Got two Nukes, the G10. The SW looks great on mine. Sorry for the other experience with questionable finish. Busse has always been great with responsiveness.
It’s a really nice knife. It’s definitely a tank of a smaller-ish knife and for sure will handle heavy duty use.
Tried to show full choke up with and without choil. I can’t tell at this point which I prefer. I’ve never had a real issue with choils of any variety, except when the cutting edge starts so far away in a normal grip. If it’s a finger choil, I almost always put my finger in it unless chopping, slicing etc, and I even use the finger choils on Spyderco folders, etc. I like being that close to the edge (no pun intended, those days are behind me!!).
I also don’t process game, or haven’t in 20 plus years, and grandad’s Buck he gave me was fine back then. although I do break down lots of larger slabs of protein. And I probably would not use this knife for that unless at a camp situation and most knives do just fine with that, anyways. Nobody’s too worried about whether you’re single stroke push cutting your stuff out there.
It feels nice in hand and I know you could hammer on this thing any which way and it would be fine. It came sharp. I’d probably convex this for use. I usually do that with the Busse’s I end up using. This one seems really easy to sharpen and flatten the edge out if you wanted to which I probably would.
The smooth handles feel nice. It’s a good blade length. It may be even more heavy duty than I’d like.
I guess it’s just a good all around very heavy duty knife and I like the high hardness 3V on any knife. It’s got to still be my favorite, and CruWear. And I’m sure it will do all the tasks it was designed to in the original description with the edge retention thrown in.
I like the Danny the Bull sheaths for pack storage and they are very well made and thick (picked up two so the blades would be protected as soon as I got the knives), and prefer kydex for carry usually. Especially since this one is pretty chunky.
Oh! I forgot to add that INFI is one of my favorite steels as well. I can get it super sharp and I’ve used many blades hard and they do still slice paper when I’m done. I’ve gotten a few dings and rolls as well, although it has never kept me from using the knife effectively afterwards. I can say most of the time I’ve used INFI and banged it around, there is never any edge degradation. And it’s super easy to strop and sharpen. I have some INFI knives, even big ones, sharpened REALLY sharp that cut when you do something even a little silly and it’s the kind of cut you think you notice and first and then realize you did actually do that. And I bang those around with no problems. Plus the customer service and warranty and supreme confidence I cannot ever damage beyond my ability to repair doing what I do with knives.
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