The HOGB8 Thread

Which style for the satin HOGB8?

  • Regulator blade and handle shape, with .30+" thickness, but in satin INFI

    Votes: 2 9.5%

  • Basic blade and handle shape, but with modest swedged clip and massive thickness

    Votes: 19 90.5%
  • Total voters
    21
  • Poll closed .
Tom Kanik said:
Will, sounds like you have a little bit of Heaven for the two of you...congrats!:thumbsup::cool::thumbsup:
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Thanks brother--yeah, the hiking and the weather are amazing in the North Cascades this time of year! We love it up here, but summers are short near the Canadian border! :D
 
Enjoy the nice cool weather as long as you can.:D It has warmed up here in S/W Missouri, and of course our a/c is acting up. However, the late evening and early mornings are quite nice.
 
I've really grown to appreciate areas that have four distinct seasons. I think it was growing up in deep south Texas that now makes seasons seem so gr8. There were basically two seasons in the Rio Grande Valley--summer and Christmas time.
 
Yeah, in Phoenix the seasons seemed like they were Summer and New Year's Day. It's much nicer in Montana with four seasons even if Summer is much shorter.
 
:D Yeah, I get asked regularly if I live there now. Sunsets and snowless winters are about all I miss but not enough to move back. I've been using that name since the 90's so not much reason to change it even though I did move from AZ to MT. :p
 
Hey Will let's take this up 5 more posts so it is the second largest thread! 10,04B8!
 
10,050 you take the next two since it's your thread and all! :)
 
I have to defer to Stump Buster on this one, but since he's off line, I'll let his words do the talking. Here are some of my favorite quotes from the HOGMAN:

Stump Buster said:
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.308 thickness, 7.62" from the Res-C handle should be about right and still be close enough to 8" to be called a B8.

A Saber Ground Blade would be grEIGHT for chopping, battoning, prying, climbing, wrecking and hammering. A chunky slab-o-INFI would also be an old school, classically influenced BUSSE bombproof blade ...

I dream of a choiless blade (with the bottom edge of the ricasso flat and even with the guard section of the Res-C handle).

The icing on that dream cake would be SAR 8 style jimping on the spine, a clip point and an unsharpened swedge (But... I LIKE Cake, icing or not)!!!

... PIGLETS, Soldiers, Adventurers, Campers, Survivalists, Collectors, Dreamers... i.e: Good Folks from ALL walks of life..... WANT THIS BLADE!!!
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Here's to your efforts, Stumpy--and to all those Piglets, Soldiers, Adventurers, Campers, Survivalists and Collectors--Dreamers all--who have answered your call to pursue the HOG B8!:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::cool::cool::cool::D:D:D
 
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Awesome! So now that this is the second largest thread in the Busse sub-forum, hopefully it will finally get some attention from @Jerry Busse ;)
 
Of course we can't exclude @Garth Reckner or @Amy-0 either since less is not more for post 10,054!
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The Man Of Steel is well aware of all goings-on in his pigpen, I'm sure. Here's hoping we get an early spot in his next lineup at the trough!:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
 
You know, when I read Stump's words I can't help but think this is a knife Jerry really WANTS to make. I mean, it's just Classic Busse. 8 inches of thick INFI with a Basic handle--how can he NOT want to make this?:thumbsup:
 
Agreed, 3 1/2 years and thousands of requests later, it would be really cool to finally score a HOG B8!
 
Yup, Stumpy definitely dialed it in to an amazing blade idea that is all classic Busse. The old Hogs and new piglets alike both could use a modern taste of the old school features which made Jerry's "sharpened prybars" the envy of all who mocked, yet secretly wished for, them.
 
From a marketing standpoint, it occurs to me that to create maximum buzz, what we may see is a completely new branding of Stump's description. Midway between 7 and 8 inches of INFI with a Basic handle, but thicker than any Basic, with a swedged clip on saber grind, jimping, and choilless--all fairly "un-Basic-like" refinements.

The word that comes to my mind when I think about those specs is "domination" -- both of any task that might come its way and of any challenge or situation its owner may face. Might qualify for a whole new identity.

We've had the Regulator from Scrap Yard. How about a Busse Dominator?
 
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