Newer Busse Fakes

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Nismo17

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Just a heads up to everyone

Be careful out there on the secondary market

It looks like the counterfeit Busses are getting pretty darn accurate. Especially the CBT designs.

These are all fakes on this channel. Busse custom shop logo and all…
 
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It gets even better when you zoom in.

Check out those handle pins and especially the blade and handle junction where the (guard?) is. Quality stuff! Pretty sure that handle is made almost entirely out of epoxy.
 
On a more serious note, what I'd really like to see is a head to head test between one of these fakes like Dave posted and a real Busse that it was patterned after.

Since that Forsaken Mistress counterfeit was made out of Sleipner, you would think it stands a chance of being half decent, but depending on the price, I'm sure the heat treat is a real crapshoot. I'm pretty sure we can guess fairly accurately how good its HT is.

But it'd be fun to see a shootout to see the quality difference. I'd be half tempted to buy one to do it myself but then I'd have to patronize a counterfeiter which I don't want to do and even worse, I don't have a Forsaken Mistress to test it against. That's the real crime in all of this!
 
The Knife Life said:
On a more serious note, what I'd really like to see is a head to head test between one of these fakes like Dave posted and a real Busse that it was patterned after.

Since that Forsaken Mistress counterfeit was made out of Sleipner, you would think it stands a chance of being half decent, but depending on the price, I'm sure the heat treat is a real crapshoot. I'm pretty sure we can guess fairly accurately how good its HT is.

But it'd be fun to see a shootout to see the quality difference. I'd be half tempted to buy one to do it myself but then I'd have to patronize a counterfeiter which I don't want to do and even worse, I don't have a Forsaken Mistress to test it against. That's the real crime in all of this!
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It’s made out of “Ali Express *Schliepener” (Compressed Coors cans heat treated in a campfire).
 
One way to tell apart the fake is to look at the handle rivets, most clones have rivets barely flared, because they don’t have the machine to press the rivets.
properly flared rivets:
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clone with bearly flared rivets, those are installed with a hammer and die by hand
 
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🤨 The fuckin atrocities so many fakes on that page I never knew there was such scammers out there. At least nothing could beat a true busse tho let’s see the tests come bahahahaha
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David Brown said:
OK hate to be a bummer but that is enough of this.
we know there are fakes, and we do not need to advertise any more of them.
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David Brown David Brown is very correct on the point that we *do not* want to advertise where these fakes/counterfeits can be found...Even if finding them is relatively easy.
But- we *do* want folks to know how to spot a fake, especially now that the tech used is making them harder to spot, and tips & pix shared among members does help others to avoid these fakes.

To post about a fake or counterfeit, you *must*:

1.) Avoid linking to the site where the knife in question is being sold.
2.) Host the image(s) yourself, or upload them to your BF.com account to avoid folks opening them in a new page to get the picture link to follow back to the site with the fakes.
3.) Not post hints to where you found the fake(s)/counterfeits.

This is "The Counterfeit Rule", a sitewide rule created to address this issue over 10 years ago. VVV

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