Edge retention of INFI on gritty materials

[Cobalt]

By the Way.

Safety Glasses were worn.

I also have every intention of doing some really Stupid things with with an American Kensi, just to see how far I can trust one, then I intend to carry one instead of a big knife in the woods, but first I need to practice Big knife skill sets with one, I am confident it will handle small knife jobs better than the Straight Battle Mistress.

I already know it will clean and Fillet small fish better and fits better in a peanut Butter jar.

Both are a lot of work to peel potatoes, but with the AK you just hold the sword still and move the potato.

again I disagree here. The blade geometry of the SHBM is considerably better than the AK by a wide margin. So cutting chores will be better suited to the SHBM, IMO. The big stuff, only because of the extra size does the AK win. Try hiding one n a pack though.

As for strider's use, again it does not match what I have read not just in cliffs review but in other reviews were striders have broken. In fact in Noss destruction test the Strider gave up fairly quick. And here is a recent quote of another strider that gave up quick. Again, your experience just does not match what I see. And I have used many INFI blades. 3 to 4 SHBM's, 1 SHSH, 1 SH-E and BM-E all got used for differing things.

Cliff, sorry for the late reply to this thread. I lost touch with it! The Strider was one of the earlier tanto style blades with the cord wrapped handle, approx. 6" blade. And I was batoning with a piece of wood that was from the same tree into a limb from that tree. The blade broke about 2" from the tip. My buddy was alittle put out, but he said that the company had a great rep for blade replacement. I never followed up on the outcome of that knife. I was showing him the benefits of batoning with my Busse SFNO, and he wanted to see if the tanto could be used for similiar tasks. And it broke. I also tested some other blades (some with ATS-34) that held up very well and that led me to believe that the knife had some defect in the blade material.

Edited to add that I found pics from an old concrete chopping fun someone had with their BM-E, not sure who, but I remember it. Here are the pics, wow look at the edge damage

 

[papathud]

Cobalt,

I do not know how that AK will perform big knife Tasks.

I think the greater length could be handy in the woods.

It will take using it for the tasks to see how it works as a big Camp knife.

I also need to see how Badly it gets in the way moving in the woods.

All of the small knife Tasks I have used it for so far have been in the Kitchen.

So some Camp ground tasks need to be tried with it before I actually take an AK for a walk in the woods, I would have done that at my house, in the Back yard, but I sold my house before I got my first batch of AKs.

In the above post I listed the knives I used in that particular task.

I have used some where around a lot (not very scientific) of Busse knives over the years.

Not just owned, used, that's why I include those knives owned by others.

Let me see, I have used, combining my own knives as well as others, at least 8 Straight Battle Mistress, 7 Straight Steel Hearts, maybe 10 Straight Badgers, five Mean Streets, three Police recruits, two After shocks, 4 Mr. Mojos and one Mini mojo,Two Straight Battle Mistress Variants, 4 Straight Steel heart Variants, one Straight Badger Variant,one Police Recruit Variant,
5 BMEs,15 or more SHEs, 3 NOEs,5 BAEs, 1 GWE(just to shave with, my face that is) 3 BME variants 2 SHE variants, 1 ZTMB,1 ZTSH,2ZTNOs, 6 assault Shakers, one Combat Recruit,4 Skeleton keys, one N.I.C.K, and a Bunch of Basics.

edited to add,

One Pork Belly Skinner and Two AKs, just kitchen use, so far.

These are the ones that I remember, prolly more than a few I have forgotten about.

The knives are each different enough to be an individual, but similar enough to get an idea(or at least to form an opinion on) how each style of knife is supposed to fit into the group as a whole.

Part of what I did while I was a Dealer was to practice the same knife skills with as many Different Busse knives as possible so I could give an informed opinion when people wanted to know what a particular knife was good for.

I also loaned out knives and watched other people use them, some times 5 or 6 at a time, to both Help some Young men learn working skills with knives, but also to get an idea how people who where not used to using knives would use their new Busse.

This gave me knowledge to pass on to first time big knife users.

It was commented many times that I was more interested in playing with and Talking about Busse knives more that I was in Selling them.

I still do this today, I get email pretty regularly about these knives, and I tend to get on the phone and talk to people about them, and the little bit of history that goes along with the knives.

 

[papathud]

Back then when I heard or read something about a Busse knife that Raised a Question in my mind, I picked up a knife of the model in question and settled the question for my self, being a dealer at the time I thought that was the best way to deal with it,

Fun Too.

Also people sent me knives to put to particlar tasks and then to report to them how the knife in question performed, some times it was just to see if the knife in question could be sharpened, other times it was things like tip Strength, or would that particular knife stand up to being thrown, a couple hundred times.

I got some odd requests,

Did I mention, it was Fun Too?

 

[mikeymoto]

Sounds like a lot of fun!

 

[Cobalt]

Let me see, I have used, combining my own knives as well as others, at least 8 Straight Battle Mistress, 7 Straight Steel Hearts, maybe 10 Straight Badgers, five Mean Streets, three Police recruits, two After shocks, 4 Mr. Mojos and one Mini mojo,Two Straight Battle Mistress Variants, 4 Straight Steel heart Variants, one Straight Badger Variant,one Police Recruit Variant,
5 BMEs,15 or more SHEs, 3 NOEs,5 BAEs, 1 GWE(just to shave with, my face that is) 3 BME variants 2 SHE variants, 1 ZTMB,1 ZTSH,2ZTNOs, 6 assault Shakers, one Combat Recruit,4 Skeleton keys, one N.I.C.K, and a Bunch of Basics.
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All I can say to that is....YOU SUCK

 

[papathud]

All part of the job at the time, Good work if you can get it too.

People still send me knives to check out, I got to see another Ghost that way, I took a Bunch of Pictures of it with mine, spent a bunch of time on the phone, then sent it back, by its self.

People looking at Bad Mojo send me a fair bit of email.