How does these Busse knives get their names?

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What is the inspiration behind the names of these knives? They are quite creative like names from a sci-fi role playing game...
 
I'm just a wee piglet in training, but I strongly suspect there are good cigars and good whisky involved! :D
 
evltcat said:
I'm just a wee piglet in training, but I strongly suspect there are good cigars and LOTS AND LOTS of good whisky involved! :D
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.... I think that is what meant to say.... ;)

However there is a little reason to it....

So there was a blade called a Battle Mistress, pretty ordinary marketing name for a knife. Busse have a handle style called the "fusion" (as opposed to the ergo and straight) add this to the Battle Mistress you get.... a Fusion Battle Mistress....OK...so Busse have a process called "Nuclear Meltdown" it is applied to many knife models, with this you see edges (such as the spine) rounded off or "melted" so they are no longer square, the NM process also adds length generally so... give the NM treatment to a Fusion Battle Mistress and you get... yes indeed a Nuclear Meltdown Fusion Battle Mistress = NMFBM... :) So it is not all illogical.... :D :D learning the language is some of the fun... ;)
 
I'm only remember hearing stories on how 2 of them got their names. IIRC, the Team Gemini (and by extension the TGLB, Light Brigade edition) was a knife designed by "Team Gemini" when they internally had a contest to design a new knife. I believe "Gemini" was used due to birthdays with the group. The SAR series is Search and Rescue, the SARGE is the Garth Edition, named so after a blank was thrown at Garth who then complained about the weight of the SAR8(?) blank and was told, "Well, lighten it up then" so he shortened it a bit, removed the jimping, and lightened the handle. So, SARGE-7.
 
My favorite is the name Natural Outlaw Combined with Special Forces and then given NuclearMeltdown treatment thus NMSFNO. I am highly anticipating it's arrival. :D
 
Pizza Hut sessions had a lot of early years impact as well according to rumors....
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I remember that the Force One name was from a contest. There are others that I can't remember right now.

Also, some of them are named after designations of the military units for which they were first made. This is true of several of the alphanumerical names in particular but there is at least one non-alphanumerical one. Some of these were confidential.
 
Speaking of names...

What is Boss Jack short for?
I seem to remember something about "old school" but that is about it...
 
Team Gemini was named in honor of the Busse baby twins, no?


Properly the BOSS Jack, short for Busse Old School Series Jack. BOSS refers to resurrecting the older patterns.

We had the original Satin Jack, now often referred to as the Straight Handle Satin Jack.

That morphed into the Satin Jack Tactical.

then it came back as the BOSS Jack.
 
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