Thank you for your reply, I'm glad I joined. The information I gain from here sure beats me drooling over the computer screen looking at pics of busse knives, and I figured I would gain a lot of more informed input from users and I appreciate all the information I can get. I'll try either waiting for the BM on their website or pick up one on the exchange. Also I agree with the time span being too long, and I've read on here before about Busse might sell knives in three categories (large, medium, small) someday and I hope they will implement this soon in part because it would reach a wider customer base. But I'll leave it at that, Im new here and I dont want to sound critical of their business practices and I have nothing but respect and admiration of Jerry Busse and his knives