So how did you first learn about BUSSE knives?

[silverdragon33]

wanted the highest quality i could and started looking at reviews. happened upon Cliff's which is where i heard about Busse and Swamp Rat. at the time it looked like it was next to impossible to get a Busse (didn't know about this place or that only one model was offered at a time or anything like that), and they seemed friggin expensive.
started looking into SR and they looked to be almost as hard to find, but slightly cheaper. after a few months, i scored what looked to be my dream blade (camp tramp) for a relatively expensive price. after a couple years of using that and being quite happy but wanting more, i broke down and got an FBM though i wasn't quite happy with that being so big and heavy (way more than anything else i had). that's when the addiction really began. eventually i happened upon this place and learned all i needed to know.

 

[fbusmc]

My dentist ( I am forever grateful) told me about Busse's when I had my ffl and ask me if I ever heard of one... I asked him if they were any better than SOG, AL mar or cold steel, since that was my favorite knives at the time... I then got that month's Soldier of Fortune magazine and there was a big write up on the Steel heart II, sounded good so I ordered a few.. after putting a Steel heart II though the mill.. made shelters, a raft, firewood, out cut my friends who were carrying Kukris and machetes... I was hooked.. got away from them for a long time though... other interest.. finally got back in right before the ASH1 came out.. and since then I've REALLY been bit by the infi bug.. Now, I"m selling almost everything else off to buy Busse's . They ARE THE BEST KNIVES EVER MADE!

 

[tsiloics]

Right here!

Can't remember the actual date. Think my initial BF registration was 12/98, but seems like the Busse forum started after that.

I can remember getting interested in the CRK folders and the Busses at about the same time. Got an old-wave LMS first... then a Sebenza, then started getting into some of the larger Busses.

 

[unwisefool]

I had come across some pictures on a gun board of a whole bunch of game wardens and decided that I wanted to try one out. Once I actually acquired one a little over a year ago, it was all down hill from there.

 

[rbmcmjr]

I was on one of the gun boards (TFL or THR) and saw a picture of a Satin Jack. Wandered in here looking to learn more. Never looked back.

 

[ZcouT]

to be honest, my first Webb contact with busse knives went through a total random search for "tactical knives" on Google. have since looked at some of the knives for the last couple of years and thought, dam expensive stuff.

the +300 dollar addiction started with a strider. then came a tighe custom, later on a sibert custom. kind of forgot about Busse for a while, until i stumbled upon a thread about busse knives at the Swedish gear and knife forums utrustning.se.

i knew it was a beginning to a serious and money hemorrhaging addiction.
once i finally got one for myself (a sus scrofa) it was settled.
i hardly look at other knives brands then busse, except for folders.

 

[Amy-0]

What is Busse Knives


How do you pronounce it Busssay or Boosay or like Gary Bussey

Kidding only kidding


Amy-0

 

[RVO3VOM]

What is Busse Knives


How do you pronounce it Busssay or Boosay or like Gary Bussey

Kidding only kidding


Amy-0

Someone talkin' 'bout me?

∞

 

[JohnTheTexican]

Last time someone asked this, I posted this:

Chris Janowsky, "Choosing th Right Survival Knife," American Survival Guide (July 1996) (I can't believe that I not only still have the magazine, but could even find the right issue):

"In the 25 years I've been testing equipment at WSI [World Survival Institute], there are only two survival knives I consider to be excellent, I've recently given them my endorsement. The two knives are a folding knife made by Benchmade called the Advanced Folding Combat Knife (A.F.C.K. - model # 800S), and the fixed blade Steel Heart II made by the Busse Combat Kinfe Co."

I read that when the magazine came out and kept an eye out for Busses. Some time after that, I read an article --also in American Survival Guide, IIRC--about a new knife called the "Battle Mistress," made from a new steel called "INFI." I ordered three knives (Battle Mistress, Steel Heart II and Badger Attack) at that time.

That was when I learned that a week is as a year to a Busse.

At the time, the Steel Heart II and the Badger Attack were still advertised as being made of some inferior steel--A2 or something, I think. By the time I got them, the switchover to INFI appeared to be complete.

When I finally got them a year or so later, Jerry called personally to apologize about the delay.

And then someone asked if anyone had scans of the articles, so I posted this:*

And this:

And the other one, from before INFI was born:

* I guess I shouldn't have used TinyPic. They seem to have deleted some of the pages, and the magazine has moved on to someone who deserved it more than I did.

 

[beefangusbeef]

At a gun show. I don't think they were as popular then. No one was looking at the knives and there were 7-8 force ones, badgers, etc on the table.

 

[Last Visible Canary]

leatherman to benchmade 710
benchmade 710 to benchmade nimravus
nimravus to strider fixed blade
strider to swamp rat bandicoot
bandicoot (and many others) to busse bm-e (i think)
from there many many other busse's.

 

[Spade]

I have a great custom knife, and the guy also made a sweet big chopper. Problem was, it was $1300 or so, and I wouldn't be chopping much with a custom like that. Looking for alternatives, I found the ultimate user knife in Busse. Function always over form, and it's great when you get both.

 

[akadave2]

I just remember the first adverts in the knife mags. Some thing about cutting the tail off a helicopter or some such. I immediately dismissed it as hype.... I was wrong, now I own more Busse than I can use.

 

[robstar]

I was searching around the net looking for high end kick ass knives and stumbled upon the FBM LE. I didn't think I could spend $700 on a knife, but I was doomed from that point on

 

[Barb-B-Q]

I blame Hammy, as well. He sold hubby his first BUSSE at the INDY 1500 a few years back, I think. (If I'm wrong, Hammy, then.... I BLAME PORKERSON!!!) Hubby was so INFI-trigued, he went to BLADE 2006 with a buddy. (I got to keep buddy's dog, as well as our 3!) Next year, buddy couldn't go. BLADE 2007 fell on our anniversary, so hubby offered to take me to Atlanta to celebrate. I was just happy to go anywhere. Well, as most of you know the rest is history... thus my sig line, Mrs. Knife Wife 2007!! The INFI has flowed through my veins since! :thumbup: :thumbup:

When will it end??

NEVER !!

NO REGRETS!!

 

[Bigfattyt]

I don't remember the year. I was looking at random knife web sites. I stumbles on the Busse site. I did not like the look of some of the knives at the time. (although I would probably push my own 93 year old granny over to get at them now).

I stumbled on them again a few years later on Bladeforums. I found bladefourms in searching for advice on making my own knives (the first of which is coming closer to completion, only needs the handle scales finished up).

Some how, I wandered on to the Busse sub forum, and some one posted a picture of some Fusion Battlemistresses, and I thought they looked awesome. I thought I would never, ever spend that on a non custom. A modded FBMLE ended up being the first one I got, in a trade. I only have 4 now (but for a destitute Law student that is not bad).

I don't think I will be able to get any more soon (as now, I am a more than destitute law school graduate with $170,000 in loans to begin repayment in a few days).

I love them, and spend way too much time thinking about them, looking at them, coveting ones I don't have, taking pictures of them....................Why right now, I am in the process of convexing the edge on that FBMLE because I found a pea sized rock with the edge while chopping wood on my dad's huge old stump (the roll/ding was barely big enough to notice in good sun light, but was reason enough to start the convexing.......I usually use the v edge till I give it it's first good mark, and then convex).


I am rambling, what was I talking about? Oh Ya, Busse!

Can't wait to see what the newest Hog discount offering is.

 

[RussMo]

I remember looking at the mag. adds back in the 90's, but I surely didn't have the coin then. I'm enjoying my self now though, been since 2006 that I bought my first and I still have it. Blk on Blk, Sh-e!!!

 

[Houndstooth]

I had seen them in magazines, but I wasn't really into fixed blades. Then I attended my first Blade show in 2006. I remember walking around looking at the knives and then someone offered me some Kool-Aid...

 

[Matteo Escobar]

Back in 2002 I was looking for "the best" survival type knife. I was on Chris Reeve's site and followed his link here to Bladeforums. Once here I started looking around, and the general consensus was that Busse makes the best hard use knife.

Soon after I ordered my SH-E with satin and snakeskin.

 

[RoyalM]

I think it was back in 1998 when there was an article in Blade magazine. I was in the US with the marines and saw the magazine in the PX. The review had a guy in Sweden or another scandinavian country with only a puuko and a BM to do a survival course with. I remember the reviewer said it was the best knife he had ever used.

Then about 18 months ago I was bored and googling and thought I'd look up Busse. That was several pieces of infi ago and now i'm even a Hog.