Fusion handle design

Cpl Punishment

Cpl Punishment

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I noticed something whilst out beating the hell out of my CGFBM yesterday.

The Fusion handle seem to almost force one of two grips.
1.) Hand back, pinky behind the pommel, for a loose chopping grip.
2.) Hand forward, index finger in choil.

They don't seem to be quite as comfortable in a hammer grip like I see most people hold them.

Were they specifically designed to promote the proper grips for use, or is it just an artifact of my hand geometry?
 
Not sure. When I use my BM for chopping I keep my hand in the handle like normal. Feels great to me. Although, if I was to use it for slicing the bark off a stick or something more fine, I would utilize the choil.
 
it was designed to have two seperate zones, the forward micarta having a wider deeper pattern cut into it to help grip, and the rear micarta having the finer shallower diamond pattern to keep it from bitting into your hand during chopping. I don't know if it was designed to force you into one or the other though.
 
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i don't know about forcing one grip or another, but for me it was only comfortable holding it as far up as possible not using the choil
 
I've noticed the same thing, the hand being forced either behind or in front of the swell. The middle of the handle is just too fat for me to get a really solid grip on, but thats ok because when I'm chopping I like to grab the very end of the handle, and when I'm not chopping I'm using a different knife :P
 
I've got 3 grips. The squished pinky grip (inside, not behind the butt), the normal grip and the choil'd grip.

I have a bigger problem with teh SF handle. That just doesn't feel as comfortable as it looks.
 
I don't have a problem using any of the handle designs I've tried. Fusion is definitely one of my favorites though, especially in the plain ol' hand on the slabs position.
 
Really? Wow.
For use on a fighting knife, like the Hellrazor, I find the SF grip to be perfect. Maybe not as a woods knife for a chopper (which the HR isn't anyway), but for a fighter?

Which is what surprised me about the Fusion handles. I figured the FBM was a fighter, and yet the grips seem more oriented towards utility use, at least for me.
 
what about the fbm says "fighter" to you? (serious question)

the only handles I've found that is really comfortable to me from the busse family are these:

basic 9 - but slightly slim. it worked perfect on that particular knife though.
killer bee - very close to being a straight handle, hard to mess up
swamp rat rat tail - a straight handle. no contours = nothing to dislike
swamp rat hairy carry - perfect in every way. it's like a tac handle that was rectoured to get rid of the super heavy finger swell, and almost completely remove the palm swell. also moved them both into correct alignment (palm swell slightly back from the finger swell, but not ALL the way back like on the active duty)
 
Then let's hope the SR Hairy Carry turns out to have been the prototype for the INFI SAR4! Which is what I suspect all along....
 
Handles are funny things, I don't think it is possible to creat a knife handle that everyone is happy with. The Busse standard and magnum scales are a nod towards trying to address this conundrum, but still will not satisfy all.

So it goes.
 
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