Some specs
Blade Length: 3.5"
- Upper false Edge Length: 2.25"
- Overall Length: 8.0"
- Overall Thickness: 3/16" (0.1875")
- Handle Insert: CG Black Micarta or Custom with "unique" materials
- Two talon holes
- B.A.T. Equipped
There isn't even a way to describe how comfortable it is in my hand. After having the opportunity to hold this and a MS, I would pic the Bad Apple any day. The large tear drop shape of the rear handle gives a great grip for your last two fingers. It's extremely fast and well balanced, with the balance point for mine being right behind the forward talon hole. On the top side there is about a 1" flat section behind the false edge that is perfect for moving yor thumb up for added control. It's really a great little knife!!
I've been trying to find other Bad Apple owners, but I appear to be the only one.
Dark Nemesis
Bad Apple Trivia:
The Bad Apple is an interframe design, meaning that the area where the handle is located is milled completely through and therefore serves two purposes. It not only lightens the knife considerably but serves to protect the handle material from any impact damage that might occur. This impact protection is not necessarily important with canvas micarta but proves invaluable when using natural materials like ivory, bone, and some of the exotic woods.
Many of the Bad Apples that will be at the NY Show will feature these natural materials. I have done some with Birdseye Desert Ironwood as well as Stabilized Giraffe bone and some of the nicer stabilized woods.
The edges will most likely be zeroed out. However, I sometimes change up when grinding in order to keep it interesting. I have already made three of these that are deeply hollow ground as opposed to having the BAT grind. . . . .ahhhh the beauty of customs.
These will only be available in customs as the grinds need to be done by hand and will therefore be reserved for the custom shop. I will be doing all of the work on these blades myself, and they will therefore be limited in production. The Combat grade with Canvas Micarta Handles will be priced at $475.00. The models that feature natural materials require much more hand fitting and will start at $525.00 and go up from there, depending on the materials used.
More later,
Jerry Busse
10/30/01
BAT Trivia:
BAT stands for the new Busse Armored Tip. Only available on the new handmade, sole-authorship, signature series customs.
The two new custom models that feature the BAT have three separate and different types of grinds . . . Flat, Convex, and Hollow, all combined to make for the strongest and greatest penetrating tip that we have ever tested. . . . . Both are completely hand made. . . One is Lighter, . . .Meaner. . . Shorter. . . and more Concealable than a Mean Street. . . . . The other will stand to redefine ultra-lightweight fighting Bowies for quite some time. . . . and of course both are made of the highest performance steel on the planet - INFI.
Jerry Busse
10/29/01
