Sweet, Nathan. I will be looking forward to it. As I indicated to you, if there is anything in particular you would like me to do or anything that you would like me to steer clear of because it's so absurd, just let me know.
Cool man, lets do this thing. :thumbup:
Has any blade been beaten hard enough to break? Just curious, I know many say it's pointless, but it gives an idea of what these can take, if ever needed in an emergency.
The op wants to know what it takes to
break one. So this is what I'd like to see:
What does it take to snap the tip?
What does it take to blow out into the primary grinds?
What does it take to
actually break.
Lets start with normal rough knife usage, meaning extreme batoning, scraping, stabbing, rough chopping (all done very hard) and other very rough use that a knife user might do to a knife if they had to.
You'll dull it, but it won't break.
Then progress into use a knife user wouldn't normally do like baton through things with a heavy hammer, throw it hard tip first into concrete, drive over it with a car etc.
But to see what it's going to take to break it, I think you might need a cheater bar. I do.
The knife I'm sending is a blem. If you can break it just discard the pieces. If you don't break it I want it returned so a blem doesn't end up "out there".
The particular specimen I'm sending you is sharpened 20 DPS, measures .026" behind the edge, and measured HRC 61.5
It is not the geometry or the lower hardness of a "rough use indestructible knife" but I don't think you'll be able to break it without tools. We'll send it out to you today, I can't wait to see what you come up with. :thumbup:
