Why no west coast love? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

Plenty of buyers out here. The knife expo last weekend had alot of people.

Saw and handled many beautiful knives but none gave me the feeling of a Bussekin.

My brother was there at the Plaza Cutlery Custom Knife Show I was working the Ontario gun show.

How the heck do you get banned from blade forums???

I would love it if someone would come along and explain the liu kang controversy. Even a link to the thread would be appreciated.

I don't think there is a single link that would really be able to explain the LK thing fully. However, if you are a paying member at BF, there is a thread you will be able to find called something like "**ck Liu Kang!" that probably best explains it. Sorry, but rules do not allow linking to that particular area of BF, so you'll have to go search it out for yourselves. You will <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/barf.gif" alt="" /> after reading through it. He's lowlife scum. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> There are good reasons that people don't like him and that he finally got banned there.

ETA: So I had the thread title off ever so slightly. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/paperbag.gif" alt="" /> However, I just posted the above quoted text in the thread, so it shouldn't be very hard to find at all...

ETA2: Just fyi, in case you couldn't already tell, that thread is full of coarse language and some graphic images. Fair warning.

Interesting.

That is correct Brother Andy. I got you a camo 911!! I was 12th or so in line and did not even see the other request at the feeding. Kidney saved!!!

I retyped this about 10 times because I don't know how to get out what I want to say. I only know maybe half of the story but I think it is kind of beneath us to keep bringing LK up in forums every time we think he might have done something. Brothers of Busse whom I respect have had disagreements with him and continue to do so to some degree at shows. It pains me to see that we can't all get along. I talked with him standing in line at Knob and while his personality and "Hog trickery" is different than mine, he has never done anything to me persoanlly and I can have a laughing conversation with him about knives. I personally witnessed him ask another customer what he was looking for when that customer said he was unable to score anything he had wanted. I firmly believe he would have taken it out of his boxes and allowed the man to buy it himself if it was the one knife he had wanted. He rarely likes Res C so in reguards to the Dogs he rarely buys up all the $80 knives. I am not standing up for him per se as I don't know him that well or most of the people on this forum (even those I proxied for) for that matter. I even had a hopefully good natured political argument with a fellow Dog who has a drastically different political view than what I would have expected. We still love Bussekin and we still will see each other at Knob and visit.

Lets not spread the discontent and get back to likin' knives and the friendships we have. Hopefully this will be received in the attitude it was intended.

Well said. Can we see some pics of your haul?

Started a new thread with them

Thanks for the thread the knives and for being a great dog!

Jerry, I am jealous Brother!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />.......... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />