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Mtnclimber69

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I have been a Busse knife fan now for 3 years... I was just reflecting on how much fun it has been to discover and buy/sell/trade knives to either get my first Busse, or go after the model I wanted... I have since had to sell some due to financial obligations but know there are a couple I would never part with.

The point of this thread is more of a who are you and how did you arive here type question. We all share the love for these sharp objects but what brought you here in the first place?

For me it was an on-going search for that 'ultimate' knife to take camping, or to pack in my just in case bag that collects dust in my closet (thankfully).

I came to appreciate the quality of these knives, the company, and this group as a extension of the life I try to lead... meaning...

I work hard, I currently do sales for an IT staffing company. As such my personal reputation and success depend on the level of service and differentiation I give my clients. I take pride in taking care of my clients/customers. As such I lose respect very fast for those who I come across that do not put in the time and effort to make a diference.

Busse stands far apart from the crowd. I have never had a bad experience calling the store, doing a transaction, and all the knives that have passed through my hands have been top quality. I think the only complaint I have ever heard was that it takes "two-weeks" to get the latest model... but then I think we all know Jerry is working hard to take care of troop orders first... much respect for that.

So without rambling any further I would be curious to hear what brought you here, who you are, and why you really stay?

Cheers
 
Mtnclimber69 said:
For me it was an on-going search for that 'ultimate' knife to take camping, or to pack in my just in case bag that collects dust in my closet (thankfully).
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That's it right there :thumbup:

Busse ruined me for other fixed blade knives :D

Waiting for folder ... ... ...
 
I'm closing in on four years. And what landed me here was, I was looking for a really hard use all purpose knife, and The NO-E fit the bill. I later be-queathed that to my brother and bought a Mojo and an SH-E. Financial obligations forced me to dump all my stuff, not just my Busses.

The NO-E did everything I asked it to and more, I beat the piss out of it and it begged for more. At the time I had also bought a Strider MT-L and they both perfomred well beyond my expectations.

I used to be like, "I gotta have all the coolest bad ass knives around no matter what guy." Now that I've been back into building my collection again, my needs have slightly altered. I now have specefic tools for specefic chores and activitys. Whereas I have none of my old stuff anymore I did just recently acquire a FSH as my all purpose "big ass" knife. But thats my only Busse thus far the second time around. I also own two Tomahawks from various makers for the all day tree clearing chores around my house. I have a beautiful Bob Dozier Sk-3 for when I go camping and backpacking. I have a Strider SNG Gen-6 as my EDC "beat me to death" knife. Then I rotate a Spyderco Para and a MT UT-6 as my other EDC's...

I've come to have very specefic needs and have learned over the years to fill them accordingly, not have 3 big knives and no little knives. Plus, I'm not a collector whereas I use my knives, no safe queens here unless it's an outright custom.

Busses are amazing tools. I love my FSH and I'm eyeing any Active Dutys that come down the pike. I missed that knife the first time around.

My ultimate prize would be a Flying Tiger. Some day.

The AK is cool, but I would never have a need to use it, and if I was gonna buy a sword it would only be a Wally Hayes Tsunami. :p


Well, thats my 3 "W's"

Vin C
NYC
 
veritas said:
The AK is cool, but I would never have a need to use it, and if I was gonna buy a sword it would only be a Wally Hayes Tsunami. :p
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After seeing what the AK-47 will survive via the destructive testing pics, I don't feel any other sword is worth the cost, IMO.
 
