What am I doing Wrong?

Did someone say BADGER??????

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DAVE!!! :D I knew I had but to mention your name and your favorite knife in the same sentence and you'd find this post!! Your pics are disgustingly cool! Nice SHBA's!!!
 
Dave.......that's whats I am talking about......spread the love! 12!!!!! I don't think I have that many Busses...(okay, that is a lie) But still!!!!! Your like the Grinch that stole Christmas!!!! No toys for anyone else;) :D

Awesome collection, here's to hope of getting one!
 
Gravelface said:
Dave.......that's whats I am talking about......spread the love! 12!!!!! I don't think I have that many Busses...(okay, that is a lie) But still!!!!! Your like the Grinch that stole Christmas!!!! No toys for anyone else;) :D

Awesome collection, here's to hope of getting one!
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I'm all for spreading the love. :eek:
Ok, bad visual. :barf:

The Grinch huh?????
Sort of has a ring to it.
Maybe I should change my forum name.

dave
AKA Grinch

P.S. That's an outdated pic. :p
Can you say 13. :D
 
I should have held on to the few I had but sold them to various forum members. I now have a rule that I will never sell another Busse. I will sell off my house first:D
 
Well.....
You're just out of luck.
Sometimes they pop up and sometime they don't.
You have to hang around the forums a couple of years to snag one it seems.
What about the SOOOEEEE! contest knife, isn't that up for sale?
 
roppda said:
I think we can all say something similar. To get that many, he's gotten a SHBA from just about all of us (one of the slotted handles was mine...)
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He hasn't gotten mine yet!
 
Walking Man said:
Well.....
You're just out of luck.
Sometimes they pop up and sometime they don't.
You have to hang around the forums a couple of years to snag one it seems.
What about the SOOOEEEE! contest knife, isn't that up for sale?
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I don't want anything like that.....I want a beater something to use not hold my dresser down with.

Besides...I like my users toothless.
 
Gravelface said:
Ok...I used to think I was a resourceful individual....I could find (even if I couldn't afford) most Busses I was interested in........but now I am getting down right dissappointed in myself. (Could be because I have been drinking and a on the verge of being intoxicated:D ) But for the life of me I cannot find a SHBM....I know GregB just found one,,,and I know another fellow who has found SEVERAL!!!!! What am I doing wrong! I have come to terms that the 10" BBSHSH is a myth/sasquatch/loch ness/cuppacarbra/yetti/perfect10 and I will never get one, but the SHBM while uncommon is not rare and I should have been able to track one down in the last year......am I just not putting forth the effort....do I smell funny....what is it? And another thing......SHBAs......WTF!!! Where are they...I have been so close to 3 of them only to have them yanked from under my feet like the floor in some Indiana Jones flick only to end up in the proverbial Busse Black Holes.......Spread the wealth!!!! Let some of us try these mythical blades.....I would love it and beat it and pass it on before I let it collect dust in my safe(dresser;) ) Please, tell me what I have to do to get one.....that's all:thumbup: :thumbup:
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a few basics on finding rare busses:

1. search the current (5 pages deep or 3 months, whatever comes first) sales going on in the sale forum. this includes anything that has not yet been tagged "sold".
2. search all ongoing ebay auctions.
3. begin a backlog/deep search of the forum sales, look for anything that was not sold - and follow up on the seller on wether he still has it for sale (I normally stop at about 1 year), and ask if he knows anyone who might if he doesn't. follow up on leads.
4. begin the teadious task of networking your connections by the leads gathered by unsold but no longer available listings in the past 2 years (or further if your REALLY not finding anything), and begin following up on "sold" threads. Make sure to be very polite in your emails, because you are essentially going door to door looking for a sale (note: door to door religions do this. most people dont like invasion of privacy, sometimes even when its polite). for the most part people will understand.
4A. to do this: look for threads that have the blade your looking for that is marked as "sold", if the thread states who won it, email them or private message them through bladeforums and ask if they still have it, are willing to sell it, or know anyone who has one for sale, or who has one in general.
4B. when given a "lead", a the name, email adress, contact information, or forum name of anyone who has one of the blades - follow up on it in the same fashion, ask if they have the blade, are willing to sell it, or know anyone who has one or knows anything.
4C. when given vague information, but a verifyable name, adress, or any information, utilize the available search engines or contacts that you have to the highest level of their capability.


This is the point at wich caveats come in. Within x amount of connections, you can contact anyone on earth, but that person (should they not want to be found, or simply not like random calls) will possibly know how much effort and connecting you put in to find them. That can be very creepy. Use tact, and stay legal.

Most peoples phone numbers are public records, and theres a lot you can acheive through places like "superpages.com" and the various directory oriented sites.

Don't be afraid to follow up on oooooold leads and information, "I saw xxx buy one of those at the 2000 blade show... I think he's in alaska now. He might post on blade forums, all I know is that he works for xxx company." - this given to you after you found literally NOTHING but a single image on bladeforums of this knife you want. Okay, SO... search google using his name in qoutes, as well as his companies name in qoutes. If you can get a corporate connect to his email address or his office phone number, try calling him - initiating the call with an appology for interupting his work.

If you can't find it there, try searching the alaskan directories through white pages websites for his name (in qoutes). When that's gone dry - start looking for people who were at blade 2000 and ask them both about the knife, and about the guy who bought it. try to find someone who either knows more about the specific variant or model, as well as people who either are freinds with him, know his bladeforums name or any other forums he posts on. if you can get a forum name - follow it until it runs dry. register for the forum, ask questions there. If you can get information about what happened to the knife, but not about the guy who initially bought it - follow that, try to get ahold of the person who had it last.



One of the biggest benefits to finding rare and hard to get blades is networking, and the willingness, desire, and ability to do deep searches, and utilize networking as much as possible. you may have to go through 10 people to get to your knife, and it may be strictly not for sale, or it may have been thrown into the delta river at sunset in a yearly ritual. who knows - but you'll at least have the information you wanted in the beginning, and you'll know what leads not to follow as you continue your search.

I'm sure that skunk and randucci and the various high quantity collectors get a crap load of "hey, do you have one of these for sale?" emails, but sometimes, every now and again they do :D I'm still carrying my NICK mod that I'm pretty sure I got from skunk that way.

Finding rare blades is not exceptionally hard, in that the internet and its various forums is a HUGE help in these things, it just requires a lot of foot work. An example of wich being progunners (I think?) 2 hatchets. As far as I remember, he's still lookin for that third, and I gaurentee it's taken him down some pretty obscure paths looking for it. Once he has all three - you come down to a different kind of situation: not simply trying to track down a for sale blade, but trying to pry it out of a collectors hand.

Time, Money, Effort. with all three, most anything can be yours. If you have less of one, then you need more of the others. When a collector has all known copies of a variant or known editions of a blade and has no desire to sell them, it comes down to money and effort. you can either spend thousands of dollars to get one blade, or keep at it for years and years and years and years until he either finally gets tired of you asking once every month, or finally decides that 10,000$ for a 3" folding knife that says prototype on it is worth it.



SO... ya... fun times....
 
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