Modified Busses?

Cobalt

Cobalt

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Who has modified their Busse blades, and what do they look like. I am wondering about people's creativity. I saw another thread, where people were posting pics of modified Busse knives and I would like to see who has done that here. I am not talking about the ones modified by Jerry or the custom shop, but the ones done by the owner or someone else. If that is the case.:D
 
well... i got me a public defender... but i quite soon found out that this thing is not meant for active cutting, ala the active duty. im not quite sure what it was specifically designed for... so, i wanted to take the primary grind up about a 1/4 inch, to thin the whole thing out. so i took off the finish, and tried my best to sand paper some of the metal off directly behind the edge, and found that to be impossible (dont wanna spend a month sanding 6 hours a day...), and then looked at my available options for grinding the primary - and found that i just didnt want to throw a 200$ knife into the trash by putting a completey innacurate grind on it.

sooooooooo, all i ended up doing was taking the coating from the blade, sanding out some of the major pock marks in the spine area (one of them was a bit to big to get out), and brought it to 24 degree's on my edgepro apex, with 3 bevels at about the 21, 18, and 15 marks. the thing can now cut like any other blade, though for tasks involving pushing the material across the length of the blade (from edge to spine) you realy start to feel the difference between a full flat grind and a traditional tanto (?).

also, i curved out the area by the spine a bit more... (where primary meets spine) so that when you get to that point, it helps the material glide past it...

if i could sell it to someone in its now mangled (aesthetically, and minus a fair bit of the metal directly behind the cutting surface), i probably would, and replace it with the ad-tac that im gonna get... but, im ashamed of it due to my lack of tools, and my impatience with super extended sanding tasks. ill probably keep it for a long while as my car stabing/thowing knife...


not really modifications like your speaking of, such as putting a swedge on it, or putting a recurve or serrations, or new handles... but i did WANT to modify it :rolleyes:
 
ROTFLMAO!!:D
Not exactly the response I was looking for, but my huevos hurt now from all the laughing I just did. I hate to laugh at your grief, because I have been there more than once and ruined a few knives in the process. Your knife almost looks like someone tried to cut many facets into a diamond. You should have become a diamond cutter for a large jeweller.

In all honesty, I'm sure the knife cuts well enough and in the end that is all that matters.
 
lol... well, ive always felt that the lessons in life that screw you the most are the ones that you'll learn from best :)

the only thing im doin to that ad-tac is thinning the edge, and putting a polish on it - and im keeping about a pound of masking tape over the finish while i do it...

kinda like driving an ugly car - that thing better break windows and disable car alarms when it goes by if your going to feel cool driving it...
 
wait a minute... You're talking about an Active Duty Tac model?

You are planning to thin a .015" blade ground to a zero edge? Good luck with that.:eek:
 
For some reason every time I handle my user ZT NO I have a desire to have the metal beyond the rear of the Micarta and the rear guard hole totally removed, ala the BA-E but overall a shorter handle. Seems to me this would be like a thinner BA-E on steroids, and would be a very handy total package.
 
I modified my Steel Heart-e a little bit. It started with me hammering the knife into a stack of quarters. It punched through the quarters with no problem, but it did happen to remove some of the coating from the tip. It was staring me in the face when I decided to grind some of the egde to try to increase the knive's penatrating ability. So the knife got a bit of a touch-up and now has somewhat of a BAT tip.:D No Harm no Foul.:D
 
Good job. I always enjoy what people do to their knives. I wonder if all the grinding changed the properties of the steel, though. Did you take care not to get the steel to hot, or was that even an issue?
 
The old Basic 7 now has a point. The original Busse asymetrical edge was ground down to a nice thin convex edge, like the one along the spine of the blade. The maximum blade thickness is now in the 0.082-0.085" range!! That's just a hair over 1/16". Needless to say, this thing is now a screamin' slicin' demon! The back edge is especially thin & wicked. Gotta love Really Skinny INFI!!! :D :D

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Originally posted by RokJok
The old Basic 7 now has a point. The original Busse asymetrical edge was ground down to a nice thin convex edge, like the one along the spine of the blade. The maximum blade thickness is now in the 0.082-0.085" range!! That's just a hair over 1/16". Needless to say, this thing is now a screamin' slicin' demon! The back edge is especially thin & wicked. Gotta love Really Skinny INFI!!! :D :D
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how long did it take you to do that nd what tools did you use. Man, it has got to be a razor now.:D
 
MikeH

I do have a user NO that the previous owner ground the tang off of. It looks like a BA-e on steroids. Really neat, but I doubt if I would try it with my ZTNO. The shop maybe,but not me.

I have an altered BA-e that was NOT done by me, but very nice. I'll see if I can get Eric to post the pic.

Rob
 
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Originally posted by Cobalt
how long did it take you to do that nd what tools did you use. Man, it has got to be a razor now.:D
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Cobalt, The info for the first crude butchering up and hogging down of the blade is in the link I posted above. Putting on the point, grinding off the last bit of coating, thinning out the original asymetrical edge, and giving the blade a bit of overall finishing was done by Mr "X" who lives near me. He did it in a few minutes on his belt grinder while waiting for a billet of damascus to come up to temp. He definitely took the knife to the next level of performance cutting-wise. Ahhhhh ......... what the hands of a master can do. :D Like that Jerry Busse fella, y'know. ;) :cool:
 
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If I'm correct, the work on the BA-e was done by Reese Weiland for Ronybear whom I purchased the knife from. Besides that beautiful satin finish it is incredibly comfortable in the hand.

Rob
 
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