Blade West pics!

So I just got back to the office here are some pics I snapped.

There were a lot of nice offerings and SYKCO had some great varients, and they went quick!

I saw this when I parked:




Busse's:







Scrap Yard's:

nice pics i wish i could have gone

lots of sweet stuff on that table!

Did they do offerings like they do at BLADE Atlanta, or was everything just on the table?

Everything was on the table except the BOSS Street. It didn't sound like they were bringing out new stuff each day, what was there is what they had. But I will be back tommorow to see. I might be able to afford a Scrap Yard knife still.

is that a little Busse muk that appears in the third and fifth pic??

Did you happen to notice the prices on the FSH's? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Nice pix, I wish I could have been there.

Post Bellyed Skinner I believe.

close - pork belly <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

I want one!

Not sure. 3 or 4 something does that sound about right?

More questions - I'm going nuts here!!!

Any idea what the three knives are, with the rounded butts, near the top left hand of this picture, where all you can see is their handles?

Not sure, but they were $287

Those appear to be SARsquatches.

Good eye C/P - I think yer right, and the price matches.

They look either like the Tank Buster with the rounded butt:



Or the SARsquatch:



I'm guessing they're SARsquatches

Ok third table pic, whats the 4th one over with the Grey looking handle, look kinda like a vex?

i think thats a hack

You are correct. Nice handle!

thats a hack? dead center down from the tan Busse's?? I though the hack were really small

The pork belly skinner looks cool.

Any Rats in the house?

They have different ones. This one was an older one I believe.

I want the pork belly and the 4th to the right over from it

wow i really want that one quite badly

Very few mostly the new M9CG

Well,I feel better about not getting a proxy for a Vex...thought I was missing out!

How much was the pork skinner?

I can't remember but it was cheap enough that I could have bought it if I wanted it.

Either $272 or $212 I think $212

Cool...explaining that one to the wife would have been tough though... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

did you think about it?

Oh I thought about many of the blades there but so many are very similar and I don't have the money to double up. Every knife I picked up I compared to what I have then compared all of them to the Regulator I had on my hip. Scrap Yard had a few I really wanted and the prices were great but the S5 and S5LE fill so many niches I passed. In the end I got two small blades.

Thanks for the pics <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

Sweet selection of knives. Looks like a lot more variety than at Blade Atlanta.

Blade Atlanta had a great variety of the Custom Shop type offerings - but they were pricey. They had a pretty good number of more standard stuff too, but it was mostly more recent stuff. I didn't see near as much of the really cool old school stuff there.

I agree Blade Atlanta did have a lot of pricey stuff...I'm more into the CG knives.

Yeah same here - I'm still waiting and hoping for a CG SAR8 <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crossfingers.gif" alt="" />

yeah, a CG Sar8 would be cool.

Looks like they had CG M9's at blade west, so maybe that will happen.

It sucks you can only get rare stuff like that at the shows.

Did anyone buy the orange PBS.

I was wondering the same thing, David - I don't really NEED it, but man is it cool....

I know I'm gonna be on the look out for one now, thanks for clairifying the name of the pbs up MM for me

Nice pics. I can't wait for Knob Creek.

Thanks for the pics - I love Blade shows! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I gotta get to one of these show's some day.

I went back today and the M9cg were on special for 198 and they had more BirdDogs with black handles out. I cant proxy but maybe there is someone who can.

NOOOO dont tell me what else they are putting out - they haven't taped my box shut yet <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

whos the proxy? hmmmmmmmmmm

I have multiple proxys, I just mailed Garth my credit card, a pint of blood, and a contract for my first born son, and have had people adding stuff to my box since <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

Great pics, thanks for sharing! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

The little ones were "bear cub" hacks; I recall that Jerry calls those "railroad spikes". I think they're more like a scalpel, and quite comfortable in my hand -- if they'd had Busse Combat rather than HACK on the blade, I think I'd have picked up at least one at the last Knob Creek. However, they had SAR-5s for only slightly more, so I bought another of them instead.

I'm jealous M.M. yes I am. I told myself i wanna gonna go last year to blade west, and thing come up and here i still am, still wanting

I thought the HACKS at Blade Atlanta were pretty overpriced for what they were. Stuff like the High Street was a better value. They were pretty neat little shapes, but for a couple bucks more I could get a lot more substantial knives.

Well the 4th one over from the skinner, if that's a hack, that's the one i WANT quite badly, quite very badly, and then the pork belly just badly...

Here are two of the three I made off with.

I was going to go back on Saturday, but I knew I would buy one of the M9CG and probably something else and I already spent more than I intended. But I sure do not regret it.
Ron Athay

I cant hardly wait until Knob Creek. I have to line up some concealed weapons classes to get some money for knives.

Awesome scores Ron!

very nice Ron,

congrats ron

muy pretty!

man, I hope I get to go to a show at some point...

The big news to me is the M9CG. A heavier saber ground M9 should make one heck of a chopper.

Yea but that LE does cut pretty sweet, of course I've only hit pine with it, did you catch how much the CG was going for?

Yeah the m9cg was a big surprise to me. I wonder if they will do a production run soon. I don't think I'd go for it - too close to the m9le, and I've got the DDF for a saber ground chopper, with the bonus of res-c handles.

Still, the m9cg is a fine looking blade, and for someone without any SR-101 in that size, it's a no brainer. I wonder if it's differentially tempered. I would assume it is.

Well I certainly have no need for any of them. But if the price is right, I could go for a CG. The recent Busse Combats have just gotten out of the price range of this old man. $400 for a 4" knife? Gimme a break.

Nice pics! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

I would have loved to have gotten ahold of that PBS!.. and maybe a M9CG too! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> They could even put regular Micarta handles on the M9 and it'd be just fine with me. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

+1




Fair arguement. I have the M9LE, DFLE, Battle Rat, NMSFNO, NMFBM, FSH, Chopweiler, Camp Tramp, Yard Guard, etc. so I am personally pretty well covered for choppers. But, those who don't have the M9LE....

I would assume the M9CG is differentially tempered. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />





I will have to wait and see on the M9CG. Right now I would have to pass. So, I hope I don't have to decide soon. But, I don't "need" it.

If they beef the tip up a bit and offer micarta (I would bet micarta is an option on CG), then "IF" finances are available, I might have to consider.
The saber grind might offer more power, but the full height grind sure feels and balances VERY nicely. Tough call.

But, BIG +1 on certain recent Busse pricings. Satin knives are what I "WANT" and Busse satin blades are just WAY too high. I can buy satin from most every other knife maker for WAY less.

Coated CG blades are NOT cheap either and if I have to do SO MUCH work to make them satin, it is hard for me to buy Busse CG's either. So, like you, the knife design has to be VERY special and a good price even for a CG for me to justify the work and time to make a CG into a "nice" and worthy knife. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

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M9cg's anyone???


And do my eyes deceive me, or are those CG dogfathers full flat ground???

man those m9cgs are nice.... and the price i spied on em at the show isnt back eather lucky rats

dont know cant tell if thsoe are full flat ground dfs or not

way good looking, the black grey has been popular

I just checked the moss DF I got. It is full flat and it is thinner to start with. Much lighter knife than my original CGDF.
Someone said the CG saber M9 was also thinner, but I am not sure. I held an M9CG for about an hour but I have never held an M9LE.
Ron Athay

How much thinner is the full flat DF? I bet that thing has awesome balance to it.

Someday I gotta go to East or West..How do you find out where the Busse's setup at gunshows etc? I remember seeing them at Ohio Gun Coll Assoc. meetings 10+ yrs. ago.

I wouldn't be surprised if they tweaked the dimensions a bit - the saber grind on the DDF is seems lower than the one on the original DFCG, for example.

from my experience, saber grinds all vary slightly, my 3 SODs had different heights for saber grinds.

I'm saying that there's no reason to automatically believe they have the same blade thickness. At least one person has reported that his seemed thinner, although that's just anecdotal at this point.


I don't think it's all that likely that they actually ARE thinner, but it would sure be cool if they were. It's not all that difficult to stick a different thickness of stock into a CNC machine.

The last ganza , I had one DDF almost identical to my grey, and the other mic'd in at .277 with a different grind, and noticablely heavier in the hand

I'm hoping the CGM9 will have micarta just to keep the price down some. I'm a g10 fan but I kinda feel like micarta wouldn't have slipped out of my hand he way the g10 did. Either way I really liking the M9 for the way it feels like a smaller and faster knife than it's size.

Man, I am SO at Blade East next year! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> It'll be my first.

Look for the table cloth. Usually Yellow. It's like a Where's Waldo hunt. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

LOL

I remember thinking, who would ever spend 200-300 on a knife?

Well it should have started today. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbdn.gif" alt="" />

No doubt....

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