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how to and how much for a busse custom
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7 years ago, full Custom orders were $100.00 per inch with aprox 2 year wait.
At that time it was easier and faster to get a knife with a handle in current production and then get the Blade ground to the Blade shape you were looking for.
To just get a knife with a different coating or custom Handle slabs, just contact the shop.
At that time it was easier and faster to get a knife with a handle in current production and then get the Blade ground to the Blade shape you were looking for.
To just get a knife with a different coating or custom Handle slabs, just contact the shop.
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Which Badger? the BA (aka SHBA), BA-E, BA3, or the BATAC?
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AKAIK, it is total length, not blade.
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What's a couple years when it means custom INFI.??? :foot::foot:
I know mine
Ops, almost let that one slip.
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Have you been waiting even longer than Last Visible Canary? or does he still have the record? (Sasquatch Hogs excluded, of course)
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Hasn't ProPorker been waiting like 3 or 4 years for his NICKs??
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oooh man... I felt so bad reading about that whole scenario. place a custom order, then a production run of the exact same knife comes and goes before yours gets to you.
Wasn't chucks chuckete 3.5 years? I've still got 6 months to that point.
You can call the shop and ask about how to order customs (they may give you garth email adress, or forward you to the custom shop phone). I would suggest sending an email with a picture of your design and a description for garth to okay if it's something out of the ordinary. I've never been comfortable with the idea of just sending a knife in a box with customization instructions without asking first.
There are two types of custom orders, theres "custom" knives, and theres "customized" knives. what you seemt to be talking about is a customized knife, one of the standard badger attack profiles, I'm assuming a batac. If you can purchase a batac on the open market (somewhere between 250-325$ now I think) you can send it into the custom shop and have them "customize" it for you, recoating it and putting whatever handle material you want on it.
The benefit of having a production knife "customized" is that the wait time is cut down, and so is the price. The custom shop charges 75$ per hour of work on the knife, and those two features shouldn't take more then 2 hours, so you're likely looking at 100-150$ charge from the shop itself. Your wait time on something like that will probably 3-7 months. If they have the handle slabs already made and ready for install, the wait time will be shorter (if all they need to do is recoat and install premade slabs, you could see it back in a month). if they have to make the handles (hand shape or cnc it), it will be longer.
so, for that knife probably (+/-) 300$+150$ at say 6 months turn around.
now, if you want something truly custom, say a jumbo batac the size of a battle mistress, or something that isn't a stock production knife, you'll pay and wait the full custom price and time. for a batac with custom profile (say choiless), expect around 650$. the wait time, that could be anywhere from 1.5 years to 4 years, depending on a big ol' variety of issues. don't expect anything earlier then 2 years on a fully custom design.