Just Chipped my Brand New NMSFNO... Advice/Suggestions Requested

After reading this thread and looking at my virgin NMSFNO decided to go break her in.....just 4 shits an grins...... Most everything slightly frozen around here but found a 6 " in diameter sapling that had been cut off 3 feet from the ground. Chopped 1/2 way through it in the dark,,,,,then came in and snapped these.... only thing that slightly frozen tree did to my NMSFNO was stain the coating with tree sap.......lmao INFI RULES


I typed this out and beat my NMSFNO before I saw the *chipped* edge pics JTP1221 posted. Since I had'nt used my blade yet just wanted to see what she could do and if there were any issues with it. The blade went through the 1/2 frozen sapling like butter and of course ,,,, no damage @ all ,,,,,,,, just like JTP1221's blade,,,, no damage @ all . A cpl minutes with a knife steel or a Lansky and good as new!!!!!
 

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Hey Jerry,

Thanks for your response, it means a lot to hear from you. I would greatly appreciate you having a look at the knife. I just want to have total confidence in this knife the first time I take it out for a week long backpacking trip.

I'll contact your number tomorrow.


Thanks,
John
 
Well, there you have it. INFI is only half of what makes Busse's great, unbeatable warranty and customer service makes it the total package.
 
Jerry Busse said:
Send the knife in. . . .We'll test it. . . . We'll replace it, if need be. . . . We'll try to stay sober enough to ship it to the right address this time. . . . all is well . . . . .

No worries. . . .

Let's Drink!!! :thumbup:

Jerry :D










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Continuing proof that Jerry is, in fact, THE man.
 
I'm always surprised to see any damage at all on a Busse blade. I've used my FFBM to whack trees, cut and split firewood (mesquite, oak and pecan) and never had any damage whatsoever. In fact, the damn thing still shaves.

Hell of a warranty... they will take care of ya...
 
Although it's some great knife steel, INFI ain't bulletproof... Actually, after remembering about the "Wounded Badger", the Busse knife that stopped a .40cal(?) bullet, I take that back! ...But it, like any other high end steel will occasionally dent, roll, and counting this possibility, dare I say "chip" (:foot:) once in a blue moon so to speak. Yours is very small, and not something we see a whole lot of around here. The beauty of INFI is the effort needed to repair an edge is not excessive to the owner, and the Busse warranty is outstanding should you not wish to try this yourself!

I once let two guys I hired to do landscaping at my house use a CG FBM all day and they really put it to work. They chopped brush, saplings, vines, and bramble and in the process, hit a few rocks and also some gravel. These pix were taken immediately after they handed her back over.

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They even managed to shear a little off the tip.

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Most, if not all of what you see along this edge are dents & rolls. There were no chips taken out of this edge.
How did it it look after cleaning it up? Like this!

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After a little time on the Edge-Pro, the edge was back to screaming sharp.

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Yours should steel out & sharpen up great, but thanks to Jerry's warranty, you can have that back to new once you get it back from Busse! They can also inspect it and make sure that there is no heat treat issue with your knife while they have it. :thumbup:

INFI is one heckuva great knife steel, JMHO, so don't sweat it, 'cause one way or the other, your knife's edge will be back to new, and ready for more!!

Thanxx, Bossman!!!!
 
The question that hasn't been asked yet is: if any visible damage at all is going to occur on a Busse edge, why would it be the full convex edge of an NMSFNO?

That's like an ax profile made of INFI indenting on a piece of wood. Sounds disconcerting.

I just received my NMSFNO LE today and I don't expect-- nor do I want to see-- similar deformities (no matter how minor) from hacking on compressed cellulose.
 
I have managed to make some dings in a couple of my edges, including my FBMLE. So far I have found that rocks (sorry FBMLE), and concrete (sorry Ash1) can mar the edges. Oh, and contact with other knives can cause problems (sorry FBMLE again). I know, I am talking from experience. Give a good chop to wood with loose stones on the splitter log, and you might do some edge damage. Usually I keep an edge v grind until I damage it on something, then that is an excuse to convex the edge.

Oh, also, hard contact with a porcelain sink can dent the edge (sorry SS, that was an accident).

My point is that any metal that you take down to an edge thin enough to cut means it is very thin (relatively speaking). Make contact with anything harder than the edge and you will get edge damage.

Any tree branch you hit with your knife can have sand or stones, or dirt etc on it.

When I damages the edge on my FBMLE once, I was chopping wood on a large splitter log. The wood I was chopping was unbelievably hard. Some of the pieces took 30+ strikes with a Maul and splitting wedges to get through. A bunch had fat wood in the middle. Very dense heavy sappy sap wood. I split a bunch off with off with batoning and side chops etc. At end, I though dang that wood was hard enough to ding the edge. Then I cleaned off the splitter stump, and darned if there weren't a couple of small round stones on the stump. One of which had been recently cut in half. It matched the size of the edge damage.

The damage you pictured will steel and then sharpen out in a very short time. If you are not comfortable sharpening your own knives, you can always send it in to busse for some TLC as Jerry offered.
 
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komondor, IIRC only the NMSFNOLE is fully convexed to the edge while the CG NMSFNO has convexed flats that lead down to a symmetrical V-ground edge.
 
Jaxx said:
komondor, IIRC only the NMSFNOLE is fully convexed to the edge while the CG NMSFNO has convexed flats that lead down to a symmetrical V-ground edge.
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Interesting, I didn't know this (mainly because of ignorance), but now that I look at my NMSFNO, it does look like a plain V at the actual cutting edge.
 
The man, the steel, the warranty it's a hard combination for anyone to beat.

I've got few products I own that have my confidence as much as Busse. Stuff like this just makes me feel even safer to beat the snot out of my blades.
 
Jaxx said:

I once let two guys I hired to do landscaping at my house use a CG FBM all day and they really put it to work. They chopped brush, saplings, vines, and bramble and in the process, hit a few rocks and also some gravel. These pix were taken immediately after they handed her back over.
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So did they have any idea what they were holding?
 
Busse really does have the best warranty, but I would feel guilty sending in OP's knife with such little "damage". I'd feel like like I was abusing the lifetime warranty.
 
If it were my knife, I would steel it, strop it and go out and beat on it again - THEN if it fails, send it back to Busse.

My FBM had some minor dents and chips after some initial chopping. Once I put a nice polished convex edge on it, I've chopped through at least a cord of wood with no damage. It's a beast. :cool:
 
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