INFI Contest! Win a free Busse Mean Street!

I would have to go along with Frantium, and nominate P.

Any metallic element would have shown in the analysis. There was an article in Sci Am about 15 years ago that showed harpsicord strings from the 17th and 18th centuries showed unusually large amounts of P in the alloys; certain characteristics of these alloys made the P actually a desireable element rather than the undesireable one it is today.

Of course, Mr. Busse was careful not to say 'element,' and rather said 'ingredient.' Thus, I hope that he is not going to avoid the advancement of scientific knowledge and indicate that it was 'brilliance,' or 'luck,' or some other quantity not subject to discovery by analysis.

Oh, well; I look forward to the answer with great anticipation. Walt
 
How about Titanium carbononitride? I'm hoping that its a trace ingredient that bonds to the blade. Which should qualify as part of it, Eh?

Anyway, its been so long, what was the question again?

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Not sure what it is but I believe that it is the same material that my ex-wifes heart was made out of...Bo
 
Okay, if the job is to guess the remaining ingredient I will try uranium... really a pretty good metal.

If it is to name some secret ingredient, I am going with "razorite".

 
Since, Germain-aium and Tito-nium have been mentioned how abot Latoya.....
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OK, I trying: NITROGEN,silicon, manganese, maybe aluminium and titanium for fine structure.
Pavel
 
As you said ingredient rather than element lets try

nitrogen

There that shows just how much I know aboyuut metalergy
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I machine 4-5 9s (pure) Tantalum at work and it is about the toughest stuff on the planet! Even with modern, coated insert tooling and diamond machining capability, this stuff is tough!!!! Honestly I have no idea what it would do as a blade steel element...... All I know that it is tough and it's my guess!
Tantalum (Ta????)
 
Well Jerry I always seem to miss the bus when it it comes to Busse. I remember your ads when you first started offering a knife (was it the Steeelheart?) for half price for a limited time so people could become familiar with the your knives. I thought this is just hype they'll always be half price! Missed that one. Then find this thread when it is already three pages long and all the best guesses have been already made. My first thought was Bussium but since it hasn't been discovered yet how about neon since the blades literally GLOW with quality?

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Hey, for a Busse Knife, I may as well guess. I don't think anyone has said Osmium yet.


What? No bells and sirens??? I guess I'll just have to wait to find out...

Daniel D.
 
Ho hum. I'll get excited about what is in INFI after I get a Busse Basic and cut something with it side-by-side with a plain old A-2 knife, and it lives up to some of the hype.

I notice one of the most enthusiastic proponents of INFI, Ron Hood, is now brought out his own designs in 1095, and he is endorsing that blade just as enthusiasticly.

Unless the ability to put a knife that lives up to the hype into my hands is demonstrated, I won't care if it contains Deuterium-3 and gets quenched in Yeti dung from the slopes of Chomolungma.

Sorry. Just a little over-hyped these days.

Harv
 
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