Here is a pic of a Busse variant which has always interested me...



Of the many features on the knife the one that I quite like is the sharpened section of the spine...this comes in very handy for ferro rods...cutting through barbed wire...all the sort of things which you would not want to put your finely honed main edge to. Sharpened at a heavy duty obtuse angle it gives the benefit of a clip point without damaging the knife's ability to be batoned.

So my question is....has anyone ever modded a knife to get this effect?

I was thinking that on my FSH and my NMSFNO this type of feature could be quite useful.

Certainly on the coated NMSFNO it is hard to get a strike area for a ferro rod without removing the coating somewhere and this type of feature would resolve that. From a heat treatment point of view if you cool the knife regularly there should be no problem...the only issue is whether a belt sander with some good belts could do this and if so how?

I have put a few clip points on blades now using the sander but the initial grind lines were there to begin with...if you like..."a start had already been made". Doing this sort of task free hand...maybe with the benefit of a marking pen to draw out the grind shape does seem possible...but at the same time it feels a bit "one step beyond" anything I have ever done to-date.

Anyone who has any tips on this...your advice is most welcome...and those who feel it ought not to be done...please feel free to comment as well. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />