I've had a Fallkniven F1 for a little while and generally think it's a great knife.
I was bored last night and decided to see how well it stands up to batoning. I recall reading somewhere in a thread here that one person considered batoning to be a normal use of an F1 and not at all exceptional.
So I grabbed a 1x2 length of poplar, a pine 2x4 and a 1x2 length of red oak.
I used the oak to baton through the poplar and the 2x4, edge on, at an angle, taking wedges out of the wood. I pretty much beat on the F1 like a redheaded stepchild and got through both pieces of wood with little trouble, though my hands were a bit sore afterwards.
I then took a 1" x 1" chunk out of the poplar by batoning the F1 straight down into the poplar in two places 1" apart and popping out the waste.
The oak 1x2 had a bunch of dents in it from the batoning, but the F1 didn't have a freaking mark on it. Nothing on the spine, no apparent damage to the edge, which was still sharp enough to shave.
Pretty wild.
I was bored last night and decided to see how well it stands up to batoning. I recall reading somewhere in a thread here that one person considered batoning to be a normal use of an F1 and not at all exceptional.
So I grabbed a 1x2 length of poplar, a pine 2x4 and a 1x2 length of red oak.
I used the oak to baton through the poplar and the 2x4, edge on, at an angle, taking wedges out of the wood. I pretty much beat on the F1 like a redheaded stepchild and got through both pieces of wood with little trouble, though my hands were a bit sore afterwards.
I then took a 1" x 1" chunk out of the poplar by batoning the F1 straight down into the poplar in two places 1" apart and popping out the waste.
The oak 1x2 had a bunch of dents in it from the batoning, but the F1 didn't have a freaking mark on it. Nothing on the spine, no apparent damage to the edge, which was still sharp enough to shave.
Pretty wild.
