aways liked big choppers and then I saw the Dogfather on the net and wanted it badly <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> didn´t know how to get one and started reading at this forum. Bought my DFLE at BF, remember the day I got it. Opened the package, 5 min later I called my brother and told him I had found my favorit knife <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />
Thought this was a really nice forum with nice people and got stuck.

I stumbled onto Bladeforums @1999 or 2000. Shortly thereafter I discovered Busse and bought my first one (Basic 9)at a local gun show (lucky me) proceeded to beat on it and was blown away by how tough it was. Growing up I'd broken and bent many, many knives, something I won't have to worry about with the Dogs, Rats, & Busse's. The Scrapyard blades, remind me of my "first" beloved Busse, black on black with Res C handles. Reminds me, I need to order another black on black S5:)

GregB

I bought my first BusseKin blade, a Bandicoot, from the Swamp Rat company store. This was quite some time ago. Been on BF since early 06 and hung out on the Swamp Rat forums for a while. Picked up a couple of Busse's, some Rat's and quite a few Dog's since then.

I was Overseas...fighting as usual....I was always the GO TO guy for edged weapons. I had more than a few opportunities to "test" different combat cutlery. Upon returning stateside , I was asked by the ARMY to test selected blade for certain missions/units. My uncle built custom knives and I started studies on steels and designs. I've designed 3 customs and found that the Busse/SwampRat....and Now Scrapeyard blades to be the best in many catagories for military/survival purposes. The yard has really very few competitors in the real world...IMHO , and those of us that DEPEND on tools for life and death ,real world scenarios. Over the past 40 years of testing blades...I vote ScrapeYard for performance ,price and longevity.

I cant help but love knives. My dad was a butcher and my first job on Saturdays was rakeing sawdust on the floor of the cutting room. After graduation I just started cutting meat and did for 15 years. I stumbled across BF while doing searches for my first collectible knives,Spyderco's. If you are on BF very much you just naturally gravitate this way. Here are some of my old tools.

I used to think Cold Steel was high end too.
Glad I was not alone.

My primary user since the 80s was a Spanish Aitor brand knife model "Oso Blanco". That was from the old "everything was 440C R65" days. I still love the shape of that blade, it has a very deep re-curve like a yard hook on steroids, and because of that chops a treat, but 440C, at least tempered the way that thing is tempered has a lot to be desired in the sharpening and edge retention stakes.

Then I was given a Cold Steel SRK, which had the sharpest blade I'd ever owned after I sharpened it. That was the first time I'd experienced "scary sharp".
That was not big enough to be my field user, but at a gun show I found a Cold Steel from there "experimental" range (can't recall what they called that range then).
Sort of a cross between a huge deep bellied bowie and a small kukri which gave me the chopping power I wanted and that was my field blade for ages.

Then a few years ago my friend introduced me to the Bussekins.
I've not bought a fixed blade knife from another company since.

I edged ( <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> ) into Busse Combat knives via Blade forum. I owned very few fixed blades and felt the need to get a few really nice knives that I could depend on. BC lead to Swamp lead to Scrapyard.

Like ColdOne, the Dogfather was my first.