Here's the 18? inch Salyan -- pix.

Mike, it will split if you use it like a wedge and take something and hit the back of the blade to force it through. You may end up with a spine that is mushroomed like the top of an old wedge but you will never break that blade.

Uncle Bill
 
Let us know the results, Mike. Just like skinning the cat, there's more than one way to split a log.

Uncle Bill
 
Mike,

If you beat on the spine with a wood block it would be extremely unlikely that the metal will deform.

Do you use one or two hands to split? I use two hands to split and one hand to chop with my 22" Ang Khola. I find splitting works better with two hands because of the better accuracy and ensures the blade is perpendicular to the wood. I think the re-enforced spine of the Ang Khola helps to split greatly. It would be interesting to compare the two knives.

Will
 
Too busy to try much of anything right now.
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As soon as I get a few minutes to breath I'll have to play with some of these splitting techniques.

Mike
 
Hey guys... I have no idea where it is, but my great uncle forged what he called his "hedge knife" for trimming field hedge rows in the 20's out of an old Morarch corn sheller leaf spring. It was 3 inches wide, as thich as his thumb at the spine and 2 feet long. I used it to split stove wood when I was a kid, worked better then an ax!
 
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