Busse HHFSH question

balisong05 said:
Last visible canary,...."where does he get those wonderful toys?" i've got a hhfsh you've got to see. i'll post as soon as i can.
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The picture of the NMSFNO, cf Jack Hammer and batac were mine, but nearly everything else I post is via google image search or the forums search. I've owned a lot of busse, off the top of my head I just counted 47 models of busse and 7 models of busse kin, but right now I only have 4 knives by busse combat. I put in about 4,000$ worth of initial investment in 2006, and then just traded and sold and bought off of that initial investment. I've maybe put in another 500$ in the past 5 years, but for the most part it's just been working of that first lump sum.

On the good advice from Al Sheikh I added pic information to each post.

P3NTTI said:
Nice pics! Good comparison...

I've been reading that people are having problems gettin these thick Busses sharp. And that they don't come out of the box as sharp as many would have hoped. Ok, I know a blade like NMSFNO can't be the greatest slicer, but is this a fact that Busses don't come out that sharp?

Is there a difference between satin blades with coated ones? What about differences between the models. For example NMSFNO & SAR6/8 ??
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Busse knives are not difficult to sharpen, they feel relatively soft under the stone for being 58-60rc, metal comes off easily. The biggest problem is how much metal is behind the cutting edge. Busse tends to overbuild their knife edges, especially at the tip, on anything over 4" long. The CABS is one of the thinnest busse's at .025" behind the edge, but everything is .035 or higher, with .045 being the heavy choppper/prybar thickness on knives like the tank buster. It takes a while to do a releif grind, but it's easier than working on something 60rc bg42.

Satin blades are hand finished to have a satin finish, so that all the belt sander lines are vertical and the pitting inherent in INFI's unfinished stock is removed. Coated blades are either roughly finished or not finished at all under the coating. When you strip them (especially on older blades) you may find heavy pitting on the flats of the knife where they hadn't touched it with a belt sander. Coated knives are generally cheaper and fall into the 'cg' designation, unless they have a custom handle. One of the benefits of the coating is that the handle under the slabs is coated, where on satin knives it is not. Should your knife get something corrosive under the handle and you live in a humid environment, it will sit there with no way of cleaning it out. With a coated blade it isn't much of a problem. INFI is very nearly stainless so rust isn't a big concern, but if you live in a corrosive environment you may want to go with coated, and then possibly strip just the blade section.
 
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Since you love the white ones...........

A pair of NMFBM's The satin one is a BANNED blade.

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A NMSFNO and a NMFBM as a size comparison.........

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Those are nice! What does a BANNED blade mean?? Is it just the model name?
I'd like to see how the coating on those white ones wear.
 
P3NTTI said:
What does a BANNED blade mean?? Is it just the model name?
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It means it was stripped, and then a Scary Sharp convex edge was put on it by Ban Tang.

Not sure if he is still doing Busse mods since he started making his own knives.
 
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