, some sorta of busse chopper, a pork shank and a skeleton key! Only knives I wpuld ever need in the world!
 
willic said:
Well, I got my first Busse toward the end of May... I'm hooked! Battle Mistresses and Steel Hearts make my knees weak! They are sooo beautiful and sooo damn good at what they do! I still love my Fiddlebacks, Fletchers and Backwoods, but infi is freakin' amazing! I thought Busse had 100% taken my soul, but a super sweet Fiddleback Sneaky Pete lured me back in. I'm glad of that; after all, what would I do with the safe of all the other beauties I have enjoyed so. Jerry is a marketing genius with a phenomenal product... I gotta go and get back to the Exchange to see what's offered today! :) Thanks Jerry and Hogs for draining my bank account and making me sleep in the box in the woods!
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I love this thread! It's fun to see what makes everyone attracted and attached to Busse and the other great makers out there! I did forget one maker I use nearly every day... W.A. Surls... that dude is making some super cool stuff these days!

But back to the topic of this thread... I carry a large machete kind of thing in the floor of my jeep, the kind of blade I don't care about tearing up. Well, after using an ASHBM in infi, I have no use for the cheap stamped pot metal machete. Infi is so superlative in large blades, why would I waste my time with cheap junk? Maybe I need to take that cheapo and chop it in half with some mighty infi!

-Will
 
willic said:
I love this thread! It's fun to see what makes everyone attracted and attached to Busse and the other great makers out there! I did forget one maker I use nearly every day... W.A. Surls... that dude is making some super cool stuff these days!

But back to the topic of this thread... I carry a large machete kind of thing in the floor of my jeep, the kind of blade I don't care about tearing up. Well, after using an ASHBM in infi, I have no use for the cheap stamped pot metal machete. Infi is so superlative in large blades, why would I waste my time with cheap junk? Maybe I need to take that cheapo and chop it in half with some mighty infi!

-Will
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If you lived in a jungle I bet the opposite would be true and you would easily trade your BM for a truck load of "cheap" machetes. Or the best of both worlds one of the freaking amazing Fiddleback machetes!!

There are just so many great blades available to us these days it is really hard for me to "settle" on one brand or type.
 
PatrickKnight said:
If you lived in a jungle I bet the opposite would be true and you would easily trade your BM for a truck load of "cheap" machetes. Or the best of both worlds one of the freaking amazing Fiddleback machetes!!

There are just so many great blades available to us these days it is really hard for me to "settle" on one brand or type.
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Good point, Patrick! Good Point! But, dangit, a Battle Mistress is sooooooo much more fun then most machetes! :) That being said, I do love my Fiddleback machetes!!!
 
Almost...
Have only couple of weak points left - Krein (esp. 1-st issue of K9 Dingo and Hydra/TK2) and small sized Fehrmans.
 
Yep, for the most part, busse is the ones I would stake my life on. I like treeman Behring made, Randalls fehrman, Gso survive and some old al mars but anymore, the only ones I really buy is busse and kin. They've never let me down during hard use and they just feel in the hand like a survival blade should feel.
 
I got a few Non Busse on my Wanted list, but since i got my 1st Busse and couple years and 20+ blades later I havent bought 1 non busse blade. Busse seems to always get the 1st dibs on the Budget lol
 
I consider Busse the "Beatles" of fixed blade knives. But I still listen to the Stones; The Who; Pink Floyd; and Zeppelin. Verdaddio?
 
What Busse has done is make me much more picky about heat treat. No one has an HT like Busse. If I do not trust the HT of a manufacturer, I will not buy from them anymore.
 
That is the crucial point and everything must be hidden in their heat-treat protocol rather than INFI steel composition as it is not a secret.
 
Yes and no. For a serious "camp knife" or "survival knife", others need not apply. But I am still very fond of the nimble, thin, hollow ground sliceyness of my Buck Woodsman for carving up game.
 
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