Best Way to Test a Knife?

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Not sure if this is the right place to post this...please move it to the appropriate forum if necessary. Stumbled across this video of a guy testing his counterfit Strider SMF. Aparently, chopping bricks, trying to whittle another knife's edge away, and smashing it against another folder proves the "quality" of a knife. Shocked he didn't cut himself at some point.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdmQICxncCk&feature=related
 
well its just like the coldsteel ads i guess, and yeah definitely not the safest way to test those attributes though the knockoff does seem to hold up somewhat well
 
hmm I wonder if there is any truth in this guys comment under the video

@jbrind00 Don’t be so sure. They stopped stamping them “USA” for a REASON. They have been secretly shifting production overseas. They lied about their military experience, etc. Why wouldn’t they lie about this? If you look at the newer Striders, they do NOT say USA anywhere on them anymore. One day, the USA stamped ones will be worth a lot, while the ones without the stamp will all be assumed to be Chinese. Might as well get it straight from the source!
VideoScenario 4 months ago 2
 
I'm betting that is just a bit of knife conspiracy fun...

I think a few little spine-whacks just using the weight of your arm is a pretty good test to see if it's solid and secure and some moderate wood carving to make sure the blade is ok. If you go too crazy then you might make a folder that would have been fine for a decade of good use be a reliability concern and waste of money.
 
Can't stop watching this. Droppoint and I were dying when we found this earlier, it's still as funny as the first time watching
 
mrdavidross321 said:
hmm I wonder if there is any truth in this guys comment under the video

@jbrind00 Don’t be so sure. They stopped stamping them “USA” for a REASON. They have been secretly shifting production overseas. They lied about their military experience, etc. Why wouldn’t they lie about this? If you look at the newer Striders, they do NOT say USA anywhere on them anymore. One day, the USA stamped ones will be worth a lot, while the ones without the stamp will all be assumed to be Chinese. Might as well get it straight from the source!
VideoScenario 4 months ago 2
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That is BS, for one the steels used by strider would be prohibitively expensive for a Chinese manufacturer to use because of taxation on importation and storage of these steels, thus negating the labor savings. If the same people were manufacturing real strider the machining marks would be similar and they would not be making the small but noticeable errors they have.

Here is the thread with a video explaining the differences between a real strider and a fake.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/898885-How-to-Spot-a-Strider-Clone

Lastly, although they are definitely not a strider, they are quality and seem to have good F/F.
 
Moose, over in the Becker subforum, brought up a good point that the best way to test a knife is to build a bow drill kit. You have a chance to see how the knife splits, shaves, carves, whittles, etc. Not a bad idea, in my opinion.
 
I like to send pure waves of mind energy in a very concentrated (yet stable) form towards the bevel of my knife (which must be sitting stationary on a block of pure obsidian with gold leaf filigree pattern inlays).

If the wavelengths have too much variance after passing the edge, it's back to the strop.
 
Tim616 said:
I like to send pure waves of mind energy in a very concentrated (yet stable) form towards the bevel of my knife (which must be sitting stationary on a block of pure obsidian with gold leaf filigree pattern inlays).

If the wavelengths have too much variance after passing the edge, it's back to the strop.
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Quantum Physics I should have thought of that :)
 
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