Nuclear Meltdown treatment, Why?

[Last Visible Canary]

If you're using an NMFBM in the dark, I suppose indexing might be an issue, but I like to see what I'm cutting so the need to position a knife in the "blind" is not something I care about. If you're working inside a body cavity with a knife that big, you've killed something that's beyond my experience--and far beyond my scope of intent.

The two events I tend to consider regarding "blind indexing" are camping and fights. A lot of the time when I'm camping (hiking) there isn't sufficient light to really see what your doing. obviously you try not to do heavy knife related tasks at 2am in the middle of the woods on a moonless night, but sometimes you have to. and as far as fights go, I always try to keep in mind what happens when a person gets maced or a heavy side clock to the jaw. if you can't work blind for that 1-15 seconds, you might as well lie down and turtle.


how often do I do anything remotely requiring blind indexing? pretty much never. but I also don't do much of anything that would require the rounding.

 

[modus]

Wouldn't that be a regular SFNO???

Minus the sharpened spear point anyway.

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No not really because I like meltdown everywhere else but spine. However, you could say: the perfect knife for me would be a SFNO with nuclear meltdown save spine and adding sharpened drop/spear point.

 

[PeterPHWS]

Just to clarify some of my earlier post....I think the NM treatment on the NMFBM is a really useful full treatment as I do a lot of batoning with this knife and if I am batoning for pegs for my Tarp I like the rounded choil for doing the simple fine cuts for the notch to anchor the paracord...no need in my eyes to get out a smaller knife...and I use the side of the blade to knock the pegs in the ground...not hammer them in...I like them in light so I can pull away the tarp quickly and throw kit into it like sleeping bag/bivi bag and mat etc if I need to move off quickly...so using the side of the blade for pegs seems to be fine for me. There is a thumb groove just infront of the grips on the spine on the NMFBM which I flattened to a right angle to use a ferro rod if need be....

That's about all that is needed for the NMFBM to be perfect in my eyes...save for stripping it and fully convexing it...it is by far my most used Busse...and even allowing for the KZ ... is my favourite...which says a lot.

I have a NMSFNO again in CG and this does'nt have the thumb ramp that the NMFBM has but I could easily do one....to do so I would probably prefer to strip the knife and convex it like the NMFBM...if I did these mods it too would be just about perfect as this is also a knife which would see a lot of batoning.

I also have a SAR4 LE which has the NM treatment and it is on knives of that size that I prefer a squared spine...and the choil on that knife is not really big enough for me...ideally on knives used for skinning and fine work...knives of this size...I prefer either no choil or a sufficiently large choil...as a comparable...I would love a rounded choil on my RMD or my S5LE...but leave the flat spine for the tasks mentioned in my earlier post.

If I wanted to use my NMSFNO for everything I think I would just alter it as above because for work inside the carcass I think I would need a front spine grip to use the tip area of the edge and the rounded spine would be a comfortable asset...indexing is not an issue if you have a flattened thumb ramp to work off...scraping the pelt etc...trim a stick to do it...it is a messy job anyway and rubbing the fat down to the tip of the stick and putting a cross cut in it to add a few twigs gives you a nice useable candle/fire lighter...the fat works well like that...the risk of not getting the spine fully 90 degrees for the whole length of the knife and the difficulties of removing the grips for the area near them etc...would have me thinking the job might be more trouble than it's worth...hope this helps:thumbup:

 

[w.t. anderson]

Another Nuclear Meltdown advantage: You know the rounded flaying poll on the Gransfors Bruks' award-winning Wildlife Axe? The rounded "tounge" on end of the NM'd SAR-4 and SAR-8 handles can be used in a similar way.

 

[Jerry Busse]

I really like the Nuclear Meltdown treatment. . . If I grab a knife that has it and I feel a sharp edge, I know instantly that I have grabbed the wrong end of the knife and should be racing for bandaids!!! :thumbup:

Jerry



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[Will York]

I really like the Nuclear Meltdown treatment. . . If I grab a knife that has it and I feel a sharp edge, I know instantly that I have grabbed the wrong end of the knife and should be racing for bandaids!!! :thumbup:

Jerry



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Now that's my idea of useful indexing. If The Man likes it, probably means we'll be seeing more of it--great news!

 

[PeterPHWS]

... LOL...it was'nt me who brought up "indexing"....:foot:

But I would love to see a 12 inch blade NM Bushwacker Mistress:thumbup:

 

[Will York]

...I would love to see a 12 inch blade NM Bushwacker Mistress:thumbup:

+1 ...or 14"...or 15"...or...heck, why not 18"???? Now we're whACKin'...

 

[knife hunter]

more Nuclear Meltdowns please

 

[MustardMan]

I'd like to see a nuclear meltdown Mr. Mofo. That would be hot.

 

[Liu Kang]

lets stop asking for this treatment on Busse cause well get what we asked for and there are too many great blades out there, aren't we poor enough yet? I can't afford what I want now, if they made more knives like the ones Knife Hunter posted and I had access, how would I be able to resist?

 

[Will York]

...how would I be able to resist?

Don't tell me you're still holding on to the futile farce of resistance. Let it go, Liu. You can't un-drink the Kool-Aid and it's too late to choose the blue pill.