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What is the hardest material/stuff that you have cut,chopped,or stabbed with your Busse knife? How well did the knife hold up?

And while we are at it. What is the strangest thing that you have cut?

See you on the trail (hopefully with my new Busse N.O. soon to arrive)
 
Last year i cut our turnip for the thanksgiving dinner with an ordinary kitchen
knife.The turnip is like a small bowling
ball;and i thought the knife would surely break. This year i used my new Mean Street
picked up at the N.Y.show & that turnup got chopped up fast.Happy Thanksgiving to all!
Sky

 
Gregory:

What is the hardest material/stuff that you have cut,chopped,or stabbed with your Busse knife?
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Both the BM and #7 Basic have chopped into concrete, coathangers, steel bar stock, mild steel sheets, bone including and moose and cow bone seasoned for a couple of years. Accidently they have been chopped into nails which was light chopping fortunately, and have have rock impacts during digging. As well they have seen long sessions limbing out dead and often frozen trees, which is harder on a blade than any of the above as it can actually break them apart but it doesn't sound as impressive.

One of the hardest things I have seen done with it was not with the edge. It has been used to split wood often, which is decently hard enough, but it was drove through the wood with a hammer. It is still in one piece which surprised me as I saw two Ontario machetes break apart during the same thing and 1095 is a fairly tough steel. There is a small piece missing out of the spine where it was used to drive 3 1/2" nails and took a glancing blow. It also gets heavy prying stresses on a regular basis.

How well did the knife hold up?
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Minor edge damage at the most during the chopping and accidently impacts. The Basic has been sharpened a lot as it has been used more (loaned out a lot), it is significantly smaller than it was when new. The BM still has near the same profile.

What is the strangest thing that you have cut?
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Recently? The drain out of a kitchen sink, this was with the Basic. I had the Battle Mistress with me but chose the Basic as I was curious as to how much edge damage it would get because I reprofiled it really low, like around 10 degrees. It got dented up some but nothing serious and were easily sharpened out.

-Cliff
 
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Cliff, you are a Genius! Thanks for sharing your incredible creativity. I did not know there were so many ways to damage knives. Have you ever considered using other sorts of tools in your daily life?

Paracelsus, fooling around with edgy ideas
 
I chopped through the pelvic bones on three whitetail deer and the blade was still razor sharp.
 
I used my Mean Street to trim roofing material. Usually I used a razor knife but when that wasn't handy the MS was. Yup, I dulled it a few times, especially since I was often cutting on the ashphalt side of the shingle to do some quick and dirty trimming, but it sharpened right up on a Sharpmaker. No sign of chipping during cutting but I did put some nicks in the edge prying up roofing nails. But again, nothing I couldn't deal with with a sharpmaker.

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Hoodoo

I get some pleasure from finding a relentlessly peaceful use for a combative looking knife.
JKM
 
Maybe I will check out the knuts in the chopper forums. I'm more of a cutter and slicer myself.

Thanks for the heads up Cliff. I'm always willing to learn new things. I like to go with the flow sometimes. Anything that increases the net entropy of the Universe is probably a good thing.
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Paracelsus, beginning to suspect that Cliff may have a sense of humor after all
 
Paracelsus:

I'm more of a cutter and slicer myself.
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About 95+% of what I do with knives is very low stress work, however the ratio of heavy to light work I discuss on the forums and email is probably the opposite. The latter mainly just indicates peoples interest.

When Busse asks me how the Battle Mistress is performing, am I going to tell him how I prepared yesterdays meal with it or used it to cut up some tarp and string to see how difficult and time consuming it is to make primitive clothing really quickly?

No probably not. He already knows the knife can do things like these easily. However I will say things like I cut an arrowhead out of a tree and broke another knife trying to do the same thing. Or cut the drain out of a sink to show a friend that the 10 degree bevel on the Basic was not that fragile and that he didn't need to be concerned about accidental heavy impacts.


beginning to suspect that Cliff may have a sense of humor after all
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You must have me confused with my brother Darrel.

-Cliff


[This message has been edited by Cliff Stamp (edited 11-29-2000).]
 
I'm with Hoodoo, I did a tear-off of my house and garage roof, and though I didn't cut any shingles, the paper and ice shield saw a good bit of attention from my DWMS. I also had to use it (it was the closest thing I could get my hands on up on the ladder) to pry loose some aluminum gutters and cut around a small number of pop rivets holding them together. Also used it as a piton several times to stand on while clambering around on a 12/12 pitch board-construction (not plywood) stripped roof. It saw some garage use to cut off several coolant hoses from their aluminum outlets while getting my car winter-ized.

Used the SHII to cut through some PVC plumbing, and to "de-construct" some kitchen base cabinet guts to install sets of slider-shelves. Also to help chop/dig out a stump from the front yard, with its share of rocks and clay, resulting in a few small nicks that disappeared after some time on the Sharpmaker.

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Don LeHue

Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings...they did it by killing all those who opposed them.
 
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