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damn, broke my southard in 2

As we all know, knives have souls ;) . Clearly, your knife was born bothered by a nagging feeling it was supposed to be something else. Judging by the pics, that something else was/is apparently a fish opening it's mouth to feed.
 
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If you don't replace the blade, reprofile it into a wharncliffe and you'll have a fantastic box cutter.
 
Phydeaux said:
If you don't replace the blade, reprofile it into a wharncliffe and you'll have a fantastic box cutter.
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That's a greatidea! You can actually shorten the handle also.. There are pics here somewhere with it done.

I use my becker bk2 to baton and with its 1/4" of 1095 its a a batoning machine!
 
jayjaytuner said:
so I was out getting some firewoord ready to start a little fire to relax n have some beers...
I ended up hitting a knot in a piece of a branch....well my dumbass took the back of a hatchet and wacked the spine a couple times and bam there she goes. :(.
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Wait a second -- you had a hatchet with you, and you were using your knife to split wood? LMAO, we have just discovered the definition of a true knife nut. :thumbup:
 
Those Southards they just keep breaking ;). All jokes aside though, it obviously wasn't like the last issue we saw with a broken Southard.
 
Oh snap! Well now we know the threshold for 204p! No batoning. There's gotta be a folder out there that we can hammer through a log! :D
 
Not to defend taking a baton to a folder because I've done it also and only in testing. Honestly it is a good way to screw up a folder any way you look at it but the curve of the way the blade broke brings up some red flags for me. It appears a flaw in the blade that followed a pattern in the form of a micro crack or fracture I suspect. They normally don't have a curve to them in a snap break like that for me. Mine are almost flat off if I break em with a baton because its usually the whack and snap side ways that breaks it. I'm not exactly sure how you put a pattern in the break like that.
 
I would suggest Spyderco to replace your broken blade with a hatchet, but since you already have it...
 
STR said:
Not to defend taking a baton to a folder because I've done it also and only in testing. Honestly it is a good way to screw up a folder any way you look at it but the curve of the way the blade broke brings up some red flags for me. It appears a flaw in the blade that followed a pattern in the form of a micro crack or fracture I suspect. They normally don't have a curve to them in a snap break like that for me. Mine are almost flat off if I break em with a baton because its usually the whack and snap side ways that breaks it. I'm not exactly sure how you put a pattern in the break like that.
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Interesting point.

Q: are PM blades more likely to fracture like that than conventional ingot steel blades?
 
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