I think I was close to the first one at the Busse Table on Friday morning (Troy gave me a VIP pass, thanks). I picked up a Satin SFNO (0.22") and a Satin HOGSJTAK (0.22") with pumkin MAG handles. These two knives were on my hope and pray search till you drop list. I have posted pictures on the Busse Forum on the other forum. This was my third Blade West. The Busse compound is run by Idaho Skunk (Scott) and 360Joules (Troy) with others helping. Randucci also runs a table. They had a lot of CG knives and a few customs. I almost bought a SATIN FFBM (very nice) but decided on the SJTAK instead. No MUK's No SAR4. Several nice SAR5 and lots of jack hammers, competition HR, SJ, SARsquatch. Lots of AD, MS, Chopwielers, one SOW, many M6, and others. Scott keep the knives covered until a crowd was there to prevent too much grabbing. One South Korean business man bought "one of everything". Not really, complete sets of BATAK's and abunch of other's. About $4K worth of CG kives. It was great fun and I had a chance to meet several HOG's and RAT's. It was true, no SY knives. Troy was suprised. Scott and Troy do not know what they will get until they get the knives.
Eugene knife show is actually far larger.
Ron Athay