Bark river Aurora can't cut green wood?

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Dario@getcarports

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My girlfriend recently got me the bark river aurora and it works great for dead wood but green wood it can't seem to cut very well, it like snags on it and I push down on it and it like gets stuck in the green wood and doesn't go deep at all and just feels like the steel is too slick and doesn't haven enough traction but idk that kind if kills the knife for me ... I was thinking maybe dura coating it might help but I'm not sure. I would really appreciate some input on my problem. Thanks much appreciated.
 
green wood can be sticky with sap
i love my brkt
but if you want i can trade you something for yours
 
Green wood (saplings, branches, etc.) needs good technique (e.g. tension cutting) to cut well. I don't think a coating will help.

How are you trying to cut? Or what are you trying to do? It's not a chopper.
 
liamstrain said:
Green wood (saplings, branches, etc.) needs good technique (e.g. tension cutting) to cut well. I don't think a coating will help.

How are you trying to cut? Or what are you trying to do? It's not a chopper.
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Well I'm not just randomly tryin to cut I am using tension and cutting a it's weakest point and it does cut but not very well and I am just trying to test it out and get a feel for it cause I really expecte better fr a knife this expensive and highly praised.
 
Idk if I would want to trade it since it was a gift but just to satisfy my curiosity what would you be willing to trade for it ?
 
No knife is magic. But without seeing what you are trying to do, it's hard to evaluate from here.
 
Sig_Op said:
green wood can be sticky with sap
i love my brkt
but if you want i can trade you something for yours
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We don't do business (buying/selling/trading) in the discussion forums.
 
So which knives work better on the green wood doing the same cut? What do you suppose there is about them that makes them cut the green wood better?
 
My tops brothers if bushcraft works wonders for green and dead wood and idk I think grind might have something to do with it and the steel 1095 instead of a2, it really feels like the aurora doesn't want to go into the green wood and the tops excels.
 
If your TOPS works better than the Aurora then to me it seems like a coated vs uncoated blade thing.
 
Maybe it's a stiction problem, where the green snugly grab the convex grind. Spray wd40 on the blade then test cut green wood.
 
I am certain that it has next to nothing to do with the steel, more likely the shape and grind of the blade and how it might be sharpened. I find green wood harder to cut cross grain and easier to "slice" in a whittling type stroke. Also needs to be at an angle at least with most knives I have.

The reason is the soft "tubes" that are the grain partially collapse and pinch the blade of the knife. in a straight cross-cut.
 
Yea I have tried wd40 but it didn't do much of a difference but idk I'll give it another try cause I really want to love it and I really like it for cutting dry wood but it feels like it gets Jammed in the green wood and not even a little deep like it barely gets passed the epidermis layer of the wood.
 
I think it is because the aurora is a convex grind, and you are used to a v grind edge. Or it could be that maybe the aurora just isnt very sharp.
 
In almost all cases, technique trumps tools. In other words, it's probably not the knife that's causing your problems.
 
IDK. If the poster has 2 blades, and is using them for the same thing, and one cuts better than the other...it's probably the blade. I have an Aurora and like it. It does have a pretty beefy blade that is not particularly wide. With a thick convex edge and a relatively quick taper to full thickness, I wonder if this is just simply a case of geometry?
 
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