Surprise in the mailbox taday... BATAC LE content

upsidedownviking

upsidedownviking

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Many have seen this knife... I think more have owned it ;)

BATAC LE #794. The slabs had shifted and left the sort of sharp edge of the spine exposed that made the knife a little uncomfortable without gloves on.

So back to Ohio it went, I was planing on emailing Garth next month to check on progress/eta, when look what the mailman left (not noticing the signature conformation sticker) in my mailbox today.

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Looks like they put it on a diet as well! :D

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I lost most of my knife photos when my last laptop died, so here's one of norcalblacktail's photos of #794 from a couple years ago, sporting a Banned convex edge. Thanks norcal!

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Fantastic looking knife. :thumbup: One of my all time favorite Busse's. I love the way the handles look smoothed out.
 
Nice. The first time I held a tac badger, I was surprised how much I loved it.
 
mymindisamob said:
Beautiful!
I had to do my own, but it is sadly long gone.
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I know the knives in these two pic's are at different angles, but has anyone else noticed that some Busse's lately have a more 'stab friendly' grind?

Almost tanto-esque rather than a fat radiused transition from the straight section of the edge to the point (think GW), this knife and in particular one of my SAR3's both seem to have a much pointier point.

Oh yeah, forgot in my first post:

Thanks Garth!!!
 
UDV,
That is one great looking knife. I have a CG BATAC. I figure once I wear the coating down some, I will send it to the CS so they can work their magic on it.
 
I just bought #711 from Shaving Sharp. Do you think that it is worth while to get a convex edge put on? I am no expert on edges but the stock edge looks like a V ground edge. The knife has a great feel to it. Does CS reference the Busse custom shop?
 
7p62mm said:
I just bought #711 from Shaving Sharp. Do you think that it is worth while to get a convex edge put on? I am no expert on edges but the stock edge looks like a V ground edge. The knife has a great feel to it. Does CS reference the Busse custom shop?
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Hi 7.62 welcome to the forum!

Yes, the "CS' is in reference to the Busse Custom Shop.

This is my only LE BATAC, and I received it with a convexed or "Banned" edge by forum member Ban (pictured in my first post), so I can't compare to the original edge.

The convex edge on mine was really nice, super sharp and the rounded transition made it slice awesome for how wide it was. I prefer convex edges in general and they're relatively easy to keep sharp with some practice....

Now this BATAC is like a whole new knife, the reduction in thickness behind the edge makes it a super slicer while keeping the spine at original thickness for overall strength and adding a pointer point.

If I had a stock LE BATAC I would use it! and maybe convex it myself slowly by hand as it needed sharpening or all at once if I had time.

It takes a lot of patience to send a knife out for work, but with some research it can be worth it!
 
Really pretty rig there USD Viking.

That looks like the perfect all-around knife!

They really tricked it out.

SUH-WEET!

Shane
 
Thanks upsidedownviking for the nice post. I am new to Busse knives. Gotta be careful so that I don't wind up broke like a lot of other fans!
 
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