INFI vs bone

Factory edge?

Check with Jerry, seems odd to me.

Thinned edge sure, Factory edge, I would think should hold up better.

Asym edge, pretty good at this sort of thing.
 
I haven't seen any other knife hold up that well. I don't cut bones but have seen pics of other knives afterchopping bones and they looked worse.
 
I know Busses are built 2 be abused, but I just can't intentionally bring myself 2 do that. When I have to get through bone, I always smash it with the spine, then easily sever the tissue. BUT to each their own eh ?
 
greenbladepb said:
I know Busses are built 2 be abused, but I just can't intentionally bring myself 2 do that. When I have to get through bone, I always smash it with the spine, then easily sever the tissue. BUT to each their own eh ?
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Yeah, I don't do the kind of stuff Uncle_Jarvis does, either. :D Chop a lamp post? What the heck for? :D
 
Elen said:
Yeah, I don't do the kind of stuff Uncle_Jarvis does, either. :D Chop a lamp post? What the heck for? :D
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Well if he can do that and then turn around and sell something as a user at or near his purchase price, or maybe even higher, then why not? More power to him I guess.
 
for this, i think that SR77 might have actually faired better. The shock resistance of that steel is unreal.
 
on_the_edge said:
Well if he can do that and then turn around and sell something as a user at or near his purchase price, or maybe even higher, then why not? More power to him I guess.
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Well, why not indeed. But I don't see myself doing that kind of thing.

As for SR-77, I would be surprised if it handled things like this any better than INFI. :eek:
 
papathud said:
Factory edge?

Check with Jerry, seems odd to me.

Thinned edge sure, Factory edge, I would think should hold up better.

Asym edge, pretty good at this sort of thing.
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yes, factory, i just removed the hooves, 2 swings total, damage on both, dummy me
 
Not what I would expect to happen either although I usually snap them at the first joint and cut through.

Maybe as has been said....a couple of sharpenings might give a harder edge....if not get it checked by Garth.
 
I hitted with my Skinny ASH-1 wood, ground, concrete and rocks. I also have similar experiences with many different steels. I see people here making some confusions. I must say that concrete and brick is very different from rocks in regards of edge impacts. When I hit bricks or concrete with my INFI blade there is almost no damage, especially if the concrete has no visible rocks in it. However, when hitting rocks it chips. Yes, it chips. Actually on rock impacts it gets a combination of rolls, chips and pound outs.

But that depends very much on the edge profile. If the edge profile is thin and the edge very sharp, you have to take into consideration that all the power which comes from the heavy blade accelerated by your own power flows down focused on that very thin edge which must support all that pressure that is generated on impact. If the object hitted is too dull and doesn't give up (like dull rocks), then the shock produced together with the power of the heavy blade behind it is so powerfull that no thin piece of any material on this planet can handle entirely that pressure.

Regarding bones, it depends very much on how hard they are and how is the microscopic structure of the particular bone, if it absorbs the shock or reflect it entirely. If the bone is too dull it may damage the blade like rocks do. As an advice, try the next time to baton the edge through the bone and not hit it with the edge. If it chips during batoning through it, then there is a big problem with your blade, because I have even stainless thin blades which cut through big bones with no kind of damage hitted in the spine with a hammer.
 
Hi.

I'm not a hunter, but i wanted to ask.

If you have to break a bone, can't you use the back of the blade and prevent any edge damage?
 
MB1 said:
If you have to break a bone, can't you use the back of the blade and prevent any edge damage?
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Well, I'm not a hunter either, but I don't think you can easy break a strong bone with the spine, or you can break it, but you'll destroy it entirely in that way. If you want to break it in two compact pieces, you can't use the spine, especially if the bone has some meat on it which you don't want to degradate.
 
out5yder said:
Well, I'm not a hunter either, but I don't think you can easy break a strong bone with the spine, or you can break it, but you'll destroy it entirely in that way. If you want to break it in two compact pieces, you can't use the spine, especially if the bone has some meat on it which you don't want to degradate.
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Hm...sounds logically...breaking the bone with the back of the blade could indeed produce many bone pieces...which are probably hard to clean. And it will smash the meat... So the edge produces a cleaner fracture...OK. I was just curious:-)
 
reconseed: I don't think sr77 would have faired as well.
INFI has more edge strength than sr77. (which is different than "toughness" or impact resistence)

don't some people have more problems with factory edges on busse's?
I know people that have had chipping on bone but after a sharpening haven't had any problems.
won't a more refined edge last longer?
 
SR-77 after bone hits. But I did notice a huge improvement after I reprofiled the edge. SR-77 is STS & I highly recommend it :thumbup:
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