Satining By Your Self, Voiding Warenty?!?!

Yep... Yer screwed!!!! ;)

LOL... Most likely not if you just only stripped off the coating & applied a satin finish. I think that it's when you start to really remove the metal, i.e. thinning it down, or when you mod the shape of the knife, again removing metal, that you may void the warranty. Just my opinion, and I DO NOT work for Busse, so please don't hold me to this! :D
 
Your screwed for sure. Send it to me. I'll dispose of it. :D

Seriously, email the staff at Busse Combat to get an official word. They'll want to know how you did the finish. Scotch-brite is pretty safe. But things like dremels and belt sanders can remove metal quickly and can also quickly heat up the blade, potentially destroying the heat treat, if you are not careful.

But as I recall you did yours by hand so you should be fine.
 
if you strip off the coating with paint stripper, then apply it by hand with sand paper - no, it will not void the warrantee.

if you take a belt sander/grinder to it, it might. if busse decides that your modification was the cause of the breakage, when and if it breaks. I don't think you should send it in for a different coating without paying for it at this point though. just good manners.

the wording is kinda vague in the busse warrantee, but busse tends to lean on the side of customer service with a knife is in the grey area's. for hand sandining, you won't take off enough metal toor induce enough heat to damage the blade. if you use a grinder, you might, if you don't actively try to keep the blade cool during the sanding/grinding. so, you might effect the heat treatment (if you get it above 900 degree's and keep it there), and you might cause a geometry problem if your grinding is super uneven and shaky.

so, if those mights come true, your work (modification), could have been the cause of a breakage, thus voiding the warranty...

anyways... :confused:
 
Although the only person to make that decision would be Busse, my personal opinion would be that as long as the HT isn't affected you would be ok. Busse has indicated in the past that it would take exposure to 900 degrees before INFI is affected. So if while you are satinizing your knife it never gets hot enough that you can't touch it then you are ok.

Now when you start doing actual major modifications that can impart stresses into the steel regardless if you affect the HT or not, then you are probably void. For example, if you drill a hole anywhere on the knife, you have just created a stress riser zone that has not been tempered. The stresses around this hole will be higher than anywhere on the knife. If the knife fails there then I would say you are void. I have had knives fail midpoint of the handle right where a drilled hole was. I am sure those holes were drilled after the HT.

Any major metal removal such as putting a clip on a full thick spine requires serious grinding and unless you know what you are doing, don't do it.
 
You should be fine...

Right now i'm in the process of applying a satin finish on my ergo....I am leaving the coating on the spine and upper tang/handle. I think it has a cool look...

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Ya i dont think its even possible to get to 900 degrees by hand...:D

ya i think i will be fine to. i was just wondering :)

PS: the lowest i went i grits (no not the food... :D) was 240... so i dont think i removed to much mettle (:D;))
 
Have you seen what some folks have intentionally done to their knives and had them replaced? I remember someone (who'll remain nameless) throwing their Hell Razor at trees over and over and still got it replaced when they bent the tip.

Besides, what makes you think you can damage a Game Warden to where you'd need it warrantied? Come on, fess up. What are you planning? :D:eek::D
 
What scotch are you drinking? :confused: :eek:



Cobalt said:
Although the only person to make that decision would be Busse, my personal opinion would be that as long as the HT isn't affected you would be ok. Busse has indicated in the past that it would take exposure to 900 degrees before INFI is affected. So if while you are satinizing your knife it never gets hot enough that you can't touch it then you are ok.

Now when you start doing actual major modifications that can impart stresses into the steel regardless if you affect the HT or not, then you are probably void. For example, if you drill a hole anywhere on the knife, you have just created a stress riser zone that has not been tempered. The stresses around this hole will be higher than anywhere on the knife. If the knife fails there then I would say you are void. I have had knives fail midpoint of the handle right where a drilled hole was. I am sure those holes were drilled after the HT.

Any major metal removal such as putting a clip on a full thick spine requires serious grinding and unless you know what you are doing, don't do it.
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