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Gentlemen....
A kukri is not an axe. An axe has a nice long wood handle to absorb shock....and is quite a bit different than a kukri that has metal tang that - though substantial in thickness - is still quite a bit thinner/lighter than the blade itself and has very little ability to absorb shock.
What we need to do is get back to the facts and not allow conjecture to take over.
"I've never broken my kukri while batoning" does not mean "My kukri is baton-proof". Just means you're luck has yet to run out.
To conclude the above statement would be conjecture, not fact.
The first fact that I can see (based only on evidence shown and my experience with breaks in kukris) is that the break is a "clean break" and is not from a weakness brought on by poor heat-treat or imperfections in the steel.
The second fact is that it broke while bringing the blade-stuck-in-the-wood down onto the ground.
Could it be possible there was damage already there? Yes.
Could it be possible it was the first time it was stressed? Yes.
Could it be possible it was a stress riser from the cho? Yes.
These are possibilities, but are speculations....conjecture....they cannot be drawn into conclusions.
For example:
The cho might indeed be a stress riser in every kukri (many knives have stress risers in them simply by their designs). But that alone is not enough to say it is a 'point of failure by stress riser'. I would think that the hundreds/thousands of kukris owned/reviewed by forum members here alone should be evidence enough that even if the cho is a stress riser, it poses no danger for failure. By comparison, the failure rate is very low....meaning the success rate is very, very high.
Like I said, and has been echoed here....many a knife owner abuses their knives all the time (I do it too)...sometimes they fail, sometimes they don't. Those that abuse their knives without failure = I count this a "luck"....not "proof" of success, etc.
Let the failure be what it is.....1 out of a 1000 (or more). Read up on the other 999+ ....if you need proof the CAK is a tough kukri.
Dan
A kukri is not an axe. An axe has a nice long wood handle to absorb shock....and is quite a bit different than a kukri that has metal tang that - though substantial in thickness - is still quite a bit thinner/lighter than the blade itself and has very little ability to absorb shock.
What we need to do is get back to the facts and not allow conjecture to take over.
"I've never broken my kukri while batoning" does not mean "My kukri is baton-proof". Just means you're luck has yet to run out.
To conclude the above statement would be conjecture, not fact.
The first fact that I can see (based only on evidence shown and my experience with breaks in kukris) is that the break is a "clean break" and is not from a weakness brought on by poor heat-treat or imperfections in the steel.
The second fact is that it broke while bringing the blade-stuck-in-the-wood down onto the ground.
Could it be possible there was damage already there? Yes.
Could it be possible it was the first time it was stressed? Yes.
Could it be possible it was a stress riser from the cho? Yes.
These are possibilities, but are speculations....conjecture....they cannot be drawn into conclusions.
For example:
The cho might indeed be a stress riser in every kukri (many knives have stress risers in them simply by their designs). But that alone is not enough to say it is a 'point of failure by stress riser'. I would think that the hundreds/thousands of kukris owned/reviewed by forum members here alone should be evidence enough that even if the cho is a stress riser, it poses no danger for failure. By comparison, the failure rate is very low....meaning the success rate is very, very high.
Like I said, and has been echoed here....many a knife owner abuses their knives all the time (I do it too)...sometimes they fail, sometimes they don't. Those that abuse their knives without failure = I count this a "luck"....not "proof" of success, etc.
Let the failure be what it is.....1 out of a 1000 (or more). Read up on the other 999+ ....if you need proof the CAK is a tough kukri.
Dan
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