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110 BuffCote

Buckaholic

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I couldn't find the thread "What Did You Cut With Your Buck Today?".

So, I figure I'd post this:
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Had this big box that a full size dresser came in. Been taking up room in the garage and figured it was time to take care of it.
The recycle container was empty when I started.

Jim's 110 Buff BuckCote Ionfusion went through the box like, well, a box cutter. It never jammed up the corrugation and it is still wicked sharp.
I did some curves with it as I was cutting and it went where I wanted it to go. Didn't get any sense of pulling to one side.

Earlier, it made short work of a BLT sandwich, corner to corner. But I forgot to take a pic.

The edge of the Ionfusion doesn't instill me with confidence. Seems like it would be brittle. Should be interesting if I hit a speed bump during slicing of something.

More to follow as I use this through the next week, or longer :)
It's a f'n (fraggle rockin') sweet knife...
 
There will be more sammie photo ops coming Rich and Jim...
Tomorrow maybe it'll be the frozen SOS. Remember that pic from the "What did you cut" thread? I can't find the thread and, yes, I searched. When I searched I'd get a totally blank page.

ANYWAY, I am a bit concerned about using the BuffCote to poke through the frozen SOS like I have done a hunderd times with the Sirus 298GY and lately the 110 BG-42.

As stated earlier, I am only concerned about what seems, visually, as a brittle cutting edge. So far, that is my only concern with this pup. So, perhaps the "poke the frozen chow to vent the bag" test is what is needed for me to gain more confidence in the capabilities of this knife in my non-extreme version of daily use. :rolleyes:

And yep, I heard for years that cardboard is really tough on a blade. I used to work in a printing plant back in the day (30 years ago), my 110 would need to be sharpened about once or twice a week from cutting up large waste pieces so they'd fit better in the vacuum chute. It probably needed the touch up more than I did it. As it dulled, it would jam up in the board. The BuffCote today seemed like it could do this gig all week.

Yes, Jim...I am wearing the 119 today. :)
My neighbors? I think they're ok with me by now as the resident pillock. As I was taking the pics, the couple across the street was out for their walk. But it was my wife that cracked me up. She came out, looked at me just as I was taking the pic, had no expression or questions, and just walked back into the house.
 
Buckaholic said:
...my wife that cracked me up. She came out, looked at me just as I was taking the pic, had no expression or questions, and just walked back into the house.
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That's great Goose, she's has accepted the fact that you are who you are;) :p ;) and no longer needs to try to change you.:D Preston
 
chickentrax said:
Oh, boy...You are really living in a fool's paradise!... :rolleyes:
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Trax, it is fact that my tongue was in(buried deeply) my cheek...I guess I should have used :rolleyes: several times to indicate my true meaning:o. Preston
 
Buckaholic said:
But it was my wife that cracked me up. She came out, looked at me just as I was taking the pic, had no expression or questions, and just walked back into the house.
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LOL....now you know she was mad:mad: because you weren't using one of the knives she got you for xmas ;). At least she didn't lock the door on her way back into the house.

jb4570
 
Yep, it's an age old mission for 'em.
We go out to dinner the other nite. I gotta wear semi-grown up clothes. For me that means an aloha shirt, non-cargo-camo pants, and no ball cap. She says it's nice for me not to look like scooter trash (she said it nicer...but that's what she meant). Heck, what the heck was I wearing when she met me????
So we're sitting there in this nifty white linen place. I get up from the table and the peeps next to us stop talking. Without saying a word, Wifey takes my shirt that had come up and drops it over my 701LE that was showing when the shirt hung up behind the handle portion of the sheath. What a sweetheart.

She just thinks I'm wierd. You should've seen her expression when she found out that there are OTHERS OUT THERE (meaning YOU PEEPS).

Hey John...
If you aren't doing anything on the 10th...here's a gig with a knife raffle in your 'hood:

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Buckaholic said:
Hey John...
If you aren't doing anything on the 10th...here's a gig with a knife raffle in your 'hood:
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Hey Goose,
I'd go if I lived close, but I'd be afraid someone would recognize me from the old days! :o :D
Mike
(One has to be careful after taking the colors off a Hells Angel)
 
I don't know anything about them Mike :rolleyes:
Just came across the flyer and saw it was a knife raffle a half hour from John.
But you shouldn't be concerned...who would hold a grudge against a guy just doing his job? ;)
 
Buckaholic said:
...who would hold a grudge against a guy just doing his job? ;)
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Who?? Just about any of them that still happen to be alive! The good news is that the number that survive is probably a relatively small number. Most are either dead or incarcerated. To give you an idea, they actually purchased a copy of a neighbor's house plan so they could invade and kill him. (He was an investigator with the DA's office.) He ended up spending the next six years with his wife's family in Portugal.
 
Mike Kerins said:
Who?? Just about any of them that still happen to be alive! The good news is that the number that survive is probably a relatively small number. Most are either dead or incarcerated. To give you an idea, they actually purchased a copy of a neighbor's house plan so they could invade and kill him. (He was an investigator with the DA's office.) He ended up spending the next six years with his wife's family in Portugal.
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Well GeezUs Crisco Mike.
Talk about a downer post.
I think I'll watch "Platoon" to cheer me up.
 
Sorry to invade this thread with knife content but...:rolleyes: :D

The Ion-fusion, or Buck cote should actually do very well on cardboard. Because of the abrasive nature of CB, it wears away the exposed steel of the blade. Just like on a non coated edge, it makes the edge dull right? Thats because it is wearing it away. (This is all at a microscopic level ok?)
So, with the coated blade, as the steel wears away, it exposes more of the coating, which is off the scale in hardness. Therefore, the coating is doing all the cutting and as the blade wears away, it just exposes more of the coating. Remember this is a one sided edge.
When we tested the stuff in the lab, we used an abrasive paper and those blades would cut forever, getting slightly dull over time and then, suddenly, get sharper! When they "got sharper", that was when the blade steel wore away to the point to where a new edge of coating was exposed and off it went.
Hope that makes sense and you find it interesting. :yawn:
 
Mike Kerins said:
...He ended up spending the next six years with his wife's family in Portugal.
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I spent two weeks in the Azores [Portugese possession] some time back...It is a real fun place! :D :thumbup: It's one of the stepping stones to Europe, if you have a short range aeroplane...I have my heart set on Spain now...sometime before I die... ;)

Oh, yeah...knife thread...Bead-blasting will take that Ionfusion coating right off... :eek: :D :p
 
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