I broke my Skeleton Key

J85909266 said:
If they choose to replace it, then how can you hold it against the user?
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My point is that other company's that have had uncoditional warranty's in the past have changed the warranty's based on abuse such as this... not saying that Busse will do this, but why take the chance and cause intentional damage.
 
Raden said:
My point is that other company's that have had uncoditional warranty's in the past have changed the warranty's based on abuse such as this... not saying that Busse will do this, but why take the chance and cause intentional damage.
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Other members have posted pictures doing things not far from this with their knives, and everybody loved it. Had David Brown's AK snapped after it had been lodged in the tree and then bent, would you have been upset?

He was not intentionally trying to break the knife, he was just abusing it as is encouraged here. He was reckless about it, but he wasn't trying to break it. As far as he's read, he had no reason to think it would break.
 
Raden said:
I have to ask WHY??? It is blatant abuse of not only the knife but of the fine warranty that Busse Combant offers with it's knives. There is no reason I can think of to pound a knife into a cinder block and then kick the handle of the blade. There can be no other intent but to destroy the knife.
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I couldn't have said it any better. I'm not sure what this guy tried to accomplish other than intentionally break it. If he gets a free knife, I'll be shaking my head.
 
Don't replace it.

Re-profile it as a shorter knife.

One of a kind SK variant.

Do it your self? or send to Jerry and Beg alittle?

A little knife like that should re-profile pretty fast with a file.
 
J85909266 said:
Other members have posted pictures doing things not far from this with their knives, and everybody loved it. Had David Brown's AK snapped after it had been lodged in the tree and then bent, would you have been upset?

He was not intentionally trying to break the knife, he was just abusing it as is encouraged here. He was reckless about it, but he wasn't trying to break it. As far as he's read, he had no reason to think it would break.
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I would react in the same manner reguardless of who broke a knife on purpose.

Why do you think it wasn't done on purpose? To drive the tip of a knife into a cinder block and kick it is nothing but intentional damage IMHO.

Will Jerry replace it.... I have no doubt that he will.
Would I.... Not a chance. That intentional abuse would void any warranty in my opinion.
 
Raden said:
I have to ask WHY??? It is blatant abuse of not only the knife but of the fine warranty that Busse Combat offers with it's knives. There is no reason I can think of to pound a knife into a cinder block and then kick the handle of the blade. There can be no other intent but to destroy the knife. Yes these are things that have been done to prove that Busse knives can stand up to heavy abuse, but it's generally done for testing purposes. "RANT OFF" :rolleyes:
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I agree 100%, abuse of a great lil blade and abuse of a great knife company's warranty. I give this thread :thumbdn: :thumbdn: :thumbdn:
 
Wow....did I wander into the "don't use my fragile knives" forum? :confused: :confused:

A Rat could've taken it.
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Raden said:
I would react in the same manner reguardless of who broke a knife on purpose.

Why do you think it wasn't done on purpose? To drive the tip of a knife into a cinder block and kick it is nothing but intentional damage IMHO.
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Well, I didn't break it on purpose. I wanted to satisfy my curiousity. I read these forums every day. Everytime someone gets a new knife they are encouraged to abuse it. The people on this forum make INFI out to be indestructable. I know not to shoot it or baton it with metal. I've seen car doors and car hood stabbed with knives, quarters pounded in to, street signs and cinder blocks chopped. Excuse me for wanting to experience INFI for myself.
 
Ok am i the only one here that thinks common sense went out the window here? I dont have any INFI yet, but ordered 2 CGFBM. I have seen all the test about the cinder blocks, but i will not run out and find a cinder block when i get them in to see if i might be able to break one.(that would be a last resort for survival only). I just dont see any sense in that,"especialy the price of these knives". I would be embaresed to get on here and admit that i hammered a knife into a cinder block and then kicked it. "RUN FOREST RUN"
Blatent abuse should not be covered.
 
Hmm, maybe this applies.. from the site.

With a steel like INFI it's easy to understand why we offer the toughest guarantee in the business. We guarantee against any and all unintentional MAJOR damage forever.


Jerry Busse
 
I was bored at work last night and decided I wanted to see if I could throw my Rat Trap and stick it into a tree. I love that knife and carry it at work everyday, but if the knife had broken while I was throwing it at a tree, I wouldn't have started a thread saying "My Rat Trap Broke."

I certainly wouldn't expect Swamp Rat to even consider replacing the broken knife. The one thing that I learned from my Rat throwing experience is that my folder wouldn't stay locked after hitting the tree. I guess a fixed blade would be preferable for throwing. I did have limited sucess with throwing the RT underhand with no rotation.

My two cents on this matter:D
rjd
 
spaceweaseal said:
Ok am i the only one here that thinks common sense went out the window here? I dont have any INFI yet, but ordered 2 CGFBM. I have seen all the test about the cinder blocks, but i will not run out and find a cinder block when i get them in to see if i might be able to break one.(that would be a last resort for survival only). Blatent abuse should not be covered.
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It was doing just fine when I was pounding it into the block and even chipping away chunks of the edge of the block. I had no reason to think it would break. I haven't read anyhting about INFI breaking. I haven't seen any pictures that would even suggest the knife would break. What kind of abuse is not blatant? How can one be descrete about abusing their knives? Abuse is suposed to be covered by the warranty. My benchmade knives tell me what not to do with them. Same goes for spyderco. As far as I have read, Busse knives can do anything. I intentionally kicked it, but did not intentionally break it. I didn't know for sure that it would break. I had no reason to think that.
 
Why? hell, why not, it's a Busse. Not the brightest use of one, but then again, some people just gotta know these things.

I'd recommend putting an Lum style appleseed ground tanto point on it now. Chances are you'll get a bit better mileage from there on out :) !
 
GarySoneji said:
It was doing just fine when I was pounding it into the block and even chipping away chunks of the edge of the block. I had no reason to think it would break. I haven't read anyhting about INFI breaking. I haven't seen any pictures that would even suggest the knife would break.
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So, chunks were breaking off the edge, and you didn't think the SK structural integrity was compromised? You honestly thought that 3/16" INFI was unbreakable...

Desmond
 
Chunks were breaking off the edge of the block. My knife is fine aside from the missing tip. I didn't think it was unbreakable, just that it'd take a little more to break it. If anyhting, I thought it'd just come lose and slide out from all of the wiggling I did while it was stuck in there and from picking the block up by the handle of the knife.
 
Schuey2002 said:
NASA does not currently have a rocket strong enough to lift INFI into orbit... ;)
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nasa did take a few "nasa hearts" that just might be tempered that way.
 
From what I can see it snapped near the tip where it is rather thin. This should be expected as thinner profiles are not ment to withstand that much pressure.
Just be glad it was a busse. If this would have happened with another steel it may have looked like a grenade going off with all the shrapnel flying past you. The busse tip just snapped in a nice clean line.
A lot of the knives you see tested beyond any normal use are the bigger blades; ie 1/4" thick with a 2" blade face. The Sk is designed to be a neck nife not fend off concrete zombies.
 
Didn't Cliff Stamp toss his battle mistress into a woodchipper to stop the gears? And it did! :D

I like to think of infi as the chuck norris of knife steels. :cool:
 
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