Do you ever laugh out loud at the knife tests run by "expert" Youtube knife jockeys?

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Do you ever laugh out loud at the knife tests run by "expert" Youtube knife jockeys?
  • How well will it BATON!?! (Good grief, carry a small backpacking saw or hatchet if the need to "baton" is even remotely possible on your adventures!)
  • Here, let me throw this huge bowie (or expensive folder) at that oak tree over there to see if it sticks!
  • Lemme gnaw through this 2x8 to see how well it cuts! (See above.)
  • SEE!?! I bent the tip after repeatedly ramming it into a big clunk of hickory and deliberately trying to damage it!
  • Let me cut up several dozen reinforced cardboard boxes and then see if I can still get a close dry shave with it!
  • etc, etc.
 
I honestly don't see any issues with any of the tests you've listed, though I don't throw my knives. All the others seems like attempts to compact lots of real world use into a fairly short time period. I don't think those tests prove very much at all, but they at least give the reviewer some good hands-on experience with the blade so they can give us a more educated opinion in their review.

The tests that I'm vastly more skeptical and critical about are the attempts at scientific testing that go on all too frequently. Cut tests that just stop when the knife is 'dull' without any hard, empirical definition of what dull means in that context. Trying to compare steels that are in different models of knives with different blade geometries. Using cutting media that can be wildly inconsistent in their testing.
 
Sometimes. I was amazed by the torture tests of the BM Bugout and the Cold Steel SRK.
 
I laugh out loud at people who spend too much time watching “usage” videos on YouTube. The OP must have a lot more free time than I do.

Get out and use your own damn knife. Nobody else in the world has the same hand as you.
 
I thought the tests done by the hockey mask guys were sometimes informative. These days I seem to be lucky in my choice of YouTube testers- they all do actual cutting tests.
 
I think I prefer to laugh at such YoutTube videos than be bored watching the kind where someone just opens the box and flicks the knife a few times all the while just talking.
 
I dont have a problem with abusive tests if they aren't used for binary up/down quantification.

By that, if you abuse a knife and break it, don't call it a poor knife because it didn't pass some sort of arbitrary test it was never designed to handle. We had a masked yahoo some years back that disguised abuse as science in his goofy videos. Say what you want about Cliff Stamp, but at least he wore his psychotic pseudo science on his sleeve.

I also have a real beef with unrealistic expectations on a review of ANY item. I remember a nice compact pistol being put through the wringer by a review. The gun shot well, grouped well, and was generally a reliable 10+1 Glock 26 alternative. However, when submerged in a puddle for 60 seconds, the striker would sometime fail to clear the bubble of water built up around it resulting in a misfire. The guy was like, "oh...no. hard pass. What if I find myself in a fire fight and drop my pistol in a puddle and it no longer fires?!".

Really? An ergonomic gun that is reliable and shoots well gets completely scrapped because it may fall out of your hand into a puddle for 3/4of a minute where you have to fire it without giving it a good hard shake first?....really?

If someone wants to break a knife under unreasonable circumstances, I'm OK with that. Just don't call it empirical or scientific to any significant degree.
 
Rich S said:
Their "tests" are about as valid as those on Forged in Fire -- better named Farce in Fire.
Rich
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You bring up an interesting point. In discussing different mass-produced knives, some self-professed "experts" will really present some off-the-wall, downright odd ideas from left field. I really wondered where they were coming from? It was very clear they had never toured, much less worked in, or managed a precision metal products factory.

Then I (finally) watched a couple of episode of Forged in Fire. Talk about an AHA moment! ;)
 
yamsi12 said:
only knife reviewer you need to know is advanced knife bro.
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I'll give that two huge thumbs up! That man batons ANY knife, and I love him for it! It really is hilarious and great fun to watch.

Of course, I would never try to baton with my folders (except maybe my Cold Steel Triad locks). But when it comes to my Beckers, especially the BK2, they can handle it.
 
Only thing I LOL at in Youtube videos about anything is how really poor most people are as actors.

I guess that's a good thing though huh?
Acting is nothing more than pretending to be something you aren't. If you're a good enough liar to get away with that, then the better liar you are, the better actor you'll be...and ...if you're a good actor, then everything you're trying to get across is a lie, right? ;)
 
Stahlmann said:
Do you ever laugh out loud at the knife tests run by "expert" Youtube knife jockeys?
  • How well will it BATON!?! (Good grief, carry a small backpacking saw or hatchet if the need to "baton" is even remotely possible on your adventures!)
  • Here, let me throw this huge bowie (or expensive folder) at that oak tree over there to see if it sticks!
  • Lemme gnaw through this 2x8 to see how well it cuts! (See above.)
  • SEE!?! I bent the tip after repeatedly ramming it into a big clunk of hickory and deliberately trying to damage it!
  • Let me cut up several dozen reinforced cardboard boxes and then see if I can still get a close dry shave with it!
  • etc, etc.
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What content have you made?
 
Yo Mama said:
What content have you made?
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Another backyard batoner, aye? ;)

I've created Youtube content that's one helluva lot more productive than "batoning" through a railroad tie with an inexpensive folder, only to conclude the folder is "junk" because it's made in China.
 
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