knife test .com (Busse)

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I've been watching the knife test .com videos on You Tube and after viewing a number of them I've concluded that the testing has some merit.
(I'm guessing this has been talked about in the past but without the search option I cant really drill down the posts to read them. I did try to goggle KT.com/blade forums but didn't find anything.)

However, I just got done watching the Busse FFBM test and to say the least...it was impressive.
Does anyone have any thoughts or opinions as to the merit of these tests?
 
There has a million posts on this topic. SOme people hate em, others kinda like em. I think they are kinda dumb but they do show some knives that take a real hard beating.

Overall, I was most impressed with the Granfors axe review he did. Never broke the little guy :p
 
Uh-oh... Now you've done it! Get some popcorn and sit back. ;)

I only have 2 thoughts on this... Well, 3 really.

1. Thank God it ain't my knife. I would never treat my tools like that.
2. If you're gonna beat your own knife to death for no good reason, so to speak...thanks for filming it. Nothing like free entertainment.
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3. At least the Busse held its own and wore him out before finally breaking. LOL! :D
 
Oh yeah, forgot to mention this... You can use Google to search BF.com. Click this LINK. :)
 
Jaxx said:
Uh-oh... Now you've done it! Get some popcorn and sit back. ;)

I only have 2 thoughts on this... Well, 3 really.

1. Thank God it ain't my knife. I would never treat my tools like that.
2. If you're gonna beat your own knife to death for no good reason, so to speak...thanks for filming it. Nothing like free entertainment.
and...
3. At least the Busse held its own and wore him out before finally breaking. LOL! :D
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I think that busse did more than held it's own. Watching it go through that steel tube was really something to watch.
 
I think they are fun to watch, some of the tests are resonable. If a knife is going to break chopping a 2x4 Id know there was either somthing wrong or the knife just cant handle it, so in that respect his tests are resonable.
Do I take his word as godspeak? of course not
will I be down in my basement playing copycat anytime soon? no
do I expect a knife to be able to baton through 1/4in steel? no but I do expect it not to break in a 2x4
just my .02$
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Statistically speaking for those kind of tests to have scientific merit each knife would have to be hit with the same force every time at the same angle in the same type/batch of wood/2x4. You'd also have to have a sample of 30 knives AT LEAST. Otherwise the one knife tested could be in the middle but it also might be in the 99th percentile of the weakest knives made by that maker (faulty heat treat) or in the 99th percentile of toughest knives made by that maker. The tests might be entertaining to watch for some, but without proper sample size and consistent conditions they can't say anything comparative to each or even for the brand they are, since you can't know if they're one of the best or worst to come from that maker.
 
Well you watch them and you get a pretty good idea what your knife can do. Its not necessarily the limit of your knife but it was done. I wouldn't choose one knife over the other based on those tests, but it provides for good watch sometimes. I came here to find out more about striders after he did a strider test, and found out about Busse, then he did his Busse BM review but I already had two Busse blades by then.

If you are interested in Busses visit the sub-forum, you might not get the most objective look on things, but at least you'd be able to draw your own conclusions.
 
They are intertaining, but infi is over rated, and sold as a false prophit, I want to like the busse line, but untill they acutally make a knife instead of odd geometry disfuctional overpriced steel things I cant, (ok, maybe 2).. From the whole lineup.....however the family companies, swamp and scrap have come through in that area, and glad to own some of them.
 
Volk said:
Well you watch them and you get a pretty good idea what your knife can do. Its not necessarily the limit of your knife but it was done. I wouldn't choose one knife over the other based on those tests, but it provides for good watch sometimes. I came here to find out more about striders after he did a strider test, and found out about Busse, then he did his Busse BM review but I already had two Busse blades by then.

If you are interested in Busses visit the sub-forum, you might not get the most objective look on things, but at least you'd be able to draw your own conclusions.
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We are really very honest and up front in the Busse forum, when something goes wrong we tell about it, when we roll an edge etc we post about it usually with photos. ;)
 
Ankerson said:
We are really very honest and up front in the Busse forum, when something goes wrong we tell about it, when we roll an edge etc we post about it usually with photos. ;)
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+1 Theirs a lot of great guys there, and will answer your questions with hands on experience and photos. :thumbup:
 
fastcamo said:
They are intertaining, but infi is over rated, and sold as a false prophit, I want to like the busse line, but untill they acutally make a knife instead of odd geometry disfuctional overpriced steel things I cant, (ok, maybe 2).. From the whole lineup.....however the family companies, swamp and scrap have come through in that area, and glad to own some of them.
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Seriously have you even looked at the Busse line, if so you didnt really look very hard. Busse has made hundreds of models, in all shapes, sizes, different edges, different thickness.

You are really going to stick with "until they actually make a knife" :yawn:

Eric
 
They beat the crap out of that FFBM and it held up great. After seeing that knife test I knew I had to have one. I wouldn't put a knife through half that stuff, but its nice to know it will take it.
 
banana-clip said:
They beat the crap out of that FFBM and it held up great. After seeing that knife test I knew I had to have one. I wouldn't put a knife through half that stuff, but its nice to know it will take it.
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I have hit rocks and concrete with my FFBM. :eek:

It's a beast of a knife and it holds up very well, it can take it. :thumbup:
 
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