So, life happened immediately after I posted this and it's been a busy month or so... I have been meaning to come reply to everyone so I'll start at the top and work my way through.Congrats and Welcome.
Garth
Cheer Garth, nice to meet you!
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So, life happened immediately after I posted this and it's been a busy month or so... I have been meaning to come reply to everyone so I'll start at the top and work my way through.Congrats and Welcome.
Garth
So, life happened immediately after I posted this and it's been a busy month or so... I have been meaning to come reply to everyone so I'll start at the top and work my way through.I'm happy and sad for you at the same time. Busse knives are like heroin, you probably already have a habit
I bought my first Busse like 10 months ago and now I have 7 lol.
So, life happened immediately after I posted this and it's been a busy month or so... I have been meaning to come reply to everyone so I'll start at the top and work my way through.My new pal! Glad to see you getting acquainted with the hogs.
I don’t have time to post a ton so I am not always terribly active, but I can still vouch for this as a great, friendly, and helpful community. It makes sense because the folks at Busse are the best I have ever dealt with as a customer... it still surprises me on a somewhat regular basis how cool the people here are, which means you will fit right in!
I’m glad to see your new acquisitions getting some love. I love them too, but sometimes you have to make a hard choice... I will say that I love sending good blades to good people, and if you enjoy them it’s a big “mission accomplished” as far as I’m concerned. Now beat ‘em like they owe you money!![]()
So Chris, or Tim, did you tell our new guest to get on the list for the TGULB? .. a really good friend would explain that so he doesn't miss out on the last of the most iconic blade ever to be made???? And the secret to success begins with cheesecake? ... important stuff he needs to know- and just how far a bottle of JWB might go? ... all those little details are important.
Don't tell the piglet all of our secrets....
So, life happened immediately after I posted this and it's been a busy month or so... I have been meaning to come reply to everyone so I'll start at the top and work my way through.Welcome to the madness. Good start for you. If you purchase judiciously, your investment should increase over time. Good luck.
I'm honestly less a fan of "No Regrets" than I am "Buy once, cry once."Oh yeah,
The number one rule of Busseland - "No Regrets!"
That is the motto but we all regret at least one sale that was completed in a moment of weakness. We just don't admit it.![]()
Oh, even though I'm not a knife guy per se. I get it. I have obsessions you guys would laugh at. I'm really trying hard not to get sucked into this one further than I already know I am. I have two blades I'd like to add to what I have now. One is the knife I was originally looking for, the other is one that is really nothing more than a waste of money so I can say "lookey here".Thanks for your thanks. We’re a pretty tight group. Few other people understand our particular “obsession.”
Yeah man I know where you are coming from. They had me on oxys for 2.5years and then suboxone. It's not a fun feeling realizing your body is now hooked on a substance, then having your doctor tell you it's fine and then up your prescription. At least you realize it... Stay strong my friend.So, life happened immediately after I posted this and it's been a busy month or so... I have been meaning to come reply to everyone so I'll start at the top and work my way through.
So, life happened immediately after I posted this and it's been a busy month or so... I have been meaning to come reply to everyone so I'll start at the top and work my way through.
I don't know how exactly to say you kinda hit the nail exactly on the head... I've been in pain management for 8 years, so while it's prescribed, it's the same thing. Not that I'm proud of it. You just hit eerily close to home.
Thanks for the message, nice to meet you. Congrats on being psychic.![]()
No Regrets is something we tell ourselves to make peace with our . . . regrets. LolI'm honestly less a fan of "No Regrets" than I am "Buy once, cry once."
If you even have the chance to say you regret it, you shouldn't have been buying it in the first place. If you cry when you see your bank statement, you can immediately make it better buy going and playing with your new amazing toy, or by cutting up your bank statement (or in Busse's case - monitor with the bank statement on it) with your new toy.
Crappy thing about it is the pain meds have never gone up, and I can quit them if they can figure out what's wrong with me. The withdrawals suck, but they're over fast. Then I could have a glass of whiskey like a normal person and good whiskey is like sex... The one I really have a problem with is benzos (low dose Valium for tinnitus) that I tried to come off of once after being on them for 7 years. No clue why it stops the ringing but it does. Seems like I may be having some possible success with a new CBD spray that my pain doc is working with Mayo designing. Only problem with it is that it's filled with melatonin and it knocks me out, but only for an hour, then I can't sleep for the rest of the night. But, the withdrawals from benzos had be on the phone with the doc 3 weeks after they told me to quit cold turkey at 2am on a Sunday bawling on the kitchen floor because I was like Nic Cage in Leaving Las Vegas. Those a-holes didn't bother to tell me that coming off that crap was something that can cause seizures et al... Fortunately nothing serious happened, but I basically just ended up having to stay on them because the tinnitus rebound after being on Valium for 7 years made the little tinkle of a ring I've had since I was a kid, turn into one of those real horrible rings that's as loud as a good hangover the morning after standing in front of a speaker rack at a concert the night before... I couldn't hear traffic. Fingers crossed this new snake oil thing they've made actually works, it seems to be so far, but I haven't started to pull the Valium out rotation because we haven't made a long term plan for it.Yeah man I know where you are coming from. They had me on oxys for 2.5years and then suboxone. It's not a fun feeling realizing your body is now hooked on a substance, then having your doctor tell you it's fine and then up your prescription. At least you realize it... Stay strong my friend.
Anyways, yeah Busse is a lot like that![]()
I guess that would be the only way I support the having regrets. It sucks to miss out on things and then crave them after the fact. I've not been, and probably never will be a huge blade guy, but there is limited run stuff of all kinds that I missed by a day here or a week there that just doesn't come available on the secondary market. I feel ya.After all of these years, I only regret the knives I passed on. But something else just as good soon came down the road. We...must...control...our...addiction.
Just don’t confuse this line with the song in case you try to put the wrong thing in the wrong sheath.I like big knives and I can not lie.![]()
Two of my rarer are:I'm interested in this "whisky" that you deem worthy of a handful of Busse~ I may actually have that many scattered around I'm unsure of exactly where they are atm ~ which is not something I'd ever imagined happening.
True, I may post entirely too much but in all fairness, the majority of it is piglet training - I asked a lot of questionsand giving credit where it's due, I've had all the help in the world from everyone here-