CBT (Corrugated Bevel Technology)

i'm pretty sure it's cnc. don't quote me but i think that's how it's done.
 
no idea. my WAG is that it's milled into otherwise plain blanks.

interesting question though.
 
Water Jet = cutting the blank shape of the knife out of a piece of bar or plate stock using abrasive water jet cutters. This is a 2 or 3 axis cnc process that uses emory powder (abrasive) and water shot through a very small orifice at high pressure. Abrasive water cutters are more efficient than straight water cutters. The process is also used in the food industry with water or oil to cut things like bread.

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Blanchard grinding = flattening out the sides of the stock/blanks to make them a uniform thickness using a giant grinding head. Busse used to do this, you'll hear it in reference to the zero tolerance series which was a blanchard grinding mistake (he asked for a different thickness then he received, or vice versa). I'm not sure if they still do.

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cnc milling = using a 3, 4, 5 or 6 axis mill to remove metal using a cutting tool such as a ball end mill. This is whats done to create the bevels on the knives. Normally you might use a fly cutter or an shell end mill to create a flat surface, if you use a ball end mill you get a series of grooves. 'cbt' is a milling process.

I think it was fadal's that I saw in the images posted of the busse production floor...
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dingy said:
why not forge ?
forging is a good way to make knives , can let them get more flexiblity and strengh.


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Forging doesn't produce the finish seen on Busse knives, and IMO if INFI was forged, it would not have any advantages.
 
dingy said:
why not forge ?
forging is a good way to make knives , can let them get more flexibility and strengh.


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Because basically the steel that is being produced is such high quality, with such tight quality control, with such a high tech heat treat and cryo treatment, you would not get any benefit from forging strength wise.

What forging really allows is you can use less material to get the end result.

Stock removal, by definition takes some stock off, so you are wasting some of the material.

Modern steel production basically gives you all the benefits and more, than you would accomplish by forging the same material.


I love hand forged......don't get me wrong. Nothing like a hand forged blade, especially with a sweet Hamon, but I don't think it would give you any strength or performance benefits in Infi!
 
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