Has anyone ever seen a Magnacut Pacific break?

[Unicorn161]

I just found out how skeletonized the tang is and I'm wondering how much that weakens it, or if it's going to break it would be at the blade instead. Is there anyone using theirs in the woods harshly, almost or past the point of abuse? Chopping, batonning, things like that. I've only ever seen one knife ever break in the tang itself, and that was a BK2 that someone was hammering through a tree. Every other knife that I've seen broken in any kind of abuse or destructive video has been at the junction of the tang and blade, or the blade itself. So am I just a paranoid moron worried about nothing since even in some crazy survival situation worthy of a Walter Mitty fantasy would I think I'd need to put that much stress on a knife.

 

[Danke42]

No

 

[91bravo]

Yes

 

[Fixedwing]

Maybe

 

[stjones]

Possibly

 

[badmatt]

Doubtful

 

[David Mary]

Agreed.

 

[jbmonkey]

yep, no.

 

[badmatt]

No, yep?

 

[Fixedwing]

Reply hazy; try again...

 

[David Mary]

Reply hazy

 

[WedgeAntilles]

No. But I haven't put my Pacific to that kind of work yet.

I do hard use my s35vn Green Beret. That's my yard work knife. I hack, chop, and use it like a machete. Zero issues.

 

[buckeyejake]

Magnacut is tough stuff . Not very likely, only blades I have seen broken were used as a pry bar . But have no experience batoning wood with a knife. In the sixty five years of wood walking so I have never had to do it . Have used a heavy knife to brake the pelvic bones while deer hunting ( busse ).

 

[Unicorn161]

Magnacut is tough stuff . Not very likely, only blades I have seen broken were used as a pry bar . But have no experience batoning wood with a knife. In the sixty five years of wood walking so I have never had to do it . Have used a heavy knife to brake the pelvic bones while deer hunting ( busse ).

I'm really curious about the tang and how skelotonized it is with some pretty thin areas.

Here are a couple pictures of the tang on mine. The second picture is beside one of my Difensas for comparison. I haven't pulled the handle scale of my Green Beret to verify if it's the same, but I think it might be.

https://imgur.com/a/7QEl3He

 

[Delgadonine]

I wouldn't worry about it.

 

[highcoast56]

It's extremely tough; breaking one usually requires misuse like prying metal, not normal outdoor tasks like batoning wood or game processing, though its toughness is noted for heavy-duty camp use.

 

[jjg6319]

Looking at where they skelitonized it in your picture it would be a very low stress area with no sharp edges for stress risers. I would not worry about it as I expect you would never have an issue. You would have to severely abuse the knife.