Ever since my United sword split in 2 and almost impaled me (came about 3" from shoulder) I've been a little paranoid about strength. Well, maybe not that paranoid, but I like getting quality products, and since Busses are the best, well here I am. That and the fact that INFI is fairly corrosion resistant. If it did rust like the high carbon steels, I wouldn't be here, I'd have a collection of D2 or BG42 or S30V knives. I hate rust, and I'm paranoid about it too.
Honestly, I don't use most of my Busses, I use about 4, and AD, an AS, NIP, and a BA3. I would, if I needed to, but I don't need to. I like the way most of them look and I know they will
Also, what strikes me is that there are a lot of long-time Busse fans that hang out here, and that means a lot to me. It means a lot of guys have been Busse fans for a long time, and to me that means that there's a solid product. Also, they're good guys and they have a plethora of info to share with us newbies, even though, I'm not such a newbie anymore I still learn more and more.
 
veritas said:
I used to be like, "I gotta have all the coolest bad ass knives around no matter what guy." Now that I've been back into building my collection again, my needs have slightly altered. I now have specefic tools for specefic chores and activitys. NYC
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You've summed up all of my thoughts perfectly. I don't have the disposable income to buy duplicates or safe queens (well I do, but then I couldn't buy any guns or camping gear) I got a SH-e, Battle Rat, Ratweiler, and a FSH before I finally realized that they all were suited for pretty much the same jobs. Now I use my FSH as my EOTWAWKI/camp knife and I really think it will serve in that capacity forever.

**Shameless Plug*** I also recently stumbled upon Bark River knives. I got a Gameskeeper with convex grind and amboyna burl handles with mosaic pins. Easily one of the nicest productions I have ever owned....with a leather sheath all for under $200. This will be my hunting/ belt knife. Check them out.

My folder edc rotates between a sere 2k, large wood sebbie, BM skirmish. I reckon that will last until the Busse folder comes out....

I guess you could say I have currently filled all of my knife needs?

















That is unless anyone has a LE satin Jack they would like to get rid of ;)
 
Well, I have always had a fondness for knives. The local knife store benefited from my frequent purchases of what I now consider low end knives. I bought some SAKS, some CRK&Ts, some Bucks, some “Tomahawk” brand knives. I don’t have many of these left since most broke, got thrown away or lost. During this time, I had very little (alrght, NO) knowledge of materials, steel choices/ characteristics. I also had no knowledge of the various companies/ makers, brand politics, or what quality meant. I thought that if the knife broke, by a new one, after all, they were at most $30! Admittedly, I purchased knives based on where they were visually appealing, and if they were availible at the local knife store.

After a while I grauduated to different knives (Becker, Cold Steel, Kabar). I guess this happened after I discovered Cliff Stamp’s website. Discovering this vast cache of knowledge was probably the single greatest impact on my knife collecting pursuits. I know this sounds lame but it is true: without his website I would still be buying “those knives”. His reviews deeply influenced my knife buying and I based many of my purchases on whether or not they got good reviews by Cliff. Cliff, I owe you you one, your reviews are the reason I stopped buying “those knives” and the reason I started buying “THE knives”! I remember reading a review for the SHBM, it got an excelent review but for some reason I never looked at the Busse Combat site. Looking back, I don’t know why I just didn’t do a yahoo search for Busse Combat. Looking back, I am pretty sure, I had seen someone use a NO-E while on a camping trip, I even got a chance to use it.

Anyways, one day I was looking for a review for a Becker CU/7. I found one. At www.bladeforums.com. After a while I looked around at the site and came to relaise their was an entire community dedicated to knives and the outdoors. I looked at the Becker forum and read the review. Then I noticed their was a Busse Combat forum. Something clicked. I remembered the review of the SHBM and BM-E on Cliff’s site. I went back to Cliff’s site and read the reviews for the SHBM and BM-E. Both got excelent reviews and I decided to look into them. At this time I had never seen the Busse home page and had no idea what models were offered.

I had been saving my money for something else, actually I think it was a Granfors Bruks hatchet or something. Then I went back to bladeforums. I thought about starting an account but my knife knowledge was not that great. However, in the months that I have been at bladeforums my knowledge of terminolgy, makers/ manufacturers, and concepts have increase beyond anything I can imagine.

