does the busse INFi easily rust?

not easily. but it is steel, therefore it can rust.
Do a search on the Busse Combat forum here for "rust" and you might come up with something, but from what I've heard from other owners, it's pretty resistant.
 
Yah. Infi rusts. I'd say that it's of about the same rust resistance as my 52100 Marbles. That's not bad compared to some of my carbon steel knives, but nothing like a stainless steel.
 
is the INFI high carbon steel?My coldsteel carbon v have rusted due to center China's rain season:(
 
Of course it will rust like any carbon steel. That's the trade off for the performance benefits of carbon steel. Take care.
 
Fred hardly all carbon steels rust the same way. Some like L6 can corrode so fast you can see it happening while you eat an apple. The plain carbon steels also rust very rapidly.

Some like INFI can take salt water soaks with little more effect than minor spotting. The 52100 I have used, including Swamp Rat, several customs, will corrode much faster than INFI, all my 52100 bare blades quickly picked up patinas, my BM still looks like new, and I don't polish it.

In fact most stainless steels I have used like ATS-34, VG-10 etc., while strongly resisting surface corrosion (will not patina pretty much at all) don't hold up to salt water soaks as well as INFI because they will pit extensively. The really rust resistant ones like AISI-420 will however.

-Cliff
 
could u tell me about the means of protecting kives from moisture?i use tuf,but it show that it don't effect perfectly on TRAILMATER:(
 
There is nothing you can put on knives that will protect them from rusting if the blade is used. As soon as even soft materials are cut, any oil or protectant is almost immediately abraded off. I have tried many, and it takes just a few minutes of cutting even soft vegetation to remove any rust inhibitor.

The solution is that you need to ideally rinse, dry and apply some kind of oil after any use, if you intend to stop for an extended period of time. If you are working without breaks, rust can't form as it keeps getting abraded off. But as soon as you stop, the moisture, acids and juices that have collected on the blade will start to eat away at it.

Of course you could have the blade coated, Bodycote for example, but this doesn't protect the edge at all.

-Cliff
 
To be fair, it may have been the finish on the blade that caused the corrosion on my Busse. The knife was not exactly finished beautifully. Although it was a satin finished blade, it still had many pits. None of my 52100 Marbles knives had pits in the finish.
 
yes.
don't use your knife and coat it thickly with silicone grease.
other than that... sorry, you might want to consider getting a stainless steel knife to use, since you're working in a corrosive climate
 
Infi will rust, but not as badly or deeply as many other steels and often you can just wipe the surface corrosion off.
Carbon V rusts worse, and actually that's one reason why I switched from my venerable CS Trailmaster Carbon V to Busses
for hard use adverse conditions.
I found 440V pretty disappointing in a salt water environment. I switched to stellite and talonite, but they are too soft for high impact, especially in bigger knives.
Cliff is absolutely right about rust prevention applications. I've tried Tuff Cloth, Marine Tuff Cloth, Ren Wax, oils etc and nothing will bear up under use. That's why coatings are a good idea for high carbon knives. I'm afraid that, subject to these coatings, you just have to bear the patina and spots with pride, like the scuffs on your boots, the scars on your hands and the wrinkles in your weather-beaten face. :)
 
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