We Bid Farewell To SR-101 Steel . . .

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Just in case anyone missed this on the Busse or Scrapyard forums- extremely sad news, one of my favorite steels! Here's to the future!

We Bid Farewell To SR-101 Steel . . .

SR-101 has left the building! We must, for the foreseeable future, bid farewell to SR-101, the legendary steel used by all four of the Busse Kin knife lines over the past 20 years. SR-101 requires a very advanced oil-hardening heat-treat protocol. This protocol includes a very specialized...
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Yeah I'm waiting for the SR 3V demo vids, and hoping for carothers level of performance. Is there a rough eta on those vids yet?
 
AntDog said:
Ok, so…. introduce something to take its place. It ain’t 3V. We need something good that doesn’t cost an arm and two legs.
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Yup, 3V is just plain ridiculous and really flies counter to what Swamp Rat was founded upon. For me it's really about the design and geometry anyways, the steel ranks far lower on the scale other than pricing it out of consideration.
 
So Swamp Rat Knives will no longer be a budget friendlier line of Bussekin? since SR-101 is always been the primary steel and the SR-3V seems to be even more expensive than INFI...
 
Ain't nuthin' wrong with 3V!
And until Delta 3V by NTM the pricing on blades in it wasn't too cazy, well maybe aside from the very first Zero Tolerance knife ZT0100 that's about tripled on seondary market
 
shqxk said:
So Swamp Rat Knives will no longer be a budget friendlier line of Bussekin? since SR-101 is always been the primary steel and the SR-3V seems to be even more expensive than INFI...
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How do you calculate that? Only one blade so far made in 3v which would have been more expensive in INFI
 
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