In terms of the needs of bushcraft, a lot of the qualities of Busse knives and Infisteel are pointless. Keep in mind, bushcraft is not synonymous with survival and the needs are different for each. I have thrashed the hell out of a Mora, btw. I have used a steel hammer to baton it through Eastern Hornbeam with no problems. It's one of the shortest tanged models too.
I'm not coming into the Busse home to talk trash. I think they make great knives, but they aren't really optimized for bushcraft. The main purpose if a bushcraft knife is wood working, which even in Barrabas' review the AD needed work to do well. But that's not a bad thing, unless your intent was to use if for this purpose. A tool the price of the SBT or AD should be ready for it's intended duty as soon as it leaves the factory, right? And they are.
You're not wrong in using the AD as a bushcraft either. It's a fine knife, and I'm glad you're happy with it.
The Fairbairn-Sykes knife doesn't get much play in the W&S forum either. I bet you could make some feather sticks with one of those too...
first, just to clarify regarding your penultimate sentence above:
i'm not the original poster, and i myself don't own a busse ad nor any busse - at least not yet - and due to disability am no longer able to actively practice any extended outdoor activities which might be defined as 'bushcraft'.... i simply found the op's review as a nice, refreshing change from the more typical bushcrafter's opinion that the busse/infi phenomenon is little more than hype....
having said this i also see your point... to a errrr... point hehe....
i suppose our potential differences of opinion here, regarding whether a busse/infi blade makes a good bushcraft tool or not, lie
primarily with what one defines as the so-called 'bushcraft', but not exclusively... to some, it'll very much encompass the hard core, extreme aspects of survival/sere scenarios [shelter construction from scratch, food procurement, obtaining various resources from nature/environment, complete game dressing, weapon/hunting tool if neccessary, et al]... for others it'll be more akin to wilderness camping/field activities with far more resources already on hand.... i [as a non-practicing laic] myself define it broadly, to include the former and thus, unless one has an axe or another h/d blade/tool also on hand, in an extreme scenario where a small blade would be one's primary useful tool i'd pick a busse ad over a mora [or over any blade which isn't constructed to bulletproof standards] anyday, everytime...
as i've stated above already in different terms, if one can use a sub $20 knife to slice, cut, chop, split, drill, pry and hammer his way through an extreme scenario without damaging the knife, more power to him...
if one defines 'bushcraft' as you do, then a mora blade will likely be a more comfortable tool for most tasks... especially if one has a h/d back up tool for real chopping/splitting/prying....
i think that the op made a point that he loves his ad as an 'edc' which can also do a bang up job as a bushcraft tool... and, it's a far more versatile blade than just for a single purpose too.... although i might be wrong, i don't want to put words in his mind he didn't say hehe...
it's a busse forum, he thought busse folk would find his review of interest [i did, and i'm still a busse ignoramus] so he posted a link here... i commented that i found it informative and dig the fact that unlike many - albeit not all - other bushcraft enthusiiasts, here's one who absolutely loves his infi blade.... if i wanted to start a flame war, i'd post my comment under a dedicated bushcraft forum, or even under his original review.... i wasn't looking to start an argument or a discussion....
as far as hammering a mora with a steel hammer....nothing against moras, but i'd take a busse-kin [in fact i'd go with many other 4" - 6" blades over it, such as those by esee, bark river and even a particular cs, benchmade or ka-bar model] anyday for a single all around blade choice and wouldn't regret it.... to each his own and although i have nowhere near the practical experience in bush/field for extended time as many bushcrafters do, i have a personality that's more 'sere/survival' oriented.... and just to throw the fairbairn-sykes dagger argument around [hehe, i just love a logical argument] vs. the hammering of mora.... look, one could hammer a well honed stainless steel butter knife through a proportionally sized log if one did it keeping the weak points of such a crappy 'tool' in mind... that doesn't make a butter knife as rugged a tool//knife as a busse.... or a mora even, just to make the point... and if honed to extremely sharp edge wiith a belt sander, one could slice some impressive feathersticks with it too... for a short while anyway... but a bleedin' butter knife is rarely a choice mentioned as a tool in ANY knife forums either; save for some culinary/table manners ones i suppose... i'm throwing this back at you only because i don't dig many such 'analogous examples' often quoted by either of sides in similar polemics on-line... it doesn't prove any point because using variations of such examples one can easily make a point for either side, using flawed logic....
i get it, a thicker busse blade with tough infi [that isn't the best choice for frequent razor sharp, intricate slicing], will not be the perfect tool for many exact, inticate cutting that's part of the so-called bushcraft [not by my definition of it].... afaik, it isn't its main design goal either... a sharp mora might very well be a better choice for most in such a scenario at 1/20th the price....
but.... for an extended, hard core out in the sticks scenario where one is faced with having only a single blade to depend on any tasks involved, to choose a mora over a much more rugged blade [busse, et alia] even in similar size is simply illogical imo so i'll allways disagree with those who think that busse product is a hype...or that any blade longer than 4" or thicker than a mora is a silly excess... the icons of bushcrafting [ray mears, kochanski or even cody lunden] opinions notwithstanding.... they might well be served completely with having only a short and relatively thin blade out in the sticks through mastering the art of doing most with the least, but i'll be able to do a lot more with a more rugged blade to keep my stupid ass alive than i could with a mora; or a similar knife design....
co-incidentally, i'm still awaiting my first busse/infi as i've placed an order for one only recently.... and until i'll find one particular moodel that will best fit my definition of a rugged 'one' knife, my current favorite all around bushcraft/survivor/field blade is bark river's bravo 1; in 3v steel... not much larger than a mid to large size mora but hell of a lot 'mora' [sorry, couldn't resist a silly pun] rugged and versatile imo.... but since it's just a tad too long overall to edc in my waist pack, at present i edc an izula... that little but mighty thing could keep up with moras in most tasks yet take on some real h/d ones that would likely render a mora damaged/broken past the tang.... i also have a wetterlings half-axe, refinished by bark river and i'd choose to have that with me anytime i'd be out in the sticks as much as any blade.... but that's just digressing....
damn, i really didn't want this to turn into the ubiquitous, typical mora vs [insert here any name/model of esee, busse, brkt, black blade, etc.] debate.... there will NEVER be a winner in such because it's purely subjective..... and i apologize for hijacking this post i probably just should've kept silent hehe.......
)that's another good point of the advantage of the AD, given this specific conversation..I have the option to take it as low as I want..conversely..I don't have that ability with a scandi...I can't add more steel behind that edge to give more resilience..not trying to be argumenative here, just stressing it's all a matter of perspective..and from my perspective, I think the AD is the perfect EDC, and provides the versatility I have been looking for, given a one blade scenario where you don't have the options to have many specialized tools..I posted over there because it is a survival forum as well..(where I have learned, and continue to learn so much from) and when considering a potential "survival situation"..where despite what we like to think, more than likely what we have on us, at the time of a need, is what we have to survive with, not the things that we have to get too..another reason why the AD is a winner in my book..it is here, not in a BOB, not in the trunk..it can support me now, if/when I need it, with a profile that meets (again IMHO) many different potential cutting needs of various types.
..we are just sharing perspectives, and I am the wiser for hearing yours..we are cool, my man.
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