Some times you do get what you pay for.

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eagle359

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Just spent some time looking at knifetest.com . His tests do take a knfe to it's limits. I do not know if you would consider the test practical. The point I would like to make is that I own several of the knives tested on that site. Some of them were, to me anyway, expensive. Some did well-some did not. The one maker that seems to absorb these tests and ask for more is Busse. Just confirms for me the quality of the steel used. Some times you can get what you pay for.
 
Ya can't always get what you waaaant. But if you try sometimes. You just might find you get what you need. ;)

Agreed. Some pretty low-priced knives do well. Some pretty high priced knives do poorly. Busse'kin can take an a##-whoopin and come back for more.
 
Agreed, you do get what you pay for.

I think of all the knives i've owned on my way to Busse, if I had just accepted I would have to pay a bit more for quality from the start then not only would I own more Busses but earlier models to.

Now I recommend going 'deep' from the outset to my friends. Got two on the Busse wagon already.
 
eagle359 said:
Just spent some time looking at knifetest.com . His tests do take a knfe to it's limits. I do not know if you would consider the test practical. The point I would like to make is that I own several of the knives tested on that site. Some of them were, to me anyway, expensive. Some did well-some did not. The one maker that seems to absorb these tests and ask for more is Busse. Just confirms for me the quality of the steel used. Some times you can get what you pay for.
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Good Gawd man! Whatever you do don't post this over in the "wilderness and survival" forum... you'll start a flame war as if you had insulted their mora's. :eek: ;) They love to hate the Busse over there... :rolleyes:

Some guys just can't understand paying as much as we pay for a knife. Given that fact it is understandable that many folks think 'batoning' is knife abuse. :eek: It is abusive only to cheap knives with inadequate steel. :D LOL!

Indeed sir, you get what you pay for. Quality very rarely comes cheap.
 
kdstrick said:
Good Gawd man! Whatever you do don't post this over in the "wilderness and survival" forum... you'll start a flame war as if you had insulted their mora's. :eek: ;) They love to hate the Busse over there... :rolleyes:

Some guys just can't understand paying as much as we pay for a knife. Given that fact it is understandable that many folks think 'batoning' is knife abuse. :eek: It is abusive only to cheap knives with inadequate steel. :D LOL!

Indeed sir, you get what you pay for. Quality very rarely comes cheap.
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They can have some lively debates over there about batonning, but they can also poke fun at themselves for it...


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LOL! Yeah. I wonder how many guys hung out with the non-batoning group. I'm guessing that is where the beverage of choice was decaffeinated diet pepsi.

Now that batoning group...there may be some hope there. :thumbup: There are some very cool guys over in W&S that have a lot of knowledge. I've learned several things by hanging out there from time-to-time. But... then there are the.... others that speak from the sphincter and seem to take all intelligent discussion with only one post. ;)
 
And here's one of those non-batoning sphincters. :p

I Don't NEED to baton with these ('course they weigh more than an axe)
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I use my small knives fer cleanin' fish and such ;)
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RoyalM said:
Agreed, you do get what you pay for.

I think of all the knives i've owned on my way to Busse, if I had just accepted I would have to pay a bit more for quality from the start then not only would I own more Busses but earlier models to.

Now I recommend going 'deep' from the outset to my friends. Got two on the Busse wagon already.
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I learned this a little early on...to the detriment of my bank account. :D My first FB was a Fehrman Last Chance, which was quickly followed up by a BATACLE. Neither of those knives is still here, but all I have bought (in terms of FB's) since have been Busses. I once traded into a Strider MT-10, and I thought it was a pretty good example of a half-finished knife with a lot of potential. Needless to say, the only FB's still around are the Busses. And the only folders? Well, two orange XM-18's. :D

Buy quality the first time, and you never have to buy again...unless you like redundancy. :D
 
Last week I had a buddy start laughing at me when I started batoning my Busse. "You're gonna break it," he said! I handed him the baton and invited him to try. :D


He didn't ;)
 
Yeah, the Skinny ASH-1 I'm taking on my bicycle trip isn't heavy enough to chop through things on its own ... and if it were, it'd be too heavy to carry on a bicycle. When I took a 2x4 to the back of it to split some firewood the other day, I really gave it all I could dish out. I honestly don't think I could break it that way if I tried. My arm would break first.

And this is a "skinny" knife!

I'm gonna have fun beating the hell out of it over the next couple of months. I know I won't be able to have campfires in California, but I may be chopping firewood anyway. :D
 
i baton with my mnsfno a couple times a week when I cook on the grill with mesquite wood. The mesquite is a very hard wood, but the convex edge on the NMSFNO is almost completely unaffected. I've never had to resharpen it and it still shaves hair... Infi is great. :thumbup:
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