I've never understood how to buy a Busse knife. It seems like their website only has a few models available at any one time, and you either have to wait until they decide to make a run of what you want, pay for the privilege of buying whatever they feel like making, or scramble for one on the aftermarket.
Can you just BUY a Busse knife any time you want? Or do they only make limited production runs?
3) Bob Dozier. Right. I'll remember that name, the next time I want to spend a few hundred, instead of improving my own skills.
I should be more professional, and less sarcastic, than that, but I think Zombieslayer has missed the point. If Doc simply wanted somebody to make him a knife, he could just as easily have gone to any one of over two dozen currently working makers with established reputations.
He did not.
He asked us what he should do with it, and I PM'ed him, because I saw an opportunity to do several things at once, including making a knife for a fellow forum member.
If you are able to get past the fact that there is a hole in the blade, these are more accessible that Direware, and you still get to throw hundreds of dollars at a knife maker.