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Their No B.S. We back our product 100% is one of the reasons I own Busse Combat knives. I doubt that I will ever need to use it. But I will compare it to my CCW. I have never needed up to this point- but it's better to have it & not need it verses...
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Jerry Busse said:
Holy Oinkin' YOWZA!!!!:eek:

That's not supposed to happen!:eek:

We have made hundreds of thousands of knives from INFI over the past 14 years. . . . Isn't it awesome that a pic like this is like spotting a Big Foot!!! :cool::thumbup:

INFI is no longer a new wonder steel. It has a proven record of loving enormous amounts of abuse and coming back for more and more and more. . . . . .

It is obvious that that the blade was highly polished and buffed by someone outside of our shop.

It could be that it simply did not like being made so pretty and simply killed itself in retaliation!:eek::D

Once we get the knife back we'll be able to examine it and determine the cause of the break. There is usually much more to the story than a few pics can tell.

It will of course be covered by our warranty, so there are no worries. . . there never are. . . .:thumbup:

Let's Drink in honor of this old warrior. . . :thumbup:

Jerry:D
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There you are.

Hoisting a Jack Daniels to the Warrior that made it all the way to Russia before giving up the ghost!

I'll also toast to the man who gave us INFI and the unobstructed landscape in which to USE it.

best

mqqn
 
Jerry Busse said:
Holy Oinkin' YOWZA!!!!:eek:

That's not supposed to happen!:eek:

We have made hundreds of thousands of knives from INFI over the past 14 years. . . . Isn't it awesome that a pic like this is like spotting a Big Foot!!! :cool::thumbup:

INFI is no longer a new wonder steel. It has a proven record of loving enormous amounts of abuse and coming back for more and more and more. . . . . .

It is obvious that that the blade was highly polished and buffed by someone outside of our shop.

It could be that it simply did not like being made so pretty and simply killed itself in retaliation!:eek::D

Once we get the knife back we'll be able to examine it and determine the cause of the break. There is usually much more to the story than a few pics can tell.

It will of course be covered by our warranty, so there are no worries. . . there never are. . . .:thumbup:

Let's Drink in honor of this old warrior. . . :thumbup:

Jerry:D
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may you boss publish feedback here when you get a conclusion ?

i like to know the reason of breaking.
 
I don't see any bending or stress lines near the break, so I'm thinking lots of liquid nitrogen at the weakest point and a quick whack with a rubber mallet - voila - broken Busse!
 
Now that's what I'm talking about!!! The Boss has spoke and I agree I'd like to see a report of what happened.
 
The thing that's confusing is that he was chopping birch. I might expect it if it was frozen birch and -40 degree's F, but there doesn't seem to be mention of such extenuating circumstances in that thread. It's mentioned that there was no load on the knife, so it either broke while chopping, or batoning. If it was batoned over the the choil that would make sense as to the direction/location of the break.

All I can think, and obviously it's speculation, is that it's either a very good copy, or the buffing concentrated a great deal of heat at the sharp corners of the spine and choil creating an isolated section of heat treat damage that propagated around the stress riser of the 90 degree corners.

I'd like to see a spectrometer reading on the composition to see if it's actually INFI, and if it is INFI, an acid etch/rc test around the edges of the break to see if the heat treat was notably disturbed...
 
The gods have spoken! Garth and Jerry stand 100% percent behind their blades, handles whatever! Period!
Thats what converted me. I received my very first Busse today and even after seeing this amazing broken blade I have no doubts in my new B9! Infi is Awesome!
 
Jerry Busse said:
Holy Oinkin' YOWZA!!!!:eek:

That's not supposed to happen!:eek:

We have made hundreds of thousands of knives from INFI over the past 14 years. . . . Isn't it awesome that a pic like this is like spotting a Big Foot!!! :cool::thumbup:

INFI is no longer a new wonder steel. It has a proven record of loving enormous amounts of abuse and coming back for more and more and more. . . . . .

It is obvious that that the blade was highly polished and buffed by someone outside of our shop.

It could be that it simply did not like being made so pretty and simply killed itself in retaliation!:eek::D

Once we get the knife back we'll be able to examine it and determine the cause of the break. There is usually much more to the story than a few pics can tell.

It will of course be covered by our warranty, so there are no worries. . . there never are. . . .:thumbup:

Let's Drink in honor of this old warrior. . . :thumbup:

Jerry:D
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This is why I LOVE Jerry knives!!!!
 
I'd sooner believe a photo of little green men in line at McDonalds than a Busse with that kind of failure. Weird. Let us know what Jerry says when he sees the blade.
And of course the warranty is being applied with great humour. Great knives, great outfit.
 
That's great to see, I'm going to go out and see if I can do that to the Chuckette'
WooHoo..Going to get a New Chuckette'

Good news is I can have a handle ground on the old blade and have a "Shortette" too :)

Jerry Busse said:
Holy Oinkin' YOWZA!!!!:eek:

That's not supposed to happen!:eek:

We have made hundreds of thousands of knives from INFI over the past 14 years. . . . Isn't it awesome that a pic like this is like spotting a Big Foot!!! :cool::thumbup:

It will of course be covered by our warranty, so there are no worries. . . there never are. . . .:thumbup:

Let's Drink in honor of this old warrior. . . :thumbup:

Jerry:D
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Let's Drink!!!
 
If you manage to break that monster, send me the handle... that thing would make and awsome.... something...

:P
 
...........And the Boss Man has spoken! Nuff Said!:cool:

And I agree....somebody Freaking screwed up trying to make a crinkle coated Busse pretty when it didn't want to be!;)

Shame on you ......whoever you might be!:p

Jerry Busse and Busse Fam....best damn people, company and fixed blade knives in the Freaking Ass planet!:thumbup:


Jerry Busse said:
Holy Oinkin' YOWZA!!!!:eek:

That's not supposed to happen!:eek:

We have made hundreds of thousands of knives from INFI over the past 14 years. . . . Isn't it awesome that a pic like this is like spotting a Big Foot!!! :cool::thumbup:

INFI is no longer a new wonder steel. It has a proven record of loving enormous amounts of abuse and coming back for more and more and more. . . . . .

It is obvious that that the blade was highly polished and buffed by someone outside of our shop.

It could be that it simply did not like being made so pretty and simply killed itself in retaliation!:eek::D

Once we get the knife back we'll be able to examine it and determine the cause of the break. There is usually much more to the story than a few pics can tell.

It will of course be covered by our warranty, so there are no worries. . . there never are. . . .:thumbup:

Let's Drink in honor of this old warrior. . . :thumbup:

Jerry:D
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Personally I don't believe chopping alone did this.....at all. But till Jerry looks at it it's just a pic on the web. I know INFI is NOT magical or indestructable. But com on???
 
I have only seen 3 other broken Busse's before this one. The first was an early Steel Heart. The point was clamped in a vise and a large pipe was applied to the handle. The tip broke off.
The second was an ice pick (I think) that was hammered into a log or concrete block (?) and kicked out. The third was a basic 7 that our Canadian friend abused. It was
ground, hammered, beaten and hammered into a tree to use as a step. It took over two years to break it.

This one has to be a freak occurrence.
 
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