Blade length 7"
Thickness: .220"
Steel : S30v stainless
Overall length: 12.375
Summary of test: Chris Reeve Green Beret combat knife.
Cutting: I peeled an apple using the plain edge portion of the blade. This was easy to do. I cut some 10,000 pound webbing making controlled cuts.
The Green Beret came very sharp and cuts well.
Chopping: I chopped through a 2x4. It took some effort but did the job well for it's size and weight. It didn't do as well as the A1.
Cutting: I cut some more webbing. I lost some of the initial edge after the chopping but not very much.
Batoning: I batoned 2 2x4's this was very easy for the Green Beret.
Tip Work: I was able to did a hole through a 2x6 very quick and easy. No tip breakage occurred.
Sheet Metal Penetration: I stabbed the tip into some heavy gauge sheet metal many times and moved the knife side to side. I finally broke the tip. The tip is thin on the Green Beret . The knife didn't penetrate very deep.
Hammer impacts: I placed the edge onto a 2x6 and hammered on the spine using a 3lb steel mallet. The knife took some blows and seemed very solid up to a point. I continued this task and the blade broke about 2 inches from the handle.
At this point I had catastrophic failure.
Side Tang Impacts: I only had about 2 inches of the blade left. I placed it in the vice and using the 3 lb steel mallet I hit the handle in two hits it broke. These were not even very hard hits. I start low and work my way up during this test.
Flex Test: Using the broken portion of the blade I wanted to see how it would flex. I used a pipe wrench on it since the knife was in two parts. I was able to get the blade to about 30 degrees several times before it broke. The remaining portion of the blade had some flexibility and strength.
Overall: The Green Beret is a nice cutter and has nice functional serrations. The exposed metal around the handles looks nice but did a number on my hands and fingers during some of the impact work.
The Green Beret is not tough at all. I was never able to do many of the very hard tasks/tests that many very inexpensive knives laughed at, like the Cold Steel GI Tanto and the Buck Nighthawk.
The Green Beret is made out of s30v Like the Strider BT. The Strider BT was very tough compared to the Green Beret and gave me a run for my money. The Green Beret is one of the most fragile knives I have destruction tested to date.
I would expect much more out of a blade that cost 300 bucks. Cost itself does not determine knife performance but I would expect more then what the Green Beret showed me.
The videos are in 4 parts posted at www.knifetests.com
Enjoy the videos. They were made for you. :thumbup:
Thickness: .220"
Steel : S30v stainless
Overall length: 12.375
Summary of test: Chris Reeve Green Beret combat knife.
Cutting: I peeled an apple using the plain edge portion of the blade. This was easy to do. I cut some 10,000 pound webbing making controlled cuts.
The Green Beret came very sharp and cuts well.
Chopping: I chopped through a 2x4. It took some effort but did the job well for it's size and weight. It didn't do as well as the A1.
Cutting: I cut some more webbing. I lost some of the initial edge after the chopping but not very much.
Batoning: I batoned 2 2x4's this was very easy for the Green Beret.
Tip Work: I was able to did a hole through a 2x6 very quick and easy. No tip breakage occurred.
Sheet Metal Penetration: I stabbed the tip into some heavy gauge sheet metal many times and moved the knife side to side. I finally broke the tip. The tip is thin on the Green Beret . The knife didn't penetrate very deep.
Hammer impacts: I placed the edge onto a 2x6 and hammered on the spine using a 3lb steel mallet. The knife took some blows and seemed very solid up to a point. I continued this task and the blade broke about 2 inches from the handle.
At this point I had catastrophic failure.
Side Tang Impacts: I only had about 2 inches of the blade left. I placed it in the vice and using the 3 lb steel mallet I hit the handle in two hits it broke. These were not even very hard hits. I start low and work my way up during this test.
Flex Test: Using the broken portion of the blade I wanted to see how it would flex. I used a pipe wrench on it since the knife was in two parts. I was able to get the blade to about 30 degrees several times before it broke. The remaining portion of the blade had some flexibility and strength.
Overall: The Green Beret is a nice cutter and has nice functional serrations. The exposed metal around the handles looks nice but did a number on my hands and fingers during some of the impact work.
The Green Beret is not tough at all. I was never able to do many of the very hard tasks/tests that many very inexpensive knives laughed at, like the Cold Steel GI Tanto and the Buck Nighthawk.
The Green Beret is made out of s30v Like the Strider BT. The Strider BT was very tough compared to the Green Beret and gave me a run for my money. The Green Beret is one of the most fragile knives I have destruction tested to date.
I would expect much more out of a blade that cost 300 bucks. Cost itself does not determine knife performance but I would expect more then what the Green Beret showed me.
The videos are in 4 parts posted at www.knifetests.com
Enjoy the videos. They were made for you. :thumbup:
If it's not an exceptional cutter, then it had better be an exceptional beater at that price - but looks like it isn't. Looks much like a waste of perfectly good money to me, but perhaps this was a faulty specimen or something like that.
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