Frozen wood vs sarsquatch. The wood won, by a lot

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Now this gets straight to the point. There is no way on earth you can beat the Busse Warranty:thumbup:
Jerry Busse said:

We have NEVER refused to fix or replace any Busse knife for free. . . . Never Ever!!!!!. . . . No matter what the circumstances. . . . . :thumbup:


Send it to:

Busse Combat Knife Co.
Attn. Big Drunk Guy
11651 Co. Rd. 12
Wauseon, OH 43567

Thanks man!!!!

Jerry :D



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Attn. Big Drunk Guy, AKA/the Boss Man Himself. Sounds like this one's getting top priority, straight to the big man himself. I'd say it does'nt get any better than that! What more could one ask for, and that's why were all here. :thumbup: :thumbup: :)
 
fitzOdaggers said:
Warranties are tricky... take Ruger for example. They have no stated warranty but their customer service is awesome and if anything breaks they fix it quick.

My two cents is that we should follow Amy's advice and be cool. While i am sure that Jerry will take care of the blade i would be surprized if we got a message like this from him here:

Holy Oinkin' Yowza!!! No Worries.... Send It In and i promise that i will fix it sight unseen regardless of what you did to it!!!
....Lets Drink!!

more likely he will say "send it in" and deal with it privately. Otherwise there will be precedence for when someone (not as skilled as 230) messes up their own edge with a Walmart belt sander and tries to chop down a brick wall...

i kinda like it...squatches are ugly anyway....230's has more style now!..lol
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WOW:eek:

I stand corrected:foot::foot::o

Jerry is the man! i feel even more comfortable knowing i can basically do whatever i want and Busse will make it right:thumbup::thumbup:
 
Jerry Busse said:

We have NEVER refused to fix or replace any Busse knife for free. . . . Never Ever!!!!!. . . . No matter what the circumstances. . . . . :thumbup:


Send it to:

Busse Combat Knife Co.
Attn. Big Drunk Guy
11651 Co. Rd. 12
Wauseon, OH 43567

Thanks man!!!!

Jerry :D



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Cpl Punishment said:
Just in 230's defense, I've chipped out full size axes, made of S7 steel chopping frozen wood. That can be some nasty stuff. It obviously rolled and misformed the edge, but at least it didn't chip out or form structural cracks (that we can see, anyway). Hey sh*t happens, and as nice as INFI is, it isn't invincible.
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It mostly rolled, but there was a lot of chipping in spots, mainly where the rolls were.

There was so much damage because I wasn't checking the knife at all. Chopping/batoning, then just throwing the knife on the side on the ice and grabbing more wood. The edge was thinned, like I said, but it was going through non frozen wood just fine when I first tested it after reprofiling. The frozen wood + twisting + angled cuts did it in.

I'm going to send it in to jerry and see what he thinks.
 
I have zero experience chopping frozen wood, but I would not be surpised if that happened to any of my really sharp Busses. I am pretty sure that is why most Busses, except for the CE ones, come with more robust edges. We just don't worry about frozen wood in south Georgia. If it were mine, I'd just regrind the edge to a bigger angle. You have plenty of steel left on that wide blade. Or let Busse do it. Either way, I bet that fixes the problem.
 
Horn Dog said:
I have zero experience chopping frozen wood, but I would not be surpised if that happened to any of my really sharp Busses. I am pretty sure that is why most Busses, except for the CE ones, come with more robust edges. We just don't worry about frozen wood in south Georgia. If it were mine, I'd just regrind the edge to a bigger angle. You have plenty of steel left on that wide blade. Or let Busse do it. Either way, I bet that fixes the problem.
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i already reground it some but jerry said to send it in so i will anyway.
 
I'm kind of new around here, but when I was up in Montana in December with my Tank Buster and Bushwacker I beat them silly on wood that was definitely frozen. I cut down an entire tree that had the roots wash out a couple months earlier and then cut it down to 18" logs and batonned a few for fun. Both knives had the factory edges on them and neither were any worse off afterward than before. Heck, there was no marks at all on the edges, but they weren't popping hairs as easily. In fact, the only problem I had with either was when my dogs knocked my TB off from it's assigned photo pose on the fence and it fell edge first onto a rock. :eek: It slightly rolled the edge in one spot but it straightened out when I ran my Smith's $9 pocket sharpener over it and I can barely see where it happened now.

At the time I tested these a few days after Christmas, it was down to -5*F the night before and at the time of said beating it was about 10*F. In fact, it hadn't been above 32*F for over a week and the Clark Fork River was almost completely frozen over, so it proved to me what the sub-zero properties of INFI are. Needless to say I was impressed and since then I have invested in A LOT more of it! I don't mind in the least spending decent money on decent American made products that do what they say and when it doesn't is promptly corrected with excellent customer service. My family thinks I am crazy to spend this much on knives, but I just smile and think more for me. :cool:

The test also helped me to learn the hotspots on my BWM's pumpkin handle REAL quick and I have since sanded it down to smooth them out and it feels much better, but I still like the TAC and Fusion handle shapes better.

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230grains said:
...The edge was thinned, like I said, but it was going through non frozen wood just fine when I first tested it after reprofiling. The frozen wood + twisting + angled cuts did it in. ...
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Thanks for the report. I read your other thread on 'Sharpest Busses' and I gotta say if that's the worst I can expect with the thinnest edge possible on frozen wood, I'm a happy camper. I've seen too many pics of the oddball ReconScout, Becker-X, and D2Rat-7 in several broken pieces due to failed attempts at batoning. :thumbup:
 
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On a seperate note ... a way to check sappy wood for being frozen and harder to baton than you might expect is to touch it with the tip of your tongue ... old wood will have no "sticking" sensation like with ice ... newer wood with moisture in it will feel sticky ... like the effect with an ice lolly ...obviously you need to trim the bark back a bit before doing the test ...[/QUOTE]

This test works great for metal flag pole too!
 
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