Full tang not necessarily stronger tang.

marcinek said:
But, ones stick tang really probably isn't going to break in normal use either.
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superpog said:
I think I agree that in most cases we don't need the knife to be that strong.
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danbot said:
A partial tang knife, if done right has very little chance of failing with normally intended use.
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DrFish said:
A properly made tool with a partial or stick tang should not be failing in normal use or abuse.
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What if things AREN'T normal, such as an emergency or survival situation?
 
MtnHawk1 said:
What if things AREN'T normal, such as an emergency or survival situation?
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I have my mora companion on my car for daily commute plus a folder I carry.

But I will take my bigger knife with me if I go for a fish/hunt trip that will be away from civilization, and that will be a full tang knife because I don't have a bigger fixed blade that is not a full tang...

I think my logic is: if I bring a non-full-tang knife and it happens to fail on me, I will hate myself like "why didn't you idiot bring a full tang?"; however if I bring a full-tang knife and it happens to fail on me, I won't hate myself for not bringing a non-full-tang...
 
Well, I bought Cold Steel Drop Forged Hunter for EDC...

This knife's tang is also it's handle. Entire knife is one solid chunk of steel.
That's basically full tang on whole different level...
 
stabman stabman thanks for the public message, that thread grounds me back to reality in this crazy dream called life.

The Smatchet is not only the answer to every knife question the Smatchet is the answer to every question.

As a wise man once said

" in the Smatchet all knowledge can be found"
 
"Smatchet" is exactly how I proposed to my wife. One utterance and she knew what I meant. Our entire wedding vows were just the minister asking, "Smatchet?" and us both answering "Smatchet" in unison.

As for the topic, I find most full tangs to be overbuilt to a fault. The difference between a well done stick tang and a well done full width tang is that the full tang will be that it will take an 800lb gorilla to break it. The stick tang will only hold up to a 700lb one. As I have said many times, most traditional khukuris found in the poor villages of Nepal are partial stick tangs bunt into the handle. They hold for years and years of daily chopping chores. when they get loose, the owner takes them back to the kami to have it firmed up. These are not babied knives.

I used to get bent out of shape (no pun intended) if a knife wasn't an overbuilt prybar, but as I have used more knives, I just don't see the NEED. I see the WANT, and I'm cool with that. I just never see myself in an emergency where a properly built partial tang will fail if I use it even remotely how it was meant to be used. I feel like I would be flailing and way outside of my headspace if I were able to break a quality hidden tang knife, and thus a much bigger danger to myself already.
 
Steely_Gunz said:
"Smatchet" is exactly how I proposed to my wife. One utterance and she knew what I meant. Our entire wedding vows were just the minister asking, "Smatchet?" and us both answering "Smatchet" in unison.
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Inspirational words, could be straight out of a Barbera Cartland novel.
 
Steely_Gunz said:
What can i say, it was a smatchet made in heaven.
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