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Looks great. I have some dreams about taking my CG Ash1 full convex, but not sure I will ever really do it. I have a cheap knife I am going to try on first with my little 1x30 harbor freight.
 
For the record, I now know why the NMFBM LE is so many peoples favorite chopper. Mine may not look as good, but my god does it perform like an 800 dollar knife. I dropped a tree this morning in the same amount of time it would take an axe
 
230grains said:
For the record, I now know why the NMFBM LE is so many peoples favorite chopper. Mine may not look as good, but my god does it perform like an 800 dollar knife. I dropped a tree this morning in the same amount of time it would take an axe
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It's more like a Broadsword than a knife. :eek::D :thumbup:
 
Tell me about it.. All that grinding and I already scratched it up, almost made me sad, but I knew it would happen. I considered fixing it, but i'm not gonna sand it everytime there's a scratch, i'd be left with a very thin knife. That's why I won't spend the extra money on satin knives, they get scratched easy. Id rather just give it a ghetto satin and not care anymore.
 
230grains said:
That's why I won't spend the extra money on satin knives, they get scratched easy. Id rather just give it a ghetto satin and not care anymore.
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Yep, same here - I have some satin ones, but generally I'm not willing to pay the markup. Especially for LE's, where you pay for the number (don't care) and the pretty finish (won't be pretty for long).
 
MustardMan said:
Yep, same here - I have some satin ones, but generally I'm not willing to pay the markup. Especially for LE's, where you pay for the number (don't care) and the pretty finish (won't be pretty for long).
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Sometimes with the LE's you are paying for more than just a pretty finish. You can't deny that.
 
richstag said:
Sometimes with the LE's you are paying for more than just a pretty finish. You can't deny that.
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Yes, especially like the LE NMFBM, but that can be had as well with the same sander you use to strip it.

No way in hell i'm going to pay 800 dollars for a knife i'm going to scratch to hell. With a ghetto finish and hand done edge, it doesn't matter.

Same reason I haven't picked up a KZ yet.
 
The LE is thicker than the CG from what my educators have learned me:D

I am not at all knocking what you are doing, it is great to get what you want, I am just saying a CG is not always just a coated LE.
 
230grains said:
Well, noticed I still had some low grit scratches, so went back to the drawing board. Ended up going way to high a finish with cork belts and ended up with a pure mirror finish... Sigh. Re sanded the mirror finish out back to satin. Now i'm really finished, I promise :D

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Man, I should hope so!! ...I can see the wood grain on the cutting board through the BWM. :foot:;)

Looks good, BTW! (the knife, not the wood grain. :D)
 
Oh I agree, and most of the ghetto satin knives lack the refinement that a factory knife has. But as an example, I would in a heart beat place my ghetto satined/convexed edge against any stock NMFBM LE if the only goal in the test was performance. In a beauty contest, I'd lose hands down, but still.

I will also 100% guarantee mine is sharper than the LE if the nmfbm LE comes with the same edge as the comp SarQ. That came sharp as all hell, but I stropped my CG knife for 2 hours from black compound, to green, to pink, then on bare leather. You can only get a knife so sharp using power tools, and i'll stand by that. Hand stropping really brings out the sharpness.
 
Jaxx said:
Man, I should hope so!! ...I can see the wood grain on the cutting board through the BWM. :foot:;)

Looks good, BTW! (the knife, not the wood grain. :D)
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I may have ground too much, because it's an NMFBM, not a bushwacker :p

It's weird, I say I like fat knives, but I always end up thinning them.

Maybe I just don't like anorexic knives, I like some heft in a chopper, but still.. I'm kind of a hypocrite.
 
I could put my NMFBMLE and put it to my strop and be right there with you in sharpness. They did not mess around with the LE's, at least not mine.

I just thought you should know. I hear you talking about EDC a MOAB so I thought you may be interested in the added thickness/weight of the LE.
 
Oh i'm sure you could if hand stropped, that's all that's really needed, because the edge geometry on the SARq was perfect, just needed a little bit of stropping.

I wouldn't mind the added weight, but at 2-300 dollars more, i'd rather have the blade a bit lighter.
 
Do you use your LE btw? I'd have a hard time using such a good looking knife, another reason I don't own the LE.
 
I have not. I use my FBMLE and have grinded on that a lot. It was my first Busse that met my grinder.

I have a CG NMFBM DC coming in the near future that will be my user. I could not bring myself to use the NMFBMLE. BUT, I will never bring myself to sell it. It is the Baddest Busse I own hands down.

When the zombies come running I will go for the NMFBMLE without a doubt. It is that bad:cool:;)
 
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