You must be very weak & frail if you think that Busse knives are exceptionally heavy. I would suggest some sort of physical work or exercise.
What did I tell you about making presumptions, Ratty?
Please don't give me advice about "physical work" when your profession lists you as "graphic designer/artist". Your day job is sitting at a desk for eight hours, pushing a pencil or a mouse.
Inertia doesn't change if you're a gym rat. A light blade moves a lot faster than a heavy blade. That won't change, regardless of how strong you are. If you're strong and fit, you're going to move a light blade even faster. You'll also be able to do it a lot longer.
Kukris are heavy for a reason, namely they're designed almost entirely for chopping. Most of them, given the blade size and total length, aren't "knives" as much as short swords. A 10" blade, 16" o/a Battle Mistress isn't exactly an EDC lightweight, either.
The earlier version of the Battle Mistress that Cliff Stamp reviewed (
here and
here) weighed over one pound, five ounces (i.e 21 ounces total).
Have you ever handled a Nepalese Khukuri? that is where you start getting into heavy blades.
You don't know what you're talking about and it shows. If you'd bothered to check your facts before lecturing me, you'd learn that a real Nepalese-made kukri like
a Sirupati with a 15" blade, (5"
longer than the current Busse Battle Mistress) and a 5/16" thick spine (1/16"
thicker than the Busse Battle Mistress) weighs only 13 ounces, a full 8 ounces
lighter than the Busse, Cliff reviewed.
Eight ounces doesn't sound like much until you realize that's the weight of a full-sized knife by itself, such as the
SOG Daggert.
Your love of Busse knives and personal "brand identification" is turning you into an fanboy in the worst sense of the word. Busse knives are incredibly strong but at a price, namely a lot of weight.
If a Busse Battle Mistress was made of, say, 1/8" thick steel, with a moderate distal taper the blade, a tapered tang, and birch handle scales, it's going to move much, much faster than the current design.
The drawback is it won't be as nearly strong. The question is what a person wants a knife to do. I like my knives to be very light and very fast. If you like your knives to be much heavier and slower than mine, good for you.