Jerry Busse makes a bushcraft blade?

[Skrapmetal]

I liked my Game Warden to after I had it reground. It would not even cut a cardboard box before that. After one entire evening at the stones and hone with no success I sent it to Mike Stewart at Bark River. He re-profiled it to a thinner convex grind and it cut like an INFI razor.

I carried it a lot after that.
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My Killa Zilla II is sitting at the Bark River shop right now. I stripped the coating and worked it a bit by hand, but I don't have the belt sander to do the amount of reprofiling I wanted... so I sent it to them.

Some Busses have good profiles, though. My SAR8 was pretty good. My comp finish Bushwacker Mistress has a fantastic profile and a great convex edge. Neither came from the factory coated, though... that really is the difference I think.

Can't wait to get my CABS.

 

[j williams]

I'll still disagree. INFI is better. I think it'd be more accurate to say that most people won't use a knife in such a way that the superior properties of INFI will be noticed, so it doesn't matter to them. I've never had any more trouble sharpening INFI with bench stones and strops -- same as I do A2/O1/1095/5160, etc.

I'll give you the sometimes poor sharpening from Busse. I've had some come really sharp and some dull as hell.


OK, but realize that bushcraft is not the intended purpose of most of his blades. Busse Combat, not Busse Bushcraft. It's like saying an M60 is a poor squirrel gun. Well, yes, but that's not what it was meant for. On the other hand, most of them CAN be used for such.

The Hellrazor:

Has to be one of the most obviously combat-oriented blades there is. Yet, when I thought out of the box, and tried it in bushcraft, I find it works quite well.

Thick spines? That matters only depending on the rest of the geometry. Take the Fusion Battle Mistress:

Yep, it has a 1/4" spine. BUT, if you measure the thickness of the blade at the same height as the total height of an Aurora, they are nearly the same, with the Aurora being slightly thicker.

Often the difference between what you get from the factory and what makes it a good woods blade is sharpening the factory toothy edge to a more polished edge -- with the same bevel angle.

I dont care if people like Busse, I dont care if they dont, what gets me is the cult like status in the knife industry. How the fanboys come out of the woodwork defending the blades and maker they choose to use, and dogpiling those who dont like what they like, or see what they see. Lots of companies get this. BRKT, ESEE, Becker, Busse......My thing is use what you like, and if you dont like it, pass it up. However dont jump on people saying they are haters(not you as much as others), because they disagree with what they see, and their opinions of the Manufacturer, and the price point, or what they see as good features and not so good features of a bushcraft knife.

I have a feeling there'd be less dogpiling from the Pros if there was less dogpiling from the Antis.

Time and time again I see people post expensive knives, and the response is often "Man, that's really nice, but too rich for my blood." and leave it at that.

Post a Busse and some people respond like that, but then the Antis come and go on a tirade about how much they cost, how much they hate the business model, they don't like the names he gives them, etc.

I used to think the reaction of the Props to be over the top, but after seeing the crap thrown at them all the time (even on the Busse forum itself), I think they're just sick of hearing the same crap, no matter how often it's explained why things are done the way they are done. Ya kind of have to expect that they'll be throwing some back.

And let's face it, on the manufacturer's forums, people beat their chests about how great the knives are. On this forum they beat their chests about how great their skills are. Unless they sharpened some piece of scrap steel they got for free, wrapped a handle with a discarded ball of twine and make a duct tape sheath with a pocket to hold their smooth stone from the river, they paid more than they had top for their knife. After that, it's just a matter of scale of how MUCH more they paid. [/QUOTE]

Great post CP. :thumbup:

 

[shunsui]

Just a little heads up and maybe some incentive to pick up the thinfi for comparison if nothing else. Here's the new 3V knives on the production schedule over at Bark River. I don't think that Aurora will be $190

http://www.knifeforums.com/forums/showtopic.php?tid/868156/

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