Video - FBM & CS Trailmaster

[RobStanley]

Great video Rob!! Quick question -- is your FBM .32 inches thick or .25 inches?? Thanks man!

I believe this one is actually .27". It is a custom shop piece I got from Blade 2011.

 

[Armithius]

This probably isn't how it is, but it's how I kinda see it, and it's probably entirely incorrect, but I'll speculate anyway. I think back during the 80s and 90s the Trailmaster was one of the ultimate big choppers that was widely available, therefore it being a popular choice amongst knife nerds who wanted a solid and hefty chunk of sharpened steel. Then Jerry Busse comes out with INFI and his amazing Battle Mistress designs. Arguably some of the best choppers/big general purpose outdoors knives ever made. So it's only natural the two will end up being compared

Ah, that makes a lot of sense. Thanks!

 

[evltcat]

Great Video!!!!

Thanks Rob!!!! :thumbup:

 

[Bigfattyt]

I had a trail master in San Mai. I got a FBMLE and the trail master did not see action any more. I eventually sold it.

I was hesitant to get a Basic 11 (or any basic handle) At first because I thought the handle would behave like the Trailmaster.


Then I tried the B11. Blown away by how good the Resiprine County handle material was. Nearly bomb proof, and light years ahead of any rubber handle I've ever tried. Tougher than my off road tires, that stuff was....

 

[Rob_Mob]

I believe this one is actually .27". It is a custom shop piece I got from Blade 2011.

Wow --- .27 --- that's fantastic!! Do you by any chance know the weight??

 

[RobStanley]

Wow --- .27 --- that's fantastic!! Do you by any chance know the weight??

Somewhere between 1 gram an 1 ton.

Really, I have no idea.

 

[Mute]

If it was a full tang design, it would be much better I reckon.

I owned a TM in carbon V back when they first started making them and my experience with that rubber handle was the same. The handle felt like the TMs greatest weakness.

 

[mainaman]

Yup, me too-The Moabolo has quickly became One of my Favorite's-Cheers

You still have the NMFBM? How do they compare for you?

 

[messer454]

This probably isn't how it is, but it's how I kinda see it, and it's probably entirely incorrect, but I'll speculate anyway. I think back during the 80s and 90s the Trailmaster was one of the ultimate big choppers that was widely available, therefore it being a popular choice amongst knife nerds who wanted a solid and hefty chunk of sharpened steel. Then Jerry Busse comes out with INFI and his amazing Battle Mistress designs. Arguably some of the best choppers/big general purpose outdoors knives ever made. So it's only natural the two will end up being compared

I don't remember all the exact details but it was a bit more than that back then. CS issued a challenge that they had the best and the strongest chopper in a magazine add. Busse answered with BM and the adds stopped. I remember it very specifically because I met Jerry in gun shop before the BM was released and I kind of jokingly asked him when he was going to make a chopper. He told me it was almost finished. Kind of hard to imagine them not having a chopper now, but such was the case in the early 90's. There might have been even more too it (I have heard rumors) but that is what I saw from my pre-internet days.