HG55 Appreciation Thread ***PIC HEAVY...ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!***

[Jaxx]

Move along, move along...nothing to see here...lol

 

[VashHash]

Love the HG55. Gonna have to see if I can dig mine out of whichever drawer it is currently living in.
Garth

Maybe talk to Jerry about doing a run while you're at it too.

 

[dogboye]

Move along, move along...nothing to see here...lol

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Wow, those last 9 are schweet!
Especially numbers 7-10!

 

[bubbaskyjacker]

Hg35 - an EDC version please !!!

recently departed To a new home

 

[PeteyTwoPointOne]

Have you ever seen such texture/grain on INFI?

Is it Jerry's fingerprint?

Or perhaps the original owner's print Icky Thump that got mystically applied during the stripping process?

Either way, it's beautiful to me and gives me joy just to behold it.

Here she is in all her Tigerhide, high-caliber full length CBT glory:

 

[Icky Thump]

Hey PeteyTwoPointOne ..I found yourTiger's lost brother. "Slick". Hansome. Smooth like silk. Big silvery grin.

Just, keep an eye on your canary when this ones around.

 

[Raptard]

I've been wanting a 3.5-4inch version. My photoshop skills are poor on note20 but a rough idea.
HG35

 

[Father & Son Traditional Sharpening]

I miss my HG-55 Military Overrun. That was one of my first loves in the world of Busse, I haven't seen any for sale since that I recall LOL. That was about a decade ago...

 

[TENTEX]

I need a few more. I’m more partial to the HG55, UG and Boss Jack styles myself

 

[Twoody]

Would the 4 of you stop hoarding all the beauties and share with us less fortunate hogs !!!!!

 

[Private Klink]

Icky Thump, that's a beauty!

 

[JohnTheTexican]

What are HG55s going for these days? Particularly the mil overrun and LE?

 

[JohnTheTexican]

Here's something y'all might find amusing. The mil. overrun HG55s were sold in a 2009 ganzaaa. I didn't get my order in until the next day, and I still 'em.

That was as unusual then as it is now. I guess this was just one of those models that doesn't get the love it deserves when it's first released. Pork belly skinner, anyone?

 

[TENTEX]

Skinner I bought was $350 about 18 months ago. The HG55’s have been going $400+

 

[grizzle]

id say around 500 for any variant will sell relatively quick. LEs and MO maybe closer to 550/600

 

[grizzle]

also, has anyone stripped a small cbt hg55? if so how did you sand or remove the decarb off the small grooves

i tried folding some sand paper and getting in there but its not very efficient

 

[Twoody]

Put a small wire wheel on a drill

 

[PeteyTwoPointOne]

also, has anyone stripped a small cbt hg55? if so how did you sand or remove the decarb off the small grooves

i tried folding some sand paper and getting in there but its not very efficient

Dremel with the STAINLESS steel wire brush for the Dremel, it has a copper looking shaft. The pot metal ones will leave a patina behind on the INFI. Wear goggles or you'll get metal fragments in yer peepers!

Next hit the grooves with those little scotchbrite bonnets...be careful near the edge or you'll foul your edge and ruin your scotchbrite while you're at it.

Hand sanding and polishing with Mothers & Ren Wax is the last step I do to blend the ghost marks the Scotchbrite leaves behind. Probably an easier way exists, but this process works for me and I find it therapeutic.

 

[grizzle]

thank you gents for the tips! ill definitely try a wire brush on a drill or dremel. I had tried to hit it with a normal hand wire brush but the decarb was too powerful.

 

[tinfoil hat timmy]

Dremel with the STAINLESS steel wire brush for the Dremel, it has a copper looking shaft. The pot metal ones will leave a patina behind on the INFI. Wear goggles or you'll get metal fragments in yer peepers!

Next hit the grooves with those little scotchbrite bonnets...be careful near the edge or you'll foul your edge and ruin your scotchbrite while you're at it.

Hand sanding and polishing with Mothers & Ren Wax is the last step I do to blend the ghost marks the Scotchbrite leaves behind. Probably an easier way exists, but this process works for me and I find it therapeutic.

so I need a workbench. got it.