INFI Testimonials to Durability?

Tony G said:
I like that story. I often go out backpacking for several days and only bring one knife and at times I worry about what I'd do if I broke it. Right now it is a custom AD.

This kind of story may also be the reason why we may not see a .11 thick warden or AD slicer. I mean at what point of thinness might the blades start to break if you did abuse them.:confused:
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I'm beginning to think that the only way to get a thinner Busse is to send it off to Ban or Tom Krein or Bill Siegle for a regrind.
 
MORIMOTOM said:
i have done some goofy stuff with my infi.

includes, but not limited to, the following:

1. batoned a hhfsh with a sledge hammer into a brick, tip first.
2. batoned a hhfsh with a sledge hammer through 3/4" plywood.
3. chopped up an aluminum picture frame with hhfsh.
4. threw an sfno at a tree, subsequently missed, and hit a rock.
5. threw a ruck kensei at a tree, about 50 times. it actually stuck about 6.
6. batoned a ruck into an oak log, then flexed the blade about 30 degrees. just to see.
7. sliced/chopped kevlar body armor panels with a shsh, meaner, and ruck.
8. chopped up a counterfiet mean street (mtech) with a fbm.
9. a lot of food prep with various knives.
10. lots of chopping/throwing with various knives.
11. Chopped a cinder block in half with a FBM.
12. Threw and bent a GW before bending it back to normal (and it being fine).

ive gotten edges to roll from the brick, rock, and knots in wood. the edges held up surprisingly well against the kevlar. i thought for sure the fibers would take the edges off quickly, quite the contrary.

ive found cardboard to be the most edge ruining material. but that is the case with any knife.
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There, fixed it for ya ;)

I can't say I've done anything extreme with my Busse's, but I've done a lot of chopping and playing around with them. Whether serious use, EDC, or just playing around they've served me better than any other knives I own or have owned. I HAVE chopped some nails in half with no damage that butcher steels couldn't fix. I can really only say how impressed I am with the performance during normal use. I used a Eu-17 Magnum for several hours (my arms felt it the next day) to chop up most of the branches of a large tree and it could still shave when I was done...it wasn't hair popping like it was to begin with, but it was close.

OH, BTW: my favorite new handles are the SHBM handles with some tacky gauze tape (tennis racket tape). I used my SHBM to clear some heavy brush yesterday with the tape on it and it was like it was glued to my hand. My favorite knife BY FAR!!!
 
pbubsy said:
OH, BTW: my favorite new handles are the SHBM handles with some tacky gauze tape (hockey stick tape). I used my SHBM to clear some heavy brush yesterday with the tape on it and it was like it was glued to my hand. My favorite knife BY FAR!!!
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There, fixed it for ya.
No go watch the movie "Slap Shot"

dave
 
I only used it for about 20 minutes with the tape. I'll bet it gets pretty gunky and nasty after a while. The tape is easy to take off and reapply. It's also about a buck fifty for a roll big enough to use 2 or three times. I think the tape would probably last several long sessions or MANY short ones. It should be fine.
 
Busse and INFI has a reputation for being nearly indestructible :thumbup:
Sadly this is the same reason why we probably will never see a thin factory Busse less than 1/8".

INFI has some of a the best attributes for a hard used knife material but it is NOT indestructible. It is too bad a lot of people don't use common sense when matching the right tool for the right job.

I still think that INFI can be pushed to a max level of performance via edge geometry that will outcut, outslice, and outchop most steels out there while still being just as tough or maybe tougher than comparative steel.
 
I know no one thinks Busse will ever come out with a thin knife, but I NEED a .150'' thick 16'' bolo :D
 
Actually, it dulled my knife about as much as cardboard would :p my back's like leather and my hair is yeti thick. I musta been a grizzly in a past life ;)
 
If you thin the edge out a whole ton and then do something imbecilic 45+ times in a row, you might need to resharpen (stupid bed frame.... :grumpy: ), but it won't dull or roll with a regular-sized edge (high polish) when splitting open a coconut and prying out the meat. That's the CGFBM, though.

