Couple edge damage pics

[the possum]

Yes, I keep forgetting the size of the knife you are using, your bowie has impact energies similar in class to general spine impacts. ....considering your bowie is personally optomized for speed/power it may in fact be far more powerful than a randomally selected piece of wood.

I believe this is true, but here's another thing. I have used these blades in situations where I was weak in the knees afterwards from the adrenaline rush. How often does that sort of thing happen while testing knives in the back yard? Adrenaline has helped me make some cuts that I have never been able to duplicate in testing. I know I've mentioned it before, but there was one time I missed my target and struck the side of a silage wagon. My Dad saw it later, and couldn't believe I had done it. He thought Grandpa had hit it with the loader tractor. So I find it somewhat odd, or perhaps amusing, when I'm told that my edge can't take real heavy use, and I should try chopping some knotty wood.

 

[Cliff Stamp]

Adrenaline has helped me make some cuts that I have never been able to duplicate in testing.

Yes, that is why I always thought it somewhat absurd for evaluating tactical/emergency knives to essentially do all the work perfectly calm with ideal quasi-static prepared cutting. How many people are actually going to be like that in those types of situations.

So I find it somewhat odd, or perhaps amusing, when I'm told that my edge can't take real heavy use, and I should try chopping some knotty wood.

Well yeah especially since the thread started by discussing cutting thick bone. I was told the same thing and I cut 10-15 truckloads of wood a year by hand and spruce doesn't tend to be clear wood. I never thought I'd see the day that a knife maker would tell me I am not hard enough on my knives, especially one who uses D2.

-Cliff