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Are the knives blanked out before busse gets them,or do they take the bars and make the blank themselves?
 
boring said:
Are the knives blanked out before busse gets them,or do they take the bars and make the blank themselves?
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Well, I am hardly one to speak for Busse, but I am 110% sure they make the blanks themselves.
 
The steel is sent directly to Busse through a black hole. That's why there are no shop tours allowed. Too dangerous to have customers near a black hole. The designs are sent along with the steel. Busse just follows the instructions. No one knows what's on the other side of the black hole.
 
most likely cut the blanks themselves out of flat bar stock. Profile, grind , send off to whoever they use for heat treat then back to in house for final work.
 
Blade Runner 7 said:
The steel is sent directly to Busse through a black hole. That's why there are no shop tours allowed. Too dangerous to have customers near a black hole. The designs are sent along with the steel. Busse just follows the instructions. No one knows what's on the other side of the black hole.
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I thought it was a worm hole?
 
Blade Runner 7 said:
The steel is sent directly to Busse through a black hole. That's why there are no shop tours allowed. Too dangerous to have customers near a black hole. The designs are sent along with the steel. Busse just follows the instructions. No one knows what's on the other side of the black hole.
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NO WAY!!??!
Man! Coolest thing ever.
 
Blade Runner 7 said:
The steel is sent directly to Busse through a black hole. That's why there are no shop tours allowed. Too dangerous to have customers near a black hole. The designs are sent along with the steel. Busse just follows the instructions. No one knows what's on the other side of the black hole.
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Makes complete sense. The sun actually travels In a circular path "above and below the equator" over our flat earth too. TOTAL SENSE.
 
If they made the knives from flat stock to finish, why would they sell out? They could make any model anyone wanted.
 
cardo said:
If they made the knives from flat stock to finish, why would they sell out? They could make any model anyone wanted.
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Because is not a custom shop but a manufacturing operation. When you manufacture you have a line going you do not stop to make one different knife and start again to continue your production line.. They have a custom shop but as I understand is a small piece of the business.
 
At a thousand a pop, I'd think they'd be saying that they could make any model you wanted via the custom shop. They aren't afraid to charge what they think a knife is worth.
 
Because nobody ever stopped making something just for the sake of making something different; and craftsmen have never said "I don't make that any more".
 
rickshooter said:
Because is not a custom shop but a manufacturing operation. When you manufacture you have a line going you do not stop to make one different knife and start again to continue your production line.. They have a custom shop but as I understand is a small piece of the business.
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cardo said:
At a thousand a pop, I'd think they'd be saying that they could make any model you wanted via the custom shop. They aren't afraid to charge what they think a knife is worth.
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hhmoore said:
Because nobody ever stopped making something just for the sake of making something different; and craftsmen have never said "I don't make that any more".
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The Busse business model appears to be making a run, whether short or long, of a certain knife, then moving on to another model. This would maximize efficiency; they get all the tooling and mills set up, and just knock out knives. There appears to be little hand work in a Combat Grade blade. The satin finishes are all hand ground. I have always suspected, again with no data, that their military orders are the larger share of volume of production, but they make a better profit margin off the retail sales to us. Recall that Jerry used to teach business classes at a college.

The Custom Shop operation seems to be mostly limited to variants of existing blade blanks. Although you can get a from scratch custom knife to your own design, the price is very high. I think the price is set so high to discourage these orders. There are many makers out there, using either stock removal or forging, who will make a truly custom knife for you for less than Busse would charge. It just won't be INFI.
 
boring said:
Are the knives blanked out before busse gets them,or do they take the bars and make the blank themselves?
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There was a pic here some years ago, of a large sheet of INFI, maybe 4x6 or bigger, that was left over after some large knife blanks were cut out of it. A member here was able to convince Jerry to sell it to him, and he used it as a backsplash on a kitchen wall. The guy got banned later, can't remember his name, maybe 'tin bender'?
 
resinguy said:
There was a pic here some years ago, of a large sheet of INFI, maybe 4x6 or bigger, that was left over after some large knife blanks were cut out of it. A member here was able to convince Jerry to sell it to him, and he used it as a backsplash on a kitchen wall. The guy got banned later, can't remember his name, maybe 'tin bender'?
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that seems like a very odd use of infini.I'd tear that out n get knives made if i bought that house.
 
Blade Runner 7 said:
The steel is sent directly to Busse through a black hole. That's why there are no shop tours allowed. Too dangerous to have customers near a black hole. The designs are sent along with the steel. Busse just follows the instructions. No one knows what's on the other side of the black hole.
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littlehoot said:
I thought it was a worm hole?
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Moth hole... cuz the moths keep eating holes in my wallet! :p Regardless, on the other side I hope there is a Bolo13 in the works! :D

bleedingfinger said:
that seems like a very odd use of infini.I'd tear that out n get knives made if i bought that house.
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It wouldn't be INFI without the heat treatment which is done to the blanks in groups, not the sheet, as a whole sheet can warp easier than small pieces of it. ;) Some shaping is done prior to heat treating from observation of stripping coated blades. You see that especially on stripped convex saber models with dimples all the way to the edge. NMSFNO, SJTAC and 711 come specifically to mind from experience.
 
the reason I ask is that the scrapy dags have identical proportions to the guard and coffin handle of the bodyguard dagger from the 90s
 
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