Bill, I'm Gary. Nice to meet you.

A machete with a regulator handle would work for me.

A thin blade would be great!

Likewise
I enjoy reading your posts

I DO remember that bushcraft review. It was amazingly well done, very informative, and extremely useful.

I've handled a few big choppers, but the best one was the BWM. The thin blade chopped easily and had enough mass to be effective. The 1311 is a close second.

Most of my 4-5" blades I use in hunting and field butchering so I don't mind 3/16" thick blades. Had a Mud Mutt--liked it just fine, but it was too redundant at the time so off it went. My SS5s have all been hard to let go.

The only truly thin Bussekin I've kept is the longer Scrapmax. It's a great kitchen knife. Not sure I'd take it afield--it seems a bit TOO thin for hard bushcrafting, but maybe that's just me.

I hope Jerry will do a Battle Grade BWM

MM

Thanks. A lot of work went into some of those.

Thank you - that was a fun review albeit a lot of work on a iPhone, LOL.

There is certainly comfort in a thicker blade. I know I advocated for them for a long time (as a result of breaking some thinner - although popular - knives like a KaBar). However, over time I've come to appreciate lighter weight gear and have yet to break a Busse/kin. This is actually saying a lot since I'm two things (amongst others):

1) DOOMED with bad gear luck. If I buy five new rifles in one year four of them will have some sort of catastrophic issue.

2) VERY THOROUGH in my investigation and post-purchase evaluation of gear. Its been something I've enjoyed (and not enjoyed when it becomes an obsessive search for a particular product) for 30+ years.

These two contributing factors leads me to believe that one of the Busse sources could provide a viable thinner knife. Even if they have to attach a "not a prybar and if you use it as one we won't warranty your stupidity" clause to it.

In the end, my mission driven gear is different than yours and everyone else's. We all pick our knives for different reasons. I went through a collector stage, but settled back into a user mode. As a user I like variety and its frustrating that the company with the best steel and heat treat isn't offering what I'm after.

I have my Bark River Gunny with me today. Its a fantastic little knife (I'd like it to be 15-20% thinner and lighter).

As a side...

The knife I grab the most in my kitchen is a Cutco 4" paring. I mention this since it probably speaks to what I'm after in a regular use blade. We have a full set of Cutco and Henkels but that 4" paring gets the nod most often.

Small, reliable, reasonably sharp (it is a Cutco after all )

I agree with you on that Arch my elmax dogs get the most day to day use for me thin light and tough kitchen knifes.

My most used hunting/camping knife is a Wade & Butchers copy of a Marbles Woodcraft
My knife was made circa 1936 and has seen regular use by me for around 35 years
The carbon steel blade is about 1/8" thick
It is well used and I have every confidence in it

Would it stand up to full on BusseKin hard use
NO
Would I be concerned if I was lost in the wild with only this knife
No

I forgot to say that even with that in mind I may still pull the trigger on the swamp knife and I will for sure try and get the pound knife in two weeks when it comes out.