Deals for 3/10 -- Pix, Munk Cleaver Bowie, villagers and great buys

Look at all of us just watching.

btw, I don't care how it photographs- when you get the munk chunk in your hand, it is not awkward or out of place. It really is awesome, and it looks pretty damned noble too, in a Roman kind of way.

edit....I er...probably shouldn't have said 'munk chunk'....I er....meant the munk chunk cleaver
munk
 
Yeah, I bumped the other old thread as a joke ...

Never would have if I'd realized how soon after Yangdu would actually post today's DOTD. Sorry lads - was looking for a laugh, not to burn someone.

Tom.
 
hollowdweller said:
I want to see somebody do a head to head comparison of that Cleaver and the Busse Battle Mistress!:thumbup:
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well, how about this simple test? clamp a cleaver in a vice, edge up. use the BM's edge to smack really hard. do that a few times. then reverse the process.

now, spine to spine smashings... simulate some batoning.

next, attempting to cut rebar, steel pipe, and crushing cinderblocks and bricks with both.

then! hard smaxoring with the flat against rocks while tigging a trench.

finally! attempt to chop a tree down and mostly use them as prybars to do the work...

see which one holds up best. touch up the edges.

worst case: buy another cleaver, you're still way below cost on the BM ;)

i'd love to find a way to get a camillus/becker or bussee style coating on a HI kukri, esp a chiruwa style that i can have bolt on handles - coat the whole thing, sharpen, bolt on handle slabs - rough and ready :) rust CAN be an issue around here. it's moist a lot.

bladite
 
As wonderful and appropriate as leaf spring steel is for our khuks, I don't think one should expect equality with a semi custom knife costing many times more using modern steel formation. A test would be interesing with that understanding going in. And in some good ways, leaf spring will have features other steels will not.



munk
 
SASSAS said:
What's one of those Busse things cost anyway?
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that's the tricky part. it's hard to get hard facts from those mystics :)

weight, length, temper, materials... secrets, at least to the casual observer. you can only really obtain them used too ;) oh, and the prices? gah, if you know the SECRET website (http://www.bussecompanystore.com/knives.htm) actually lists prices/etc but i have no idea how that's linked from the main site. i tripped over it by accident.

the big guys, like the fusion battle mistress 2000? i've seen sell for $800+

bladite
 
Bladite said:
that's the tricky part. it's hard to get hard facts from those mystics :)

weight, length, temper, materials... secrets, at least to the casual observer. you can only really obtain them used too ;) oh, and the prices? gah, if you know the SECRET website (http://www.bussecompanystore.com/knives.htm) actually lists prices/etc but i have no idea how that's linked from the main site. i tripped over it by accident.

the big guys, like the fusion battle mistress 2000? i've seen sell for $800+

bladite
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Busses are beautiful. It's no wonder those guys are fanatics for them. But between the Randalls I lust after, some custom folders here and there, and now collecting some older custom Bowies, plus HI, I haven't got into them yet. Someday...

Norm
 
"Greed is Good." -Bri in Chi

Now, there's something you don't hear everyday. I don't recall anyone saying this here period. Now this, this is great. Why beat around the bush?

We've the hoarding mentality, the gold coin counting, the collection filling, GREED.


I admit it. It's true.


munk
 
Even Rusty, with his backup blades, and backup blades for the backups lest they fail too, I think would approve.

I can't help it- I want one of those ___________ too!

Greed Is Good.

munk
 
Greed does not equal collecting.
Collecting is good, greed - nah!

Frankly, I don't have such a high regard for "modern" steels when it comes to a large blade. When they get big, harder is not necessarily better. Workmanship and skill count for a lot.

I wouldn't trade an old Ruana for any Busse - and Ruana used OCS - Old Chevy Springs.

...Just wish that I had the Ruana that I gave to a friend for XMas years ago.
 
Frankly, I don't have such a high regard for "modern" steels when it comes to a large blade. When they get big, harder is not necessarily better. Workmanship and skill count for a lot.>>>>>>>> arty

I've thought that spring steel is best suited for khukuris. You do want to match materials to the job, right?
I learn a lot from this place and listening to you guys.


munk
 
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