N.I.C.K. arrived :)

I haven't gotten one either. It's been weeks and weeks. This is BS :grumpy:

Maybe I should have ordered one :p
 
I DID order some, I wish mine would arrive.
:(
 
Yep, I ordered one, too. I guess it's been..., 7 months? Busse got their money, maybe, 6 weeks or more.
 
greg, how does the xxxl nick handle in use? does it cause much arm/hand fatigue being as thick as it is?

seriously about the camp duty... i want to take the nick out and tear stuff up with it, but i look at the battle mistress and go... you know, that would probably work better... and this is kinda rare.... ugh... fine... i'll leave it in the kitchen... now, were it 3/16-1/4 thick on the otherhand. man... it could do some crazy cool damage...
 
I have not had a chance to use the big NICK yet, so I really cannot say how it handles. I am thinking it will be used more for chopping and bone-splitting chores. I have used the regular NICK a couple of times this week for vegetable cutting and I was not as happy with it as I thought I would be. My other large kitchen knives are hollow ground and sliced food falls away from the blade. With the flat grind on the NICK, food wants to stick to the side of the blade. I have seen kitchen knives with scallops to solve this problem, so it must be fairly common with big blade knives. Have you had a chance to use yours yet?
 
i work in a pizza shop with some pretty low end knives... the best knife we have is an unknown brand regular chefs knife, thats been used and resharpened so many times that it is no longer a curve, but rather a set of different angled curves... and the metal behind the edge is thick enough that once its dulled up, its pretty much useless.

so compared to what i use daily, it handles like a dream :rolleyes: :D

seriously though, i have no idea how high end kitchen cutlery should perform, but for what i use it for it works great. im used to crap knives, and using them to chop 30 bells, 10 onions, 20 tomato's a day, so having a super thin knife like this thats still stiff enough to handle blade pressure really is fantastic. i can definitely see where your complaints are valid though. im just used to such poor quality that this is a sigh of releif.

to be honest, it doesnt really perform any better then my chefs review knife from smart and final, but i do like it better. wich may just be my love of busse's... but you know... since its 15 times as expensive as the chefs review, its going to see a hell of a lot more use... and it will travel with me where ever i move to, where as the chefs review will stay with my parents.
 
I got to play with both knives yesterday making a pot roast. I'm now liking the regular NICK better as it did a great job on carrots, onions, and celery. The XXXL NICK was actually pretty good on the small slicing tasks also-handling everything well except the celery which it tended to smash instead of cut. I was really surprised how well it thin sliced onions! I still have not done any bone cutting/chopping with the XXXL NICK, which is where it should really shine.

Unfortunately neither knife is particularly well suited for slicing potatoes. The potato slices stick to the side of the small NICK and the XXXL NICK acts more like a wedge with its thick blade. I know that Busse is not getting into the kitchen knife business, but I believe that perhaps the best NICK for most chores would be either the thin one hollow ground or a NICK that is midway between the two in thickness. YMMV.
 
crazy... just got another one, apperently from a later edition then the ones i got previously. the newer one is un-numbered and has a fully chisel grind, from spine to edge, where as the first ones had a chisel main grind and a symetrical edge....
 
Geez, I haven't got my first one yet and Josh has received two and modded one of them. Of course I did get the XXL!

Cheers,
BJB :D
 
BillyJoeBob said:
Geez, I haven't got my first one yet and Josh has received two and modded one of them. Of course I did get the XXL!

Cheers,
BJB :D
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I'm with you BJB Still no joy but I did tell them to wait until the Shot show blade awards were ready to ship. Oh well, You're for an assault shaker too aren't you? :D
 
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