Look guys, I think brand loyalty is great and all, but when it gets to a point where all creativity is snuffed out and discouraged because you feel as if anything done to the knife which doesn't follow the vision of Jerry Busse is sacrilege.
I'ma go out on a limb and say I bet this wouldn't bother Jerry a bit. This is America and I think we should encourage people to tinker in their garage. They are gona screw things up, and they are going to learn something through that experience. The guy who did this may have found a new love in making knives. Like everyone else you start out on the bottom rung and you learn and improve your skill through doing (in most cases things get worse before they get better)
I think some of you guys just need to relax. It is JUST a knife. You guys look right past the important part and are worrying about the knife. Maybe this was a project he did with his son...maybe the guy wanted to learn the effect of thinning a blade first hand....maybe he has a passion for making knives, but he knows he can't buy and HT a piece of steel and get the same performance as a piece of INFI. There are a million good reasons that someone will do something like this, and the hostility this community has towards dissenters is unnerving. Every experience I have had with Busse Kin fans has been great. This seems like a community of very welcoming and warm heated people, but certain subjects seen to trigger a hive-mind kinda thing.
Now if this is someone producing this knife then of course its copyright infringement, but other wise I think this kind of thing should be encouraged so we can find the next Jerry Busse. Who knows, had one thing in Jerry's life gone differently, we may not know Jerry as a knife making guru, but maybe as a superstar on the silver screen....or maybe he would have gone on to make the Busse Family Distillery.
