INFI Suprise!

[Greg45]

Wow! I can't believe this showed up today - Thanks, Amy! She said she just shipped it a couple of days ago, so I was expecting next week.

This has a good shot to be my new favorite. I didn't really expect it to be this light and agile, even after reading that it is. It seems that it will be good at many things besides chopping.

No doubt another winner from Jerry!

Oh, and yes, that's snow in Georgia!!!

 

[Eric Isaacson]

Great pic and Congrats on what looks like a great knife (I haven't gotten mine yet)

WOW!! Snow in Georgia. At first glance I thought those were pigs in the background, that would have been a cool pic for the HOG's.

 

[Greg45]

At first glance I thought those were pigs in the background, that would have been a cool pic for the HOG's.

The big one looks like one and the little one eats like one (actually more like a vacuum cleaner). Thanks!

 

[azwelke]

Sweet combo:thumbup:

 

[bonfire]

Nice Tan/Tanker grey is a sweet combo!:thumbup:

Snow in Georgia is some kind of sensation, it seems. Here I`m sitting (Norway) we got lots of it, and temperature has been around -20C (-4F ) the last weeks.

My Black/black, is being shipped monday. Can`t wait...

 

[Horn Dog]

Nice combo, Greg. I like the tan scales. It is just too darned cold for Georgia. But snow and INFI are making their way down here. My Green one just arrived. The last time I bought two of the same model Busse was the Sarsquatch. I love the BWM. I'm keeping this one painted. It came Swine Shaving Sharp, too. :thumbup:

 

[Gravelface]

Absolutly beautiful picstures and blade.........

But I can't get into thInfi.....but the pictures are breaking me down!

 

[Horn Dog]

To each his own, but I prefer the light, fast blades. I figure if the RTAK can hold up at 3/16" thick in 1095, why worry about thINFI?

 

[Ankerson]

Wow! I can't believe this showed up today - Thanks, Amy! She said she just shipped it a couple of days ago, so I was expecting next week.

This has a good shot to be my new favorite. I didn't really expect it to be this light and agile, even after reading that it is. It seems that it will be good at many things besides chopping.

No doubt another winner from Jerry!

Oh, and yes, that's snow in Georgia!!!

Nice, now go beat on it awhile. :thumbup:

 

[Greg45]

Thanks, guys!

bonfire, I need to adjust my camera, I think. It's actually Sage and Tan, but looks grayer in these pics.

GF, get one! You know you want to. HD, That's a great combo. I've got another one on order, Sage/Blk canvas. That green blade is making me think about another one, though. I almost ordered green instead of another sage.

 

[Gravelface]

To each his own, but I prefer the light, fast blades. I figure if the RTAK can hold up at 3/16" thick in 1095, why worry about thINFI?

I had an RTAK once......once. Quickly got rid of it, all knives have their place, thick, thin, obese, and anorexic........just not in my home

I would never knock someone on what "they" prefer, as you said.

I don't get in many knife fights so, lightning fast isn't what I like, my target is generally stationary and stout, so I am an avid believer in chopping power.


But still.......I am weakening at the knees to get one of these......

 

[banana-clip]

Nice looking knife, I thought it was the tan/muddy blade combo.

You must be in North Ga, we didn't get any east of atlanta where I'm at.

 

[MustardMan]

I don't get in many knife fights so, lightning fast isn't what I like, my target is generally stationary and stout, so I am an avid believer in chopping power.

But that's the point - Horn Dog has certainly demonstrated in his chopoffs that thin knives can actually outchop an equivalent thicker, heavier chopper, and my own tests have borne out the same results. Thin knives bite deeper, while heavy knives swing harder. If you have good chopping technique to blow the chips out, a thin machete can chop circles around a Busse knife. My much cheaper, much thinner, and much lighter Cold Steel LTC kukri completely dominates every thick knife I own in similar lengths, because it trades off chopping "power", in the form of extra momentum, for chopping efficiency, in the form of biting deeper into the wood with less energy expended.


Thin choppers aren't just light and fast - they can also be better choppers.


Now if you also pry and dig and split and so on, then heavy and thick might win some of those battles - but in terms of pure chopping ability, thin is win :thumbup:

 

[MustardMan]

I'm right outside the perimeter in Atlanta, and we got BLASTED with AT LEAST a half an inch of snow


Of course, they have no concept of how to deal with this stuff down here, so the snow melted overnight Thursday and turned into ice on Friday, and since no one here has any ability whatsoever to handle a vehicle on an icy road, the city pretty much shut down for the day Friday, and there are still very few people braving the roads today.

 

[banana-clip]

I'm right outside the perimeter in Atlanta, and we got BLASTED with AT LEAST a half an inch of snow


Of course, they have no concept of how to deal with this stuff down here, so the snow melted overnight Thursday and turned into ice on Friday, and since no one here has any ability whatsoever to handle a vehicle on an icy road, the city pretty much shut down for the day Friday, and there are still very few people braving the roads today.

Seen on the news that I-285 had a 30 car pile up on Friday morning. Looked crazy, but they drive really fast there.

No snow for us in the Augusta area

 

[Greg45]

Seen on the news that I-285 had a 30 car pile up on Friday morning. Looked crazy, but they drive really fast there.

No snow for us in the Augusta area

Yeah, there were several multi-car pile-ups that made the news. Some of it was black ice on inclines, which I can see, but I'm afraid MM is right that many don't know how to handle it at all.

I'm in Fayetteville, just south of Atlanta. There's still a little on the ground, and it's pretty neat for a change, but it also reminds me of one of the reasons I don't live up north.

 

[MustardMan]

but it also reminds me of one of the reasons I don't live up north.

It reminds me why I'm leaving the southeast. Headed to Colorado so I can get some REAL snow, baby!!!



Oh yeah, nice knife, so I'm not totally off topic

 

[Horn Dog]

At least Atlanta drivers get occasional ice and snow. When it snowed down here in 1989, it was like demolition derby. The morons actually thought they could drive the same as on dry roads. Ditches were full of pickup trucks, telephone poles were run into, cars colliding at every intersection. It was funny. It waited until natural selection thinned the herd and then eased my pickup truck on down the road. I guess that tour of duty in Germany taught me something.

 

[Gravelface]

Greg, I completly apologize about the thin vs fat debate in your thread,

The ONLY reason I would get a chopper that thin is because it is BUSSE,

But thin is fragile....like you said Mustard, if "all" i did was chop.....ahhhh I still wouldn't go thin, too many machetes broke under NORMAL use for me to feel comfortable.

And my CS Kukri is thicker than the Zilla and out chops it too, but I would never bring it to the field with me. Primary grind and edge geometry really help make a knife.

Here is a thin knife I owned Ranger RD9, below is the original saber (fat) grind...still have that one, bought it before Busse and it helped me make my mind up to stick with Busse.

And what you are chopping makes the difference also.....not dogging thin, but in the field, where I don't know what to expect......give me my sharp prybar, I will gladly whack a tree 5 more times to know that I can count on my knife not breaking.

 

[NewBob]

Great Color combo
I got the same one last week
LOVE IT !!!
I live below Fayetteville in Molena
Snow was a little worse in your area . Newnan was bad in some parts
I was there Fri. saw several idiots who couldn't drive