Talk about a Busse Folder.

Bigfattyt said:
Both times up on a mountain, where there was no lock smith, and no cell phone, and the only other option was to break a window in the dead of winter and then have to drive all the way home with no window.
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I would have wedged the door open enough to use a stick that I wittled a hook onto to open the door with the handle;):p

That's just me and I have had to "break into" a lot of cars with NO tools on hand:)

Anyhow, just saying:D
 
I'd like to describe my idea of a busse folder. Unfortunately its almost exactly what a ZT 300 is. I just got one of those and boy am I impressed. I think the talon hole would make a perfect flipper. I'd like at least a 4" blade with a deep belly. Recurve would be cool but not necessary. It should have thumb grooves like an HG55 but on a thumb ramp. I like liner locks too. It can have G10 scales but I'd like the titanium frame to make up the back end and somehow be a skull crusher pommel for breaking windows/pounding. The scales would end and the frame would be full width for a half inch or so. I like the way some thumb knobs act as stoppers and lock up against the frame when open. I really wish I was decribing something other than my 8oz ZT for originality, but I've yet to ever see a more stout folder.
 
Well a Busse folder if attached to your car keys would have been an expensive experience in that scenario ..... :D Losing your keys is bad enough ...

But if you had a NMFBM with you .... you could chop and whittle yourself a car a la Fred Flintstone .... should "hot wiring" not be your "forte" ....:D

Seriously tho' ..... if a Busse folder is what enough people want .... I reckon it could happen ....:thumbup:
 
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adrock1978 said:
I like the way some thumb knobs act as stoppers and lock up against the frame when open.
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I liked that also until I ran into problems with the thumb studs bending and leaving the knife with a bad lock-up. Ever since then I will not look at a folder with this feature unfortunately. I like CRK but I never thought about their new folder for just that reason, among others.

I guess until it happens it is not really of concern though. :)
 
i vote a folding cultellus with a friction lock style tang. have the lock go over the friction lock. If I'm going to carry a package the size of a fixed blade when folded, I'm gonna carry a fixed blade.
 
Somebody just needs to Triple Dog Dare Jerry to produce a folder. We know he'd do it right. Personally I think it would be bad for the company.
 
Ankerson said:
Or just hit the window with the butt of the knife or a brick or a rock. :D
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That was specifically what he was trying to avoid. It was mid winter, night time in the mountains of Utah. He really did not want to drive home 2 + hours minus a window.

Both times, he gave me the knife and asked me to sharpen it.





Back on topic, I stand by my original thought. Mono block Titanium handle, and a very very strong pivot pin, and strong locking mechanism, and I am on it.

I am another who has never broken a folder. I don't really abuse most of my knives, especially folders.


I also am another vote for a higher hardness blade on the folder.

If I had the money, I would simply commission some folders from a custom maker, and send him a few sacrificial blades to use.
 
Pertaining to the Reese W. Infi folders, I have a question. When he recuts and grinds them is he affecting the heat treat at all, or are they untempered and re-treated etc?
 
My perfect folder would be ...... Strider SNG with INFI blade.
 
I was a previous flipper hater. I have since started only carrying a flipper xm-18. I love spydie holes and the strider holes. BUT I LOVE A GOOD FLIPPER.

3.5 to 4" blade. Something like the game warden blade.
Talon hole flipper
TI framelock.
tiger stripe g-10 or good old black canvas micarta scale
 
PeterPHWS said:
Seriously tho' ..... if a Busse folder is what enough people want .... I reckon it could happen ....:thumbup:
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With all due respect, I disagree. I think that for whatever reasons Jerry has, he will not ever produce The Folder. So much time and so many death chats have passed that I just don't think it ever will. I wish it were different, but don't think that's the case.
 
Idaho Jarhead said:
With all due respect, I disagree. I think that for whatever reasons Jerry has, he will not ever produce The Folder. So much time and so many death chats have passed that I just don't think it ever will. I wish it were different, but don't think that's the case.
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I agree it probably won't happen. Would take a lot to setup that operation on it's own.

I think it could work if he partnered up with some other folder maker/s and just supplied the blades.

If say 3 high-end framelock makers all make their known handle shapes and use the same lock/pivot and Jerry made one blade to fit all,
As I said in the past....... If that happened, they wouldn't be able to make enough of them to meet demand.
 
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Nice CG folder there! :thumbup: Reese does incredible work!
HOGS, there are many OUTSTANDING folders to chose from until Jerry gets us one. I have an "incoming" chisel sculpted Renegade from Rick Haney. This folder will easily hold me over. :D
 
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