Only a bit after I joined BF, I had purchased my first Busse: an EU-17 Magnum. It was the most expensive knife I had bought but it has lasted longer (obviously) than any other knife I have ever bought. Whenever I go out in the bush it is with me, for now. I am going to get sheaths made for the HOG FSH and SFNO when I get the cash from a transaction, then I will be able to carry all of them! :thumbup: :D

The sense of communiy that I found at BF and in particular the Busse forum has been incredible. I don’t know any of you (hopefully this will change in the future) but everyone here has shown themselves to be some of the best people I have ever met. Some may say they are just trying to get to your INFI, but the people here are really are great. :thumbup:
 
I was shanghai'd and forced to swallow an INFI cocktail that got me hooked and I can not turn back now. Run while you still can piglets!!!!!!!!!
 
Well it was about two months ago...a guy at a gas station needed gas money...so I gave him $10 for a Scrade folder...nice knife....anyway, I came home to investigate it and found you guys :D . So i started getting some Schrades, some parkers, some Bucks( just ordered a custom buck about a week ago) and then I found Swamp Rat knives to be just the thing I needed to round out my camping gear.....THEN................ :eek: I started poking around the Busse site.....man was that a mistake.......for my bank account. anyway, as of today, i have on the way.... A Buck 110 custom, Desert Camp Tramp, A Bandicoot, A Busse Skeleton Key and a Busse Meaner Street limited edition...whew! all scheduled to arrive right around Christmas. So while I will be grinning from ear to ear rolling around the floor basking in all my knives, I have GOT to figure out what in the hell I am going to get the wife that will somehow legitimize my obsession...well, that's how I got to this point. It really all just kinda snuck up on me......kinds blindsided me like. Now I am selling off my bass' and amplifiers to pay for these things! :grumpy: peace, John
 
Hi, my name is Porkducci and I am a "INFIholic".
I don't know why I need more Busse knives, lord knows, I could be driving a Porsche if I hadn't spend all my cash on them. I'll return later and finish confessing, for I have to go to the mail box to retrieve my latest purchase.
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Here they are:




I have carried a pocket knife sine I was in grade school (back when you could take a knife to school, funny, I never remember anyone stabbing anyone else, but that is a whole nother issue). I have always liked knives and metal products in general. As I got older my taste and budget for knives grew. A couple of years ago I traded a Randall made knife for a couple of Busse knives and never looked back.

:D
 
I poked around bladeforums for a while and didnt know who or what busse was, so I started asking questions and lookin around swamprat and the bussecompany store website. I wasnt sure if they were gonna be worth the money but hay I dropped 350, and 450 on sebbies, whats the harm right? WRONG I got addicted to this stuff from the first time I picked my SFNO out of the mail (my first) i had my g/f order me a meaners street, and as soon as the FBM comes out I am gonna have me one of those. I have use my SFNO and found it to be everything I wanted and more. It takes a beating and keeps goin and goin and goin......well you know. I have sold several knives to afford em and I dont see an end in sight with all these new designs. Another thing is I see all the collections people got goin on out there like Skunk and progunner and I say to myself, man I want that many pieces of indestructable steel in all those cool and completley useful designs.
 
I purchased my first Busse almost four years ago.

I was searching around the net for the best quality combat/survival knife that I could find, and "Busse" kept coming up on every "google" search.

I came across the Busse Combat Discussion Forum, and I swear to goodness, I thought it was all propaganda put out by the company. Post after post swearing up and down that Busse's were the best knives on the planet. At the time I thought that all knives were the same, just different shapes.

Well, four years and a lot of dough later, it's not hype. They really are the best hard use combat/survival knives out there.


PS- And on top of making the best combat/survival knives around, Jerry is the nicest guy. There is not a doubt in my mind that if I ever had a problem, it would be taken care of with a smile, not a sneer.:thumbup:
 
Starting with my first cub scout knife when I was 9, I've always had a fondness for knives. Over the years I've owned a lot of various knives by manufacturers such as Benchmade, Spyderco, Cold Steel, Strider, and BK&T.

