Who has the most Mistresses?

Cobalt said:
I no longer have many. I am at about 20 total. But at the beginning of last year(2007), I had 29 SHBM's, 20 BM-E's, and about 38 FBM's, 3 Basic 9's.

Just way too many. I am down to bare bones now.
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LOL, that's insane.

Wish you would have tried to get a group shot of all those :eek:
 
Balislinger said:
What's the knife third from the right, satin finish with dark scales?
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Murdok72605 is correct. 2007 SE. It is double cut and not satin.

Quite possibly my favorite Busse.

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This is the last pick I took of my BM's. NMFBM turned into a bama clay one and a military overrun is missing but the rest are the same.

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WILL YORK said:
I have a couple dozen in all, but I’m sure that’s far from serious collector status.

Below are pics. Multiples include:

15 NMFBMs: 3 LE’s, 3 black micarta/UG, 5 black mic/Sage, 2 black mic/black, 2 black G10/UG;

Second Pic: 1 FBM Proto; 1 satin SHBM user; 1 SHBM Jungle Assault; 3 MOFBM; 2 FBMLE; 1 stripped FFBM user for 9 total plus the 15 NMFBM’s = 24.

NMFBM Personal Observation and self-serving plug:

I bought a bunch of these to give as gifts because the design is the closest in my mind of anything I’ve seen to the perfect heavy machete. I have given a couple to my brothers, but after having some time to use one I’ve come to realize that this is not a knife for the uninitiated, especially when it comes to chopping. Now I know never to take serious full-house chopping swings with an NMFBM without a thong for control, for example. The inertia of this blade is way too dangerous, otherwise, and still commands the focus and respect that comes only with experience. Bottom line, if any of you experienced hogs missed your opportunity to own this most powerful of all Busse’s, shoot me a PM or email and I’ll try to fix you up at my cost for as long as my "extras" last.
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Holey Chit Will! 15 NMFBMS?:eek:
 
Bravado said:
Holey Chit Will! 15 NMFBMS?:eek:
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Actually down from 17, but, yeah. I have a whole passel of nephews and a grandson I had intended to set up with these as high school or college graduation presents, etc., but I've decided not to give NMFBMs to anyone that young--just don't need the grief of a gung-ho kid learning about blade inertia the hard way and ending up in an emergency room on my account. Very serious pieces of steel for serious, experienced users only, IMO.
 
Yea I have seen that and I watched it again this morning! I really Love My NMFBM, I thought long and hard about getting it but finally pulled the trigger just before Busse took them down from the website, I am so glad now I got it, it is my number one Busse Knife, well out of the 3 Busse's I have.

RickJ
 
WILL YORK said:
I've decided not to give NMFBMs to anyone that young--just don't need the grief of a gung-ho kid learning about blade inertia the hard way and ending up in an emergency room on my account. Very serious pieces of steel for serious, experienced users only, IMO.
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Can you explain what blade inertia is and why it is dangerous on this knife?
 
Here are a couple of pic's of my NMFBM which I stripped and double cut and re-profiled to a proper convex edge like the LE. This knife fits perfectly in my old issue Golok sheath which is a brilliant bonus enabling me to carry it on my belt kit where it hardly stands out from a "standard issue" point of view.

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Because of the rounded edges I took a dremel to the thumb ramp on the spine to flatten it out so that there was an edge with some "bite" for a ferro rod. It works well and can give a really good shower of sparks and being near the handle is easy to control. This is a great combat knife....it balances well and is still fast in the hand....feels a lot less blade heavy than a FFBM....I love it!:thumbup:
 
Wait... is this thread supposed to be about knives? :confused:
 
Balislinger said:
Can you explain what blade inertia is and why it is dangerous on this knife?
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I'm going to hate myself for this. But.

Roughly speaking, it's the tendency of the blade to stay in motion once you've put it in motion -- both linear motion (translation) and angular motion (rotation).

It's got so much of this tendency, that you can very easily hurt yourself if you're not quite careful. You don't need to be very accurate with a small, light knife since it has little inertia. Not true with this big beast. If it's heading towards, for example, your thigh ... you might have trouble dissuading it before it's too late.

The lanyard can provide the extra force you need to overcome that inertia. Get one and use it faithfully.
 
Guyon said:
Wait... is this thread supposed to be about knives? :confused:
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It's now about a tendency for things to remain as they are. That could be about blades ... it could be about rockets ... it could even be about a person's personality. Provided that personality has considerable psychological inertia. ;)
 
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