Ok. I got an 888 Solution because there is no way I can afford or justify a true Strider knife. This was intended to be my ultimate camp/ survivial knife, with survival being cutting wood for shelters, fires and other "one knife saves your butt" kind of things. Well, tonight I had a use for the Solution...
Cut a three inch thick piece of oak for timber. I began chopping the wood, and within the first five strikes, a chip came away from the blade like some one used a half dollar sized hammer to hit the blade and I did not even notice that the blade had broken below the handle. WTF!!! I thought that these things would be up to something like this. I babied this knife like it was priceless until I finally decided to give it a little workout. I figured why own it if I wasn't going to actually use it. Well, I had read the review here http://www.physics.mun.ca/~sstamp/knives/solution.html after I puchased it and was a bit afraid to use it for fear it would break. I found tonight that those fears were justified. I can't believe i paid even half of what it goes for, and just want to make sure that any one who is considering one of these knows that it is probably not up to anything other than a display item. We're talking ATS-34. Most of my knives are 440C, AUS 6, Titanium, H-1, and S30V. I am not even sure what good this knife might be or what kind of circumstance you would find yourself in that this would be a good knife to have. I guess it should be counted on as a 1 time use kind of knife and if you get two uses out of it you are lucky. Let me quote something from Bucks own website. "Buck's rugged Tactical knives are engineered for trained professionals in military; law enforcement; fire, search & rescue, first response, and survival, as well as other demanding situations where "failure is not an option." Each Buck Tactical knife (also referred to as survival knife) is designed for rapid deployment and is manufactured with materials that are virtually indestructible." :jerkit: If this seems like a rant, well it is. I'm out a 200 dollar+knife, and don't have much faith in something i was ready to depend on. Even if Buck would replace this knife, I don't know that I would care to have another one. I'm not in the military, police, and have no plans to shove this thing into someones skull, but if my life depended on a knife, I think that I'd think twice before buying one of these.:grumpy:
Just as an example, I have a BM Fecas Gamer, $24.00. I used a log on a camping trip to hammer logs into tinder with the BM and only suffered streaks of wood from the log on the metal which cleaned off with a sponge. I am typically a Spyderco person myself with 50% of my knives being Spydies. 2nd place is BM, and third being CRKT. I had a Buck once before and didn't see it as anything better than something you could use to cut a tangle of gum out of a childs hair. I am ... Geeeeesh! Swallowing this loss is hard!!! I'll stop now, but beware if you think this knife is reliable!!!! I urge you to read the review listed above before you buy one of these!!!
ALAN
Cut a three inch thick piece of oak for timber. I began chopping the wood, and within the first five strikes, a chip came away from the blade like some one used a half dollar sized hammer to hit the blade and I did not even notice that the blade had broken below the handle. WTF!!! I thought that these things would be up to something like this. I babied this knife like it was priceless until I finally decided to give it a little workout. I figured why own it if I wasn't going to actually use it. Well, I had read the review here http://www.physics.mun.ca/~sstamp/knives/solution.html after I puchased it and was a bit afraid to use it for fear it would break. I found tonight that those fears were justified. I can't believe i paid even half of what it goes for, and just want to make sure that any one who is considering one of these knows that it is probably not up to anything other than a display item. We're talking ATS-34. Most of my knives are 440C, AUS 6, Titanium, H-1, and S30V. I am not even sure what good this knife might be or what kind of circumstance you would find yourself in that this would be a good knife to have. I guess it should be counted on as a 1 time use kind of knife and if you get two uses out of it you are lucky. Let me quote something from Bucks own website. "Buck's rugged Tactical knives are engineered for trained professionals in military; law enforcement; fire, search & rescue, first response, and survival, as well as other demanding situations where "failure is not an option." Each Buck Tactical knife (also referred to as survival knife) is designed for rapid deployment and is manufactured with materials that are virtually indestructible." :jerkit: If this seems like a rant, well it is. I'm out a 200 dollar+knife, and don't have much faith in something i was ready to depend on. Even if Buck would replace this knife, I don't know that I would care to have another one. I'm not in the military, police, and have no plans to shove this thing into someones skull, but if my life depended on a knife, I think that I'd think twice before buying one of these.:grumpy:
Just as an example, I have a BM Fecas Gamer, $24.00. I used a log on a camping trip to hammer logs into tinder with the BM and only suffered streaks of wood from the log on the metal which cleaned off with a sponge. I am typically a Spyderco person myself with 50% of my knives being Spydies. 2nd place is BM, and third being CRKT. I had a Buck once before and didn't see it as anything better than something you could use to cut a tangle of gum out of a childs hair. I am ... Geeeeesh! Swallowing this loss is hard!!! I'll stop now, but beware if you think this knife is reliable!!!! I urge you to read the review listed above before you buy one of these!!!
ALAN
Maybe you'll learn something yet from all of this.
