Who's collected Busse for 30 OINKin' Years?

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Today's the 30th anniversary of our esteemed Brother, Cobalt Cobalt

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Yep, he's definitely nuts!... but, I'm grateful for all his input into this forum! Thank you!

Where he spilled the beans... Dec. 30, 2005
Cobalt said:
What Mike said seems right.

The SH I was ATS34 birds beak pommel and had a 6.5 inch blade roughly.

Then the transition stage between SHI and SHII was still an SHI but seemed a little longer and was made of A2 I think. There were Fatties in this stage. But it was an SHI of A2. The difference between the SHI and SHII is not just the pommel or steel, but if you look at the blade you'll notice that the spine is curved from the scales to the tip. The SHII's are straight spine. You could tell there was a transition, so I wouldn't be surprised if there were A2 models popping up looking exactly like an SHI but fattie and longer.

Where are all those ATS34 and A2 SH's anyway. There had to be a ton made during that time as it was the main Busse knife. Wish I had gotten one back then. My interest in Busse knives was just starting back in 95 so I missed the boat on those. Man IT's MY TEN YEAR BUSSE COLLECTING ANNIVERSARY, I THINK I NEED a 10th ANNIVERSARY KNIFE
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Congratulations Cobalt! 30 years!!

I remember first learning of Busse in '93
I was working with the Police Dept & I remember my Lieutenant showing me a magazine with one in it - i really wish I could remember more.
I think ill give him a call & ask about that. Im sure he remembers as he was all about getting one! Me, I was just 21 at the time so I was too broke & too interested in girls so that was that lol
 
Nuker said:
Today's the 30th anniversary of our esteemed Brother, Cobalt Cobalt

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Yep, he's definitely nuts!... but, I'm grateful for all his input into this forum! Thank you!

Where he spilled the beans... Dec. 30, 2005
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I appreciate the thought. I hope that those of us who have been around a long time can continue to add and help in the world of Busse. Just a matter of time, bladeforums didnt exist until 1998. So we were stuck with Recknives until then. Knifeforums as well. But only for a year or so. Recknives forum style sucked. So basically knife shows and magazines were the way. In 1996 my knowledge of busse was the bbsh in A2. Thats it. But Chris Janowski(RIP) spoke to me at length about the knife. I called him because of his article in a wilderness survival mag. He had never had a knife survive what that A2 knife survived. Anyone getting into these knives in the last 15 years has it fairly easy. Including me. I am so stoked with my recent purchases.

I stay with Busse because he truly is one of the few to whom durability is the higher priority and that has always been my priority. Of course if busse had not gone into making knives, I would be much richer. So there's that. I am pretty sure there isnt a tighter community than ours.
 
Private Klink said:
Mac, it was probably a Shomer-Tec catalog. The Honcho is a friend of Jerry's.
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MacLaren1 said:
Ill bet your right 😎
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It was definitely shomer-tec.

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So after 30 years, I have to ask — Why “Cobalt”? I remember the first time we had contact with each other. Cliff Stamp was supposed to be sending a Stellite 6K bladed Gerber back to me after playing with it, but he sent me one of yours by mistake and you wound up with mine. He provided each of us with the other’s shipping address so we could exchange knives. I assumed from that encounter that you had chosen the “Cobalt” handle because you had a special interest in cobalt alloy blades. But I never heard “the rest of the story”.
 
Ironic said:
So after 30 years, I have to ask — Why “Cobalt”? I remember the first time we had contact with each other. Cliff Stamp was supposed to be sending a Stellite 6K bladed Gerber back to me after playing with it, but he sent me one of yours by mistake and you wound up with mine. He provided each of us with the other’s shipping address so we could exchange knives. I assumed from that encounter that you had chosen the “Cobalt” handle because you had a special interest in cobalt alloy blades. But I never heard “the rest of the story”.
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Will, I do remember that. And yes, you are partially correct. On Recknives and knifeforums I went under a version of my real name. When I moved over to BF, I made it Cobalt and there was two reasons. One was INFI and the cobalt in it, which was not common at all in 1998 to have in a knife steel. The main reason was stellite 6K. I had commissioned Kit Carson to make me the largest U2 bowie he had ever made out of a chunk of Deloro Stellite 6K, I purchased directly from Deloro. It was 15 inches long 2.5 inches wide and over 5/16 thick, if I remember correctly. Well, Kit, took 6 months to muster up the courage and finally ground it. He said it was the hardest job he had ever done. When I got it, as impressive as it was, it was a massive boat anchor. Stellite/cobalt is obviously way heavier than steel. In Any case, thats how my name came about. For years Kit Carson, would send me notes, on how he hated making that knife. lol.
 
jst said:
Actually we first offered the Stealth Hawk in our 1994 catalog (which came out in the fall of '93) and others a year or 2 latter.
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It was most definitely fall of '93 when I remember that!! 😎
 
Cobalt said:
Will, I do remember that. And yes, you are partially correct. On Recknives and knifeforums I went under a version of my real name. When I moved over to BF, I made it Cobalt and there was two reasons. One was INFI and the cobalt in it, which was not common at all in 1998 to have in a knife steel. The main reason was stellite 6K. I had commissioned Kit Carson to make me the largest U2 bowie he had ever made out of a chunk of Deloro Stellite 6K, I purchased directly from Deloro. It was 15 inches long 2.5 inches wide and over 5/16 thick, if I remember correctly. Well, Kit, took 6 months to muster up the courage and finally ground it. He said it was the hardest job he had ever done. When I got it, as impressive as it was, it was a massive boat anchor. Stellite/cobalt is obviously way heavier than steel. In Any case, thats how my name came about. For years Kit Carson, would send me notes, on how he hated making that knife. lol.
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I get it. Funny how decisions made at a given point in time can result in echoes across decades, long after the original idea has faded.

Sounds like you may have ended up with the heaviest Stellite 6K bowie Kit ever made. As luck would have it, I probably have one of the lightest Stellite 6K knives he ever made—this small Model 4 he built for me around the same time period in 2000. Stellite 6K and carbon fiber, no liners. He mortised a titanium lock bar into the side of the carbon fiber for weight savings—knife weighs just 2.3 oz:
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You might notice the convex serrations, a signature touch of his. Will not snag on rope or other fibrous materials, unlike most serrations, yet cuts like a chainsaw. Such a craftsman.

Rest in Peace Sergeant Major.

Thanks again, Dennis—that’s a cool story.
Will
 
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