You think of the old timers when you think of family knife makers. Buck, Case, Schrade, and others. For years that is how I grew up too. Not our children!
There's a new wind in town. A wind of change so bold and daring it has shaken the blade industry to its very core.I speak of the new First Family in steel...
BUSSE.
Just seeing the name in print makes the reader stop browsing and focus in to see what news could be attached to the name Busse this time. The Busse family has ground the wheels of the old school makers off at the hubs. Their designs and craftsmanship are 100% custom on every knife they turn out.
Each from the smallest to the AK series are in my eyes perfect in all aspects. The symmetry and character they have is bold and fresh. They have breathed new life into the stagnant world of knife making. The revolutionary introduction of INFI is nothing short of genius. Paring the steel of choice with graceful designs have made Busse knives not only stand out from the rest, but set a benchmark for the others to shoot for.
Just when they thought all they had to worry about was Jerry Busse,the [censored] really hit the fan. Seems his family wanted more for the industry as well. Enter Swamp Rat Knife Works. Sending the blade world screaming at board rooms across the nation. How do we stop them? What can we do to compete?
Sniveling attempts were made. Bringing high dollar blade designers in to pump new life into their dying knife line only made me wonder when THEY would stop!
Taking nothing away from the highest paid knife designers, but when it is mass produced even with their design, it just looks like another Frost wonder knife to me. Almost laughable.
Fast forward to 2006 and the day of reckoning comes yet again as Dan and Patti Busse kick down the doors of the old school makers yet again and announce "It's Busse time again!
With the inception of Scrap Yard Knife Company another slap in the face of the establishment comes yet again.Scrap Yards fresh and innovative use of SR-77 with their own proprietary fusion process make it one of the premier steels to be dealt with in quite some time. Shaking and shivering the old schoolers must retire back to their board rooms and dimly lit design rooms to see what they can possibly come up with to stop the Busse Juggernaut.
My advise to them is do nothing. Stop wasting your money on high paid big name designers and do something about your quality, your steels and above all your customer satisfaction. The Busse Family owns you all right now and you know it's true. They fight to keep up with orders and you all struggle to sell your $30.00 knives at Wal Mart. God Bless the Busse Family for turning the knife world around and starting the entire industry down a better path.
This is my .02 cents!

Peace.

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If not you should be!!

Welcome Prince of Peace

Thanks for your opinion Prince.

It has been my experience that the other knife makers mostly want to ignore the Busse clan and hope that they will just go away. They dismiss the "Busse Challenge" as meaningless and not worth their time to respond. Some have told me that Busse is all advertising hype and that there is no substance to their claims.

Talk about hiding your head in the sand! But what else can they do? They cannot compete head to head with Busse so the only tactics that they can employee is to try to marginalize the Busse companies and dismiss them as "minor players" in hopes that customers will never hear about them or lose interest when the other guys dangle their pretty baubles in front of them.

There are a lot of good knife makers out there and many of them make really good knives, but I have never found anything else to compete with the Busse family. I am proud to be a Busseholic and I am looking forward to my next shot of SR77 (or INFI or SR-101).

[censored] POP!!!! You scared me out of my knife making ideas! Thanks......I think I will go in a corner and cry.

But really that needs to be printed in a Blade or Knife world or a book. I think you should forward that to all the companies you have in mind!!!!!

You MUST be in marketing!!

Just speaking the obvious truth my brothers.
Look at all the "new" style blades coming out now. Strange how they have adopted the "Busse" look. Their handles, the skull cracker at the end? There is even one blade maker who begins with Fur and ends with man who has literally copied the entire line of Busse knives!
Obviously the Busse Juggernaut has hit on something. Now everybody and their Aunt and Uncle is trying to jump on the band wagon. Never forget though, it may look like a Busse family product, but without their recipe for steel....it's just another Cold Steel blade. Ouch!
Nuke um all!
Peace.

If you're taling about Fehrman, that's an old story. Yes, they did copy Jerry's ergo designs however I've held and owned few of his knives and let me tell you they are a different breed. I would say Fehrmans are closer to TOPS than Busse and obviously not on the same level as Busses. I do not feel you have to put down one maker to praise another.

I'm happy to hear all is well. God bless you.

QUOTE" If you're talking about Fehrman, that's an old story. Yes, they did copy Jerry's ergo designs however I've held and owned few of his knives and let me tell you they are a different breed. I would say Fehrmans are closer to TOPS than Busse and obviously not on the same level as Busses. I do not feel you have to put down one maker to praise another. END QUOTE."

You are right. I ask your forgiveness for mentioning another maker. My bad.
Sometimes I let me emotions get the best of my mind. And I speak without thinking. I felt bad about this all day at work, and came here at once to apologize for my behavior.My regrets for my ill behavior.I will strive to not let this happen again. I feel miserable about it. Sorry.

Peace.

POP, The longer you watch the knife industry the more you'll see what you stated, it's enough to make a person ill at times.
And I forgave you when I saw you are from WI, tough luck bud, but you have good taste in knives so I'll let the WI thing slide, that and I spend a fair amount of time over there chasing large whitetail, always fun.

Go Vikequeens.
Helle

No worries bro.

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