Mike Turber test: CS Trailmaster vs Busse Basic 9 (archive)

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Follow the link below to read an archived (and slightly rearranged) copy of Mike Turber's long-time-ago testing of a Cold Steel Trailmaster bowie against a Busse Basic 9.

http://www.oz.net/~malinski/Turber_test/

This test used to be available here on BFC, but disappeared during one of the software upgrades perhaps. The addresses returned by a Google search pointed directly or indirectly back to the old non-existent BFC page. Consequently, I've placed the article on my ISP server space to make it available for a while to the BFC members.

So DON'T link the pictures straight off that server!!! Download them to your own hard drive space. Or be smart and archive the whole webpage for yourself. If my ISP bandwidth limit gets toasted, the page gets yanked pronto. So just save it to your hard drive.

BTW, does someone have a working email addy for Mike Turber? The one in his BFC profile at wowinc.com bounced when I tried to contact him there.
 
Nice work, too bad he didn't do more. That kind of information should never be pruned.

-Cliff
 
This was a nice review. What caught my eye at the end was the tang construction. The Busse was radiused to avoid stress risers. The Cold Steel had sharp, right angles. If I remember, there have been two or three threads about the Scout Recon breaking at this point during batoning, and there was some speculation about stress risers causing the problem.
 
Wow,thats a lot of abuse,i guess my trailmaster will survive all the cabbages ive been cutting!
 
Twindog said:
This was a nice review. What caught my eye at the end was the tang construction. The Busse was radiused to avoid stress risers. The Cold Steel had sharp, right angles. If I remember, there have been two or three threads about the Scout Recon breaking at this point during batoning, and there was some speculation about stress risers causing the problem.
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There's a thread at Swamp Rat Chat where a guy is posting x-ray pictures of Camp Tramp and Battle Rat (the descendants of the Busse Basic). You can clearly see that both sides of the tand-blade interface are radiused.

http://www.swampratknifeworks.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=10;t=004100
 
Great tests and review. I enjoyed reading that. It always makes me a little sad though to see knives like that get busted up and destroyed. They could have just given them to me!
 
"be smart and archive the whole webpage for yourself"

What does this mean and how would I go about doing this? Thanks.
 
averageguy said:
"be smart and archive the whole webpage for yourself"

What does this mean and how would I go about doing this? Thanks.
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Open the page ( click the link)
Up top, on the left click FILE then SAVE AS.
A box should appear allowing you to name the file and you'll see a drop down for selecting the type of file.
Save as HTML.
Hope this helps a bit more....
 
It can also be saved as an pdf.
I uploaded PDF version:
http://rapidshare.de/files/36251996...eel_Trail_Master_-vs-_Busse_Basic__9.pdf.html

(you have to scroll down, click on "free" button (in "select your download") and then wait for 60 seconds - then put in code from image and hit the "download from ..." to start downloading. (I know, it is rubbish to perform all these steps, but it is only site I know of that allows you to upload for free and doesn't delete it after few days)
 
That was back when Turber was putting together a on line blade magazine for BF when he was running it.
 
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