your Busse ever surprised you??

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hawkinsa21

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...other than when you took it out the box for the first time ;)


I was reading this thread here: http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=445062 about the 'ugly Busse' contest, and my CGFBM is in the post :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D and after getting through 7 pages, had a thought...


Have you ever done something with your Busse that you had second thoughts about doing, but then surprised yourself when it did the job anyways???

Or any really tough jobs that you would normally use, I don't know... a chainsaw or hammer drill for?? But just couldn't resist putting it to the test???


Just curious... mine will be a user for sure, after I've wiped the dribble off of it hehe...


PS - just for the record, I don't believe there IS such a thing as an ugly Busse is there?? They seem to just mature with time like a good Whiskey :)


Cheers guys


Alex
 
My Busse knives have suprised me several times. I am used to it now though. After ten years of using and abusing them I have found that they are pretty much bullet proof. Although I think I read somewhere that someone shot one with a rifle and the second shot broke the knife. It was still replaced, I personally would have just not sent it back for a replacement, but that's me.
I have some crazy pictures I took while we were abusing a couple Battle mistresses. These things are tough, and are the only knives I am not afraid of getting hurt by them breaking.
 
@ xanax, I can't wait to beat the hell outta mine!!!

@ gimmejr, .... and it didn't harm you?? These things are lethal, you were very lucky! :)
 
I was doing a tin ceiling restoration a few months ago and used a hell razor to slash open 24 gauge metal ceiling tiles it worked well enough and I had used this same knife many times for this type of thing….. so no big shock that it worked,

But I was up on 20 feet of scaffolding and needed to cut out a bunch of copper piping, and being the lazy bastard that I am, I used the hell razor instead, made at least ten cuts through heavy copper pipes fairly easily with no edge damage.
 
valleytinworks said:
made at least ten cuts through heavy copper pipes fairly easily with no edge damage.
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Crikey... now that IS impressive!! See, although I've always liked knives, I've never owned a great one... I nearly got a CRK, until someone mentioned that they loved Chris Reeve knives until they found Busse... now im in that boat.. and can't wait for mine...


Jeesh, I wouldn't have even dreamed of putting it to metal, mind you, its tool steel stuff!

Thanks
 
When we moved onto the property we live on now, I had a lot of clean up to do. After discovering the previous tenants had used a couple areas as a garbage dump, and then covered them up, I was more than pi$$ed of. So, I went to cleaning, but at one point I was struggling with bedsprings that had Ivy growing through it and the rockery it was buried in. I took out my HH and started hacking like a maniac (and like an idiot). I cut ivy, I cut bedsprings AND I hacked some pretty good pieces of rock. I finally got it all cleaned out and looked at the edge of the HH. It was rolled in a couple places and there was a very small chip in the edge. It took a bit of work to steel and sharpen the edge again, but it was easier with the blade stripped. It is sharp as my ex-wifes tongue now and all the better for the use. I've broken a few tools doing less.
 
mymindisamob said:
It is sharp as my ex-wifes tongue now...
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Absolutely classic!


Crickey... I heard the word 'bedsprings' and thought the worst... but obviously not... jesus these blades can take some severe abuse! Thanks for the info...

PS - you must have balls of INFI mate!
 
hawkinsa21 said:
your Busse ever surprised you??
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Yeah.. when the wife saw the Credit Card statement and said "What is THIS??!!"
..and made me spit out my morning coffee.



..Nah actually she hasn't found it yet.. i hide it pretty well..
 
xanax said:
Although I think I read somewhere that someone shot one with a rifle and the second shot broke the knife. It was still replaced, I personally would have just not sent it back for a replacement, but that's me.
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That was a battle rat that someone shot at, not any infi;)
 
I used my NOe to cut and pry my way through a garage door to get into a jobsite once...Got pictures around here somewhere...
 
I was on a little vacation hanging out in the hot tub with my SJTAC last month and was distracted from giving this fine knife the attention it deserved by my wife....
The next morning I descovered that the she had knocked the knife in as we exited and not said anything. It spent the night at the bottom of the chlorinated tub....

In the morning I fished it out and it was......................SQuEAKY CLEAN!!!!!!!
 
The first time I did this with my SHBM many years ago and unlike so many other knives it did not break, I was surprised. I was torqueing the edge and nothing. I was prying the blade out sideways and thought the blade would break for sure, like so many other knives before it, and it did not. I have done this same action with much less force on other knives known for toughness and they snapped clean.



 
I pryed a car door open with my BM a couple years ago. thought for ssure it would break. held up fine. I've abused it tons and its held up better than any other knife I've ever owned.
 
steelnut said:
I was on a little vacation hanging out in the hot tub with my SJTAC last month and was distracted from giving this fine knife the attention it deserved by my wife....
The next morning I descovered that the she had knocked the knife in as we exited and not said anything. It spent the night at the bottom of the chlorinated tub....

In the morning I fished it out and it was......................SQuEAKY CLEAN!!!!!!!
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Now thats an addict! Takes his lovely lady and his buddy on vacation and to the hot tub. Supwidat?
 
cobalt, that is a couple of sweet vids there matey!! NICE!

@steelnut, thats some dedication my friend!
 
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