| STEEL HEART GALLERY |
| Specs (Steel Heart E-Handle):
* 1/4" INFI Steel * 7 1/2"
Blade * 13" OAL * 19 oz * 58-60 RC *
* Micarta Handle * Combat Grade * |
Steel Heart Trivia:
What's the rarest Steel Heart of all? It's a tie! Only 50 were
made with the wrinkled finish, tubular fasteners and Diamond Checkered
handles and another 50 that match these but had a satin finish.
These were the last 100 Straight Handled Steel Hearts ever made
and I have never seen one come up for sale. It is the Diamond
Checkered Handle that will give these away as there were only
100 Steel Hearts ever made with this handle.
Jerry
12/22/01
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SH1 - A 1997 5/16" thick Steel Heart II with a
smooth finish 7 1/2" A2 blade. The Micarta scales are fastened
with slotted bolts & ground flush to the tang (exposed tang).
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SH2 - Photo from Bladeart a Steel Heart II with 7 1/2"
blade in INFI.
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SH3 - Steel Heart I with a 6 1/2" blade in ATS-34 steel
& bird beak pommel.
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SH4 - Steel Heart I with a 6 1/2" blade in ATS-34 steel
& bird beak pommel.
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SH5 - 1992 Steel Heart I with a 6 1/2" blade in ATS-34
steel & bird beak pommel.
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SH6 - Steel Heart II in A2 steel with the Micarta scales fastened
with slotted bolts.
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SH7 - Steel Heart E-Handle (SH-E)
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SH8
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SH9 - Most Busse knives are sterile & do not have the Busse
logo etched on the blade.
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SH10 - This particular SH-E knife has the bottom the tang exposed
where the Micarta scales are ground flush to the tang.
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SH11 - This particular SH-E knife has the top of the blade
& tang exposed where the Micarta scales are ground flush
to the tang.
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SH12 - Steel Heart II photo from 2theHilt.
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SH13 - A treasure out from the rubbish....an unopen bottle
of black label! What a find! Next to the black label is
a Steel Heart I with a 10" A2 steel & a bird beak pommel;
another great find!
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SH14 - Schleifalot's Steel Heart-E feeling at home.
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SH15 - 1992 Steel Heart I with bird beak pommel. Mirror finish
& spalted Maple scales. WOW! What a BEAUTY!
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SH16 - Straight handled, birds beak, 5/16" Serrated Steel Heart.
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| Different Types of Serrations....
There are two different types of serrations employed
by Busse. First, there is the type of serration popularized by
the infamous flying tiger. It is located toward the front of the
blade (vs at the hilt) angled outwards (away from the blade) and
are seperated by quite alot of space. These serrations are intended
for chopping, so that the serrations don't get stuck into the
material being chopped.
The more typical type of serrations are the ones
found towards the hilt of the blade. These are better for cutting
thru fibrous material such as rope, hemp, etc. They are more typical,
although not typically found on a Busse, except thru special order.
Jerry does the serrations by himself by hand.
They have to be done via a file and are time consuming. As for
retrofitting them, that would be very difficult as the coating
would have to be reapplied.
Marc (Contender)
03/03/02 |
SH17
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SH18 - Recluse's Steel Heart II in 5/16" A2.
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SH19 - Eric's Steel Heart II 5/16" A2 & Kenny Rowe
sheath.
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SH20 - Old & new Steel Heart, top & bottom respectively.
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SH21 - Andrew's Steel Heart used for building an A-frame.
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SH22 - 1whobuys' Steel Heart II, two with satin finish (one
with serrations)& one with smooth black finish.
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SH23 - Hdiller's Steel Heart II in INFI.
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SH24 - Tall Paul's photo of new & old Steel Heart.
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SH25 - Andre DuMouchel's collection of new & old Steel
Heart. AWESOME line-up!
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SH26 - Idahoskunk's straight handle Steel Heart.
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SH27 - Xplorer's Steel Heart.
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SH28 - All Dressed Up
RonyBear's customized Steel Heart. After getting
the Steel Heart from Busse, the knife was customized by another
knifemaker. It has a satin finish, fancy engraved bolsters,
mammoth ivory scales, and mosaic pins. It's a beauty!
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SH29
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SH30
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SH31 - WTF Over's Steel Heart II.
"This is my first Straight Handle Steel Heart.
I'm told that this was a INFI SH Proto built in Dec 99 or Jan
00 for the SOF Show to Demo the "new" black quilted handle slabs.
As I understand it the Straight Handles never went into production
with these slabs...Lorne" (Edited for flow) |
SH32 - Dirk Linnemeyer's Steel Heart E with camo kydex sheaths.
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SH33 - Andre DuMouchel's Steel Heart I in pristine condition.
WOW!
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SH34 -Bladeart's photo of Steel Heart.
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SH35 - DMC's Steel Heart I
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SH36 - Chip's beadblast Steel Heart.
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SH37 - Raden's apprentice Steel Heart II
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SH38 - Idahoskunk's Black Steel Heart.
Definitely not a refurbish job. Notice the flat
coating? The blade was ground, heat-treated, coated, and then
never finished due to circumstances . . .
It was originally drilled for bolts. When it came
time to handle it, we used carbide to enlarge the holes. It
was sent in to the company who was doing our laser engraving
at the time, in order to see how the coating would react to
the laser. It reacted quite well. It is the first knife that
we ever had laser etched and is, to my knowledge, the ONLY Steel
Heart II with the circled logo. Notice the incomplete circle
at the bottom of the logo? I believe that that is unique as
well. Many of the After Shocks had this same circled logo.
You are looking at a knife that began production
in early 1998 and didn't reach completion until quite a while
later.
Nice find!
Jerry (10/12/02)
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SH39 - Raden's Steel Heart II.
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SH40 - Idahoskunk's Steel Heart I with bird beak pommel.
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SH41 - Progunner's Steel Heart II.
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SH42 - Idahoskunk's Steel Heart I
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SH43 - Idahoskunk's Steel Heart I
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SH44 - Gundy's well used Steel Heart I.
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