Hammon/ Differential Heat Treated Infi

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I would love to see a Satin Busse with a hammond heat treat or differential heat treat. I have not done research to see if this topic has ever come up so it might already be out there but im on a roll with this right now.

Would it be beneficial to do such a heat treat on infi?
Has it been done on infi? (I know some of the Swamp rats have this, at least a differential).

I think an AK or ruck with satin infi and a hammond heat treated would be tits.

Off to search the forums for info on this.
 
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Overall, busses are generally beaters. You don't want a super duper hard edge for beaters because it increases chipping potential on the edge. This is what a differential heat treat would accomplish.

It might be cool to have on something like an AA tho.
 
If you search, try "hamon". You'll get much better results. ;):)
 
Jerry found through extensive testing and drinking that a differential heat treat was not necessary. You can't make infi tougher.
 
Mr.LCV said:
Busse-Why fix something that can't be broken?
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I dont See it as fixing, but enhancing.

Even if it adds little to no benifit I think the hammon treatment just looks freaking cool.

It may not even be possible because I dont think anyone knows the magic involved in HT'ing infi.
 
I'm pretty sure INFI is an air-hardening steel (which isn't to say it can't be oil-quenched), but it's not conducive to differential heat treating I don't think.
 
I think it might have been done on the Ratweiler though. I could swear those are differential. I know they aren't INFI. Yet.
 
The Ratweilers were definitely differentially heat treated, at least in the first run.
 
A Busse katana made of INFI with traditional shinogi zukuri style blade and traditional fittings i.e. silk or cotton ito and rayskin wrapped handle, etc would be legendary. Not sure if it should be DF hardend though. On the one hand INFI with a hamon would be interesting and traditional but on the other it may make the edge brittle and INFI is a steel that want's to be beaten on.
 
With the flexibility already shown in the Busse vids and the fantastic edge I would think the differential heat treat to be less effective than a through hardened INFI blade. A hamon is pretty cool I admit, especially a choji hamon, but with the magic that is INFI steel I would rather get a through hardened INFI blade and save the differential for more traditional styled katanas like my Hanwei Bamboo Mat.
 
Anachro12 said:
With the flexibility already shown in the Busse vids and the fantastic edge I would think the differential heat treat to be less effective than a through hardened INFI blade. A hamon is pretty cool I admit, especially a choji hamon, but with the magic that is INFI steel I would rather get a through hardened INFI blade and save the differential for more traditional styled katanas like my Hanwei Bamboo Mat.
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where are the vids ? i can not found those things.
 
You got me. The vid I saw was for a rodent rucki... look at 2:37 onwards.
[video=youtube;zRnVY9qLCEE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRnVY9qLCEE[/video]
I have seen another vid of one of the bussekin swords bent completely to the point that the tester had to go under the table. Anyone have that link? oh wait just found it:
[video=youtube;r9PIPhBqrLQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9PIPhBqrLQ[/video]
And here is a page where there USED to exist some vids showing a Busse blade being bent to 27 degrees and returning to true, and to 70 degrees without brreaking. (links broken but you can still see preview pics)
http://web.archive.org/web/20020204121328/bussecombat.com/videos.html
There is a pic of a Busse AK47 being bent in a vice to an extreme level. I think KnifeAddictAK posted them here...http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/357192-Here-Are-Some-quot-AK-47-quot-Destructive-Tests-amp-Other-Technical-Info-((Cool-Pics))/page4
 
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