Everything I learned about batoning on Bladeforums

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420J is superior to any CPM steel, and leather sheaths are worthless unless they're painted black. Don't forget the sleeping pills.
 
You forgot to mention the brilliance of Joe X ; Beat the knife into oblivion with concrete ,steel, then shoot whatever scrap is left over.And if thats not bad enough, there was 1 commenter who bases his purchases on numnuts' videos.Theres a brain surgeon for the ages....
 
Alone said:
Man, are they really bent if they aren't really bent?


Maybe it's just a figment of your imagination... 🤷‍♂️





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Clear up the mystery for us are they bent or not? They certainly look bent in those pictures.

I do think its silly trying to make the case that only old folks think that batonning is absurd and that all the cool kids are doing it. Neither thing is true.

Again do what you want, ultimately its your knife and your money, the point I am making is that there is no actual need to do it.
 
Triton said:
Clear up the mystery for us are they bent or not? They certainly look bent in those pictures.

I do think its silly trying to make the case that only old folks think that batonning is absurd and that all the cool kids are doing it. Neither thing is true.

Again do what you want, ultimately its your knife and your money, the point I am making is that there is no actual need to do it.
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It is not uncommon for knives to bend if the wood is tough to split (see no. 8). However the knife should not take a SET if tempered properly. Any knife that took a set, I would consider a bad knife.
 
dogstar said:
It is not uncommon for knives to bend if the wood is tough to split (see no. 8). However the knife should not take a SET if tempered properly. Any knife that took a set, I would consider a bad knife.
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Makes sense to me.
 
Well, I did it. As a lifelong knife and axe user I finally batoned with a knife today. I've split kindling many, many times but always with a hatchet.

I had a particularly large frozen piece of hamburger from the ranchero that I didn't want to defrost/use all at once and the cleaver wasn't the ideal choice to wail on it with, due to the slippery, frozen exterior. The Terava Skrama 240 got pressed into use for the kitchen, but again that slippery surface thing made batoning the best solution, using a rolling pin as a mallet. Worked like a charm; all without spraying frozen hamburger everywhere or bouncing the skrama blade into the surrounding kitchen. Would totally recommend kitchen batoning, but probably not while using regular kitchen knives.

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