Most Valuable Busse?

papathud said:
Randucci,

It was a Custom thirty inch overall Sword, a little heavy, but great for working sword Kata's!

Gave a Great work out.

Back when Busse Swords were very hard to come by, and for $100.00 per inch you could expect to wait for two years to get one made.

For a buy it right now New condition Busse sword it was a deal at $3,000.00 U.S.

Edited to add,

It may have been a little longer than thirty inches, I seem to remember it having a 21 inch blade.
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Andre, thanks for sharing what it was, sounds cool!
 
Yes I have pictures, they are all in a box in storage for now though.

Let the Fella that bought it put up a picture if he wants to, I will respect his Privacy, he will no doubt read this some time in the next day or so.

He has much nicer knives than I do, I just sold him his first few Busse knives back five or so years ago.

I think he has very good taste in Busse Knives.
 
papathud said:
Yes I have pictures, they are all in a box in storage for now though.

Let the Fella that bought it put up a picture if he wants to, I will respect his Privacy, he will no doubt read this some time in the next day or so.

He has much nicer knives than I do, I just sold him his first few Busse knives back five or so years ago.

I think he has very good taste in Busse Knives.
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I'm guessing it's Chuck.
 
I do not think I ever sold Onewhobuys a knife, he seems to be the one person in the Busse world I ever really made angry(besides Jerry)
 
I can't believe this "Bad Boy" isn't more well known.
 
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Guyon said:
Two schools of thought on this one. One is the user mentality, which says that the most valuable knife is the one you have on you when you need it. The other is the collector mentality, which says that the most valuable knife is the one that you probably ought to sell but don't.

I try hard to stay on the user side of that line.

You could always take two of those rare Busses out and give them a good beating. Then, the mint one would be even more rare. :D
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I'm with him...

The way I see it is this: A knife's value is only based on what you could get if you sell it, and it seems only inevitable that you will sell it, if you're concerned so much with value. That's why I've yet to be able to hold onto an expensive Busse I never used (ie; Force One, Ruck, SHSH variant) because unsold, its only a pretty paper weight in a drawer with only potential value.

Now a user, no matter how cheap or expensive has definite plausible value. My NMFBMLE cost me $850 sure... but the real value is the hours of yard work and use I've gotten out of it. I'll never cash in on its value, because NOT being able to use it would be more of a loss than its "perceived" monetary value.

That's why it drives me nuts that these rare and sought after (or even last year's model) Busses fetch such a high price for something I'd beat the piss out of. It's value is only perceived and perpetuated by the buy and sell frenzy we've created.

You say it's a $1000 grail. I say it's a knife. Use it, or sell it. You have 3 of them.
 
Liu Kang said:
So somehow I came across these pictures and thought I would share some pictures/specs of this elusive sword that is not very well known but should be. Named back in 2002
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Is that because it resides in your collection? ;) :cool:
 
damn thats a nice sword, its like bladerunner and the highlander had a baby. makes me wonder what other crazy rare busses are out there i havent seen yet. thanks for the pics dan, i will be drooling over them for a few days.
 
I would vote Dragon or Chuckchette as the most valuable currently, with a Nod to the First Few Straight Battle Mistresses that were in the ASG 1999.
 
I would imagine the chuckchette would go pretty high. I've sen pictures of that sword from a while ago, at the same time I heard of skunks mythical nodachi and swamp rat sword.
 
surely the Chuckette, if only for sheer size and the amount of material involved, is the most valuable, on top of there being only one of them.
 
is this the chuckchette?

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found on this thread:

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=502811&page=3
 
papathud said:
Cool,

The most I ever sold a Busse for was $3,000.00 U.S.

Of course that was about five years ago.

I did not know any had broken the $5,000.00 U.S. level.

Of course times they are a changing.
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and i had to sell a couple of kids to pay that much :thumbup:






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I've got a couple that are priceless.
The Induction AK, won by Bar-B-Que and a @#$% &

Ain't 'nough money printed for me to sell either.
 
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