Aarrggg!! Chipped My Bm

sunnee

sunnee

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Damn it. I think I folded over a 1 mm x 2 mm piece on the edge while trying two do a two handed chop into the end of a treated 4x4. The two handed thing threw my aim off and I nicked the corner of the post.

Could this actually happened to a BM or did I only noticed a old wound now? The damage looks like someone put a pair of pliers to the edge and bent it over. The lines are almost square.

I have accidentally hit rocks and concrete with a #9 and a Battle Rat before and did not have this kind of damage.

How could this happen to a BM on wood? Ideas anyone?

sunnee
 
Nope. I am its second owner and the egde has also been resharpend.
I'll try to get pics.

sunnee
 
sunnee :

How could this happen to a BM on wood?
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It could not unless the steel was damaged during the resharpening, or had a serious fault from the material itself of the heat treating. Check the wood to see if there was an inclusion, even if there was though a one mm deep dent is pretty severe and indicates a fairly heavy swing, assuming the edge profile is similar to the factory one. If the previous owner ground it down to a very thin angle if would of course dent easier, but I brought mine down to under 10 per side and it still would not come near denting on wood to that extent and I could chop frozen knotty sticks.

-Cliff
 
Couldn't have happpened unless that piece of wood was fossilized!!! :eek:


Send it in an we'll either fix it or replace it.

Jerry
 
Well Personally I find it difficult to imagine that the BM was even slowed down by wood. I've taken my Steel Heart-E with it's 7.5in blade and used it to make "snap cuts" in cinderblock with the only damage being to the finish and small chip in the "sweet spot". The chip was a result of my not knowing that wire was added to the concrete for reinforcing. I cannot figure how the edge rolled on a BM from wood. I have seen my Steel Heart (which is smaller) breeze through Pressure treated deck scraps, live pine trees, old ash baseball bats and smile. To hear that the BM was stopped by a 2x4:rolleyes: I simply will have to wait for the pics to believe it...
 
Originally posted by Jerry Busse
Couldn't have happpened unless that piece of wood was fossilized!!! :eek:


Send it in an we'll either fix it or replace it.

Jerry
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Simple solution. :D

Rob
 
Yeah, the reason I asked was a concern that the previous owner may have sharpened on a wheel, and messed the temper.

Welp, you heard the man, pack that pup up and send it back, after you post pics...:D :cool:
 
Sunnee,

FIrstly, it doesn't sound like you CHIPPED your BM's edge, it sounds like you DENTED or ROLLED it, which is rather different.

Secondly, as someone who has accidentally swung a Busse edge into granite (attached to a club as a pole-axe, two handed, overhead, full force), it is difficult for me to comprehend how you could have done that, unless:

1) You were using an edge which had been reprofiled too thin--unlikely; even an edge angle in the high teens (included) shouldn't have been damaged like this by wood;

2) The temper's been damaged--unlikely; Jerry has stated INFI can take heat up to 1,050 degrees for about an hour before the temper is damaged;

or 3) Your BM had an intrinsic defect, to begin with--this also seems unlikely, but I would guess this is the most probable scenario. I think Busse knives have superb quality control, in regard to defects in metal and heat treatment, but it is virtually impossible for any knifemaker to have perfect quality control over so many knives for so long.

Busse knives come with an unconditional, tranferable, lifetime warranty against all major damage, and Jerry Busse's a man of his word. No worries. I'm sure your problem with dealt with to your satisfaction.

--Mike
 
Sunnee
Sounds to me like you just put a little character mark in it. If you are going to continue to use it for chopping chores, I wouldn't be in a hurry to get it sharpened out. You might get anther ding if you hit a piece of dirt or gravel that was on the wood(especially if it was dead wood laying on the ground). That happens sometimes in a chopping blade, yes even to the BM. Not to worry though, Jerry is a man of his word!
 
Thank you for all your input.
Sorry for logging back on so late but it was a hell of a day for me.
Sorry again but I can not post and pictures due to that little chip was erased when I got home from work today (my brother and his little diamond hone).

I do agree with most of you that it must be a defect caused by the previous owner because on the curved edge there are two dents he did not grind out completely.

I am still mystified by what caused it and how it came to look like it did. Sorry again for not having pictures. To give everyone an idea of that chip imagine this. Take a pair of vise grips. Clamp about 1/4 inch of the edge of a piece of sheet metal. now bend that over about 25 degrees. Take the vise grips off and what you have would be my chip under 25-30x magnification.

The edge that folded over is still flat. Not dented or rolled. Also, unlike the sheet matal which curved at the two sides of the vise grips. The BM blade actually fractured.

Oh well its too late now. I was just going to send it in for a new edge too. What are brothers for.
Hey wait a minute! Maybe he made that chip!

sunnee
 
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