Busse photo thread.

[whiteman]

OK..Now I want one..Nice pics guys..Seen them at The Blade for the past few years and now I want an example. Where is the best place to find one for sale? seen a few on theBay but nothing that I like.

 

[bobbystoney]

bladeforums has a whole section with Busse's for sale. Best place I've found to cure the addiction.

 

[bobbystoney]

Or if you're lucky enough to go to Knob Creek, they get quite the selection.

 

[bobbystoney]

One more thing. I'll be listing some on bladeforums soon so please buy mine. I could use the money.

 

[bobbystoney]

Sorry for all the chatter. Please somebody post a pic! I need to see more INFI!

 

[drbarnes]

Too much talk, heres some pics to get us back on track.

 

[bobbystoney]

I know some of you have already seen this one but here it is again.

 

[bobbystoney]

Funny how they look so tiny in the pic.

 

[paddling_man]

I went through several models of SRKW, Scrap Yard and Busse... buying every new model model that came out (easier and cheaper than tracking them down on the exchange) and several protos and customs. All in the search for the "perfect knife." While I never found the perfect knife to do *everything,* I did narrow down to some that were nearly perfect. Such that the buying/trading slowed aay down and I sold off a few dozen that didn't fit as well.

For mid-range camp knife, nothing has worked as well for me as an original Ratweiler. I've kept a spare - both are users. (Heck, nearly everything remaining are "users" with only a handful of users-in-waiting.

Second favorite mid-sized: SFNO. Saber or flat grind matters not, but the shorter, original length rather than the NMSFNO.

Size comp of Ratweiler and SFNO.

Really, really like the HRLM and RMD / RMDx for smaller/utility. The HRLM is like a budget BAIII.

And I admit, the Desert Jack hasn't become a user... yet.

The SAR is a user. That Dog Skinner isn't.

But that Dog Skinner is...

The INFI Scrapyard SS4 (INFI Meaner Street blade in a mudder Bog Dog grip) lives in the car combo with the lightsaber Kelsey Creek (David Wesner) Chopper.

There are others that remain but those are some that get used a lot.

 

[paddling_man]

Let's do some that have gone...

Original small choil Swamp Rat Howling Rat. An INGO'er has this now.

Original release, mag grip Busse HHFSH. (Heavy Heart Fusion Steel Heart.) DaKruiser is the 2nd owner... great, great hunk of INFI.

Still here... RMDx

First Scrap Yard from Blade: s6... SS4 still around.

My first Ratweiler...

D2 SRKW Bog Dog.

My Mojo.

Ever wonder where the RIP (Rat Ice Picks) came from?

Busse Boss Street Proto. Yeah, I had to dance for it and promise not to sell or post pics until they were released.

My AK. gone.

My Busse Jack Hammer Competition Finish.

Busse Hell Razor.

Rat Daddy E with suhweet Leatherman sheath.

Size comp with my FBM LE.

 

[DBH]

Thread hijack Are Ratwielers and Chopweilers ever sold? I wanted to buy one at the 1500 a couple of shows ago, and I dropped the bomb.

Nice knives.

 

[paddling_man]

2007 Blade SE MS and AD.

GREAT ostrich skin Kenny Rowe sheath for the MS.

SRKW HCLE

Mudder Ratweiler. One is gone but one remains and is stripped.

Slab side RW. Gone.

Scrap Yard. Gone.

ASHLE. Gone.

Desert Camp Tramp, M6, S6. From Blade 2006.

Blade 2007 score. Yellow/black SFNO.

ASH - SE

Bottom MS was a custom from KC in 07.

The SE 2007s I picked. The HOGFSH remains.

Never a huge Game Warden fan but I liked this one enough to buy it.

 

[paddling_man]

Thread hijack Are Ratwielers and Chopweilers ever sold? I wanted to buy one at the 1500 a couple of shows ago, and I dropped the bomb.

Nice knives.

Chopweilers are still "technically" in production. The Ratweilers were reported to "never be made again." Honestly, I don't think I've seen a CW in a couple of years at Blade or KC.

 

[paddling_man]

Scrap Yard. Crap... I don't recall its name. The Yard Guard was the MOJO/MOFO. What the heck were these again? Never a huge Scrapyard guy. Whatever the case, my hand doesn't fit the old small Basic grips.

HOGFSH with HHFSH.

Yard Guard.

FBM Proto. Magnificent blade. They were $697. Someone offered me $1250 a couple of years later and I just couldn't resist. I guess everyone has a price, eh?

Custom SHSH in the middle. The "original" black-and-tan that was more of a white-and-tan.

 

[paddling_man]

Who's the ugly dude working the booth in '08?

How about some '08 Blade Show porn?

 

[paddling_man]

Three Custom Shop SFNOs

(The booth grew by 2010.)

But I still liked beer and... people watching.

Sorry.. back to steel.

Competition Finish SARsquatch. gone.

SAR with G10.

Custom Shop Cultellus.

Micarta SAR.

Green linen Sus Scrofa.

ASH.

Pumpkin ASH.

Custom Shop SFNO Variant.

Scrap Yard

Busse Skele Warden

Swamp Rat HCLE

BATAC-LE

Another SARSquatch

 

[paddling_man]

FBM ordered with black-and-tan G10. They made two or three of these in this material before the G10 got used in the TTKZ.

Terror Monkey DSSF

DSSF

Boss Jack proto

Previously unpictured SFNO sage on the bottom.

Ruck.

That magnificent FBM Proto again. If not for the offer, that one would still be here.

Picked this Mojo up for a friend in Texas at KC Spring '07.

Some KC porn from '07.

 

[indyartisan]

The ASHLE is lonely. Needs that middle SNFO for company.

 

[paddling_man]

Swamp Rat Rat Mastiff pictured in the middle of size comp with a B&T Battle Rat.

Still around:

Culti LE

Stripped Mole Jack and Taz Rat.

G10 DSSF. gone.

Small to medium. Couple of Busse and three Swamp Rats.

Users

My pizza cutter attachment.

Desert SFNO with HRLM.

Milganza Sage MS. I lost this combo in a parking lot in Indianapolis a year or two ago.

My ghost Custom SJTAC.

ST56 with Desert Jack

OD Ratweiler with one I stripped and polished.

Comp of two different black-and-tan G10s I had.

Some Wardens... LE, snakeskin and skelly.

Just stuff...

Lil Bandicoot I had.

That Heavy Heart, right after she was born, that belongs to DaKruiser now.

The BIBB.

Desert Jack, Ratweiler, Rat Mastiff. What was originally promised as the "Tac Series."

Well, I think that ones I'm allowed to post, I have.

 

[paddling_man]

The ASHLE is lonely. Needs that middle SNFO for company.

That's right! You did end up with the ASHLE.