More stuff: Swamp Rat supremacy: http://www.swampratknifeworks.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=10;t=000048 Pics:
"3- Blade flexes 70 degrees without breaking", i can not belive this , who have some pics for sharing of this kind of bending ?
Micro-Bevel: Feel free to use anything I might have on my blog. Some good stuff from lots of people here. Great job BTW.
Thanks a lot, I appreciate it OK, guys, thanks to Tyrkon, here is a MASSIVE collection of Busse and kin resources: www.tyrkon.blogspot.com AK-47 vs 2x4: http://www.megavideo.com/?v=AGU58MZP WHy do they call 'em HOGS? •Stampede (Eric Isaacson): http://www.megavideo.com/?v=QWSLKOMC (That one was just for fun... Dogfather superiority: http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=452593
Dingy, if you look at some of the pics I have posted in this thread, you will see that the majority of them are bended far past 70 degrees. The site I linked is an old, dead site. For some reason, no one seems to have the original performance videos. Trust me, I have dug deep. Maybe we will get lucky and one of the older hogs will have them, and more importantly, be willing to share with the eager piglets (which I highly doubt~!). Thanks for commenting, and for reading. Enjoy!
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=773113 This one is actually a brand new thread. I just so happened to come across it. There is many more, but I dont want to trun this into a "what crap do people have to say about Busse" thread.
I haven`t checked all the links yet, but did you have Chris Janowski`s peice that he wrote for American Survival Guide magazine years ago. He had a series of about 20 stress tests he came up with over the years. This was before INFI, but he was stating that the SH2 was his #1 choice for a fixed blade and the Benchmade afck was his #1 for a folder.Both came through all test with flying colors. It made Lynn Thompson so pissed off that he sent Chris one of everything they were selling at the time. Chris said that by the time he was 1/2 way through his stress tests all he had was a big box of broken knives. Doing your tests at -40F does evil things to steel that hasn`t been cryoed.
*This is still a work in progress* Yeah, I know exactly which one you mean! What a blast from the past! Here is a link to the thread, it isnt the entire magazine: http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=602458&highlight=chris+janowski&page=2
This is my scrapper 6 doing some "cleaning up". NMSFNO batoning Fat Mistress doing some chopping I have put my DFLE through hell and back and its one of if not my all time favorite chooppers. My favorite little Busse has to be my old school AD as it just take abuse again and again. this is a good thread:thumbup:
Swamp Rat D2 torture test text and pictures are included on the following page: http://www.swampratknifeworks.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=10;t=006743 As was noted, heat treat is an incredibly significant and usually overlooked part of knifemaking. Bussekin manufacturing has mastered it due in no small part to the extensive R&D Jerry has done. Steel is the bones of the blade, but heat treat is its soul.
I was looking for that one, thanks. D2 is supposed to be a very brittle high hardness tool steel. Its amazing to see how they (the swamp) made it ductile. With pics: http://www.swampratknifeworks.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=10;t=001946 http://www.themartialist.com/pecom/bogdog.htm This is a D2 (61-62RC) blade:
Ive been collecting knives for 30 years. i have 10 fixed blades,out of them,theres a hellrazor,jackhammer & skinny ash,1/3rd of the 10.id gladly scrap the other 7 & keep the 3.dont know what else to tell any jimokee's who think busse is hype....
Busse ak-47 Superiority: http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=357192 Old post an the pics are gone, but you can still read what was being done!