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Absolutely have NO intention of defaming, discrediting, or disproving any claim made by Busse knife group. Still believe the claims, still highly impressed, still love the knives, and may have found one more impressive thing. Blame any and all damage on myself and poor technique. I DO NOT recommend what I did at all for any reason. If you damage your Busse contact them and/or send the knife in for repair. I simply lacked the patience of filing a claim, sending my knife in etc. I finally did it. I damaged both by War Train and my MOFO. I don't have pics because I have already done the repairs and can not provide an accurate photographic record of my happenings. Many apologies. Just simply sharing my (possibly DUMB) mileage. Also, note that both are BG SR-101.
I was tearing up some old pallets with my MOFO for fun because why not. I accidentally wacked the crap out of a nail in the pallet and chipped at least half a very small section of the MOFO's microbevel. For repair I began sharpening the microbevel at various angles (awkward human hands) with a chainsaw file until the chip "moved" down to the latter part of the edge, in other words, most of the microbevel restored,. I then swiped the knife across a fine diamond stone to wear down the edge and "remove" the chip by leveling the surface (grinding at an all out 90 degree angle). I then sharpened like normal and ended up with a somewhat convexed v ground edge that is back to being characteristically razor sharp. I then cut leather, cardboard, rope, chopped bamboo etc. every little thing I could to dull that edge and after all was said and done a few swipes over a fine ceramic rod brought the knife back to razor sharp. I was very impressed that the edge could easily be repaired by hand and that once repaired the edge stayed repaired and in true fighting form.
For the War Train I was back at that ole pressure treated piling in a section full of knots and sand. After I chopped through that section I examined the edge for damage and saw that all of the micro bevel and a small bit of the primary bevel just above the micro was bent/ dinged in two sections. I ran my fingers across the plane of the blade and felt the two dings just to be sure light and my eyes weren't playing tricks on me and the blade was definitely bent in those two small places. I knew that a sharpener wouldn't just bend the metal back or make it level without removing a terrible amount of material. I debated contacting Busse and having them repair it and decided, fudge it, I have an anvil and a blacksmith's hammer, I'm impatient and I can repair this. So, I layed the War train down and began lightly tapping along the edge going back and forth side to side concentrating on the bent areas and continuing to go along the edge so the concentration in the two dings didn't push the metal around all weird and to keep the edge consistent and straight. After about thirty minutes the edge was back true. After straightening the edge I sharpened like normal fine diamond/ fine ceramic and I could detect no more warping along the edge. Didn't take long and the WTF was razor sharp again.
I know this is a risky post. I could be banned and blasted beyond all reason, but I'd rather be honest and share my mileage and don't care about the internet that much anyway. I have damaged many other blades the same way and either couldn't repair them because they broke, took way too much work and seemingly required something that would destroy Heat Treatment. Or it was simply way too time consuming and very very difficult. Each blade took about an hour of steady careful work and they were back like they should be as best as my unprofessional, non-knife maker self could tell. I am impressed and tickled pink at how easy they were to repair and even more impressed that the repairs are true and last. Busse knives are truly amazing in what they can take and just how little down time you have before they're back like new.
I was tearing up some old pallets with my MOFO for fun because why not. I accidentally wacked the crap out of a nail in the pallet and chipped at least half a very small section of the MOFO's microbevel. For repair I began sharpening the microbevel at various angles (awkward human hands) with a chainsaw file until the chip "moved" down to the latter part of the edge, in other words, most of the microbevel restored,. I then swiped the knife across a fine diamond stone to wear down the edge and "remove" the chip by leveling the surface (grinding at an all out 90 degree angle). I then sharpened like normal and ended up with a somewhat convexed v ground edge that is back to being characteristically razor sharp. I then cut leather, cardboard, rope, chopped bamboo etc. every little thing I could to dull that edge and after all was said and done a few swipes over a fine ceramic rod brought the knife back to razor sharp. I was very impressed that the edge could easily be repaired by hand and that once repaired the edge stayed repaired and in true fighting form.
For the War Train I was back at that ole pressure treated piling in a section full of knots and sand. After I chopped through that section I examined the edge for damage and saw that all of the micro bevel and a small bit of the primary bevel just above the micro was bent/ dinged in two sections. I ran my fingers across the plane of the blade and felt the two dings just to be sure light and my eyes weren't playing tricks on me and the blade was definitely bent in those two small places. I knew that a sharpener wouldn't just bend the metal back or make it level without removing a terrible amount of material. I debated contacting Busse and having them repair it and decided, fudge it, I have an anvil and a blacksmith's hammer, I'm impatient and I can repair this. So, I layed the War train down and began lightly tapping along the edge going back and forth side to side concentrating on the bent areas and continuing to go along the edge so the concentration in the two dings didn't push the metal around all weird and to keep the edge consistent and straight. After about thirty minutes the edge was back true. After straightening the edge I sharpened like normal fine diamond/ fine ceramic and I could detect no more warping along the edge. Didn't take long and the WTF was razor sharp again.
I know this is a risky post. I could be banned and blasted beyond all reason, but I'd rather be honest and share my mileage and don't care about the internet that much anyway. I have damaged many other blades the same way and either couldn't repair them because they broke, took way too much work and seemingly required something that would destroy Heat Treatment. Or it was simply way too time consuming and very very difficult. Each blade took about an hour of steady careful work and they were back like they should be as best as my unprofessional, non-knife maker self could tell. I am impressed and tickled pink at how easy they were to repair and even more impressed that the repairs are true and last. Busse knives are truly amazing in what they can take and just how little down time you have before they're back like new.
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