Junk Yard???

babakanoosh45

babakanoosh45

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Hey all,
I just purchased a Scrap Yard Scapper 6 and can't wait to get it. My question is, is this a good start to a Busse knife collection or should I have gone right to the top?
 
The Scrap Yard and Swamp Rat companies are the gateway drug. . .

Of course, asking this question here, people will say get a FBM!
So Get a FBM! :D

I do think you will be impressed with the Scrapper, they are great knives.
 
I find the INFI scrapper 4 to be about the most handy small Busse I've ever handled. In SR101 it will not suffer in the least, and will probably be less than $100 (hopefully :) ). I plan on making it a beater, thereby increasing the value of everyone else's collection. The prices of ScrapYard knives make them much more justifiable for hard use, but don't ignore the "gateway drug" advice, you'll soon be out shredding the coating off of a genuine $300+ Busse. But you'll be loving every minute of it (unless you're using it for it's intended survival/combat purposes) and discovering that the cost is still justified.
Then you'll be a certified piglet amoung the hogs shouting WOOHOO! everytime the mailman shows up with a USPS flat rate box!
 
I am getting a "Steril Crinkle Coat" to start. Once I have done a little chopping around my Deer Blind, if all goes well I would like to get the "Scrapper 6 Satin" not Steril.... Then move up from there.
 
babakanoosh45 said:
is this a good start to a Busse knife collection or should I have gone right to the top?
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It's a good start to a Scrap Yard collection. That being said, I think you'll find a use for knives from all three companies. Get 'em all!!!! :thumbup:
 
I ordered an FBM first, but couldn't stand the wait so I ordered a Swamprat M6 to tide me over. Kinda like ordering NY Strip while waiting for the Porterhouse.
 
Always, my advice is the same.

"Start with a Busse knife that you will use"

"Think of what kind of blade you will use the most and get that"

"Busse Knives are first and Foremost user knives"
 
papathud said:
Always, my advice is the same.
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uh huh.. take Andre's advice and pretty soon... Bam..

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Yep, I met Andre at a show several years ago in Cali. I think I ended up getting my clip point, "one of the first 300 SHBM's" from him. like you see on the bottom row.:D If I remember correctly he was pretty fond of those guys.
 
There's a SHBM on the Exchange right now. You should start there.
 
LOL Guys,

I Said Start.

I started with one each, Straight Battle Mistress,Steel Heart,Badger, Mean Street, and a few for my friends and kids.

I picked out of that, one Straight Steel Heart and one Badger and proceeded to use them.

Then I got to be a dealer and got sort of Carried away.

At Shows, I told people the same thing, I wanted each person to end up with a knife they would actually use, for the first Busse knife I sold them.

Because if they actually used the knife I was pretty confident they would come back and buy another.

I got mine on the Strength of a Magazine Article, before I knew really, much of anything about the knives
 
Now I tend to use, depending on the knife type job being done, a Straight Battle Mistress of the first three hundred as my big knife(I mean to try to replace it with an AK, but have just not taken the time or made the effort to get the practice done with the AK as of yet)

I used to use a Basic#3 as my "go to" utillity knife, But I am much more likely to use my Skeleton key for small jobs.

I use my Murray Carter knives in the Kitchen alot more than I use the N.I.C.K. that I bought for my Wife.

But for the Start I Got knives I intended to use.

I may have a Safe Queen or two,,,,,,,,,some where, I would need to look.

I also tend to give Busse knives as gifts, the pain does not ever seem to go away, but the Pride seems to stick around pretty well as well.

There is both Pride and pain to be had in giving these knives away.

I have a Gift Box of knives that I let a few people pick from to find one that seems to suit them, it currently has in it, a Straight Steel Heart .300 coated with slotted screws, and a High Desert Low ride sheath, a Factory Satin Natural Outlaw with Tan Micarta and Choice of On Scene Tactical, or BuyBrown sheaths, the first Satin Jack ever sold for Resale to a dealer, with a BuyBrown sheath, a Basic #7 and #9 with high Desert Low Ride Sheaths, a Basic#9 in Factory Cordura, a Basic#3 in Factory Kydex, and a Pair of Mean Streets one sort of fat, A-2 with slotted screws and Factory kydex and one From the last batch of Mean Street ever made, a little thinner than most with crinkle finish Hole type handle fasteners and Factory kydex.

I thought I was getting rid of one of these knives today, but it did not work out and will be needing to reschedule to get the knives to Arizona another time for the Marine Sgt. in question to make her choice.
 
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