Fun with cheap knives -- help me come up with some non-destructive tests?

Razoredj

Razoredj

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Out of a perverse impulse to have some cheap knives with which to play, and inspired by the earlier thread evaluating POS blades (I still think some knife company should market that as a brand name for a value line), I've ordered a couple of grab-bags of Frost knives from Smoky Mountain Knife Works.

When thils Pile 'o Paki or Chunk o' China arrives, I intend to do some testing, though I'd prefer to leave the knives intact during the course of it (at which I may or may not succeed).

I'd welcome any ideas as to tests to perform. I already intend to conduct the following procedures:

1. Check each for blade play.

2. Test for flick-it opening potential (ain't that why the young'uns like these?)

3. Check to see if hand pressure will make the lock fail.

4. Lightly tap the back of the blade with a heavy stick to see if the lock will fail.

5. Pull the blade through cardboard (most likely the box in which the knives arrive) to see how far it will go before it's too dull to cut (using the out-of-box edge).

Any ideas for additional tests? Thanks in advance.
 
Why non destructive :)???

Here's a quasi destructive one anyway:
Take a file to the edge and estimate the hardness (the problem is you need a decent knife to compare to, but you shouldn't need to wreck the edge too bad....

My favorite way to utterly destroy a cheap knife is to throw it at everything. I used to work in a machine shop in east syracuse (company name ommited to protect the guilty) where we had a back room with this huge wall of empty cardboard boxes. On breaks we had knife throwing contests into the boxes (several of us had frost, master, and jaguar blades, this was before I "saw the light.") It was amazing to me how much damage this did to the knife in a short time.
 
Well, I'd prefer to have most of the knives left over for whatever cheap-knife use to which they can be put. They don't cost a lot, but it's still money. ;)

Is Glens Falls near Syracuse, then?
 
Try the "Buck-Knife" thing, with the hammer and the bolt, to see if you can cut a steel bolt in-half with ANY of those wonderful Frost "knives".:).
 
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