Very Rare Busse (pics)

idahoskunk

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jerry will have to step in here and comment on this blade. although a few were made i have only seen this one.



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I have to wait Boss Hog in here and comment on this one. Busse friends love to joke around, and now i have failed to see this is a joke or a real deal :D
 
wuyeah said:
I have to wait Boss Hog in here and comment on this one. Busse friends love to joke around, and now i have failed to see this is a joke or a real deal :D
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try a search, search.... jerry busse, flint


Jerry Busse said:
Yowza! Oh Yeah! I made that. That is very old. The blade is made out of 0-1 tool steel and has been hardened and tempered. . . I don't know why. . . but I hardened it. It was hot gun-blued by a guy who really knew how to get 'em black. The handle is from a whitetail antler drop and if I remember right, that is horse hair wrapped around the handle with turquoise and silver beads for affect. I sold these through a store in Gatlinburg called the ACORN Shop. They used to be the biggest knife store in the world! Very cool! I don't recall a name for these other than my Flinted Indian Blade. Where are you finding these things? :eek: :cool:

Funny story about those blades. I started off making and selling knives through the rendezvous circuit with the historic re-enactors of the mountain man era. I used to actually knap flint blades for years but couldn't find enough flint to make large blades. I used a lot of glass and obsidian as well. I must've gotten frustrated at not being able to find enough flint for a knife sized blade, because I started making those out of steel and doing what I could to make them look like real obsidian. That has to be from the late '70's or very early '80's. They raised a lot of eyebrows when I took some old ones to the BLADE Show in 1983 and 1984. Bob Loveless refused to believe that it was made out of steel until he tapped on it with one of his blades.

Very Cool. . . Thanks for sharing the pics!!!! Wow! I can't get over that you found one of these. And BTW. . . GREAT PICS!!!!!!!!!!!! I love the real obsidian pieces that you included as well. Shazaam!!!


Jerry
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Is obsidian the OLD INFI???? Might be SHARPER, almost nothing gets an edge like volcanic glass. :thumbup:
 
Yeah I've seen this one before. I tought you posted this also or am I wrong Skunk?
But it looks really awesome:thumbup:
 
Leave it to SKUNK.

I sometimes wonder if SKUNK is a Busse fan or stalker, seems like the stinky one has more Busse history in his safe than Jerry himself.
 
One of those showed up at the Busse both last year at Blade for an authentication from Jerry. I got to hold it :rolleyes::cool::D !

Showed up on a certain auction site about a week later, I don't remember what it went for.
 
I think that the guy at Blade was asking $1,600 or so. I held it as well. The
blade to handle attachment has some looseness in it, and someone had added a leather thong wrap over the horsehide. If it had been all original it would now be mine.:(
 
this one is very tight, tighter than a frog hair split three ways....

a red frog hair! (banned smily)
 
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