sr77 tougher than infi.

I'd bet I could tell the difference. Sr101 is the only steel I've been able to get sharp enough that my finger is almost pulled down onto the blade while testing the edge.
 
I don't know how else to describe it then to say that for me..... INFI is creamer... like it has a creamer texture!

SR101 seems harder almost to the point of being brittle (but not really brittle) and SR101 comes up VERY sharp.

SR77.... I have no idea but I like the name more than SR101.

Lawrie
 
lozdesign7 said:
I don't know how else to describe it then to say that for me..... INFI is creamer... like it has a creamer texture!

SR101 seems harder almost to the point of being brittle (but not really brittle) and SR101 comes up VERY sharp.
Click to expand...

yup. good description
 
Stubai said:
Cappy2cap: what, if you don't mind me asking, compelled you to part with the Dogfather? That knife has got to be one of the best things to wander out of the swamp as far as ultimate toughness goes.
Click to expand...

Don't know if it just a mistake writing, but the DF came from the Yard.
 
yoz's friend said:
i took my mountainmandu and cgfbm out to the woods in late october and had a bit of a chop off. after cutting a few smaller trees down i have the following observations. the mm was a little easier to use, seemed like the balance was a tad more forward. the handle was easier on the hand. and i noticed the cgfbm had the slightest bit of what do you call it, roll? im not talking much just very tiny bit that i took out with my sharpening steel. dont get me wrong love the cgfbm (which my son took over on me), but i have to give the title to the mm as the best big woods blade ever. any and all opinions are welcome.
Click to expand...

At what approximate angle did you notice this micro-folding? Close to factory edge or thinner?

Gaston
 
if you mean did i have a factory edge,yes it was. dont misunderstand me though. when i say slight i mean slight. wouldnt notice unless you were trying to find it. dont know what trees they were but they were really hard,
 
yoz, Gaston is just looking for dirt to try and slam busse knives with. He trolls many forums looking for dirt. The great thing is that there is literally no videos of any of his knife brands doing anything hard at all by anyone at all and certainly none by him. So all his talk is just pure BS since he can't back it up. Every Busse steel is better than the steels he uses. cpm3V is better than the steels he uses, and I would take ESEE's 1095 over his steels as well, but he spends his time try to slam them any chance he gets.
 
yoz's friend said:
if you mean did i have a factory edge,yes it was. dont misunderstand me though. when i say slight i mean slight. wouldnt notice unless you were trying to find it. dont know what trees they were but they were really hard,
Click to expand...

Yes I know what you mean: It's the kind of thing you can't see and mostly can feel by running your nail along one side of the edge, and it "grabs" a little of the nail material on one side and not the other... The term I see used is "micro-fold"... It could be that this tendency goes away after you re-sharpen it, because a factory finish is power-applied and can cause that weakness on a minuscule layer of metal. When a knife still does this "micro-folding" after several heavy hand sharpenings that remove a lot of metal (so no heat to weaken the steel), that is when I start to worry... On some it never stops, no matter how many times you re-sharpen. So far, for me, one in S30V and one in CPM154cm were the only ones to behave consistently like that after heavy hand sharpening, and they were the only two CPM steels I ever owned, so I tend not to trust CPM steels... Usually other bad steels just chip or crumble...

In theory, "normal" wood should never cause a micro-fold, even dead-dried, especially if it is secured and doesn't move around when hit. Tiny micro-"nicks" (not chips but tiny sideway bends) are usually quite rare and seem to come from dirt/sand particles embedded in the wood: Those don't bother me.

Gaston
 


Super covert junk carry FTW... Unobtrusive according to gaston. Ask him about the time he chopped a classic Al Mar FOLDER into submission. According to him a knife can't chop worth a damn unless it's 440c and has a hollow handle.
 
Take any Asym grind Straight handled Battle Mistress, or Basic #9, do any of the old Head to Head specific cutting tests with any of the Non INFI knives, side by side and then you will know.

Clean soft materials, New Rope, pine boards, standing live wood.

Where the other steels do better is pretty specific, Gritty materials such as sod, cardboard Cement blocks, even the straight up chopping of mild steel rods.

Also, once you do manage to dull the Asymmetrically ground knives, the effort needed to bring back to a good working edge is as simple as a few passes away from the spine (stropping) with a ceramic rod.

18 years, nothing compares well so far.
 
AntDog said:


Super covert junk carry FTW... Unobtrusive according to gaston. Ask him about the time he chopped a classic Al Mar FOLDER into submission. According to him a knife can't chop worth a damn unless it's 440c and has a hollow handle.
Click to expand...

I don't know about you guys but there is no room in my pants for that kinda carry:D
 
A person can rock a paint bush and tactical flesh-light and still look like a G. Well done sir.
 
ExtraBaconPlease said:
Ant dog, what are those blades? Did you mod those handles?
Click to expand...

I have no idea what those KSO's are. (Knife shaped objects)

That isn't my photo. That's gaston with a huge hollow handled monstrosity wrapped in paracord, shoved in a sock, and stuffed down into his junk pouch.

Ask him what they are, and I'm sure he'll tell you, and expound for hours on the virtues of his unobtrusive carry method.

(He actually thinks this is an unobtrusive method of carry, seriously. He has posted a whole slew of Busse guys carrying their knives in normal sheaths, in a normal manner, and made fun of them... And this is the alternative he posted to be unobtrusive.)
 
Wait,

I wanna get back to Cobalt and Gaston.... with timfoil hat tinny commentating.

Just sayin what everybody is thinking!

Laswrie
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top