Busse is for real!!!

To answer your question at the end of the video, "Are you going to do that with a $400 Knife" NOOOOOO
 
Vegas Blade said:
Honestly, I stopped the video at the end to examine the edge. Best I can tell, it wasn't bad at all. I use a Worksharp to re-bevel and maintain the edges on my Busses. That looks like it would come out pretty easy. "Strictly a flesh wound." 😀
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Edge is good to go. No chips, one slight edge wave (now fixed), but nothing as bad as I had imagined would happen...
 
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Lycosa said:
When you sober up, you will still feel the same way about Busse.
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I sobered up and definitely love Busse more than before, I have seen many pics here and many YouTube videos but I just had to know first hand, and I even used my favorite blade to do it with...I realize I only hit it for a few seconds but it was enough to set my mind at ease for ANY future task I will put my TGLB or any Busse through. Sharpening was maybe 15 min on an Arkansas coarse stone and about 2 on my DMT fine diamond stone to get Swine Shaving Sharp, there are a few spots on the blade that need a lil work still. My KME diamond sharpener will be here on Tuesday so I think the rest will be a breeze and I will finally be able to get a precise angle every time as opposed to my freehand jobs which work but are definitely not as precise.
 
Firestrike- I hear you. And, I was actually very skeptical when I first heard about the Busse knife and the INFI steel.
I will never sell my INFI knives. These will get handed down.
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David Brown said:
Fun ain't it

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Yes sir, I just had to do it...a recent thread about the Trash 1 in 1095 over in the Becker sub forum made me feel the need to do something most would not do...I tire of reading about how Busse owners keep their big ol bad blades locked up safely and never really use them, and it was also mentioned that they were only marginally better than a Becker in performance....So I decided to make the video to show certain people that not all Busse knives live in a safe, and now I will/can personally tell people to put up or shut up...Talk all the trash you want about how "good Becker's are vs Busse" which IMO is laughable but I have yet to see many individuals hard use anything but a Busse/Kin....

My final thoughts about these arm chair knife users is where else has anyone seen such a following of people who have put their personal knives through incredible and arguably stupid abuse tests to show over and over again that a supposed hard use knife is actually hard use....Busse has earned my respect, some of the toughest users ever to walk this planet like Cliff and Noss give Busse the respect it has rightfully earned not to mention all the regular Joe's who have destroyed cars, cut log chains, hammered into asphaul/concrete, commercial air conditioners, ect, with Busse and Kin...I wonder if Jerry cringes at every pic or video of the stupid things we do, or if he kicks back and takes another sip of top shelf liquor and says to himself "damn we make some bad a** knives". Either way as far as I am aware he has stood by his warranty 100% which is saying something, I truly do not believe any other maker has done this.

I am a Busse patron for life, I am convinced that Busse really is top hog in the hard use category, and it isn't likely to change anytime soon. Every last cent I have spent has been well worth the total package offered by Jerry. Nothing else even begins to come close.

I got to admit it felt good to shut my friends up who witnessed my abuse, cause they have been talking smack about how dumb it is to spend so much on a knife, you ought to have seen their jaws drop after...they were truly amazed that it had suffered next to nothing for damage...I think I made a couple new converts as they asked about the website and where to get 'em some...;)
 
Lycosa said:
Firestrike- I hear you. And, I was actually very skeptical when I first heard about the Busse knife and the INFI steel.
I will never sell my INFI knives. These will get handed down.
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Amen bro, my kids and wife are asking for Busse for christmas/birthdays.
 
Yep. And the crazy thing is, you don't have to reach all the way to INFI to get the kind of performance Busse is famous for. SR101 provides most of INFI's performance at the sacrifice of some corrosion resistance but at prices most folks can afford. And I have no doubt that Busse 1095 is going to be remarkably tough as well even though it will be taken to higher hardness levels than the majority of well-known manufacturers are willing to take theirs. They already either praise it or hide from it and it hasn't even seen the light of day yet.
 
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Nooooo!!! Why with the edge. He could have used the spine. O the insanity.
 
bld522 said:
Yep. And the crazy thing is, you don't have to reach all the way to INFI to get the kind of performance Busse is famous for. SR101 provides most of INFI's performance at the sacrifice of some corrosion resistance but at prices most folks can afford. And I have no doubt that Busse 1095 is going to be remarkably tough as well even though it will be taken to higher hardness levels than the majority of well-known manufacturers are willing to take theirs. They already either praise it or hide from it and it hasn't even seen the light of day yet.
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Sure -- but let's not get it twisted --- INFI is absolutely tougher than SR-101. For the most part I agree with everything else -- happy chopping!!
 
