Thanks for the warm welcome guys. I consider myself very lucky to have gotten the SS4. A fellow knife collector was almost crazy asking me about it. He's apparently been trying to get one for about a year.

I hit the secondary market again today, and I might have lucked out. I might have the chance to pick up the Dogfather and Dumpster Mutt, both LEs. More expensive than what I would pay first hand, of course, but the guy is willing to include sheaths as well as pay the insurance and shipping.

Before becoming aware of the Busse family knives, I was an avid collector of Muela and Spyderco knives. After getting the SS4, and hopefully the DFLE and DMLE, I'm pretty sure my collecting is going to divert away from those two companies and just stick to the Busse designs. I've been playing around testing the SS4, and gotta admit I can't find a single flaw in it design. I'm just amazed at how well it's put together. I cannot wait to get other Scrapyards and try them out as well.