Really? Is it necessary?

I agree, I recently got my first Busse Boss street and although it has almost an EDC size, the full height flat grind ends too thick and the edge was not! professional enough for a 250 $ knife. You can't sharpen this thing unless you regrind the blade. I guess the edge was at least 25 degrees each if not more!?!? If INFI is such a great steel, why not making a sharp knife? What is that knife good for?
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awestib said:
I agree, I recently got my first Busse Boss street and although it has almost an EDC size, the full height flat grind ends too thick and the edge was not! professional enough for a 250 $ knife. You can't sharpen this thing unless you regrind the blade. I guess the edge was at least 25 degrees each if not more!?!? If INFI is such a great steel, why not making a sharp knife? What is that knife good for?
AW
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What are you agreeing with? :confused:

This isn't a "Is a Busse worth the money thread?" It is a "Is having a do all knife neccessary? thread.

Please try to stay on topic.
 
I'll be honest and say that I have no idea what the point of the OP is. My take is that a knife is probably the most used tool there is. I use tools every single day, yet still find that I use my knife the most for various tasks. I think someone else put it very well.."A knife is only necessary when it's necessary" or something to that effect:D
 
ono724 said:
I'll be honest and say that I have no idea what the point of the OP is. My take is that a knife is probably the most used tool there is. I use tools every single day, yet still find that I use my knife the most for various tasks. I think someone else put it very well.."A knife is only necessary when it's necessary" or something to that effect:D
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The original point was that we don't expect a screwdriver to be able to skin a deer or a hammer to cut a tomato, yet we often expect our knives to chop down trees, hack through concrete blocks, be pry bars, etc. And if they don't do these things, they aren't worthy to be carried (according to some people).

Once again, I LIKE TOUGH KNIVES. I just wanted to know why people expect so much from a tool that, for thousands of years, was specifically made for cutting and piercing. ;)
 
J.Davey said:
In my 37 years, 25 of which I've carried some kind of knife every time I've left my home, I've never HAD TO use a knife to pry, cut bone, or chop through cinder blocks, bricks, etc. Not even a tree!
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I haven't read any of this thread yet, but are you saying that you have NEVER cut down any type of tree with a blade?
Not even small trees with a machete when you were a kid ?

We were serious tree slayers when i was a kid:p
 
I keep an axe, saw, and machete in my truck, and carry a multitool when I think/know I will need it (plus all the other various tools stay in the truck) Knives can do more than just cut, but they do these things pretty badly in relation to the dedicated tools. Thick edges don't do anything well-too thick for the best cutting, still too thin for worthwhile prying.

The need for a more versatile knife is controlled by the inability to carry tools more suited to the task. What gets me is when people carry 3-4 knives and say they don't want the weight of having a pocket prybar.
 
J.Davey said:
I'll state right off the bat that I'm not trying to start silly arguments, considering I have fallen into this IDEA (I almost wrote 'marketing scheme") that a person needs a knife to be anything and everything.

(sidebar: I still look for the best of all worlds, so don't hate the playa':D)

Why do we expect so much from a tool that was made to cut and pierce? In my 37 years, 25 of which I've carried some kind of knife every time I've left my home, I've never HAD TO use a knife to pry, cut bone, or chop through cinder blocks, bricks, etc. Not even a tree! So, why is it so important for a knife to do all of these things that man has created other tools to do? I admit that I posted a similar question a couple of weeks ago, but not so specifically. Anywho...

...is this just the human condition driving us to find the best single tool possible? I'll reserve my overall opinion for a bit. I want to see what your opinions are.
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Personaly for me, I have used my knife for everything that you stated except cut cinder blocks and bricks. I use it often to do prying, I have used it to cut bones on game, I have used me knife as a screw driver even sometimes so while some might think this is abuse on a knife I look at it as getting the most out of a single tool. Plus if the need ever arives that I have to use the knife above and beyond any normal use I want one that I can depend on to get the job done.
 
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