Please help me identify this knife

[Wulf]

Hi folks,

Please take a look at the picture below. Maybe it's just my imagination, but I can't help but notice a vague resemblance to an early Steel Heart II variant

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The specs:

• 1/4" thick ATS-34 flat ground blade
• 10 7/16" OAL, 4 5/8" cutting edge
• 4 19/32" long, Black linen micarta scales
• 1 11/16" blade width, 2" wide at guard
• Marked "ATS-34 Tom Wheeler Custom Knives"
• Unused, unsharpened, near mint condition

The gentleman who sold me the knife said he bought it from the maker 7-10 yrs ago but remembers little about the transaction or the knife itself. He appeared confused when I asked him if the steel had been subjected to thermo-nuclear heat-treating.

Does anybody recognize the maker's mark?

Any insight would be much appreciated. Andy, this is the knife I told you about last week.

They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery... Jerry - consider this knife a compliment, a tribute to your exquisite blade designs.

-Derrick

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[Andy Prisco]

Wulf...thanks for your post. I just sent you e-mail regarding what I am about to write.

The knife was, in fact, made in the Busse Shop by one of Jerry's apprentices under Jerry's supervision...Tom Wheeler. He does not make knives anymore.

It is a chopped first generation Steel Heart and was subjected to the same thermonuclear heat treating process

that all Busse's knives were subjected to at that time.

You got a honey of a knife there. Enjoy!!

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[Maxon]

You can draw your own conclusions!!

Yikes!!

 

[Wulf]

Gee, thanks Andy.

Well that's just my luck... Thanks to your feedback, this fine blade will now be condemned to an eternity in a boring old display case... It was made to be used, but now it appears that it will never be able to fulfill its destiny. If the knife could talk it would curse you.

-Derrick

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