Whats your latest knife purchase?

[j15w]

Buck 503 Custom Shop

Dang. That is pretty.

[AtomicOrange]

Gift for son's highschool graduation. He digs it.

[RustyIron]

Gift for son's highschool graduation. He digs it.

Nice little Dragonfly. Congratulations on the kid's promotion into adulthood.

[AtomicOrange]

Nice little Dragonfly. Congratulations on the kid's promotion into adulthood.

Thanks. I went with the Dragonfly 2 so that he could legally carry it around most of So Cal, including on CSU and UC campuses. Damascus just to add a little bling. Hopefully, he will get a lifetime of use out of it. Very lightweight. Does not operate as smoothly as I expected though, but would buy it again.

[BigPimping]

[jgerundio]

Thanks, is that like an addict?

I'd say were more like "collectors"

[crufflers]

I'd say were more like "collectors"

Right. I'd say collecting and not using everything is actually a lot more acceptable and normal with knives than with guns for example. You have your users and your dupes or just safe queens... but there is a contingent of guys who say you have to use everything. If you have 500 knives it is tough to use all of them and there's more value if they are not a user for resale. Certain brands really appreciate... GEC and BUSSE brands for example. Damn Beer Scouts are selling for $500 sometimes now... in minutes. That's just nuts IMHO. Busse can go for $300-$1500 pretty easy. I just paid $275 for an old beat up user Busse... a lot of them you can't get anymore in mint.

I have a lot of ZT knives. For whatever reason I feel like it is a crime not to use every ZT and put them in the rotation if they are good knives for me. It is personal prejudice. Traditionals are more like safe queens for me. Fixed blades are fun to play with and have a few stashed around like Mad Max had under the car by the gas tank self-destruct switch... but you only need so many 7-8" user blades. As gun nuts, a lot of people collect bayos, etc...and probably are not slicing tomatoes or tritip with them.

IMHO, for guns it is pretty silly to not use any of them... unless it was some wall hanger. I have one French MAS 36 I haven't shot. Shot all the rest of the C&R's regularly at one time and the modern crap.

It is pretty small-minded to say everyone has to do something exactly like I do it or they are not doing it right. You do your thing.

[LkPillsburyDude]

BigPimping- im guessing you don't make it outdoors very often.

[SharedShots]

BUSSE Basic 9 stripped user

I happened to notice the edge on that Basic 9. Someone knows how to maintain a blade. Congrats if you do your own. Congrats if you know someone who does it for you. In either case, it shows.



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[crufflers]

I happened to notice the edge on that Basic 9. Someone knows how to maintain a blade. Congrats if you do your own. Congrats if you know someone who does it for you. In either case, it shows.
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That’s an asymmetrical edge on these convexed on one side, flat on the other similar to a chisel grind (but convexed)…. and on a lot of the bigger thick blade stock Busse users I will do a convex edge on both sides like a axe using a belt varying grits till you are stropping or polishing with a smooth belt.

That asymmetrical edge I actually polished by hand along with the whole blade to get it shiny and clean (cotton squares and Flitz). Playing with it on that log it slipped halfway through with one swing like butter. I actually use cotton squares and Flitz on a lot of carbon steel that stains if you don't want patina.

When I am bored I will strip the rest of the coating off and polish it again. That B9 isn't carbon steel, but INFI which is pretty stainless but still super tough... maybe as tough as SR101... so it is weird that they coat it, or lazy. Coating usually covers up steel imperfections and hardness tests, etc... if they paint it they do not have to stonewash or polish. It is always fun to see what the steel looks like under a coating. I use citristrip and let a blade soak it in for hours before peeling paint off usually with a butter knife, but coatings vary and some need to be really sanded off (Kabar Beckers have some tough arse paint)... some just come right off like you were stripping a car or similar. That B9 was stripped by someone else - I would have gotten all of it off the base of blade and polished the blade or "stonewashed" with a sander.

There are lots of sharpeners that will get an edge mirror shiny if you want that, and it isn't hard to do.

As far as polishing, here are a couple befores I did over the weekend:




After:





Cool Story Bro, hahah... sorry for the OT... I have a lot of blades incoming and will start posting ASAP

[readysetgo]

https://kniferights.org/ultimatesteel/2022-ultimate-steel/

[Ddm4me]

Dwyer Custom BBN-S CC Carbon Fiber

[crufflers]

Dwyer Custom BBN-S CC Carbon Fiber

Very cool knife. I have never seen a maker sign their mark like that hahah. Definitely screams custom.

[3S16]

[crufflers]

I want to see the pics of that !