The restoration begins

And to go along with the free history lesson above, here is the link to the original SHBM review Cliff did. I am sure most have read this.

Knife Review : straight handled Battle Mistress from Busse Combat

A review of the Battle Mistress from Busse Combat, a large bowie style blade intended for heavy duty work, made from INFI. This is the straight handled model, a few of generations back from the current model.
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Yeah. Mad Dog was definitely mad. I remember Cliff saying he did like the grip. 🙂 Reminds me of Noss testing a couple CRK’s.
 
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Ironic said:
Yeah. Mad Dog was definitely mad. I remember Cliff saying he did like the grip. 🙂 Reminds me of Noss testing a couple CRK’s.
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The CRK people weren't as nuts as the mad doggers. 😂 I wish those old knife forums threads were still around to peruse. Fun reading. It was mostly about kevin's supposedly tough O1 blade snapping like a twig and many of us trying to explain to him that it was likely hydrogen embrittlement from the hard chrome process, and then Cliff had to go and break a second one. It is literally one of the main reasons that caused the brakeup in the forum. The Flatearthers stayed on KF and the rest of us came over to BF😂(this is in jest. Lots of good people remained on KF) Of course this forum has had it's issues. Trolls are where you find them and some can even be moderators;)
 
From the beginning what stood out to me was how excited people can get over breaking a piece of steel. To the point of defending a piece of metal as if loyalty were grounds for explaining what must have happened to it.
 
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From the beginning what stood out to me was how excited people can get over breaking a piece of steel. To the point of defending a piece of metal as if loyalty were grounds for explaining what must have happened to it.
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True and part of it is in the fact they are invested in the product to a large amount. Cliff was not even trying to break the knife, he was just doing what he had done with many knives that had all passed that test. He had just done that light prying test to a few Ontarios and they easily passed. The Tusk had a reputation because of a tale told by kevin or one that worked for him, that the knife had been stuck in a heavy file drawer and the guy stood on it and bounced up and down with enough pressure that the knife flew across the room undamaged. Needless to say, after Cliff, everyone knew the tale was of the tall variety. Which called into question, character, and it was all downhill from there. Funny thing is that because all that information is gone now those knives still fetch thousands of dollars. But like anything else, outside this forum, how many people actually use a $1000+ knife? Not many.
 
Cobalt said:
True and part of it is in the fact they are invested in the product to a large amount. Cliff was not even trying to break the knife, he was just doing what he had done with many knives that had all passed that test. He had just done that light prying test to a few Ontarios and they easily passed. The Tusk had a reputation because of a tale told by kevin or one that worked for him, that the knife had been stuck in a heavy file drawer and the guy stood on it and bounced up and down with enough pressure that the knife flew across the room undamaged. Needless to say, after Cliff, everyone knew the tale was of the tall variety. Which called into question, character, and it was all downhill from there. Funny thing is that because all that information is gone now those knives still fetch thousands of dollars. But like anything else, outside this forum, how many people actually use a $1000+ knife? Not many.
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So true—and such a testament to how much hypocrisy, disinformation and hype swirls around steel and knife performance in general. I would say “…in general these days”, but I suspect it’s always been like that. And certainly not limited to knives.
 
Ironic said:
So true—and such a testament to how much hypocrisy, disinformation and hype swirls around steel and knife performance in general. I would say “…in general these days”, but I suspect it’s always been like that. And certainly not limited to knives.
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The liquor world is the same. Wine and liquor that is
 
Cobalt said:
Needless to say, after Cliff, everyone knew the tale was of the tall variety. Which called into question, character, and it was all downhill from there. Funny thing is that because all that information is gone now those knives still fetch thousands of dollars. But like anything else, outside this forum, how many people actually use a $1000+ knife? Not many.
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I found one recently in SMKWs, I think is was around $3,900…..could have been more. Still don’t understand the hype with those things….
 
Gravelface said:
I found one recently in SMKWs, I think is was around $3,900…..could have been more. Still don’t understand the hype with those things….
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Well, they did have very ergonomic handles. Lol. I think I've seen a few up are 5k. Then when you consider the total bs super secret story of MD. The story is so funny, like something out of Austin Powers.
 
"... a child prodigy--gifted in the black arts of weaponry--who enters the
shadow world of international-arms sales. Raised in the San Francisco Bay
area in the late 60's, McClung was the son of an aeronautical engineering
genius and gave early proof of his own prodigious grip on ``mechanix'' by
secretly building a complex electric rifle when he was four. McClung was
accepted by the Bay area's genius education program for ``Mentally Gifted
Minors,'' whose special scientific projects were constantly sifted by the
CIA for ideas--with the best projects (including McClung's vest for bugging
and eavesdropping) stolen and passed on to CIA scientists. At 14, McClung
met OSS-CIA master spy John Colling, who taught him the basics of spy-craft.
Then falconer and top CIA assassin Ray Goodreau taught him about falconry
and animal training, unconventional weapons, and commando tactics; McClung
had already shaped his body into a lethal weapon through the martial arts.
Goodreau also sharpened him into a remorseless anticommunist death-dealer.
Eventually, McClung fell in with Marty Rhymer, a CIA wire-man, and Gabe
Margolis, a boorish Mossad commando, who together had formed Amida Ltd.,
later a CIA secret business whose cover was selling weapons, uniforms and
support gear to California law enforcement agencies but which quickly became
a feast of international arms dealing. McClung refined a new Diplomat
poison- tipped pen-gun, and, with his deadly book-gun (a copy of The Book of
the Dead that fired bullets) and always accurate laser rifle, etc., etc.
(diagrams for many of the weapons are given), became the company's chief
inventor of killer ``toys.'' Then Ibriham Haddad, fat and perfumed king of
arms dealers, invaded Amida and took it over, adding his own poison to
Amida's already irredeemably corrupt juices. When Amida set up McClung to be
assassinated, he hid out in the wilds for three years and abandoned dealing
death downward from the top of the food chain. The rotten underbelly of US
Intelligence, grippingly sliced open."
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