INFI vs bone

Some folks who have been here awhile have seen pics of an SHBM that made it through a frozen elk femur completely unscathed. David Brown has also made it a practice to slice and dice steel road signs with INFI. You can post pics (pics are cool), but I bet we already can guess the outcome.
 
here is a photo

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I am just wondering if this is common when chopping bone, i chopped both leg bones off and the resulting damage in the blade shocked me, it isnt bad at all and I am sure it will strop out with sandpaper, i am just wondering if this is common, when chopping bone, again all i did was chop 2 leg bones off, which was one swing a piece, i did not notice damage until after i was done. By no means does this mean I am upset, just curious and shocked a little. Here is the little deer that done the damage.

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I am surprised, unless maybe she had been subsisting on an INFI diet herself! :p

Seriously, it is hard to tell from your pics if that is a lot or a little. That is a very big knife, and in the one pic, there is no perspective--you can't even see the spine of the blade, which leads me to believe that you are extremely close.

How long is it?
 
on_the_edge said:
I am surprised, unless maybe she had been subsisting on an INFI diet herself! :p

Seriously, it is hard to tell from your pics if that is a lot or a little. That is a very big knife, and in the one pic, there is no perspective--you can't even see the spine of the blade, which leads me to believe that you are extremely close.

How long is it?
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your correct im right up on it, that black metal piece is about a half inch if that helps any. that part of the blade is where i chopped the leg bone off.
 
Well, I think that is unusual, but I may be mistaken. Maybe someone with more experience chopping through non-wood material will chime in here.
 
i was making grade stake's about a year ago with my paul's hatchet. i hit an eight penny nail buried in the wood and all it did was roll the edge slightly. it came right out with a couple passes on a steel.
 
I did that with my fbmle.

that is decapitated one and totally quartered the rest


no damage on mine though. None to speak of.
 
DUDE! YOU HIT A ROCK! If you used that stump I would bet money you hit a stone! My CG BATAC has like 4 chips in it from hitting those damn stones! (or sand)
 
The type of bone makes a huge difference.:rolleyes: Before I graduated to head chickenplucker I was a butcher. A typical rear leg bone of a cow is 1.5 to 2.5 inches in diameter while the same bone from a deer can be the size of a dime. I have cut thousands of cows and hundreds of deer on a commercial band saw. Those tiny bones from the deer will almost stall out a saw. Ca--l-s sells a 16 inch hand saw for $25.00 that while not nearly as fun as a big chopper is much more disposable.:thumbup:
 
Bones are made of calcium and minerals, right? In my mind, they're closer to being a damn rock than something organic. Deer bones are tough and I try to keep my knife edges away from them!

Stay sharp,
desmobob
 
desmobob said:
Bones are made of calcium and minerals, right? In my mind, they're closer to being a damn rock than something organic. Deer bones are tough and I try to keep my knife edges away from them!

Stay sharp,
desmobob
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theres live bone, then theres calcified dry/seasoned bone. chopping into a cow head thats been sitting around for 3 years is a totally different thing then chopping into a freshly butchered cows head. live is softer.
 
Any bone should be considerably softer than steel much less INFI which I though resisted chipping even against harder objects.

Im new to Busse knives so I have no practical experience using them on too many objects however.
 
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