Fatty?

Guyon

Guyon

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An enquiring mind wants to know...

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I would say that is a regular Mean Street. I have a 5/16" thick Desert Storm Mean Street that is a fatty. I believe the older standard Mean Streets were 1/4".
 
1/4" = standard.:cool:

Most "fatties" start at 0.270 and go up from there, from what I've seen.
 
Interesting,

A Call for a Standard Deffinition within Busse knife collecting for the Word

"Fatty"

I have seen alot of Busse knives from .273 to .300, mostly knives in the .29 range called "5/16ths"

Seven Years of arguing that 5/16ths is .3125 on a Micrometer and that while they do exist, they are Rare.

So Where does "Fatty" come into play as an Accurate Discriptive term ?

Seven or eight years ago, a Standard Battle Mistress was between .25 and .275 and anything larger than that got a little more attention.

In the Years 2000 and 2001 there were some Badger attacks shipped from the Factory that were a true .3125.

INFI Straight Steel Hearts from that time could be found from time to time with a Coated Thickness of .300(I recently got back one of those I sold as a dealer back then)

For me a "Fatty" INFI old Model Has to do with that particular Model.

A .300 Battle Mistress from 1997 to 2005 would be a real nice Find.

A .300 INFI Steel Heart is Cool but I have seen More of those.

A .300 INFI Badger Causes a certain amout of sexual excitment around here.

A .300 INFI Mean Steet would most Deffinetly get called a Fatty.

Fatty A-2 knives seem to me to be a bit more commonly found.
 
papathud said:
Interesting,

A Call for a Standard Deffinition within Busse knife collecting for the Word

"Fatty"

I have seen alot of Busse knives from .273 to .300, mostly knives in the .29 range called "5/16ths"

Seven Years of arguing that 5/16ths is .3125 on a Micrometer and that while they do exist, they are Rare.

So Where does "Fatty" come into play as an Accurate Discriptive term ?

Seven or eight years ago, a Standard Battle Mistress was between .25 and .275 and anything larger than that got a little more attention.

In the Years 2000 and 2001 there were some Badger attacks shipped from the Factory that were a true .3125.

INFI Straight Steel Hearts from that time could be found from time to time with a Coated Thickness of .300(I recently got back one of those I sold as a dealer back then)

For me a "Fatty" INFI old Model Has to do with that particular Model.

A .300 Battle Mistress from 1997 to 2005 would be a real nice Find.

A .300 INFI Steel Heart is Cool but I have seen More of those.

A .300 INFI Badger Causes a certain amout of sexual excitment around here.

A .300 INFI Mean Steet would most Deffinetly get called a Fatty.

Fatty A-2 knives seem to me to be a bit more commonly found.
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Good answer, you always had one at the shows I attended. I know you had to put up with a lot of crazy non-INFI loving know it all cocky people out there. Hope you made it out of Cali. I sure did!:thumbup:
 
Andre-

Great clarification. I've always considered anything at .275 or below NOT a fatty, and anything over .300 as a definite fatty.

The grey area has always been in between .275 and .300. I pretty much gave the benefit of the doubt to .290 and up and called those fatty's too. Your insight on the relative rarity by model really helps to clarify.
 
Since I got some calipers, the one in the pic is coming in at .275, right at the beginning of roppda's "gray area."
 
Guyon said:
Since I got some calipers, the one in the pic is coming in at .275, right at the beginning of roppda's "gray area."
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Guyon, Thanks for inquiring. My lonely DWMS measures right about .275" as well and had heard it referred to as a "Fatty". It is described this way on Bad Mojo so thought it was probably accurate to call it such. Now I am wondering.

papathud, Thanks for the in depth response. I don't know if there were any DWMS blades thicker than .275"..... would you happen to know...... or maybe thatmguy would know??

Thanks,
RWH
 
I do remember a few of them being a bit "Thick"

I also just happen to have the Phone Number of an Airforce Sgt. that got one.

I will give him a Call and see if he has access to a Micrometer.
 
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