Broke a NON- Busse today!!!!!!!!

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flatlander

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1095 steel suxs!!! Was using my SERE 2000 to do some stuff at work today. It was starting to loosen up the lock, I was tapping it into wood with a hammer and prying apart 2 pieces of wood that were nailed together with 1 1/2 braid nails. It was doing well but since it's my EDC didn't want to ruin it. Went to the car and got a small sheath knife which is more of a sharpened spike. First 2 pieces it did great then, SNAP :grumpy: , about 1/4" of the tip broke off! Was doing nothing with it that my SERE hadn't done or my A.S. hadn't done before. I don't know if it was the heat treat, metal type or what but at least I found out before my life depended on it!
Oh, well, live and learn. BTW, I've snapped the tips off of a Gerber and Kabar before also and snapped a total of 3 Kabars blades in half so I guess lateral stress does matter! :rolleyes:
Bob Mills
 
The company shall remain nameless but I doubt if it would be covered. On a sidenote, when I broke my MKII back in 77 in the Sierra's while going thru the USMC Mountain Warfare course as a young LCPL, I sent it back to Gerber, they reprofiled it and I have a "custom" MKIIin my gunsafe to this day :cool:
Bob Mills
 
Heh, finally someone else who has broken three Ka-Bars. It seems I am hard on knives (actually, all of my gear). I had one Ka-Bar fail when being used to cut through banding straps (beat through with a baton). The others, it has been too long to remember. I think one broke while trying to dig out a radio antenna stake, but that may have been a different knife.

The only knife that has survived (out of maybe 8 or 10) all these years is a Gerber BMF. That thing is a tank. I am looking forward to using the two Busse's I've ordered (so far, only two).

Oh, demolished another knife cutting a heavily damaged and twisted tire off of a Hummer. We had already broken the pickaxe head off trying to lever off the remains. I started pounding the knife through (to cut the tire in two) with the pickaxe handle. That was a Buck. Granted, what I needed was a crowbar, not a Buck.

Most of the "failures" mean gross, complete failure. A couple were close to what you ran into, the knife lost about 1" - 2" of the tip. When possible, I dramatically reground those - and eventually managed to kill even that. With what I know now, I was probably changing the temper of the steel when I removed all that material with a grinder.

Prying and such is what usually, in my experience, kills knives. That is why I am so interested in Mr. Busse's work.
 
Understand. That's why I carried nothing but Busse's on my LBV the last few years as a grunt before I retired ;)
Bob Mills
 
Hey Bob, bring that broken knife to the 1500, and we'll chop it up with the biggest blade Mike has on the table! :D
 
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