FBMLE vs Empty whisky bottle

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Hi guys, Title say it all. I use my FBMLE & just one swipe took the neck of the empty Chival Regal bottle clean off! To my surprise the blade suffered a little roll & some tiny chips. Is whisky bottle that hard? Check the picture of the blade & tell me do you think it need re-sharpen? Sorry did not have the action shot
 
I would try stropping it with some leather. denim would probably work in a pinch. looks to me like it will come right back into line.
 
Hi guys, Is whisky bottle that hard? Check the picture of the blade & tell me do you think it need re-sharpen? Sorry did not have the action shot

Dude..... is glass hard? Ahh YES!! About as hard as it gets!

Should it be resharpened? Yes for sure! There are some good posts recently telling how.
 
Glass IS harder than most steel.. AND, as such, it is more brittle at the same time.

That is why you can't scratch glass with a knife.. Quartz is slightly harder than glass, hence the reason it WILL scratch glass.

What you did was use a great deal of force against the neck of the bottle, focused onto a very small area (the edge of the blade) and it BROKE the glass.

Thank You Geology 101..
 
Rescue Mike is quite correct.

Not like he needed to hear a scientist to know that...

Somewhere back in the lab I have a homemade sapphire scalpel -- hand grown, by yours truly, from EFG sapphire boule. A cool little tool...but as brittle as all hell. By the time I put it aside, I'd chipped about 30% of the edge.

Sharp as the very dickens, though! A nice conversation piece.
 
Somewhere back in the lab I have a homemade sapphire scalpel -- hand grown, by yours truly, from EFG sapphire boule. A cool little tool...but as brittle as all hell. By the time I put it aside, I'd chipped about 30% of the edge.

Sharp as the very dickens, though! A nice conversation piece.


Thats AWESOME! I'd like to hear more about that sometime! :thumbup:
How were you able to get an edge on it... Is it kinda like flint knapping? :confused:
 
Rescue Mike is quite correct.

Not like he needed to hear a scientist to know that...

Somewhere back in the lab I have a homemade sapphire scalpel -- hand grown, by yours truly, from EFG sapphire boule. A cool little tool...but as brittle as all hell. By the time I put it aside, I'd chipped about 30% of the edge.

Sharp as the very dickens, though! A nice conversation piece.

Pictures, Professor! We want pics! :D
 
I hear Lynard Skynard singin:

Whiskey bottles, and FBM's
Oak trees can't get in your way
Ya smacked the neck. hey what the heck?!
Look what's happened to that edge nowwwwwww
Ooooh that roll
Can't you see that roll?
Ooooh that roll
The roll that confounds youuuuuuuu.
 
I hear Lynard Skynard singin:

Whiskey bottles, and FBM's
Oak trees can't get in your way
Ya smacked the neck. hey what the heck?!
Look what's happened to that edge nowwwwwww
Ooooh that roll
Can't you see that roll?
Ooooh that roll
The roll that confounds youuuuuuuu.

LMFAO!!! :D
 
Thats AWESOME! I'd like to hear more about that sometime! :thumbup:
How were you able to get an edge on it... Is it kinda like flint knapping? :confused:

Same here! I think you should start a thread on that one of these days. Get technical please, , I'd love to know all about it!
 
I thought INFI would chop bricks without fracture, just roll?
Still waiting on mine......
 
Whiskey bottles with Busse's...is that a step or a step down from champagne bottles with sabers?:confused:
 
You mean glass is INFI's Weakness:eek: :eek:

i knew glass was a hard mother, but didnt know it would do that to an edge. Well I guess you learn something new everyday.
 
could you get a better photo than that m10commander? it really looks to me like the edge just rolled. I wouldn't count glass as a weakness myself. That edge can be fixed ridiculously quick.
 
Anybody remember the opening scene of Big Trouble in Little China? Double or nothing, Jack. When I picked up my first Busse, a Heavy Heart, that scene came to mind. He tries to cut a beer bottle in half with a cleaver.
 
Guys, Thanks for all replies! I know it was kind of stupid of me but I would not try it with any other lesser knife! To me the small roll & tiny chip are no big deal because I just want to know how tough is the edge & I bought it as a user not safe queen! Anyway I posted a close-up on the roll & chips.
 
Consider that a brick is a bunch of tiny little rocks held together with mortar (like a hard dried mud). You can break away the mortor with reletively little force, making the concentrated force of the individual rocks less. Chop one solid rock, and you get a different experience.

That glass is one chunk of glass structure, more likely to shatter from the force then it is to actually take surface damage. The force it takes to shatter the glass is likely to be more then the force needed to chip away peices of a brick.

Glass will most certainly roll, mash, and dent busse's edge. Though INFI is 60rc, its a meleable 60rc, wich is what makes it so wonderful for heavy abuse - the fact that it will dent and roll instead of chip.

INFI blades are not invincible, and will actually roll and dent fairly easily on hard targets like staples and rocks and glass. It shouldnt roll or dent excessively, but likewise it's not an immovable adamantium metal.

Heck, I rolled the edge of my HOGFBMLE on alluminum cans. If you concentrate enough force on a small enough area of the edge, you'll move metal even if the target is a lower rc then the blade.



If your blade actually chipped - there's something wrong with it. The metal should have mushroomed out around the dented areas, or rolled to the side, or been pushed to the side. there shouldnt be missing metal unless it was literally torn off the blade, wich I don't think would have happened from what you described.
 
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