As an avid shooter and firearms collector, I've tied most of my money up in that until recently when I visited the Busse Forum, and then purchased my first Busse, a Meaner Street w/ Black Paper Micarta and DC finish. When I first grabbed a hold of that thing it was luuuuv ! and I was hooked! Since then, I've purchased 11 more Busse knives in less than 6 weeks. :eek:

Is there such thing as a Busse knife detox center? How does one "dry out"? :o
 
I always have loved knives. In the last several years, I, like several here, have had many that were aimed at wilderness use - Becker C/U7, Cold Steel, Bucks, etc. Somehow, they were all lacking in some respect. Then I found Swamp Rat. ;)

Seven Rats later, I think I did exactly what Jerry had in mind - I bought a Busse! I read somewhere a while back that Jerry knew all along that Rat-mongers would eventually be snooping around the Busse sites. He was sure right! :rolleyes:

Well, for now the only Busse Combat knife I have is a FSH. Fortunately / unfortunately (pick one), that'll change real soon!! :D

Greg
 
I have had knives as long as I can remember. My mother swears that I got my first one for my second birthday. Sshe recently found it. It is a cheap Japanese pot metal fixed blade with fake stag pinned on and a compass in the handle. (This would have been in 1948, when "Made in Japan" was synonymous with "junk.")

I saw my first Busse, a SH 1, in an ad ("You'll never have a broken Heart") in the early '90's. Although intrigued, I just couldn't at that time bring my self to pay over $200 for a knife. (The money I spent on the two SH 1's I have now would have bought seven or eight of them then.)

I finally ordered my first, a Bird Beaked SH, 2 in 1994, followed closely by an original Badger Attack. It was a long dry spell until I got my third, a NO-E, after discovering this forum. Although just a piglet in the presence of real hogs, I have since gathered a decent little family of INFI.

for the last three years, collecting Busse knives and participating on this forum have been a substitute for my former hunting, fishing, and woods roaming activites. Although I am retired, my wife still works and I am the primary care giver for my daughter Kim, a 24 year old who can't walk or speak because of a hit and run in July 2002. Each Busse I have bought comes with a planned future use and has helped me stay sane, although realistically I have exceeded the number I will actually ever use. I am blessed with a wife who fully understands the above and who has never complained at all when a new knife arrives.

Dang woman has for 33 years absolutely refused to clean fish, though.
 
Like others here, I have always loved knives. I still have a Buck 112 (little and lesser known brother to the 110) from my early teens. I also am an incurable technology freak. The superior metalurgy of INFI is a huge attraction for me.

I discovered Busse sometime this past April. I came across an auction that was talking about INFI and had no idea what they were describing. One thing led to another and I wandered over here. After about a month of dithering I ordered something from Skunk (a Meaner Street). I then went berserk and started an all-out acquisition blitz that is only now slowing.

But more than the knives, I love the community that is exhibited in this place. I have found a home of like-minded brethren and will always be grateful to Jerry for creating the conditions that support this.

Rick
 
And the winner of the "Miss Humility Award" is..................... Blade Babe!!! ;) :D

After dawdling down the typical path of SAK's, Bucks, Cold Steel, etc I stumbled onto Busse Combat in the days when customer service was taking a back seat. The forums were a b*tch session of folks screaming about the lack of response from the shop. Nonetheless, to find out what all the buzz and consternation was about, I order a couple Busse blades and started waiting.... and waiting.... and waiting.... (and so on). I almost went crazy waiting, emailing the shop, calling the shop (getting only the answering machine the vast majority of the time), calling Jerry every obscene name I could think of (inventing a few new ones along the way) for making me wait so long. Then one day when I felt I couldn't take any more, the box from Busse with the knives arrived in the mail. I opened the box, picked them up, and I.... was.... hooked. All the waiting suddenly was worth it. It was one of those "epiphany moments" that occasionally happen in one's life, when the lightbulb goes on and in the sudden light you know you'll never look at the world quite the same again and that you never need look back with either remorse or regret. And I haven't. :D
 
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