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Has anybody ever broken a knife doing true knife task. What I mean is I've broken quite a few folders but never a fixed blade and when I broke the folders I was throwing them into trees. Not what they were designed for. I know we all want the most bomb proof knife we can afford but in all reality I we use a knife as a knife will we ever break even the simplest of knives ex. Moras, stick tang pukkos and those who like to bash the weak tang of the Ka Bar.
 
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All joking aside, I've only ever broken tips off by dropping them onto tile/cement. My brother recently snapped the tip off of the knife I got him (BM Nagara) when he was digging out a hole for a lock in his door-frame, but that has a rather thin tip anyways.
 
PyroSpaz316 said:
I spent five minutes rereading this and trying to decipher it...:rolleyes:
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You've got to be kidding me. I've been further even more decided to use even go need to do look more as anyone can. Can you really be far even as decided half as much to use go wish for that? My guess is that when one really been far even as decided once to use even go want, it is then that he has really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like. It's just common sense.
 
PyroSpaz316 said:
I spent five minutes rereading this and trying to decipher it...:rolleyes:
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lol I've been working on reading faster, and when I reread that 6 or 7 times, I finally realized it wasn't my fault that I wasn't understanding it :o

It rivals this one that was so funny that I just had to save it:

Im not good at sharpening, even with a sharpmaker. How get your blade good can your blade with an edge pro system?
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jamaljahda said:
Has anybody ever broken a knife doing true knife task. What I mean is I've broken quite a few folders but never a fixed blade and when I broke the folders I was throwing them into trees. Not what they were designed for. I know we all want the most bomb proof knife we can afford but in all reality I we use a knife as a knife will we ever break even the simplest of knives ex. Moras, stick tang pukkos and those who like to bash the weak tang of the Ka Bar.
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never, in 50 years of using knives, have I broken a blade.
 
After 8yrs of very hard use my Emerson Commander started to get a slip to the liner lock and had to be sent in for work. That's about as "broke" as I've experienced.
 
I once broke a 4in fixed blade knife batoning with it, I was using a 1inch in diameter baton, broke an inch and a half off after the 3rd hit broke the remaing blade in half after 3-4 more hits, it was about as thick as a mora, 420J2 steel, no name brand, wasn't even hitting it that hard, wood was cedar.
 
I don't know that I consider batoning wood as a "typical" or "true" knife task. Yes, many of us do it, but a knife is a cutting tool, not a splitting tool. We all like to know that our knife can do it and stand up to doing it, but...

I've broken two while batoning, a Normark hunting knife (Martini with a rubber handle and the Normark logo) and a Buck Fieldmate with the saw back blade. Both were way overmatched with the wood I was splitting.

I've never broken a knife while using it for its intended purpose, as a cutting tool.
 
In my much younger years when I didn't know what I was doing and was always using the wrong tool for the task at hand, I maybe damaged a few. Don't recall ever really breaking anything though. I also didn't know a good knife from a bad one back then either. I did get wiser and smarter as I got older, thank god. :D
 
Look, we get some people whose native language is not English. They do the best they can, so cut them some slack.
 
I've never broken a knife doing a true 'knife' task. I broke a Kabar doing some light chopping, but honestly, I don't really consider chopping to be a task suited to a knife in the purest sense.
 
Only knife i ''broke'' was my stainless china rambo knife i got when i was like 14
I was down at the river hacking at some random growth when the metal butt pommel fell off. It was constructed like a ka-bar without the pin in the butt. Luckily i managed to fix it by hammering the remaining tang stump into a mushroom shape so that it held the handle on.
 
I've had a S&W folding knife and a KaBar warthog fall apart just from carrying them. I've never broken a quality knife.
 
Dorito Monk said:
I've never broken a knife doing a true 'knife' task. I broke a Kabar doing some light chopping, but honestly, I don't really consider chopping to be a task suited to a knife in the purest sense.
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Weeeelll.... there are, and should be, in my opinion, knives that combine the functionality of a machete with a knife.
 
Dorito Monk said:
I've never broken a knife doing a true 'knife' task. I broke a Kabar doing some light chopping, but honestly, I don't really consider chopping to be a task suited to a knife in the purest sense.
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I've chopped with my BK-9, it didn't break though - it kinda laughed and kept chopping. I can't see my BK-9 break from chopping or my BK-7 from batoning - they seem plenty strong enough to handle those tasks.

The only knives I've ever broken have been cheap steak knives with <1" tangs going into plastic handles - the steel didn't break, the plastic around the tang was the weak point. IMO they were cheap junk and I just dropped them in the bin - no great loss.
 
I have broken a bunch of knives in my life time and in all but one case I believe I was performing knife task. The one time I broke one not doing a knife task was a folder and I was doing some light prying because it was the only thing I had available at that time.

Most of the knives I broke were low cost (under $50) and many simply were just used too much or had poor heat treat. I won't buy a knife without a liner becuase you just cannot depend on them to perform or last, unless you never use them.

I've never broken a full tang fixed blade that I purchased myself. That's why I like designs like ESEE, and some of the Benchmade fixed blades. So far I haven't broken AUS8, 440C, ATS34, or D2 full tang fixed designs. I suspect if I do it will be splitting wood or some other non-knife task.

Per some companies anything other than slicing is non-knife related task. I won't buy from those companies. I want a knife the company has some faith in.
 
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