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I may actually let one go back into the wild. As most know I am a “knife buyer” not a ‘knife seller” but my new Landcruiser would look good with some bling
I bought this blade here in Australia sight unseen around 4 or 5 years ago. It was purported to me as a “Custom Shop ASH1” (so if you know my reputation you will understand why it came straight to me). In fairness very pretty CS Blades are not something that generally blow my skirt up but it was after-all an “ASH”. It arrived and went into storage. Sometime later I had several out and was looking at it and thought it not quite an ASH1 but what I was unsure. Grabbing another it was my belief that this it was a CS blade made up from a “3B2” blank and blinged it out.
Prior to preparing this ad I contacted Garth R at Busse who conformed my belief saying;
“You are correct in that it is a custom built off a 3B2 blank. It appears to be double dyed maple burl handles with a black g10 bolster”
This blade is unused by me and appears to me to have had no use by anyone else.
I have done my best to capture the blade and any imperfections. The first pic is a “glamour shot” I took here in the light box when it arrived (don’t let the almost notorious red background fool you, it’s my pic)…..
The balance of the pics are those I took last year here in the back yard, the knife has been stored since. It was overcast but even with that it is difficult to get a good exposure balance between that shiny blade and dark handles. So I have taken pics of both exposed as best match my eye on how they look in person.
The blade arrived to me in an ad-hoc cardboard sleeve and this is the source of the faint longitudinal marks on the blade, they are hard to capture but I have done my best in a couple of pics. They are, on close inspection present on both sides.
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Besides the longitudinal marks down the blade the only other blemish I could see is pictured here on the bottom of the talon hole. A little polish on a Q Tip may remove it but I am not going to do that…
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I bought this blade here in Australia sight unseen around 4 or 5 years ago. It was purported to me as a “Custom Shop ASH1” (so if you know my reputation you will understand why it came straight to me). In fairness very pretty CS Blades are not something that generally blow my skirt up but it was after-all an “ASH”. It arrived and went into storage. Sometime later I had several out and was looking at it and thought it not quite an ASH1 but what I was unsure. Grabbing another it was my belief that this it was a CS blade made up from a “3B2” blank and blinged it out.
Prior to preparing this ad I contacted Garth R at Busse who conformed my belief saying;
“You are correct in that it is a custom built off a 3B2 blank. It appears to be double dyed maple burl handles with a black g10 bolster”
This blade is unused by me and appears to me to have had no use by anyone else.
I have done my best to capture the blade and any imperfections. The first pic is a “glamour shot” I took here in the light box when it arrived (don’t let the almost notorious red background fool you, it’s my pic)…..
The balance of the pics are those I took last year here in the back yard, the knife has been stored since. It was overcast but even with that it is difficult to get a good exposure balance between that shiny blade and dark handles. So I have taken pics of both exposed as best match my eye on how they look in person.
The blade arrived to me in an ad-hoc cardboard sleeve and this is the source of the faint longitudinal marks on the blade, they are hard to capture but I have done my best in a couple of pics. They are, on close inspection present on both sides.
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Besides the longitudinal marks down the blade the only other blemish I could see is pictured here on the bottom of the talon hole. A little polish on a Q Tip may remove it but I am not going to do that…
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