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'Precious' comes to visit.
Preface: I would truly like to thank Dave (Mulder) for this opportunity to handle this legendary Busse blade for a while and see how the quality of Busse knives has been maintained since the very beginning.
Busse Blade Nomenclature:
SHSH - Straight Handled Steel Heart (0.25" nominal)
FSH CG - Fusion Steel Heart Combat Grade (0.250" nominal) NOT!
HOGFSH - HEAVY ORDINANCE GRADE FUSION STEEL HEART (0.321 measured)
SH-E - Steel Heart Ergo (0.025 nominal)
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All blades are INFI steel.
Saturday 28, February 2009, the SHSH Pass-around blade arrives at my door. It's raining and there are thundershowers rattling the windows so I could only look forward to freeing Precious from her box. Of course I found her wrapped like a king's crown in a well packed chest. I had been informed that the blade was arriving without any touch-up from the former participant so I examined the edge closely.
I gave her a few passes on various grits of sandpaper but the spot in the edge didn't get much smaller.
Well, right about dusk the weather cleared up and I took the pole saw and cut off a 5' long piece of limb from a dogwood that I will be removing soon.
The limb was about 3-1/2" on one end and about 2-1/2" on the other and crooked like dogwood limbs are. The bottom side of the limb was dead and hard where the top was still live and green. I had to get a little action in with Precious so I sat at the splitting stump and de-barked the whole limb just to get the feel of her.
The base of the blade didn't have much wear and had a near perfect edge so nice big chunks of bark and knots came off with that part. The 'sweet spot', definitely sweet, cruised through bark and knots with ease. The very tip area, of course, took a bit of a steep angle to get a bite but in the curves it did its thing well. The bad spot didn't have any real problem with the bark on the green wood but I really had to lay in at a steep angle to get a bite in the dead hard wood. I could hear the difference in the wood when I chopped into the dead wood with the bad spot. I cleaned up the ends and called it a day since it was getting too dark to swing sharp things and I was thirstin' for a Sierra Nevada Stout anyhoo.
Preface: I would truly like to thank Dave (Mulder) for this opportunity to handle this legendary Busse blade for a while and see how the quality of Busse knives has been maintained since the very beginning.
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Busse Blade Nomenclature:
SHSH - Straight Handled Steel Heart (0.25" nominal)
FSH CG - Fusion Steel Heart Combat Grade (0.250" nominal) NOT!
HOGFSH - HEAVY ORDINANCE GRADE FUSION STEEL HEART (0.321 measured)
SH-E - Steel Heart Ergo (0.025 nominal)
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All blades are INFI steel.
Saturday 28, February 2009, the SHSH Pass-around blade arrives at my door. It's raining and there are thundershowers rattling the windows so I could only look forward to freeing Precious from her box. Of course I found her wrapped like a king's crown in a well packed chest. I had been informed that the blade was arriving without any touch-up from the former participant so I examined the edge closely.
I gave her a few passes on various grits of sandpaper but the spot in the edge didn't get much smaller.
Well, right about dusk the weather cleared up and I took the pole saw and cut off a 5' long piece of limb from a dogwood that I will be removing soon.
The limb was about 3-1/2" on one end and about 2-1/2" on the other and crooked like dogwood limbs are. The bottom side of the limb was dead and hard where the top was still live and green. I had to get a little action in with Precious so I sat at the splitting stump and de-barked the whole limb just to get the feel of her.
The base of the blade didn't have much wear and had a near perfect edge so nice big chunks of bark and knots came off with that part. The 'sweet spot', definitely sweet, cruised through bark and knots with ease. The very tip area, of course, took a bit of a steep angle to get a bite but in the curves it did its thing well. The bad spot didn't have any real problem with the bark on the green wood but I really had to lay in at a steep angle to get a bite in the dead hard wood. I could hear the difference in the wood when I chopped into the dead wood with the bad spot. I cleaned up the ends and called it a day since it was getting too dark to swing sharp things and I was thirstin' for a Sierra Nevada Stout anyhoo.
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the FSH sheath is kind of an oldie as well.
