I Just Got The FFBM In For The Destruction Test

OldPhysics said:
Darn it!!

Now I'm going to have to raise my insurance rates and increase the security around the BM portion of my knife vault. :mad:

...or move to a high security compound in Idaho, like the Skunk. :o;)
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Or you could just name me your new security chief and do it all much easier and cheaper, and I guarantee you no-one else would steal all the BMs 'cos I would've already done it. :D
 
What a ride - that was amazing!

Thanks Noss for the test - you finally destroyed it but it took some doing!

Thanks Boss, for making such a terrific knife. We all knew it was, but it's nice to see it confirmed (with someone else's knife!)

Hmmm, who thinks we need solid steel pins on the beast, just in case we need to hammer though any armoured walls or chop down some scaffolding?

Now I just need to buy another Busse...

Rick - British Pork!
 
Your welcome everyone. Now I have to go out and repair my workbench :mad:
Darn FFBM :grumpy:
 
Well maybe you can get some big pieces of infi from the Boss and build your work bench out of it so you will be set for life.:thumbup:
 
Saw some of the vids last night and was looking forward to watching all of them today after work.

That was some serious knife porn! (For the snuff fetishist?)

Looking back, I'm not suprised at all how well the knife held up - what really blew me away was what a beating those G10 scales were able to take! I never really had much faith in G10 until now. New found respect? Definitely!!!

So G10 or micarta - which is actually tougher?
 
I'm curious about the eventual failure. I wonder if it was due to hammering on the 'crest' of the 'up-and-down wavy bit' on the spine: could this have made a shearing force if the edge of the blade being impacted was not immediately underneath this crest? Otherwise the force would have been mostly compressional.

It looks like that's possible, from the angle of the break.

I suppose it's largely academic - it had to give eventually and it certainly gave a good account of itself before it died.

I might be talking a load of old codswallop of course.

Rick - British Pork!
 
foxyrick said:
I'm curious about the eventual failure. I wonder if it was due to hammering on the 'crest' of the 'up-and-down wavy bit' on the spine:
Rick - British Pork!
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Will anyone do the failure analysis?

The possible causes I could think of are a) up-and-down wavy resonance b) the welding line at the bottom of the pipe which is too hard and generated the reaction momentum c) both a) and b).
 
bambright said:
Will anyone do the failure analysis?

The possible causes I could think of are a) up-and-down wavy resonance b) the welding line at the bottom of the pipe which is too hard and generated the reaction momentum c) both a) and b).
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Actually I was talking about this with another hog. Pretty much if Noss had started cutting on a fresh section of pipe when he got to the weld, the FBM might have gone through another one or two pieces before failing. However, Noss was hammering the edge not only into the weld, but also into the cross section of the vertical pipe , so there was no way that metal was going to split, the BM had to give.

The interesting part of the failure is that there are no pieces of INFI other than the main two. Every other knife tested by Noss as well as others I know has always had multiple pieces when catastrophic failure happens. This tells you how rubbery INFI really is which is amazing for a steel at an Rc of nearly 60. Definitely does not make sense. I have not seen any knife fail like that, anywhere near that hardness. You look at the edge damage at the end and it was just slight rolling. When you consider the amount of abuse it took, that is amazing
 
Uncle_Jarvis said:
NOSS: All I can say is thanks for eliminating any doubts that Busse is the best....
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Whatever, everyone knows that strider is where its at. Stop deluding yourselves people, these tests were rigged and you know it. If there were real, the strider would have easily won. Everyone knows that prybar-type knives should be made from the worlds toughest, strongest steel,cpm-S30V. And besides, ya know, Mick was black-ops, which give his knives super strength. Whatever, all you couch commando's can keep thinking to yourselves that your Busse's are the best, and save the real knives, S-T-R-I-D-E-R-S, for us real operators. In the meantime ya'll can just keep dreaming about getting a REAL knife...
 
slipfirep40 said:
Whatever, everyone knows that strider is where its at. Stop deluding yourselves people, these tests were rigged and you know it. If there were real, the strider would have easily won. Everyone knows that prybar-type knives should be made from the worlds toughest, strongest steel,cpm-S30V. And besides, ya know, Mick was black-ops, which give his knives super strength. Whatever, all you couch commando's can keep thinking to yourselves that your Busse's are the best, and save the real knives, S-T-R-I-D-E-R-S, for us real operators. In the meantime ya'll can just keep dreaming about getting a REAL knife...
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I'm pretty sure that was an attempt at sarcastic humour. :rolleyes:
 
Yeah probably, it made me grin, but he'd better remove that banned smilie pretty quick...
 
Dude, You come off like a total strider fan_boy DERB :(
Watch the FFBM videos again, I know you are in disbelief...It's OK


I like " S-T-R-I-D-E-R-S " there are so many Mick Strider customs I want:thumbup::thumbup: Then theres Dwayne Dwyer Jap. Fighter and many more.. .soooo sick



LAter....



slipfirep40 said:
Whatever, everyone knows that strider is where its at. Stop deluding yourselves people, these tests were rigged and you know it. If there were real, the strider would have easily won. Everyone knows that prybar-type knives should be made from the worlds toughest, strongest steel,cpm-S30V. And besides, ya know, Mick was black-ops, which give his knives super strength. Whatever, all you couch commando's can keep thinking to yourselves that your Busse's are the best, and save the real knives, S-T-R-I-D-E-R-S, for us real operators. In the meantime ya'll can just keep dreaming about getting a REAL knife...:jerkit:
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Cobalt said:
Actually I was talking about this with another hog. Pretty much if Noss had started cutting on a fresh section of pipe when he got to the weld, the FBM might have gone through another one or two pieces before failing. However, Noss was hammering the edge not only into the weld, but also into the cross section of the vertical pipe , so there was no way that metal was going to split, the BM had to give.

The interesting part of the failure is that there are no pieces of INFI other than the main two. Every other knife tested by Noss as well as others I know has always had multiple pieces when catastrophic failure happens. This tells you how rubbery INFI really is which is amazing for a steel at an Rc of nearly 60. Definitely does not make sense. I have not seen any knife fail like that, anywhere near that hardness. You look at the edge damage at the end and it was just slight rolling. When you consider the amount of abuse it took, that is amazing
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Yes this is basically the way the break occurred. They were dead blows. There was no more room for the edge to push trough. The FFBM was taking the full impact before it broke. When trying to hammer the edge against a solid steel surface a soft edge will collapse. This did not happen with the FFBM The edge was hard enough and tough enough to support itself. Very cool ! :cool:
 
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