I'll answer my own question, HECK YES IT IS! Here is my experience. I found a Tanto Blur that was my brothers. My brother is far from a knife nut. He is just a knife user. He bought this at a local department store when he was still in highschool (don't know if I can name drop them but it should be easy enough to figure out) and used and abused the crap out of it. He cut any and everything. Used it for fishing and I think he may of even field dressed with it. He did not take care of it at all. He stripped off the coating as well for some reason.
He ended up losing it outside for quite some time. When we were back home I ended up finding it. There was rust on the blade, lock bar was stuck and over-traveled to about 100%, blade off center and it was full of mud and dirt. I should have taken a picture at this point. I decided to take it home and see what I could do. To my surprise the rust was easily removed with a automotive rust remover. I took the knife apart and cleaned out the mud and dirt. The grip inserts cleaned up easily. Bent back the liner lock, and cleaned up the washers. He did manage to break the speed safe but they don't last forever anyway, and it works fine de-asisted. Then I sharpened the blade and its good to go. So in the end after about an hour of work I have a workable blur that had been used and abused and has been outside for like 5 years. So if you were on the fence about this knife and how it will hold up rest assured, it will do fine. Now I just need to get a blur to use. I have a purple one but I don't carry it.
Here are the after pics. I didn't take any before pics because I wasn't thinking about the forums at the time.
He ended up losing it outside for quite some time. When we were back home I ended up finding it. There was rust on the blade, lock bar was stuck and over-traveled to about 100%, blade off center and it was full of mud and dirt. I should have taken a picture at this point. I decided to take it home and see what I could do. To my surprise the rust was easily removed with a automotive rust remover. I took the knife apart and cleaned out the mud and dirt. The grip inserts cleaned up easily. Bent back the liner lock, and cleaned up the washers. He did manage to break the speed safe but they don't last forever anyway, and it works fine de-asisted. Then I sharpened the blade and its good to go. So in the end after about an hour of work I have a workable blur that had been used and abused and has been outside for like 5 years. So if you were on the fence about this knife and how it will hold up rest assured, it will do fine. Now I just need to get a blur to use. I have a purple one but I don't carry it.
Here are the after pics. I didn't take any before pics because I wasn't thinking about the forums at the time.
I've never actually spine-whacked anything.