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Steel-Junky

Steel-Junky

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So I was lucky enough to get an old School Busse Mean Street. It's not the most valuable Busse I own... or the biggest. But it's kinda my favorite right now. I think it's because it's small enough for me to take a little kickass nuke around with me everyday (hard to do with a Battle Mistress LOL)... But when it came to me she had seen better days and her edge was pretty much flattened. Apparently knives can rust underneath their coating... I did not know this... but when I stripped her down... I found mild pitting and rust in places where there was solid unbubbled coating... so who knew. Anyway... here are some photos of how I brought her back from battered and abused to beatiful, yet useful, and razor freakin sharp.

How she came to me
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After I stripped off her dirty clothes and degreased the handles... see the rust where there was actual coating before?
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Cleaned her up and gave her a hand rubbed satin finish on the blade up to 1500 grit and polished the rivets. You can see the pitting scars where the coating wear boarder used to be... damn shame. But not deep.
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Gave her a slick reprofile and laid the edge down just a bit.
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Here she is about to bite into my leg
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And the proof is in the hair and skin flakes LOL.
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All in all I think she's something to be proud of and she's my new everyday carry... now if I could only get a SHBA I'd be in heaven.
 
Oh No!!!! Another convert to the old school Mean Street admirers. There are already too many of us.

Great rehab job there Steel-Junky! :thumbup: I'm sure that the one MS will be enought for you.
If you run into any others, feel free to drop me a line and I'll take care of them for you. :) ;)

Nuke On!

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MORIMOTOM said:
dude, why does your arm have dandruff??? :confused:





great score!! :thumbup:
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Don't be "That Guy"... Just enjoy the knife. LOL.

That's my leg... it's winter... very dry dry skin. I'm not much of a lotion guy. So by the time spring gets here I get quite a nice little layer or armor on the front of my legs for some reason. LOL. But the MS exfoliated the area nicely. Busse skin care tip #1.
 
MS is a sweet little blade....

Odd to this day I've still never owned that model not even for a single day. Hmmm...
 
Steel-Junky,

Good job - that's a nice looking knife now! :thumbup:

While I like the newer "Meaner" models too, the old MS design is still one of my favorites - they just fit well in my hands.

Gene
 
Oh man, you ruined it!

Do you know how hard it is to find a Busse with verdigris tubes?:D
 
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