Fixed blade knife breaking in pocket?

Gaston444 said:
Bill Bagwell used to say: "Americans are the only people in the world whose big knives pull their pants down as they walk."

Most folks think powder steel, unpainted Carbon, convex edges, 20 dps, 4-5" blades and hitting the back of your (small) knife with a bludgeon (to drive it into wood), are all just the thing for Survival... They also think showing your knife plainly to every stranger is a good idea, especially when far away from any help... Fortunately, rosaries are said all over the world for misguided souls, so they should be alright while they split wood in their backyards...

Gaston
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Gaston, in another thread you said you have only legitimately used an outdoors knife 5 times.
Why should anyone, anywhere, value your completely uninformed opinion?

You don't know about using knives.
You don't know about sharpening knives.
You don't know about survival.
The only thing you do know how to do is ruin perfectly good knives.

It is a mystery why you continue posting on a knife forum when you know so little about them.
 
jaime_lion said:
Just call me an idiot and such then. I am so used to that by now.
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I'm not going to call you an idiot. I don't know enough about you to say if you are an idiot or not. However, I think your words may speak for themselves...

jaime_lion said:
Just everyday stress from bending walking siting standing crouching kneeling kicking punching etc etc.
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You do a whole lot of punching and kicking while wearing your Kmart jeans? Something tells me that if you are the "martial artist" you say you are, you probably are aware of Dobok/Gi etc... that are much more appropriate for that sort of activity.
Aside from anything else, if the knife was digging into your body so hard that it caused enough stress to fracture the blade, I think common sense would tell anyone with half a brain that you'd be mighty uncomfortable and simply move so that there is less stress on the knife and on yourself. You are made of soft mushy stuff that has nerve endings. you're going to feel pain and give up long before even the cheapest of knives.

jaime_lion said:
I am a martial artist and wear stuff like knives or impact weapons as a status symbol.
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I'm still laughing.

jaime_lion said:
I do try experiments to become a better martial artist. Like carrying a cane for a day or walking around my house and neighborhood with a baseball bat in my pants.
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I'm sorry, what? You carry a baseball bat around in your pants to make you a better martial artist? That's like saying I carry a guitar around to make myself a better musician. Studying and practicing using a weapon makes you a better martial artist. Any numb-nuts doofus can carry it around the neighborhood stuffed in his pants. That does nothing but make you... well.. kind of what you were alluding to the first time I quoted you.

jaime_lion said:
Doctors are the most dangerous people I have ever met. They can fix the human body so of course they know how to break it.
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I actually understand what you're saying, but in the context of everything else, this just sounds so absurd it must be quoted for posterity.

jaime_lion said:
Folding knives break and are not as sturdy as a fixed blade and like you said take time to deploy.
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A 5-7" bladed knife in your pocket is cumbersome, and would likely need two hands and some maneuvering to pull out of your pocket. I'm going to say that a decent folder would actually be much quicker to deploy and under any normal circumstance, any decent folding knife is not at all likely to break. Since your preoccupation seems to be playing martial artist with yourself, you can rest assured that a nice simple folding knife of decent quality would be more than up to the task of fighting the rival shogun at the mall.

Which all brings me back to this:

jaime_lion said:
Just call me an idiot and such then. I am so used to that by now.
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and this:
jaime_lion said:
I do get tired of people on forums similar to this thinking I am "crazy" for trying stuff like this. Or thinking I am stupid cause I don't drink the "kool-aid" and think I can stop a person with a 12 inch blade with a under 4 inch blade.
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When one person calls you an idiot/crazy, that person might be a jerk. When two people call you an idiot/crazy, it might just be a coincidence.
By the time you are used to it because multiple people call you an idiot/crazy... maybe it's because your behavior warrants that response. You are, after all, the only common denominator among all the people who think that.
 
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Don't listen to the naysayers -- this is important information for people to know.

I once had a Tops Prather War Bowie in my front left pocket (even though I am a righty I like to cross reverse draw in combat/survival situations) while I was working out and it shattered into 10-12 pieces after about 20 minutes of squat thrusts and deep knee bends. Since then I've only carried SAKs with a zip-tie wave mod. YMMV.
 
SpySmasher said:
Don't listen to the naysayers -- this is important information for people to know.

I once had a Tops Prather War Bowie in my front left pocket (even though I am a righty I like to cross reverse draw in combat/survival situations) while I was working out and it shattered into 10-12 pieces after about 20 minutes of squat thrusts and deep knee bends. Since then I've only carried SAKs with a zip-tie wave mod. YMMV.
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LOL
 
Hackenslash said:
I've never had a fixed blade break in my pants pockets but I keep shattering the hell outa my baseball bats. Must be bad wood...
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Baseball bats notoriously don't do well when you do burpees.

Are you wearing the bat (to improve your martial arts skills, of course) on plyometric days at the gym?
 
NJBillK said:
Is your wood corked?
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It's not corked but it's heavily pine tarred.

19-3ben said:
Baseball bats notoriously don't do well when you do burpees.

Are you wearing the bat (to improve your martial arts skills, of course) on plyometric days at the gym?
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I wear a baseball bat because it's a status symbol, just like everyone else. In terms off the shattering problem, I think they may be imported ash. I'm going to start trying axe handles.
 
I'm just sayin, not everyone should start out with a baseball bat in their pants. You need to start with smaller, gentler wood and work your way up...popsickle stick, drum stick, 2" dowel...and so on. It takes years of training before you can "bring the bat".
 
jaime_lion said:
Just call me an idiot and such then. I am so used to that by now.
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Nobody is calling you an idiot, but you shouldn't be surprised or offended when people react to bizarre behavior. You would be doing yourself and others a favor by being a little more open minded.
 
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