INFI takes most of the toughness of the shock steels, most of the wear and some of the corrosion resistance of high-carbon stainless steels, and the ease of sharpening of carbon and low-alloy steels and puts them all in one place. Outside of camping, cooking, hunting, construction, demolition, self-defense, woodcarving, throwing, and day-to-day tasks, it's of limited use. ;)
 
thombrogan said:
INFI takes most of the toughness of the shock steels, most of the wear and some of the corrosion resistance of high-carbon stainless steels, and the ease of sharpening of carbon and low-alloy steels and puts them all in one place. Outside of camping, cooking, hunting, construction, demolition, self-defense, woodcarving, throwing, and day-to-day tasks, it's of limited use. ;)
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That doesn't leave much else for what INFI cannot do :D
 
thombrogan said:
If you thin the edge out a whole ton and then do something imbecilic 45+ times in a row, you might need to resharpen (stupid bed frame.... :grumpy: ), but it won't dull or roll with a regular-sized edge (high polish) when splitting open a coconut and prying out the meat. That's the CGFBM, though.

INFI takes most of the toughness of the shock steels, most of the wear and some of the corrosion resistance of high-carbon stainless steels, and the ease of sharpening of carbon and low-alloy steels and puts them all in one place. Outside of camping, cooking, hunting, construction, demolition, self-defense, woodcarving, throwing, and day-to-day tasks, it's of limited use. ;)
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Wow.

That's ... almost lyrical! :eek:
 
If so, then Jerry...
Writes the songs that make the hog trough sing
He writes the songs of knives; such special things
He writes the songs that make our checkbooks cry
He writes the songs; he writes the songs
 
Back on August 4th, I posted this about a l'il "experiment"...

Jaxx said:
Ok, so my very large front landscape beds were completely out of control... For years. :o LOL This year raspberry bramble grew in with a vengeance under optimum growing conditions, plus every other freakin' type of weed! These were hiding the planted stuff and rocks, lots of those typical large rocks used to decorate landscape beds so I hired these 2 landscaping guys to come in and weed it all out. When I came outside later this morning to see how they were doing, I noticed that they hadn't removed any of the bigger tougher stuff, and that they didn't have any machetes or cutters...
I've wondered that if because knowing the value, and quality or that maybe because I collect these too, I 'coddle' even my users in ways that I might not be even aware of... So, in a fit of minor insanity, LMAO, I go back in the house and get my CGFBM user, and thought about that even though I know the knives from Busse are tough, will it stand up to these two and my hellish yard?
I decided to test that thought. I just asked them if they'd like to use it to help them, and handed it over. :eek: I warned him that he was probably gonna really like using it, mentioned that it was a Busse knife (No reaction, these 2 never heard of Busse I'm sure.), and then I walked off, back into the house.

For 6 hours, they took turns using it to do whatever needed to be done... Cutting, slicing, digging, whatever. Well... The weeding is done... brambles cut, saplings felled, etc. Then came the hard part. The guy hands me the knife in its sheath, I thank him, and him and his partner depart exhausted. (I will ask him what he thought of it tomorrow when they return to spread mulch; he looked pretty whipped this evening, so I didn't ask.)...
I pull it out of the sheath... ( Drum roll, please.........)

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Dirty! LMAO, They did really take it to the edge... Literally. A few glancing blows off of the rocks, one of which seems to have sheared maybe 1/8th of an inch or less off of the tip, a lot of little nicks & dents in the edge (emphasis on "little"), but that's about it. I'd like to see the same tip blow given to an inferior knife, probably would have taken much more off!
The closeups:
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I think that considering those guys used it without fear and not knowing a thing about it or even its cost, for most of the day, this knife can take it!!! 0h sure, it's gonna take a little time to get that edge back, up around the curve and a li'l more for the tip, but it WILL be back. Hey Jerry!! Love your knives, Boss!
How'd it look after cleaning up from this "mad experiment", you ask?

Well...
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...Very not bad... Not bad at all!!...
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With a lot of heavy sh:foot: on my mind, and needing to find something to get into while thinking things through, just yesterday I used an Edge Pro Apex for the very first time, and after hours of trying to concentrate long enough to NOT screw up the knife or cut a finger off, :o I finally managed to successfully put a new edge on this FBM, and used it a little today to see how I did. I somehow unintentionally put a double bevel on it... Beats me how, but it works great, sharper than factory (concerning THIS particular knife anyway), and chops beautifully. Needless to say, it's BACK, and ready for more, and I still have 10 fingers, LOL

The tip was the hardest to get sharp... turns out that it was way less than an 1/8th of an inch that was sheared off, but still tricky to resharpen.

...That's my testimonial, and I'm stickin' to it! LOL

Pix to follow soon, and I will post 'em on that thread for a sort of before & after type of thing...
 
Here are a few clips of some INFI use and abuse. Most here have seen them. Now remember, many of the "tests" I have done on INFI were just that. Not something I would normally but a blade through. ;)





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