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Having had an INFI steel Battle Mistress for many, many years - I'm a bit confused at the type of steel being advertised and have questions. Do you not still use INFI steel for your Battle Mistress? I see the advertisement says SR101. What is the difference?

Thanks,

Lin
 
Battle grade knives are 101. If it says busse and nothing else it is infi.
 
The SR 101 version of the Battle Mistress is the only version of the Battle Mistress currently offered at the Busse Combat website. I'm hoping we get a new Battle Mistress for 2020
 
INFI is Busse's signature steel, only used by the Busse family of companies.

SR101 is a version of 52100 steel, with Busse's exceptional proprietary heat treat applied. It is a cheaper steel, so provides a less expensive version of the legendary Battle Mistress than the previously offered INFI models. But it isn't a worse steel; it is less tough, but still very tough; whereas has better edge holding than INFI under most uses (but INFI still has better edge holding when chopping hard things). The main difference to INFI is that SR101 is prone to rust, though isn't particularly bad in this area.

Busse switches between offering models in these two steels (and sometimes others).
 
WatermanChris said:
The SR 101 version of the Battle Mistress is the only version of the Battle Mistress currently offered at the Busse Combat website. I'm hoping we get a new Battle Mistress for 2020
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Well something is up because the fbm is gone from the Busse website.
 
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