Busse Basic's interesting asymmetrical edge

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Frank Norman

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This one is new to me. When I first opened the box to my Busse Basic and looked at the symmetry of the edge I was surprised. The opposing angles were very different. Then I saw the enclosed directions for sharpening and found that it is designed that way. Holding the knife away from you with the edge down, the right side is slightly convex and the left is straight. According to Busse, they have found that it is much easier to maintain the edge in the field with this design. They recommend a stropping motion on a ceramic stick.

It is very innovative, I just had never heard of a combination edge like this.

Are the original Busse's like this?



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Frank
Little River Trading Co.
Attitude - The difference between an adventure and an ordeal.
 
Frank,

I have a Battle Mistress and a Badger Attack and neither one was like your description. It sounds like Busse did some new innovations with the basics.

By the way, since I ran into you here, I still want a basic 7. lol

Thomas Zinn
 
My BM has the same bevel. I have some thoughts about it and think it should work well but I will wait until I have blunted it a few more times before commenting. Note that the grinds should be different depending if you are left-right handed. The initial produciton line are probably all right handed models.

-Cliff
 
Well I promise you one thing, when I get my Model 7 from Frank this week I'm grabbing my back pack and heading to the woods to work this guy. Sounds like it will be a good chopper, too.

Can anyone tell me what the black coating is made of. Frank's site list the Model 7's as black coated.

I am psyched to test this knife.

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~Greg~


 
Frank I'm interested in your #7 but I don't know anything on the handle material. How well does it do in the sun, deet, and other related out door chemicals? Is it similar to Kraton? Thank you.
 
It's called Reserpine-C and looks like a hard rubber. It is supposed to be resistant to the items you list.

I hope Mike's tests will answer some of those questions.

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Frank
Little River Trading Co.
Attitude - The difference between an adventure and an ordeal.
 
Greg -- I'll grab my pack and meet you there, Basic 9 and khukuri in tow (gotta do some comparative testing).

I wish...

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Clay Fleischer
clay_fleischer@yahoo.com
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Specialization is for insects.
 
I called Busse Combat Thursday about some concerns I had with the edge. The right edge is pretty consistant knife to knife. However, the left edge on some was extremely narrow. On one it appeared to be almost non-existant. So, I called, left a message, and low and behold Jerry Busse returned the call!

He explained that the blades are sharpened before the black finish (powder coat?) is applied. After the finish is complete the edges are polished. Sometimes not enough of the finish is removed giving the appearance that edge is more narrow on that side.

Viewing the knives as a cross section (looking dead on at the edge) this seems to be true. There doesn't seem to be any difference in the angles whether the finish comes almost all the way to the edge, or if there is a polished area.

They have all been consistantly sharp with no apparent differnce from one knife to the other.

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Frank
Little River Trading Co.
Attitude - The difference between an adventure and an ordeal.
 
Clay,
You would be more than welcome to come up here hiking.....heck, we could even go after those little salmon fishies that swim up our stream.
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Frank....thanks for posting on the edges, I know I will be inspecting mine when it gets here (hopefully tomorrow!)

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~Greg~


 
Takao,

The sheath is not ambidextrous. There is a topic about the sheath under Knife Reveiws that has a picture.

I'm not sure how it would effect a left-hander.

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Frank
Little River Trading Co.
Attitude - The difference between an adventure and an ordeal.

[This message has been edited by Frank Norman (edited 20 September 1999).]
 
frank-
When are the nines going to be in? Should i send the rest of the payment. thanks
luke
 
Jerry said there should be some more stuff shipping this week. I'm hoping that the 9's will be in this group (and some 5's and 3's).

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Frank
Little River Trading Co.
Attitude - The difference between an adventure and an ordeal.
 
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