Have you ever had a knife "BREAK"...

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I am a fan of full tang blades for the obvious reasons... I was wondering if I was just carrying around extra weight. I have heard about partial tang breaks on some imported crap but has anyone experienced a failure from a 'respectable name' knife? Thanks for your wisdom!
 
I might or might not be the best guy to ask I guess. I have broke many. 2 swamp rats as of recently. The only person to manage to break the M6's and I did both of them.
 
There were some threads of broken Cold steel SRKs (just where blade is connected with tang), try to search it
 
I broke a Buck Special in half (middle of blade, not at the handle) trying to split some wood when I was 18 (1965). The knife box was labeled Rc 64.5. No idea what the steel was (I have heard 425M and 440C, pre 420HC days). I was batoning, no twisting or prying. Staight (flat, horizontal hold). Buck replaced the knife.
Local knife shop (Excaliber) told me last week they replace several a year (same knife) broken the same way.
Ron.
 
hey Cliff if you are reading this do you want to do a review on a ranger rd9? It would be NIB so my luck with knives would be out of the equation.
 
wicked1 said:
hey Cliff if you are reading this do you want to do a review on a ranger rd9? It would be NIB so my luck with knives would be out of the equation.
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what would that tell you. He is obviously not going to abuse it they way you would. You have already broken a much tougher knife.

sleeper, anyone can break a knife so not sure what kind of answer your looking for. In fact being so new to the forum, maybe you should search under tough knives or other parameters and you will see tons of threads on this subject. That is what I did and I now know what I want.
 
I used to work in a knife shop, the knife I saw most of broken were Bucks. They replaced every one but I still think in the 80's they were to brittle. (All fixed blades).
 
I had among others an emerson folder blow up on me and nearly sever a finger but I cant recall a fixed giving up the ghost at the moment.
 
NuclearBossHog said:
what would that tell you. He is obviously not going to abuse it they way you would. You have already broken a much tougher knife.

sleeper, anyone can break a knife so not sure what kind of answer your looking for. In fact being so new to the forum, maybe you should search under tough knives or other parameters and you will see tons of threads on this subject. That is what I did and I now know what I want.
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I havent seen any actual tests on 5160 steel rangers anywhere. I know they are beefy I had a rd6 and sent it back for the rd9. I dont think its the same as swamp rat but he does an excellent job scientifically measuring there performance instead of me saying yeah its good. Besides that I was volunteering a new knife to be used (abused).
 
The blade on one of my Gerber kitchen knives snaped like glass when I was trying to cut into a very frozen box of ice cream. Thankfully I only had 2 of those Gerber kitchen knives!
No problems with my Henkels, Spydercos'(my wife won't use these because they are so sharp they scare her ;>) ), or the Fallkniven.

Ciao
Ron
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wicked1 said:
I havent seen any actual tests on 5160 steel rangers anywhere. I know they are beefy I had a rd6 and sent it back for the rd9. I dont think its the same as swamp rat but he does an excellent job scientifically measuring there performance instead of me saying yeah its good. Besides that I was volunteering a new knife to be used (abused).
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wicked, I think you need to get youself the Himalayan Imports 22 inch Ang Khola. It is 7/8 inches thick of forged 5160. Then you can scream and wail away at anything you want.
 
Cobalt said:
wicked, I think you need to get youself the Himalayan Imports 22 inch Ang Khola. It is 7/8 inches thick of forged 5160. Then you can scream and wail away at anything you want.
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Hell Yeah!!! :D I hadnt seen that before. Price isnt bad at all either. I think its ugly but I bet it would be a lot of fun. 4 pounds of 5160 steel. I had only seen the 9/16" thick or thinner models but 7/8". I think I have another knife to order in the future.Thanks. Bet I could do some fierce chopping. They have even longer models as well but the blades arent as thick.
 
I purposely destroyed an old beat-up Kershaw linerlock (the one with the rubber inserts, forget the name). I couldn't snap the blade under my weight, so I smashed it with a rock. Took 3 tries to finally get the blade to break. I was rather impressed with how well such a flimsly-feeling knife held up under intentional extreme abuse. Gives me all kind of confidence in my more "real" knives. Not that I'd try such a thing again.
 
My brother had a CCC switchblade that was a piece of junk.

The liner lock wore out in a matter of weeks, and the tip of the blade broke off when he was doing something with it.
 
go look in the swamp rat forum. I broke 2 M6's. Theres lots of pics of my last one I broke. The first one I only had one picture its over there too.
 
wicked1 said:
go look in the swamp rat forum. I broke 2 M6's. Theres lots of pics of my last one I broke. The first one I only had one picture its over there too.
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Wicked1 it's not what you say, it's how you say it. When someone asks what you broke and you say, "I broke an M6 by just wiggling it", it sounds like the knife was a POS, and you put a frowny face with it. does that make sense to you?

If you had stated the actual facts, like "The day before I had pounded on the M6 with a Pipe Wrench for 8 HOURS while trying to chop through solid oak and it survived and I thought for sure it was the toughest knife I had ever seen, since all the other knives have only lasted 10 minutes with my pipe wrench" that would have meant much more.

I have actually broken knives you have interest in by just wiggling them. But I have not posted such as I did not think it appropriate. I let the maker kow and that was that. I have no problem with what you did publicly as it only serves to proove how tough the SR's are, as no other knife on this planet could have taken that kind of abuse.. Cold steels have broken with batoning with wood. Cliff destroyed a Fehrman with just chopping, as well as MD's and striders. So this thing has actually survived what much more expensive knives could not.

However, if you want to hammer something with a pipe wrench for 8 hours, give the 22 inch Ang Khola a try, it has the mass and blade width to do it. It is also very soft at the spine so you will deform it, but not break it so soon. It will eventually fail, wo knows how long that takes.
 
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