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I acquired this fine blade in trade last month and finally got around to taking some pictures. This knife has many features that I love, great steel, spear point, multiple comfortable grips. My favorite part about this knife is the extra long handle for choking back for heavy, heavy chopping.

The knife came with a nice kydex sheath, but I really prefer this upgrade Blackhawk airborne sheath with the front pouch/pocket. It holds my Leatherman Blast and a mini kit nicely. I had to slightly modify the Blackhawk sheath by cutting the back off of the plastic insert, I guess the B.U.S.K. is a little wider that I thought. The sheath was a good buy so I wasn’t to worried about a slight unseen modification. I did pick up a cheapo first aid kit pouch that I attached onto the original sheath. It fits good and is attached via 550 paracord (must have) and hold quite a bit of personal survival gear.

I haven’t had a chance to really put this knife through the paces, but I did do some destruction to some oleanders without any issues. Clean chops through 2″ branches took a good couple of swings, but it was very impressive chopper for the blade length (6.75 inches).

The pseudo official specs are:
Steel: L6
Grind: Hollow ground spearpoint
Rockwell: 57-58
Blade Length: 6.75 inches
Blade Thickness: 0.25 inches
Handle Length: 6.75 inches
Overall Length: 13.5 inches
Handle Material: G10 Birch Bark Pattern (removable)
Sheath: Original Kydex with Tec Lock plus an OD blackhawk Airborne Deluxe (slightly moded)
Other: KC gun-kote
Notes: Michael Burch has been acknowledged as a maker to watch in 2008 by Blade magazine. Here is a link to the article. I’m waiting confirmation, but I think there are less than a dozen of these bad boys made.
Condition: Gingerly used, but in excellent overall condition. Kydex rubs and general scuffs on gun-kote. This can be re-coated and sharpened to be 100% at no charge.

“The knife is designed to be an all around heavy-duty camp/combat knife that is comfortable to use for a variety of tasks. The handle is long (about six inches from the butt to the front of the scales) so you can easily chop with it, or choke up for fine work. The choil gives even more room to choke up and it trails into the edge so material won’t be caught in it. A checkered thumb-ramp is placed right were your thumb would naturally lay and all edges are smoothed over except for the spine for those of you that like to smack firestarters.” - Posted by Burchtree in Bladeforums.com on 1/4/06.

“Nice to see one of those around! I probably put more thought into the designing of the BUSK than any other knife I ever made, but it didn’t hit off as well as some other blades. I made them to be around 57-58 HRC so they can take plenty of abuse. I wanted them to be easily “sharpenable” in the field (without a diamond hone ). The handles are removeable so the blade can be sent back to me for a fresh coat of gun-kote if ever needed. The reason the handles is a little long is so you can hold it in the back for serious chopping or choke up for fine work. The finger-groove/choil is radiused out toward the edge so you won’t cut your fingers while choking up and it allows material to slide towards the edge is it gets caught in there.” - Posted by Burchtree in the Jerzeedevil.com forums on 3/4/08.

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