Who is NOT ordering a TGLBS?

Guys, guys, guys.... Your missing the question.

Who is not going to buy 1 .............. Heck - One?? I am thinking about 10!! :)

Actually, with tax returns coming why not???? They are now and will be even more in the future .....

Another Zombie slaying, pop bottle slashing, cardboard bad guy destroying, board tossing, steak house scaring, dang she bit me .....Busse Classic!!!!:thumbup::thumbup::D


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I have been on the fence since the beginning Im curious to hear reviews about this knife when it comes out.
 
Allcaps321 said:
I'm not buying one, I want a LBNMSHBM. Also my state ate all of my federal return.
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Yeah, everyone seems to be excited about that one...I'm getting there to. I wonder if they'll take the TG down and put the SHBM up or if they'll offer them at the same time??

-Emt1581
 
uyotg said:
Just out of curiosity, what does the double guard get in the way of? And is that really specific to the double guard, or do you only mean the rear guard? With my limited experience, I can only think of one or two things the front guard would bother me with, but it's present on almost all Busses, so eh :p you make do. Can't think of anything bad about the rear guard though for my uses.
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This doesn't necessarily apply to the TG since it has a large choil on it, but for me a double gaurd would be troublesome on something like the boss jack in two positions. For me the boss jack is a better knife because it's small enough that I can actually edc it, and because it has roughly the same amount of edge without losing benefit of leveraging in a full grip close to the hand/gaurd. If I want a chopper I'll bring my choiless basic 10 or an axe.

Position one, close to gaurd shaving in a standard grip:
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Position two, what I think is described as a chest lever grip, where I'm resting my thumb/palm on my hip/chest and rotating the blade to get more leverage out of it while maintaining maximum control:
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I put my thumb on the spine in a standard grip very often. I've been told it is "wrong", but I am comfortable with it. See LVC's first pic.

The double/rear guard makes that a problem. Even if I could comfortably work around it using the choil and a different grip, why would I want to? I would be altering my normal use and making a sacrifice for the sake of having a rear guard for which I have no actual need.
 
RussMo said:
Great pics LVC!!!:thumbup::cool:
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Thanks for clearing that up. I can see how the upper guard would get in the way. On a knife as wide as the TG, though, I wouldn't make the stretch to rest my thumb on the spine as you do on the BOSS Jack in a standard grip.

Your thumb webbing is dangerously close to the edge in your chest level grip, though :eek: with the talon so smooth and rounded off like that, I'd be afraid of it slipping right into the edge. Yeowch. Not criticizing you, but knowing me, I'd probably mess up and cut myself :p
 
I want to try to thin down my knives to those which I use the most .... and I already have many knives in most categories ... so I may pass.
 
uyotg said:
Your thumb webbing is dangerously close to the edge in your chest level grip, though :eek: with the talon so smooth and rounded off like that, I'd be afraid of it slipping right into the edge. Yeowch. Not criticizing you, but knowing me, I'd probably mess up and cut myself :p
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I could bring my hand down 1/8" and have the crook of my thumb/index finger firmly pressed against the curve up to the talon hole, but it's pretty safe as it is in that photo. If I slip my hand will close around the gaurd, the gaurd would have to shove past the meat of my hand as I gripped it before I could get to the edge. The gaurd also raises the skin up 1/4" above the edge, in order to really cut myself I'd have to lose all grip and let the knife slip backwards in my hand for it to do serious damage. The other benefit of having it close in to the chest is that the pommel is close to the body, it's less likely to fall away in a completely uncontrolled manner.

A big part of it is angle, from the front it looks a lot more dangerous than from the back. From the front it looks like my finger is actually on the edge:
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But from the back you can see how much meat the talon hole would have to shove past to get my hand in a position to be dangerous, it would have to slip back at least 1/2" or more. But in the full grip with my hand resting mostly int he curve leading up the gaurd, and with the knife held mostly horizontal there isn't much force to drive it back like that.
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Which isn't to say it wouldn't happen, just that this grip looks worse than it is in use. I've totally lost grip of a knife and slid my fingers along the edge before. I accidentally caught the tip of one of the serrated bread knives at work on a peice of plastic while moving lettuce off a cutting board with the blade, only to have my fingers skip along the serrations. But my grip was very loose and I was using the tip/blade in inappropriate ways.
 
I gotcha... There's a lot more meat being held back by the guard than I thought. The handle looks huge from the front.

Well, I suppose the guard is doing its job :thumbup:
 
I won't buy one unless there's an LE/uncoated version. At least that's what I keep telling myself :D
 
Not buying one because I have "enough" users right now.

I have a SarQ in that size range too.
 
For those on the fence on this offering like myself, I posted a grip review thread here so that you could have some in hand shots and in hand thoughts, albeit on the heavy version.
 
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