INFI Tanto?

Lycosa

Lycosa

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Oinkers,
Tis true a Tanto-Tac is in the works? With Jerry's tried&true blade styles, is there a demand for a tanto blade? With INFI, maybe any blade style will do.Where's my GAME WARDEN!!!!
Lycosa
 
Lycosa said:
Oinkers,
Tis true a Tanto-Tac is in the works? With Jerry's tried&true blade styles, is there a demand for a tanto blade? With INFI, maybe any blade style will do.Where's my GAME WARDEN!!!!
Lycosa
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the public defender and force one were both tanto's. force ones are not very common on the after market, and pub defenders... I couldn't give an opinion on those. I've seen them languish a lot on the after market, so it would seem that there isn't a terribly high demand for them, no where near the demand of the ba3.
 
I never liked a tanto, to specialized for me. And a tanto with a chisel grind, don't get me started! LOL
 
I would get it.... I have already made a tanto striker out of my M6 and SAR warden.. I love the design...
 
I would much rather have a BAIII than a tanto. Or pretty much any other Busse knife for that matter. Tantos are of limited utility, in my personal experience. But if Jerry decides to put out another one, I'm sure it'll be nice.
 
the public defender is not a utility blade in the same manner that a ba3 is. it is used for exactly what the name implies.
 
If there is a tanto in the works, I hope the TAC handle is not used..
It is my least favored handle that Busse has ever made..
I would personally not even want to see any more TAC s produced..
Every other handle Busse has came out with in the past to now is amazing..:thumbup:
Whatever happens though, I'm sure the tanto will be very nice ...
 
I like my Jungle Defender but haven't carried it. I have carried my Urban Defender in the evenings out on the town and it does the job. I tried to sell the UD once but it just sat there.
 
You still trying to sell the UD??

mhawg said:
I like my Jungle Defender but haven't carried it. I have carried my Urban Defender in the evenings out on the town and it does the job. I tried to sell the UD once but it just sat there.
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The AK-47 is also a tanto.

I've got a Jungle Defender, very purposeful blade, love the design, but never really warmed up to the knife itself. That make sense ?
 
The Tali-Whacker is a traditional (not Americanized) tanto, which is the best kind.
 
405dave said:
I never liked a tanto, to specialized for me. And a tanto with a chisel grind, don't get me started! LOL
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Chisel Grind as well as this strange tip has nothing to do with TanTo. I think if Busse will do knife in real TanTo style it will be great. Look at this one, whic much more close to tanto style then all this ugly CS-style things:

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I can imagine how it will be with BlackTan G10 and 0.250" thick full grind INFI...

Thanks, Vassili.
 
I would favor a traditional tanto design as opposed to an Americanized tanto, e.g., Cold Steel's interpretation.
 
bluejaunte said:
Have you nay-sayers ever handled a PD?
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yep. it took me about 10 hours+ on my edgepro apex sharpener to get it down to a usable 24 degree's per side on the main edge, and 35 degree's per side on the forward edge. In order to acheive the 35 degree's per side on the forward edge, I had to over take about 3/4 of the coated area of the main forward grind.

The public defender was designed to be a tank, not a knife. If I needed something that I was going to stab into things day in and day out, for digging and prying and nothing but hardcore abuse, the pub defender would have been great as a small package. I'd probably get something bigger for a one knife does all, but as a "I need everything in a knife I can edc", it did the job.

for anything else - I'd choose almost any other knife busse has made. I don't like tanto's in general, but the tanto's that have come out of busse as standard production models have been designed for maximum tip abuse, and thusly they are grossly overbuilt for general everday cutting chores.

If busse came out with a tanto that was designed to be an excellent cutter, I don't think I'd buy it because I don't like tanto's. it relegates the user to jutting their arm up at a 90 degree angle in order to use the forward edge in a slicing manner, or holding it in a non standard grip. that being said, I don't think busse will come out with such a model. historically the tanto models have been designed to take abuse, not to cut well.
 
I would love to see a traditional shobu-zukuri style tanto come out of Busse. For those of us with the americanized (Cold Steel) tanto in mind, FORGET IT. It is in the likes of Strider and other companies that ruined the name of the tanto and created a stereotype. Think more like a PBF with a full height hollow grind and the tip of an AK47 or Ruck. SICK.
 
scratch that, 50% of the forward grind. it would have been 3/4 to complete if I had tried to make it 21 degree's per side. it would have ended up like the force one or the pt5, where the entire front grind IS the cutting edge bevel, like a puuko.

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straight up tank.
 
Here are some pics of decent traditional tantos. Any of these blades would be wonderful in INFI and micarta/G10

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As you can see these would make GREAT slicers.
 
007 Agent ZZero said:
As you can see these would make GREAT slicers.
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only if they had an edge geometry for it... the pbf's were very similar to the ones shown in your post - but they were just as tankish as the pub defender. I couldn't cut fabric with the factory edge on the 4"pbf I handled. and not because it wasn't sharpened right - the edge was at something like 50 degree's per side with a MASSIVE amount of metal behind the edge, and it went from thick to thicker real fast.
 
Someone here (Porkducci?) has a Force 1 that has the rounded tanto profile vice the squared off version. It would look sweet as the Tanto/PD TAC.

Rick
 
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