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Thought some of you might like to know that I did some cutting demostrations for the Buckmasters group that met recently.
I continue to be impressed with the quality of the BKT line that Camillus produces.
What I did was sharpen the Patrol machate [can't spell it] and the magnum camp knife on a fine india stone. This to me is important because that stone gives the right amount of bite to the edge.
I cut approx 42 2x4's 225 pieces of one inch rope sliced off while I was holding it, and over 200 coke cans in half filled with water [the cans were filled not me]. The knife still would slice paper cleanly and would shave a bit. The knife was never touched on a stone or steel once we started. The only thing that was done was it was slightly stropped on my hand before I would begin chopping and slicing for each group. After the boards and the rope and cans then I take a piece of paper each time and hold it with my fingers and cut with the blade being at least 5 inches away from my hand so that the hands did not give any support to the start of the cut. I also cut with the same 4 inch long areas on each knife so I would really test one particular area and not be all up and down on the blade.
These are not scientific test but good reasonable test to let me know how well the knife will hold. These knife will hold up better than many custom knives. The people at Camillus really hit the heat treat and tempering on the dot.
At much testing as I have done with this I am truly impressed with the quality as well as the Camillus people. Here they produce a knife that does not need to take a back seat to anything in terms of holding up when you need it to yet they just quitely go about offering a knife this good at a price that is dirt cheap for what you are getting. My compliments guys.
I continue to be impressed with the quality of the BKT line that Camillus produces.
What I did was sharpen the Patrol machate [can't spell it] and the magnum camp knife on a fine india stone. This to me is important because that stone gives the right amount of bite to the edge.
I cut approx 42 2x4's 225 pieces of one inch rope sliced off while I was holding it, and over 200 coke cans in half filled with water [the cans were filled not me]. The knife still would slice paper cleanly and would shave a bit. The knife was never touched on a stone or steel once we started. The only thing that was done was it was slightly stropped on my hand before I would begin chopping and slicing for each group. After the boards and the rope and cans then I take a piece of paper each time and hold it with my fingers and cut with the blade being at least 5 inches away from my hand so that the hands did not give any support to the start of the cut. I also cut with the same 4 inch long areas on each knife so I would really test one particular area and not be all up and down on the blade.
These are not scientific test but good reasonable test to let me know how well the knife will hold. These knife will hold up better than many custom knives. The people at Camillus really hit the heat treat and tempering on the dot.
At much testing as I have done with this I am truly impressed with the quality as well as the Camillus people. Here they produce a knife that does not need to take a back seat to anything in terms of holding up when you need it to yet they just quitely go about offering a knife this good at a price that is dirt cheap for what you are getting. My compliments guys.
