In my salad days—or at least my wilted salad days—I had never heard the name Busse. I wanted a sturdy workhorse for a BOB. So I bought a SRK from Cold Steel. This was back when everything Cold Steel made was of Carbon V. I quite liked the knife, it looked ready to stand up to anything.

Then there was the sheath. It was kydex, with a nylon dangler loop. But there was no integral thumb rest to let me hold the sheath down, while I pulled the knife upwards. In practice I had to lift knife and sheath up past my belt until the dangler attachment became an anchor. Then I could pull the SRK free.

I ordered a custom pouch-type sheath for the SRK. No sooner was it delivered than the company sheath landed in the dumpster.