It's time to call BUSSE

golden_dragon

golden_dragon

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Just want to say Hello!
Check the photos below, I damaged the blade last night while chopping some meat/bone. Guess now I'll send it in for a repair, hopfully they will take care this for me.
Marry Christmas to You all!
:)
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golden_dragon said:
The title is a click bait, just want to say Hello!
Check the photos below, the blade was damged last night while chopping some meat/bone. Guess now I'll send it in for a repair, hopfully they will take care this for me.
Marry Christmas to You all!
:)
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Yes, bone is hard; it can be like chopping on rocks. Not the kind of work that I would willing subject any cutting tool to. Ask me how I found this out. :rolleyes::oops:

n2s
 
Wtf. Had damage like that from rocks, never from bone tho. That edge looks is plenty thin. Not meant to chop really. It will be nothing to fix.

Happy holidays.
 
Are those chips or dents? They are too perfectly rounded to be chips.

Either way, that knife is junk. I would consider chopping bones to be abuse, even with Infi.

I recently got a small Busse that was well used (the seller disclosed it all). The edge was badly rolled, and the edge angle was 70 degrees inclusive. Busse usually overcomes abuse with geometry, but even that thick edge rolled.
 
golden_dragon said:
Just want to say Hello!
Check the photos below, I damaged the blade last night while chopping some meat/bone. Guess now I'll send it in for a repair, hopfully they will take care this for me.
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It does not matter what caused it or how it happened, you are covered by the best warranty in the industry. Send it in, they will take care of you.

Happy holidays to you too.:)
 
Some would say those "half-moon" chips are user error. Wear wrist while chopping toques the knife while in the medium causing it to chip out.

Though, a Busse-kin should be able to chop regardless of technique, shouldn't it?
 
marcinek said:
Some would say those "half-moon" chips are user error. Wear wrist while chopping toques the knife while in the medium causing it to chip out.

Though, a Busse-kin should be able to chop regardless of technique, shouldn't it?
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I can't be sure, but I don't think those are chips. They are dents caused by the edge hitting a hard bone.

Half-moon deflections are caused by chopping something like wood, where there is a grain change, forcing part of the blade to move one way while the rest of the blade is moving in a different direction. They don't break out until someone tries to straighten them out.

Chips would have a more ragged boundary. Below is a chip. Look at the boundary. It's ragged.
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Here's another. Here you can see cracking, as well. Chipping and cracking are signs of poor toughness, which is not usually the weakness of a Busse.
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Twindog said:
Chipping and cracking are signs of poor toughness, which is not usually the weakness of a Busse.
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Right. That's why I said "I don't think that's a Busse." Busse blades are Infi. Swamp Rats are SR101 (very close to 52100?) which is a wonderful blade steel, but no match to Infi when it comes to abuse.

Calling a Swamp Rat a Busse is sort of like calling a Toyota Corolla a Lexus. And I mean no disrespect to the OP. I have a Swamp Rat (an original Camp Tramp) and several Busses and I think they are all excellent knives. But the blade steels are different.
 
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