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My dream grail has been a 10” Busse Bowie for some time, but there wasn’t really one out there (until the recently announced Forsaken FBM, that is) so I took it upon myself to have one made.
I started by acquiring a user ASHBM, pictured below:
I decided to send it to Josh at Razor Edge Knives, because I’d seen some of his work on this forum and of course it was drool-worthy, and he also has an excellent reputation (which he more than lived up to, in my experience, by the way). My idea was to have a Texas-style clip point ground into it, something like this basic mock-up:
I had Josh do a number of things to the ASHBM. I don’t know if this covers everything, but he etched the logo, removed the handle scales, stripped and reground the blade with a
full flat grind at the optimum geometry with a convex edge blended into the grind (so no noticeable shoulder) and a microbevel on the Wicked Edge to finish it off. Then he applied
a 600 grit satin finish, ground in a clip with a swedge (that still leaves plenty of meat up top for batoning), and then epoxied and reattached the scales with red G10 liners.
I probably should have taken more “before” pictures, but I was too eager to get this baby out to play with.
Its bite was incredible! I have been hammering on this log every so often for the past few weeks, and this baby was chewing it up effortlessly.
I also pruned some tree branches and chopped up some small limbs and it was actually comical to me how easily this handled everything I threw at it.
I was using it side-by-side with a B11 just for the sake of comparison. There is nothing wrong in the slightest with the B11, but just check out the difference in how they would react to a casual swing at this stump.
After cleaning it up, it was like new—not even a scratch on it!
I took a few shots of the liners and swedge too, just because.
All in all, this baby lives up to my greatest hopes and then some! Next up—getting the perfect sheath made for it!
I started by acquiring a user ASHBM, pictured below:
I decided to send it to Josh at Razor Edge Knives, because I’d seen some of his work on this forum and of course it was drool-worthy, and he also has an excellent reputation (which he more than lived up to, in my experience, by the way). My idea was to have a Texas-style clip point ground into it, something like this basic mock-up:
I had Josh do a number of things to the ASHBM. I don’t know if this covers everything, but he etched the logo, removed the handle scales, stripped and reground the blade with a
full flat grind at the optimum geometry with a convex edge blended into the grind (so no noticeable shoulder) and a microbevel on the Wicked Edge to finish it off. Then he applied
a 600 grit satin finish, ground in a clip with a swedge (that still leaves plenty of meat up top for batoning), and then epoxied and reattached the scales with red G10 liners.
I probably should have taken more “before” pictures, but I was too eager to get this baby out to play with.
Its bite was incredible! I have been hammering on this log every so often for the past few weeks, and this baby was chewing it up effortlessly.
I also pruned some tree branches and chopped up some small limbs and it was actually comical to me how easily this handled everything I threw at it.
I was using it side-by-side with a B11 just for the sake of comparison. There is nothing wrong in the slightest with the B11, but just check out the difference in how they would react to a casual swing at this stump.
After cleaning it up, it was like new—not even a scratch on it!
I took a few shots of the liners and swedge too, just because.
All in all, this baby lives up to my greatest hopes and then some! Next up—getting the perfect sheath made for it!
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we exchanged a heck of a lot of messages, because like I said, he was very conscientious about modding the blade to my specifications.
