Yes, Please, I'll Take One Of These

What is this "Busse" you speak of? 375 for a knife??

I guess I'd take one, y'know, if I couldn't get a Ginsu.

(Comon. They cut cans as easily as they cut a tomato.)

 

What's a Busse?

 

Looks a little like this one.

https://www.bladeforums.com/threads...iii-no-chatting.1514456/page-58#post-19043339

But not quite. Mine is actually the SHSH II or Bird's Beak Steel Heart which is A2 instead of Ats-34

 

Anyone know what year that was?

 

Not sure, but 1983 was the Year of the Pig...

 

Ad is pretty "slick"....

 

That curved plunge line is pretty sweet looking.

 

I have a copy of this ad from an early to mid 90's "Fighting Knives" magazine,very cool!

 

I remember seeing that ad as a kid and teenager

 

Same here. Now I wish I had saved the money I wasted on throwing stars lol and bought one. Guess I watched American ninja movie one too many times back then lol. Ahhhhhh who am I kidding I watched it the other night when it was on lol

 

Yeah, I was thinkin early 90's or maybe mid 90's
I was a rookie cop in '93, and seems like I remember seeing an ad for a Silent Knight. A lot like the ad for the steel heart there.
I could be wrong though. That's been a long time ago.

 

Jerry Busse was costar to Keanu Reeves in Point Break. I didn't know he made knives too! Awesome!

 

Why you bunch a blue flame special quarterback punks

 

The old ads were very cool. They have the old skeleton ad, the alphabet soup ad, they were very original and often took swipes at other lesser knives.
I've got most of them uploaded to photobucket but don't even know if I have access to that account anymore.

 

Here's an example of one.

 

That was my guess too. The original Steel Heart was history by the time I stumbled onto Busse knives; I think that was around 1999-2000 or so - I can remember seeing the SHSHII, SHBM and a Basic 9 at a show in Dayton Ohio. I finally bought a Basic 9 in late 2001, and it was all downhill from there.

 

That's a nice looking Steel Heart! It's also the oldest Busse knife I have.

That IS pretty funny!
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Jerry not only has the best blade steel in the best knife models...as if that wasn't enough >>> he's the Mark Twain of writing copy for knife ads to boot!

Great Busse Ad resource link from Eric I: https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/some-busse-advertising.1256534/

I wish we could get an official Busse Combat Company knife advertisement archive of ALL the ads, merch, swag, etc. <if possible> and make it a sticky here @Jerry Busse