Can your knife support your weight?

Not a commercial. I destroyed over $2000 worth of knives in two months to have some idea what I was doing and before asking the question. I am about to turn my medical device design background into knifemaking and I want to how knife owners feel and what is important to them. I only carried a pocketknife before 2012, did not even own a fixedblade. I have now interned with two of the best knifemakers and was advised to start with a fixedblade. I had not heard of Busse or Emerson till 2012. I have now disassembled a TGLB and most of the Emerson line of knives. I am new to the forum and appologize to anyone offended.
 
Most knife users or knifemakers don't need to destroy knives to know how to use them. Did you ever find the need to pry with a medical device?

I carry and use knives for the blade edge and sometimes the point. If I want to pry, dig or smash something, I use the appropriate tool -which isn't a knife. Climb? We have things called rope and stairs...
 
what the????? you bought and destroyed 2k worth of knives?! for research? something just dont smell right here.
 
Orthopedics is like carpentry, lots of prying, cutting, drilling and hammering. If someone tells me their steel can do something I do not believe it can do, I will test it even if it took an earthmover and destroyed the knife. That's engineering---destructive testing.:) I have used knives to cut people from their clothing after a crash, I dug a watch out of the hot tar of a racetrack after a four hour event, cut open many cans, and took down three dogs after I was attacked on my bicycle. My knife must be all it can be. I did not desroy the Randall, the Dozier, and the Randy Lee I scored along the way. These are true customs not like a TGLB.
 
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Groush said:
I have used knives to cut people from their clothing after a crash, I dug a watch out of the hot tar of a racetrack after a four hour event, cut open many cans, and took down three dogs after I was attacked on my bicycle. My knife must be all it can be.

I did not desroy the Randall, the Dozier, and the Randy Lee I scored along the way. These are true customs not like a TGLB.
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Alot of knives can do the things you mention. You took down three dogs ???
 
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Orthopedics is like carpentry, lots of prying, cutting, drilling and hammering. If someone tells me their steel can do something I do not believe it can do, I will test it even if it took an earthmover and destroyed the knife. That's engineering---destructive testing.:) I have used knives to cut people from their clothing after a crash, I dug a watch out of the hot tar of a racetrack after a four hour event, cut open many cans, and took down three dogs after I was attacked on my bicycle. My knife must be all it can be. I did not desroy the Randall, the Dozier, and the Randy Lee I scored along the way. These are true customs not like a TGLB.
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UUUUUUMMMM buddy I'm a carpenter, off duty & before enlisting. I Say BULL to this
If they say it will work for what i need, then it will work for what i need. I'm not going to burn 2K on tools to see what works, if its on the mark, it works
 
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crom said:
I have a question. If you are using your knife like a peg to climb a wall or whatever. What happens when you get to the top or the other side? Do you leave the knife behind stuck in the wall? Maybe you could tie some clothesline to it for easy retrieval? Hmmmmmm....
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Was thinking the same thing


for &16 i cut this knife out of a CS Latin machete. hanging, it can hold my weight and my EDC sack just fine.
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KalEl said:
Perhaps a more important question should be "can your knife slice an apple?"
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This is the reason I traded my spanto. Loved everything else about it but I had to baton it through an apple.
 
Almost feels like the return of artisticcutleryquest from snodyand. I believe he was in the medical devise field.
 
Three dogs? I find my Endura has a tough time taking down more than one and a half.
 
leifjl said:
probably just needs a touch up on a strop, an endura should be good for at least 2 and a half dogs easy.
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Well, I'm reprofiling it as we speak... it should work a bit better on dogs with a lower angle.

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Groush said:
I have used knives to cut people from their clothing after a crash, I dug a watch out of the hot tar of a racetrack after a four hour event, cut open many cans, and took down three dogs after I was attacked on my bicycle.
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Goosey said:
Three dogs? I find my Endura has a tough time taking down more than one and a half.
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You're the one that said you had taken down three dogs with a knife. I find that about as believable as your first post in this thread.
 
but ken, why? i have a similar tale to tell. once when i was hiking in the backcountry i wound up in a long drawn out fight with a whole family of sasquatch, needless to say i brought the whole affair to an end by dispatching them all with nothing more than a rusty spoon. and thats the truth.
 
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