Fehrman Extreme Judgment hard use review

Well, regardless of anyone's opinions of your testing, you sure proved what a tank that knife is. I don't think I own a blade that would hold up anywhere near that well.


And to the people saying he destroyed the structural integrity of the blade, I call BS. There's a reason you can find hundred year old axe heads that still work just fine. Those have seen 10x the abuse he just put this knife through. Steel is tough, and high quality properly designed tools will hold up to a lifetime of hard use and abuse (Meaning hard knocks, etc. Not stupidity like trying to break your knife with a sledgehammer, like I've seen a certain other knife reviewer do... :eek:)
 
It's an interesting enough review in my opinion. What does it matter to any of the naysayers how this fella decides to use or abuse his knife? He wanted to put it through its paces (and then some) and it held up extremely well. Now he knows it can handle more than most folks would ever put it through and any other potential buyer knows it as well. Thanks number41, that Fehrman is even tougher than I thought it'd be.
 
number41 said:
There aren't any reviews on this knife and that's why I decided to do this, and also I know that some of you wanted to see this! I always test my equipment because the last thing you want is for it to fail under hard use when you really need it! Any knife can chop wood( chopping wood is normal use)!I purely tested the edge strength and it passed with flying colors!

Its the same when buying a fire-arm, you wanna shoot 2000 rounds thru it quickly as possible and only then you can know that its reliable!
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Problem is that as already mentioned there could be damage not visible to the eye and the knife could be in a weakened state when you actually need it
 
Thalestin said:
Problem is that as already mentioned there could be damage not visible to the eye and the knife could be in a weakened state when you actually need it
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We aren't talking about a lightly built knife here. That Fehrman is overbuilt to a huge degree given its steel composition and .25" thickness throughout. The reviewer may have voided the otherwise unconditional warranty with intentional damage but those knives are overebuilt and designed to shrug off what lighter built blades would break from. That even seems to be implied in their product write-ups and warranty.

Extreme tests may not be your (or other critics) thing, but that doesn't make them irrelevant or wrong. In fact, depending on the reader, a blade that survived that may be more appealing as a potential buy. I've been eyeing up the Fehrman line for quite some time and reading this review sealed my decision; one of those blades is definitely going on my "to buy" list for later this year or next. I am sure that I won't be the only one either.
 
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Torm said:
We aren't talking about a lightly built knife here. That Fehrman is overbuilt to a huge degree given its steel composition and .25" thickness throughout. The reviewer may have voided the otherwise unconditional warranty with intentional damage but those knives are overebuilt and designed to shrug off what lighter built blades would break from. That even seems to be implied in their product write-ups and warranty.

Extreme tests may not be your (or other critics) thing, but that doesn't make them irrelevant or wrong. In fact, depending on the reader, a blade that survived that may be more appealing as a potential buy. I've been eyeing up the Fehrman line for quite some time and reading this review sealed my decision; one of those blades is definitely going on my "to buy" list for later this year or next. I am sure that I won't be the only one either.
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Same here. I care less about a particular knife being abused than I do being able to see the abuse it can take. Granted, I'm not the mook that is abusing/damaging an expensive blade, but I and many other still get to reap the rewards. Some people have destructive mindsets/want to be testers regardless of cost. I say let them do it, let them convince you, then when you buy your own don't be nearly as foolish with it.
 
retzius said:
Although I agree that sometimes the knife tests can get ridiculous, there is a lot of value in really pushing a piece of equipment to see where it will fail. For example, I recently purchased a new Sig P226 Mk25 as a duty pistol. I took it to the range, put 100 rounds down the pipe and everything seemed great. Later that month I took the pistol to a tactical pistol course and really pushed it and guess what it had problems. I would not have known it had these issues if I had not taken the pistol out and really pushed it. If I didn't know and trusted this as a duty pistol and the problems came to light in a life and death situation it could have been bad news.
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Yeah but you didn't push it by let's say loading up a round that would generate 100,000 cup or whatever. You just took in out and fired it a whole bunch in the way it was meant to be fired. There's a comprehensive shakedown of a machine including some breaking in (what you did) and chopping concrete with a knife which is just stupid.

Know if is was a knife manufacturer and I wanted to build a chopping knife I think what I might do is this. I'd create a test where I had let's say 5 prototypes and I would take each one and strike a rock once each to see what would happen in the event that the piece of wood was missed by one of my future customers and a rock was hit by accident, thus understanding the behavior of my product. I would hope that no matter how bad the edges were damaged that the none of knives themselves would break and be rendered unusable...or 80% would survive or whatever.

To do that to a good knife is just plain stupid and a pretty good way to loose an eye. Hope the OP was wearing eye protection.

PS. Let's all beware of a used Ferhman for sale from some bloke in South Africa!!!
 
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Let's all beware of a used Ferhman for sale from some bloke in South Africa!!![/QUOTE]

Mmm some bloke....!
 
Torm said:
We aren't talking about a lightly built knife here. That Fehrman is overbuilt to a huge degree given its steel composition and .25" thickness throughout. The reviewer may have voided the otherwise unconditional warranty with intentional damage but those knives are overebuilt and designed to shrug off what lighter built blades would break from. That even seems to be implied in their product write-ups and warranty.

Extreme tests may not be your (or other critics) thing, but that doesn't make them irrelevant or wrong. In fact, depending on the reader, a blade that survived that may be more appealing as a potential buy. I've been eyeing up the Fehrman line for quite some time and reading this review sealed my decision; one of those blades is definitely going on my "to buy" list for later this year or next. I am sure that I won't be the only one either.
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You won't be sorry, these blades are very well made! The one I tested is my training blade and the one I'm waiting for goes onto my belt webbing!
 
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