Satin finishes

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JGarrison Knives

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Ive noticed a disturbing trend in the last couple releases of Busse models. Satin finish was only an option in LE models. I understand the corrugated bevels make it extremely difficult and time consuming to make a knife with a satin finish. I was thinking back and was the last knife that didnt have the bevels the SJac Tac? I dont think it was released in a satin finish or DC other then the LE model or a DC version that was released in an Extravaganzaa. What was the last knife released with an option or satin or double cut, a Meaner Street? The GWs do give me hope. Should I be worried?
 
Even the SJTAC's primary grind was done with the corugated bevel but was then ground down to full convex. If you look very closely you can see traces of the corugations. Satin is rare these days but hasn't it always been less common?
 
The Natural Outlaw and Active Duty had satin available, the Leaner Meaner and Meaner Street's had it. NARK had satin available. Seems like 50/50.
 
Natural Outlaw had a full complement of options available - pretty much any blade and handle combination you wanted. That was at the beginning of the "new production protocol" though. Double cut and satin have become rarer with more recent models. Apparently, it's lots more work to finish INFI to smooth metal. There are a few pictures of coated blades that people have stripped, and the coating hides fairly significant pitting in the steel. Apparently that's the way it is without lots of time, money, and effort spent polishing.

The Satin Jacks were corrugated then ground down? I didn't notice that on mine!
 
I owned a black/black STTAC for a short period of time and if you look at the plunge line and at the belly those are the two places they were barely visible. At the plunge line the primary grind will look just the tiniest bit scaloped and out on the belly you will see a tiny bit of "wavy-ness" where the corugations end. On some they are even visible on the primary grind surfaces. Check it out. I think it is brilliant that the were ground that way. Great way to get uniformity on a full convex grind.
 
Checked my tan coated blade and didn't see much. There is something strange going on near the "plunge" - this edge isn't square. It sort of slopes down from full blank thickness to the primary grind. No corrugations to be seen, though I started to imagine a few after five minutes of staring.

Does this mean that the corrugations were originally intended to make grinding easier? Use a CNC mill to remove some of the metal and leave less grinding? Then somebody figured out they were functional in the final blade?
 
My tan SJ Tac has corrugations that run the length of the blade and follow the curve up towards the point. Ther're about 1mm apart in spacing and are ever so slight in their height. My first though when I saw them was that this was from a CNC router pattern. But I'm not sure that Busse uses a CNC to produce blades. Handles yes... but the blade... not sure.
 
gimmejr said:
So id say the meaner street was the last one to have an option as a satin finish.
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I'd have to say you're right. Not sure what all that means but yeah, I do believe the MrS were some of the last Busse's to have all the options available to us.

Hmmmm....I smell a government conspiracy! :eek: ;) Where Mulder and Scully when you need them? :grumpy:
 
I would be all over a satin standard FSH.

I might just buy a whole set if they were available.
 
Solstice said:
I'd have to say you're right. Not sure what all that means but yeah, I do believe the MrS were some of the last Busse's to have all the options available to us.

Hmmmm....I smell a government conspiracy! :eek: ;) Where Mulder and Scully when you need them? :grumpy:
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I'm here but don't think that the CSM is going to tell me anything.
Maybe I'll call in the Lone Gunmen for assistance.
 
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