What do I have? Is this a Lil' Smokey?

Rekrapmij

Rekrapmij

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I was told this was a Lil' Smokey, but it doesn't look like others I've seen. Can any of you who are knowledgeable in the nuances of all things Busse tell me? (There should be four pictures if my computer abilities are up to it.)
 
If you are lucky, it might be a custom BAD (with the higher hardness INFI) my favorite small Busse
 
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That's a tasty bit of candy

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Bigfattyt said:
If you are lucky, it might be a custom BAD (with the higher hardness INFI) my favorite small Busse
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The knife looks pretty thin in the last photo, it might be a BAD. While the BAD was advertised as .125" thick, two that I sold were .135" & .137" thick. If you have access to calipers, measure it and hopefully it will answer the question. Cool knife! :cool:

ps, BAD stands for Boney Active Duty.
 
It looks a lot like a Pink and Black AD that was listed on the exchange a few years back, as seen here (with surplusage deleted):

PoorGuy said:
BUSSE ACTIVE DUTY
Pink & Black G10 / Satin Blade: $300 SOLD
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PoorGuy said:
As promised in the title; a PINK AD! Bought this for the better half to try and pry the old Game Warden away from her. She didn't fall for it. I'm not man enough to tote this bad girl around so away it goes. Perfect for the lady that has almost everything.
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gk4ever2 said:
The knife looks pretty thin in the last photo, it might be a BAD. While the BAD was advertised as .125" thick, two that I sold were .135" & .137" thick. If you have access to calipers, measure it and hopefully it will answer the question. Cool knife! :cool:
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I found some more paperwork, and it says it was a Boney Active Duty.
I just measured it, and I get exactly 0.150" thick.

By the way, thank all of you for helping me get a handle on this.
 
Rekrapmij said:
By the way, how do I tell Active Duty from Boney Active Duty?
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In other words, the BAD's distal taper is much more gradual than the taper on the regular AD, and this can be seen on the spine shot in the link that JTT provided. Either way, it's a nice knife! :cool:
 
Mine's definitely a Boney Active Duty, then. But oddly it has the regular Active Duty thickness.
Thank you again, everyone. I'm going to be putting it up for sale, and you've saved me from committing some egregious errors in the description and even the name.
 
Rekrapmij said:
Mine's definitely a Boney Active Duty, then. But oddly it has the regular Active Duty thickness.
Thank you again, everyone. I'm going to be putting it up for sale, and you've saved me from committing some egregious errors in the description and even the name.
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The "Boney" AD's are NOT .150" they are .125-.130 if yours is in fact .150 you have a regular AD and the Combat Grade were up to .187 (3/16") thick material...When you say Definitely your information does not correspond with what was produced and sold as BAD's...
 
So it has the taper of the Boney Active Duty but the 0.150" thickness of the regular Active Duty.
 
Rekrapmij said:
So it has the taper of the Boney Active Duty but the 0.150" thickness of the regular Active Duty.
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Yes...it has the Regular .150 taper which is Active Duty...The "Combat Grade" had the Chunky Spine all the way to the Tip. To sum it up the Regular and Boney were of similar Distal Taper the difference was the Boney at .125" and Regular at .150" stock.
 
Busto said:
To sum it up the Regular and Boney were of similar Distal Taper the difference was the Boney at .125" and Regular at .150" stock.
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THANK YOU! It takes a while to hammer knowledge into a wooden head, but eventually it gets through.
 
A few years ago I took one of these that I bought for my wife to deer camp with some buddies. They gave me all kinds of crap for having a pink handled knife. After my pink knife dresses out the 8th deer without touching the edge they all wanted to use it. They had resharpened their knives multiple times throughout the day and mine was still going strong. Even had an offer to buy it before we left camp. It was a lot of fun to spank them with a pink handled knife.

Garth
 
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