Out of my Busse collection, I would put a limit of $500 or so for picking one out to be a user, but $350 is the current highest I paid for any of my present Busse users. For a pure collectable, my current high is $1250 for a one of a kind Busse Fusion Bowie.
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What's your limit.........
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It looks like several folks are willing to pay a lot more for a folder than for a fixed blade, and that's fine because I would consider myself in that group. While I've spent as much as $800.00 for a folder, I probably would not spend over $250.00 to $300.00 for a fixed blade. I currently have one large fixed blade that I figure could and would last me a lifetime and I bought it nib off the forums for $185.00. Camillus OVB 7" bowie.
I just paid $750 for a Lile Button Lock - large - no dot - I intend to carry it around and use it - not to open paint cans or any such idiocy, one can usually find a screwdriver for that - but that is the largest dollar sum I have spent on a folder and quite frankly, though it is under market I will likely never spend more on a folder - I have little reason to think I will find a large improvement on my Sebenzas in any knife that is pre-broken. Of course some of you will disagree - quite frankly, were I of a different disposition I may pop for a Shadley and enjoy it daily.
However, I guess I am backwards about this whole fixed/ folder thing, I am sorta puzzled by the light in which some folks hold their fixed knives -
I have shelled out the funds for a Mad Dog Saxon (short sword), and cut a goat carcass to shreds with it a month after delivery - it was simply amazing.
Last Feb I had the opportunity to play with my favorite 10-inch Mad Dogs, my Panther and Khyber, and these blades go thru soggy goat femurs leving clean cuts all the way thru the bone, meat, everything, and the leg wound up hanging by the little bit of skin behind the bone, not once, but twice. It was really neat to hear the "tink" noise the blade makes as it goes thru the bone - these are $1200 blades and they just rock - no question about it, they are designed for fast violent cutting thru meat targets and excell at their mission. When my friends and I were done - two thirty-second rounds apiece, the carcasses looked like they had been stuffed thru a yard shredder.
However, the Saxon just BLEW thru the pelvic region leaving a really smelly hunk of dead goat on the ground. It was just insane to hit the goat and big chunks fall off every single time. The whole joint just cut apart, one shot, big nasty smelly stinky goat bits in a large pile and a cute little doggy trying to run in between shots to grab some meat, it was quite a sight. By the way, if anyone tells you that you smell like a goat, it is in no way a compliment. Particularly if they insinuate a goat which was shot three days ago and has been since decomposing in the tropics.
I play around with the Sax about once a month and look forward to my next meat opportunity with it - I hit hard and bouncy targets with my Khyber or Panther several times a week - it's good therapy.
The Sax is about $3,000 retail. It was not a rational decision, and is quite frankly an indulgence I will never come close to again, I don't think, but you only live once. I will admit that the day it showed up at the door, Dec 24 2003, I skulked around the house playing "13th Warrior" until my wife told me to put it away until company left. Company was staying for five days - five very slow and painful days.
I have no kids and no plans for them, so what I would be saving for tuition, diapers or bail is instead diverted to the Parker's Fun Knife fund, which is kinda cool - it lets me play in a pretty high knife bracket, for which I am pretty grateful. I enjoy that I do carry around and use some pretty expensive knives - I don't have a pricey watch or an expensive car - this is the one indulgence I really enjoy.
However, I guess I am backwards about this whole fixed/ folder thing, I am sorta puzzled by the light in which some folks hold their fixed knives -
I have shelled out the funds for a Mad Dog Saxon (short sword), and cut a goat carcass to shreds with it a month after delivery - it was simply amazing.
Last Feb I had the opportunity to play with my favorite 10-inch Mad Dogs, my Panther and Khyber, and these blades go thru soggy goat femurs leving clean cuts all the way thru the bone, meat, everything, and the leg wound up hanging by the little bit of skin behind the bone, not once, but twice. It was really neat to hear the "tink" noise the blade makes as it goes thru the bone - these are $1200 blades and they just rock - no question about it, they are designed for fast violent cutting thru meat targets and excell at their mission. When my friends and I were done - two thirty-second rounds apiece, the carcasses looked like they had been stuffed thru a yard shredder.
However, the Saxon just BLEW thru the pelvic region leaving a really smelly hunk of dead goat on the ground. It was just insane to hit the goat and big chunks fall off every single time. The whole joint just cut apart, one shot, big nasty smelly stinky goat bits in a large pile and a cute little doggy trying to run in between shots to grab some meat, it was quite a sight. By the way, if anyone tells you that you smell like a goat, it is in no way a compliment. Particularly if they insinuate a goat which was shot three days ago and has been since decomposing in the tropics.
I play around with the Sax about once a month and look forward to my next meat opportunity with it - I hit hard and bouncy targets with my Khyber or Panther several times a week - it's good therapy.
The Sax is about $3,000 retail. It was not a rational decision, and is quite frankly an indulgence I will never come close to again, I don't think, but you only live once. I will admit that the day it showed up at the door, Dec 24 2003, I skulked around the house playing "13th Warrior" until my wife told me to put it away until company left. Company was staying for five days - five very slow and painful days.
I have no kids and no plans for them, so what I would be saving for tuition, diapers or bail is instead diverted to the Parker's Fun Knife fund, which is kinda cool - it lets me play in a pretty high knife bracket, for which I am pretty grateful. I enjoy that I do carry around and use some pretty expensive knives - I don't have a pricey watch or an expensive car - this is the one indulgence I really enjoy.
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The price I would pay for a bowie is only limited by my income. If I had the money I would not hesitate to purchase a Moran. Right now I am limiting myself to $1500.00, but who knows what the future may bring?
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Having purchased a number of fixed blades over the years.The most I've spent is $550.00 which was for a Busse After Shock Bolo.Honestly though,I can buy an Ontario RAT-7 D2 for a little over 100.00 and it will serve me my whole life as well as a 400.00 Randall or Busse.