Uber-Hogs!?!

l2lku2 said:
Just yesterday I was on Bad Mojo and saw Andre DuMouchel's Busse collection at that time. I don't know anything about him or his collection, current status, whether he is a member here or anything else, just that the Bad Mojo site said he was a Busse rep at some point.

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I have less than him.
 
the sword's name is "Bad Boy"

shown here with the custom wrapped AK named "Hells Hornet" above it. and in the bottom pic it is with a custom Argonne assault





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I've seen only part of one Uber Hogs collection in person and just his old school straight handles alone is mind boggling and I know I didn't see it all. He also has a very serious collection of old school Fehrmans that is mind boggling as well.
I don't think it would be very easy to aquire or amass some of the type of old school Busse collections at present simply because too many pieces are locked away and nobody will part with them. I have a few, very few, I have been fortunate enough to pry from a couple of people but they just don't come available very often and usually will cost you.
 
I probably have around a hundred, but I never got the impression that my hoard was particularly large.
 
idahoskunk said:
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Right.

Skunk has stuff he doesn't even remember. He's got so much stuff stored underground in Idaho that he's induced an extra wobble in the earth's orbit.

Why, I spent years trying to figure out a way to get into his stash. Finally realized I was never going to be able to get my hands on a tac-nuke and gave up.:o
 
OldPhysics said:
Neither you nor anyone else will ever know.

But the answer is: pretty darned big.

In part, it's an insurance issue. My own insurer does NOT like me posting information on my own relatively modest holdings, and I imagine it's the same for my colleagues.

Also, the fun is not in boasting, but in participating.

EDIT: Also, not all the knives are bought in the open. Many quiet transactions go on behind the scenes. And, a true collector's collection is often in flux -- great flux. I've turned over a 'rather large amount' myself.:)
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Thanks. I think I am great too. I have to ask though, how come I have yet to see any of this INFI that is supposed to be turned over to me?
 
Bad Boy is a Full on Custom Sword, 31 inches in Length,Might be the Very First INFI Sword, but Jerry would have to Confirm that. Most of the knives pictured are gone, I still have a few dozen left, my kids have more than I do now.

I used to set up a historical display as well as knives for sale at most shows and people with More money than sense would buy some of that display, some times leaving a knife with me until I could replace it within the Display, I used to say "For Sale, Not On Sale" that was about a Decade ago now.

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Look to the for sale forum and notice the lack of my placing adds going back for some time, few of the best ever make it that far and the people who buy and sell pretty much know each other and what we/they have and or want, a Shrewd Buyer, learns what the person who has what the Shrewd wants, acquires that, and looks to trade.

Not Fair you say?

Part of the whole No Regrets Blood in the Trough Thing.
 
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I was hoping this would become a huge picture thread where these huge collectors would show it all!
 
I can imagine that there are practical reasons for seeing so few pictures of large collections:

time: To arrange your collection for a group picture you don't grab a knife - put it down - get the next one. Many times you stop to fondle a knife and admire its beauty. Then you might also want to take the opportunity to clean your knives and wipe them off with oil. Often they are stored in different locations (users vs. safe queens / big vs. small / ...) so you have to move around to bring everything together. Assuming that you hurry up and only spend 47 seconds per knife in average to get your collection "picture ready" and back to storage means it takes four hours, sixteen minutes and fiftysix seconds for a "comparably small" collection of 328 knives.

space: assuming in average each knife or your collection requires 35 cm in length and 8 cm in width a collection of 328 knives covers an area of more than 9 square meters - This exceeds the size of most dining tables by far. So you have to find a free and dry place on the ground and make sure that your wife does not cross your designated display area with a vacuum cleaner while your are arranging your collection.

In short: It's really a hassle to arrange pictures like this. However, I'd like to see some more of them myself :D

And no... I do not have 328 knives. Only used this number for illustration purposes :p
 
It used to take hours to set up for a picture, then your insurance company gets a little freaky, you got to carry a separate rider for just your Busse knives because of value, then you need some one like me to establish value for a particular knife on a particular date.

These photo's while good for our collective ego's make us all targets, this fella has 100 grand in this one Brand of knives, what else does he have in his house?

Five to twenty knives at a time? sure there is risk and the determined thief might make the effort but not so likely as that wonderful but not smart photo of 145+ Vintage Busse knives that still circulates as me having the Mother of all collections which I no longer have, the common supposition that if I had that then I must have so much more now.

Just be aware of the risks you take, I am here to tell you there are Collectors out there that never post here, people I sold a Dozen SH Battle Mistresses to at a time back when they first went out of production people ,,, well never mind you get the idea

Uber is just a label, Hogs at Heart is not about numbers, not about collectibles, it is about caring.
Sappy as that sounds the money end is just that, Business.

This place is about more than that, just deal with it folks, we are mostly a lot of Sappy old men who care about a common ideal.
 
Uber-Hog? :confused: No idea what that even is.

I'm just a user-piglet and I have a lot more crazy on hand than knives. :p
Some of my favorites, all users of course.
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No one wants to see a bunch of Busses with tears running down there face because they never get out to play.:( lol We want to see the ones that have tears running down there face because they have realized there owner just can't beat them enough. :p I met a guy at a show a few years ago that had a BBSH. This thing had been well used. There were guys offering him mint condition knives for it and he turned them down. IMO, that is what I would call an Uber Hog.
 
I personally with very few exceptions only keep users. A decent group of users. These knives are
built to be beaten. Hard.
 
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