I watched many of those youtube tests before they were pulled. I noticed that there were some very expensive "brag" blades that broke early, and some very inexpensive ordinary blades that he had to work very hard at damaging.
There is a tradeoff between hardness and toughness for all steels, some achieve that balance better than others. When I started collecting custom knives nobody except the people that made their own damascus would have thought about using carbon steels in their blades. Fifteen years later it is much different, carbon steel knives are in demand, even carbon steel hunting knives that probably don't need to be tough. But the steel chemistry is just a part of the equation. Heat treat is important and not everybody gets it right. And blade geometry is important. In some of those youtube tests some of the knives liked to fail at places where the manufacture put stress concentrations in the design. Pay attention to all of these things and you might have a tougher knife than average.
I don't have any complaints about this brand except that they are too hard to buy. I don't want one bad enough to beg them to sell me one so I won't ever own one. I'll have to be happy with my $20 Cold Steel knife that also did very well in the destructo tests, it just isn't as pretty.
There is a tradeoff between hardness and toughness for all steels, some achieve that balance better than others. When I started collecting custom knives nobody except the people that made their own damascus would have thought about using carbon steels in their blades. Fifteen years later it is much different, carbon steel knives are in demand, even carbon steel hunting knives that probably don't need to be tough. But the steel chemistry is just a part of the equation. Heat treat is important and not everybody gets it right. And blade geometry is important. In some of those youtube tests some of the knives liked to fail at places where the manufacture put stress concentrations in the design. Pay attention to all of these things and you might have a tougher knife than average.
I don't have any complaints about this brand except that they are too hard to buy. I don't want one bad enough to beg them to sell me one so I won't ever own one. I'll have to be happy with my $20 Cold Steel knife that also did very well in the destructo tests, it just isn't as pretty.
