Saw it on MAN WOMAN WILD...and I thought, "WHAT THE?"(BUSSE QUESTION)

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shane justice

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Hey Guys!

Did any of you see the episode where they were in the mountains of California and Mike had this sort of
weird, shoulder holster mounted spatula with all sorts of odd chunks cut out of it...it looked like every edge had a different bevel. I think I even saw a place to shred cabbage for cole slaw?

I guess you could call it a "shovel-a-saurus" And then I thought that thing is UGLEEE!

I bet JERRY and the gang could do an AWESOME entrenching tool!

What better material than INFI!?!

Has this idea already gone up the flag pole?

Shane
 
I saw that thing. It was pretty wacky. I have no clue what it is or where he got it, but he sure got a lot of use out of it. Did he even have a knife on him in that episode? I forget
 
I don't think he had a knife on that one...

Ruth had her usual TOPS knife.

Every time he pulled that "MONDO-SPATULA" from the armpit scabbard I kept thinking..."If that was me I would have torn half my shirt off, sliced all the tendons and veins, etc. in my arm and even failed to come up with the appropriate witty comment to cover the blood weeping on the ground.

It came in handy when they were cooking the "ACORN SAUSAGE"....but I truly wonder....about losing whatever sort of heat treat it might of had. Maybe the "LOAF" was enough of a heat sink?!?!?!?

Honestly, even if BUSSE could drop forge a slightly larger longer version of the "SPETZNAZ SHOVEL" it would be way better than what they had on that episode.

It would seem obvious that rather than wood, a "wonder polymer" could be cast with a hollow cavity for all of the essentials. Each bit of gear in its own air tight container.

And voila.....the money comes raining in!

I see the price point at $300K each. (Pentagon price)

C'mon guys....whatcha think?

Shane
 
Thats a new breaching/shovel/axe thing that Hawke is designing. It might be getting released through United Cutlery but I am not at all sure about that. But I think its available from Sniper Bladeworks and Fox Knives USA and is called the WASP or HASP. It an ugly a$$ tool thats for sure, but I'm sure Hawke will find a way to make it look cool. ;)
 
Okay it the H.A.S.P-Hawke's-Ax-Shovel-Pick, but I couldn't find it for sale on either of the site who are supposed to have it.
 
I'm sceptical, even though i have'nt tried it out. I sharpened one side of a cs shovel once & tried it out chopping wood. It's better than nothing, but compared to a good hatchet...pathetic. I doubt there's a good way to avoid compromising one function or the other.
FWIW, i prefer to carry a really good chopper. When -once in a blue moon- i do a little digging while out hiking, etc... i just use my hatchet or knife to sharpen a digging stick. This also lets me keep my cutlery sharp.
 
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It's difficult to find large images of hawkes design, I can only find the thumbnail of the shovel, and these three of the 'hawke-chete'
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AHHHHHHH!

Talk about an assault on the senses!

Holy Buckets Guy!

OK, so from the time I was 12 or so, I had the steel bug. I diddled around trying to make knives from anything I could.

The first knife I ever forged was a debacle. My forge was the old stoker coal furnace in the basement of the old farmhouse we rented. I pegged out the thermostat so it would run continuously. I borrowed/stole temporarily my step-dad's 30 oz framing hammer to whang on my steel. I had no anvil so I just used the concrete floor to act in it's stead. When I got done I was so pleased with my work that I spent several days just looking at it. (When my folks got home they were livid that the temperature in the house was in the nineties.)

My point is that my whole life, I trained my self to learn how to smooth corners, make lines flow and curl like a willow leaf or the swirl when a trout breaks the surface to swallow a mayfly. When I could not actually tinker making knives, I doodled. In the last 30 years the number of sketches and drawing must be in the ten's of thousands, with lees than a hundred that have survived my "culling" efforts meant to always improve the aesthetic values of my work.

Having said all that, the objects in those pictures quite literally cause me to shudder.

I mean no insult to Mr. Hawke and his ideas on what makes a blade that does what his experiences caused him to design those "things". My family puts asied time every Friday to watch their program and we enjoy the heck out of it. We know his life has allowed him to ,"talk the talk and WALK THE WALK".

But dang...those "whatever they are's" may b e sharp. HTe y may cut all day long. And they might be somebody's idea of perfection.

As for me, I will continue to enjoy the lines and design from Busse, and the good friends who have taught me that the graceful flow of a well-made tool does indeed aid in the function of that tool.

Shane
 
I was going to post a thread after a search about that, but you beat me to it. I think it's really cool and definitely want to check one out when/if they become available...
 
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