I don't think their was anything wrong with Vic's knife either. It was simply what happens when you take a thin ,wide piece of steel hardened to over 57Rockwell and then stick it an inch into hardwood and put lateral force on it. If it did not break then their might have been something wrong with the heat treat.

I understand how you are feeling Tom. It is like some people cannot get their heads around the idea that Scrapyard might make more than one single type of product. I have a Spyderco Mule team made of 52100 that if you tried the same thing as HD did to the HC you would also break the tip off yet no one has any problems with the Mule.



I am with CoyotBC on this one and I have no problem with the knives ,so long as I actually get one this time.

Part of what Dan said makes me wonder if grouping the three companies under the "Bussekin" umbrella might cause him some grief. There are statements on both Scrap Yard's site and Swamp Rat's warning folks not to contact Busse Combat. I don't think the relationship between companies is adversarial, but there may be a strong desire to preserve differential brand identity. Am I reading too much into it, or should we perhaps limit the use of the term "Bussekin"?

As far as this particular thread goes, I plan to wait until Dan posts the test results before saying anything else about 154CM -- unless I'm going to apply controlled forces and measure deflection angles to the point of failure using my own knives (which I'm not), then speculating about what they can or can't handle isn't productive, and is obviously irritating the guy in charge.

i've said very little about this. i got over HD's broken tip in five minutes, and eagerly wait for my MPLE. It's a nice knife.

this thread, however, has raised another issue. if i come up with a delicate enough way to present it, i'll start that thread.

I'll be pleased to see the tests and have confirmed my sig "In DOG we trust!". I'd take ANY of my Yard knives solo as a field knife with no hesitation and stake my life on it. I wouldn't say that about ANYONE else's!

Long live the yard!

Bruce I think that was a velvet-covered rolled-up newspaper on the puppies nose! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

LOL

i thought those last two posts before the threat were pretty obvious compliance.