I have decided to Test a $350 Plus STRIDER

Status
Not open for further replies.
I love the way people spout media lies about everything including steroids,but at the same time using the word to push chunks of metal to wannabes.PR is a science and an artform,search google for the movie "Century of the Self" about Freud and PR.If roids shrank your balls,would Busse want to associate FBM with small balls?
 
anythingsharp said:
People who have a good product don`t have to invent names for known steels like SR101 for 52100 etc.They don`t have to use language geared towards teenagers like we put steroids into the machine when making the FBM.When you want me to part with 800.00, use the ad space for some meaningful info and not "steroids".
Click to expand...

The price for a FBM is 387$ not 800$.
 
We are not concerned with that because knives don't have nuts and our nuts are intact.
 
anythingsharp said:
This thread is about Noss testing a Strider(I apologize for hijacking it).Look how few people like the idea of him testing it.I suggested testing a Busse,even fewer people want to see this done.
Click to expand...

Everybody wants to see Busses tested. Hell, most Busse owners tested their Busses. (I did - AK47).
 
I`m talking about LE FBM with the oh,so manly urban camo epoxy and some micarta that ain`t at all like the previous micarta.
 
Jos said:
The price for a FBM is 387$ not 800$.
Click to expand...

Reality has no meaning to "doesn't get it guy".

He is just a troll.

troll.gif
 
anythingsharp said:
I see a pattern here,first INFI,then SR101 and SR 7something.Why doesn`t Siegle or Ted Frizzell modify 5160 by adding 1/2% of carbon and may be 1% of plutonium and call it M5160?Why only Busse chooses this MO?
Click to expand...

Carbon V from Cold Steel, Alchemite from Marbles, Tru-Sharp surgical steel from Case, Pumaster steel from Puma...And here just a brief search finds a thread with you wanting to buy--and recently--a knife by Puma.

Also, you express intest in buying TOPS knives, a company which uses machines to mass produce blades, is rather fond of epoxy coatings, and even makes use of a cord wrapped handle, or two or forty. Hmmm, sound an awful lot like these other companies you're now dismissing for their business practices? Or is only paying $250-300 for a knife that "only costs a few bucks to manufacture" less silly? I mean, these WTB requests of yours are within the last couple of months--long after your mysterious contacts at Blade Show apparently let you in on the real scoop. Oh and you know what? These knives are well worth owning and using, but it does seem that your criteria for what makes a knife a quality piece or a company honest change by the moment into whatever you believe will make your responses sound cute.

You say that you seldom put your knives to any use, but that you are certain your current knives would serve your uses better than your prior knives, should you ever actually use them. However, you then say that any claims of performance made here must be backed up by real use and testing. You then turn around and balk at the notion that you do this testing yourself. When supplied links to actual testing you change the subject.

You say that the composition of INFI is close to A2. Then when told it's not close to A2 you say you think it's probably A8. Then when told that this has been dismissed within the very thread that you found (but obviously didn't read) you say that it's probably 1095 or 440C, this time quoting (again) special contacts inside the knife industry who let you in on all the big secrets, but (as always) refusing to name them.

You propogate the notion that the knife industry works on deception, self-promotion, and politics, and then quote (again, namelessly) information you say you received from members of the knife industry as being almost beyond all possibility of inaccuracy or bias.

You say that you will let a knifemaker (in this case, Bill Siegle) speak for himself, but go ahead and guess what his reasons/opinions are. Oh and by the way, I'm afraid that if you ever actually speak to Bill Siegle or Ray Laconico or John Greco--all of whom I've dealt with a bit myself over the years--about their opinions on Busse/INFI, you'll receive answers disappointing to your agenda here. This isn't me making their choices for them, you understand, but passing on admiration that they have expressed on their own. And yes, I'm actually using their names because this subject has actually come up in conversations I've actually had with them, and I'm in absolutely no danger of being called on the carpet as a liar since I'm not lying. Would you like to verify this? Direct any one of them to this thread, or we can set up a conference call... If you wonder why I don't make any mention of the opinions of Ted Frizzell (MMHW), Robert Hankins or Scott Tanguey, the subject has never come up with Robert and I've never spoken with Ted or Scott, though I understand they make fine knives.

Of course, if those above actually do admire products that you claim are garbage then they're probably just wide-eyed fools like the rest of us, right? Oh but wait--you have a great deal of respect for these crafters of handmade tools and admit that their knowledge far surpasses yours, right? Or, are they part of the dishonest, hype-driven knife industry that is putting one over on us, maybe? A clarification would be appreciated.

I am not concerned about how much either you or I can "dish out" in terms of argument of affrontery. Based upon the inconsistencies of your posts I have to believe that you are, at best, (or perhaps I should say "most innocent") truly bewildered beyond your ability to competently speak on this subject, or (at worst) just fabricating as you go along in order to keep attention on yourself. Either way, I can only wish you better days and personal growth.
 
I HOPE that INFI is an air-hardening steel similar to A2 or A8,it can be anything.By the way how do you introduce nitrogen into steel?That`s what Busse claims.Don`t try to induce me to reveal who among the very famous makers and dealers is laughing their asses off at INFI.What they say privately they would never reveal publicly.I`ll leave up to other researchers to dig up the reason why they haven`t spoken on these boards while laughing about it at shows.IMHO they have something to lose by speaking out, while I not being in the business have nothing to worry about.
 
I wanted an old Puma to test in the kitchen,that where I mostly use my knives:)I wish I was slaying monsters every night like the Busse fans do....
 
anythingsharp said:
I wish I was slaying monsters every night like the Busse fans do....
Click to expand...

Thread in WTB section approx 19 days old entitled:
"Looking for TOPS scalpel and scorpion,MMHW and other big choppers"

So I suppose these big choppers that you say you don't have the opportunity to use in the outdoors given your city residency, are for those REALLY big pieces of celery?

Please, child, if you're going to attempt an off-hand remark whose purpose is to attempt to have others take you more seriously, at least try to ensure it sort of coincides with what you've already said--this is just lazy.
 
Oh and by the way, given that your uses will be relegated to the kitchen, you should be made aware that the 3V, 5160, S7 and other steels you've invested in are not good choices. You'll do much better with the lower-carbon stainless steels.
 
If you`d only investigated the knives that you`ve invested 1000`s of $$ into with the same diligence with which you`ve investigated my knifecollecting habits:yawn:
 
t1mpani said:
Oh and by the way, given that your uses will be relegated to the kitchen, you should be made aware that the 3V, 5160, S7 and other steels you've invested in are not good choices. You'll do much better with the lower-carbon stainless steels.
Click to expand...

Thanks,I can pretty much recite from memory the chemistry of most cutlery steels and quite a few HT temperatures.
 
anythingsharp said:
I HOPE that INFI is an air-hardening steel similar to A2 or A8,it can be anything.By the way how do you introduce nitrogen into steel?That`s what Busse claims.
Click to expand...

Benchmade and Spyderco also use steel which contains nitrogen (H1). Are they liars to?
 
anythingsharp said:
If you`d only investigated the knives that you`ve invested 1000 of $$ into with the same diligence with which you`ve investigated my knifecollecting habits:yawn:
Click to expand...

Ah, forgive me...your interest into the posting histories/legitimacy of those who disagree with you just got me thinking. ;)

I really should apologize on one count, however, as a claim I made is not fully true--your posts are not entirely inconsistent. Every time you start losing you change the subject.
 
anythingsharp said:
This thread is about Noss testing a Strider(I apologize for hijacking it).Look how few people like the idea of him testing it.I suggested testing a Busse,even fewer people want to see this done.
Click to expand...

i recently beat the hell out of my busse heavy heart fusion steel heart. search my 'started threads'. i hit it with a sledgehammer. i chopped bricks. i chopped metal. i chopped wood.

no chips. was still very sharp after everthing but the brick. i got a bit of blade roll when i chopped the brick in half.

not a scientific test, but definitely shows what the steel can withstand. since im not a scientist, and my guess is you arent either, all the pics i posted during my 'test' should at the very least, prove your quote here utterly wrong.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top