Basic line steel

alaskanativeson

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I notice that the Basic line of Busse Knives are made of M-Infi. Is this any different than Infi? Since I just bought a Basic 9, will I still be able to fuel my Infi addiction with it?
 
Similar but MINFI has less cobalt in it and it's cheaper to produce hence the slighlty cheaper orig. pricing of the Basic line.
 
You guys might be quite surprised,, like I have said before. I have used them all,, there is no closer match from a basic 9 in toughness and edge retention than my early 1/300 shbm, if you don't believe me. Put her to work with a polished edge.. M-Infi is just Infi, in my book!
 
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Horton_Knives said:
You guys might be quite surprised,, like I have said before. I have used them all,, there is no closer match from a basic 9 in toughness and edge retention than my early 1/300 shbm, if you don't believe me. Put her to work with a polished edge.. M-Infi is just Infi, in my book!
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well the straight handles didn't have as good a heat treat as the e handles on, so that could explain it
 
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So they no longer use M-infi?
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Nope, the steel costs for M-infi eventually became almost as high as regular infi. The purpose of m-infi was to provide a lower cost but similar performance steel for their Basic line of knives. When the steel costs rose there was no longer any point in using it. (still wishing for a revival of the Basic lineup in normal Infi:thumbup:)
 
yoda4561 said:
snip... (still wishing for a revival of the Basic lineup in normal Infi:thumbup:)
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Me too, I have plenty of Large, medium large and small blades, something along the lines of the Basic5 would peak my interest(Res-c of course).
 
I believe that the Basic Number Nine is without question the best performing Rubber handled knife of it's size in the World so far.

I have not yet heard of anyone that in regular use notices any difference between M-INFI and INFI.

If you like the handle you just might join the Ranks of those for whom the Basic #9 is a Favorite.

It is also the Fastest of the early INFI knives.(Rivalled by the Hood, but only 5 hoods got finished as production knives)

Learn to sharpen the Asym grind, it is the easiest to maintain of all Busse edges and lends to a longer lasting edge.
 
This post is getting even better, I thought it was going downhill once I found out Shbm's were inferior....to new Busse's
 
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Look at the Tests on INFI early on with a Standard grind the early SHBMs were tested to something over 1600 pushcuts through clean new one inch Rope(Hemp I think but I am not sure)

Then at a blade show there was a live demonstration Push cutting clean new one inch rope(Still Hemp I think) with a Basic #9 with the Asym grind with some thing over 2,900 cuts when they ran out of rope, and that part of the knife would still shave.

That plus my personal exp leads me to think that the Asym is just more durable.

Each of the early SHBMs were different from each other at least a little, prolly several different heat treats as well, Art Work all of them.

People tend to not be Comfortable with the Asym grind, it just looks odd.

Looks like it was sharpened while Drunk maybe.

All that being said it sure will chop clean wood and push cut clean new rope better than anything else yet publicly tested.

I would like to see some new tests, but no other maker has yet stepped up to do public demonstrations since that Basic was done at Blade(1999 Maybe?)

So it would seem that in this regard Busse has nothing to prove it, is now up to some other maker to match that now nearly 10 year old test.

INFI /M-INFI just hold an edge longer than anything else when cutting clean soft materials like Rope/leather/clean wood.
 
I think MINFI is just as tough I just could never get used to the resiprene handles
 
Of the six I have owned, I have came to the conclusion that the SHBM, in all variants of Heat Treat, are the benchmark that all large knives should be made from. Not perfect at one thing but capable of everything,,, beautiful, tough, simple knives,,
 
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