No argument there, particularly with respect to knives that require a great deal of toughness like big choppers, for instance. But in smaller knives where toughness isn't quite so crucial, SR101 quickly gains ground on INFI. And believe it or not, SR101 is pretty darn tough even in big choppers. For example:

https://youtu.be/B4NEkK-ehdo

I realize some folks may need more toughness than that. But honestly, SR101 provides all the toughness I need.

Where INFI never loses ground versus SR101 is corrosion resistance. And where it never gains ground is price.

All things considered (cost included), I'd say SR101 is the best all-around alloy Jerry makes. And I know I'm not the only one who feels that way. It's also the alloy that has traditionally trumped knives from other major manufacturers like ESEE and TOPS and Ontario/Ranger and Ka-Bar/Becker while crucially keeping prices in the same neighborhood as theirs. As far as I can tell, the only advantage knives from those other manufacturers have over SR101 knives is availability.

Given how expensive INFI is, I wouldn't be surprised if knives in SR101 don't outsell them on a unit basis. In fact, SR101 is such a great alloy that it makes me wonder why Jerry and Dan decided to produce knives in 1095 at all unless Jerry got a screaming deal on a dumpster full of it or he's just out to prove a point. One way or the other, you can already see the effect Busse 1095 is having on some of the key players in the industry. And the Trash 1 hasn't even been released yet.

PS: Jerry IS for real. He's been for real for a very long time . . .
 
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That was AWESOME Firestrike! Made me cringe even though I knew your TGLB would be fine after a little sharpening. :eek: --- :thumbup:

bld522 - I'm wondering if Dan & Jerry are getting into 1095 so they can get the Yard knives into almost anyone's hands. I hear a lot of "how expensive Busse/Kin are". At the current price, the knife is very accessible to most people, and its in the same price range as an ESEE 5 or ESEE 6.
 
evltcat said:
bld522 - I'm wondering if Dan & Jerry are getting into 1095 so they can get the Yard knives into almost anyone's hands. I hear a lot of "how expensive Busse/Kin are". At the current price, the knife is very accessible to most people, and its in the same price range as an ESEE 5 or ESEE 6.
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To do that, Jerry would have to change his distribution model. He hasn't done that before and I don't expect him to do it now.

My sense is that Jerry has constructed his world exactly the way he likes it. And if it ain't broke, there's no reason to fix it. ;)

To quote The Boss . . .

Let's Drink! :D
 
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evltcat said:
That was AWESOME Firestrike! Made me cringe even though I knew your TGLB would be fine after a little sharpening. :eek: --- :thumbup:
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Thanks...I got to admit beating my Busse was a satisfying as stealing a kids bag of Halloween candy :)
 
Agreed Cobalt!~!

I often find it difficult to explain to the uninitiated what Busse and INFI really is... Now I just tend to show them pictures of what Tyrade did with his MOABM... a $400 knife? How about hacking up what has to be 6 or 8 inch thick COPPER line... it was INSANE!
 
DaZ403 said:
Agreed Cobalt!~!

I often find it difficult to explain to the uninitiated what Busse and INFI really is... Now I just tend to show them pictures of what Tyrade did with his MOABM... a $400 knife? How about hacking up what has to be 6 or 8 inch thick COPPER line... it was INSANE!
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Where can I see this?

Also I believe that a Moabm has much more Infi behind the edge than a TGLB, my one in the video in particular has a super thin edge especially when compared to my newer TGLB which is at least twice as thick near the edge. I suspect almost nothing would have happened to the one in video had it been more like my new TGLB...Does not matter much though, as I will receive my KME on Tuesday and spend a little time to make it perfect again.

For the comment of sobering up and still loving Infi, I just ordered a SOB earlier :) so now I'm waiting on a RMD, Trash1, and a SOB....Damn all the waiting...........
 
People have done some pretty insane things with Battle Mistresses. I seem to remember someone chopping a toilet to pieces with one but I can't seem to find it. I also think there was a thread about somebody taking a Mistress to a bed frame. Needless to say, the Mistress won.

I'll keep looking . . .
 
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Cobalt said:
Yes it is painful to watch I agree. Every time I see people do this it reminds me of the QVC guy doing it and it was so funny. Of course, there i no concern with a Busse ever doing that, but it still reminds me of it:

[video=youtube;2kFgeZtkAb8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kFgeZtkAb8[/video]
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The funniest video ever IMHO. What a pinhead....
 
bld522 said:
People have done some pretty insane things with Battle Mistresses. I seem to remember someone chopping a toilet to pieces with one but I can't seem to find it. I also think there was a thread about somebody taking a Mistress to a bed frame. Needless to say, the Mistress won.

I'll keep looking . . .
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I know a local dude who demolished a toilet with a Crash Ax....
 
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