Help Identify This Knife ?

[NewBob]

I picked this up a couple of weeks ago . Was told it was a Busse
Just wondering if some older HOGS could school me as I am still learning.
Thanks in advance .

 

[Liu Kang]

you won that on the auction site didn't you? lol

 

[GregS]

It's an apprentice blade in A2, that's my guess.

 

[thebrain]

Yep apprentice blade ,I had the same question a few months ago when I got one from a pawn shop .I never did know for sure what steel it was ,also yours is in much better shape than mine (someone tryed to do serrations on it .

 

[NewBob]

So I'm quessing this like a HACK from way back ?

 

[MORIMOTOM]

So I'm quessing this like a HACK from way back ?

more or less.

the lack of a talon hole is the tell tale sign.

 

[thatmguy]

Kinda looks like one of these...

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=325159

 

[NewBob]

Thanks it cost to learn sometimes . I like it . Still learning the hard way .
No Regrets

 

[Last Visible Canary]

Thanks it cost to learn sometimes . I like it . Still learning the hard way .
No Regrets

50$ for that knife is not a bad deal. it's a busse combat heat treated (insert blade steel) knife that's sharpened. you can't get much better then that for 50$.

5160 is a fine steel for hard use knives, especially in the sub 100$ range. if properly heat treated it can maintain a high hardness with decent malleability/shock resistance. I don't know what these were heat treated to be, but generally 5160 can take 58rc and maintain the qualities necessary for hard use. If it's a2 and fully heat treated then you got something even better. I don't know if busse's apprentice blade heat treat is as extensive as their standard line, but if it's even close you can consider just a small step down from infi. In the busse kin there's a series of steel choices that have popped up continually for hard use knives: infi, m-infi, a2, sr101 (mod 52100), and sr77 (mod s7). The main reason that you don't see a2 more often is because it's considerably more expensive then sr101 and sr77 (at least I think it is... I'm not exactly sure what goes into getting a modified version of 52100 and s7)

if I had the money to spend on new knives and I saw that in a shop for 50$ I'd probably but it to grind the edge back to make it choiless, and I've had 35+ models of busses pass through my hands at one time or another.