Greetings All!
As promised, here is the definitive cutting test for a fighting knife- meat on the bone.
On my way home from the office today, I stopped in at Johnny Foodmaster and picked up the biggest leg of lamb they had. When I got it home, I measured it:
20" long, 9" by 6" thick at its greatest diameter just below the greater trochanter of the femur bone at the hip, and 6" by 6" at the thin(knee) end.
I then drilled a hole through the femur bone 2" from the thick hip end, threaded through some cable and hung the leg vertically from an eyehook in the ceiling at head/shoulder height.
Finally, I pulled the next generation Hossom http://www.hossom.com Millennium Bowie from its case, stepped up to the hanging leg of lamb and took a #3(horizontal forehand) angle practice slash at it about one-third of the way up the thigh. Severed it clean off. Cut it like water. I didn't even bother to look at the cut off end until later. I just assumed that the bone must have somehow ended higher up the thigh. I was wrong. When I looked later, I had neatly cut through 1" dia. bone as well 7" of muscle!
OK, so far so good.
Encouraged, I then took another #3 angle slash through the very thickest part of the thigh. I felt a bit of a pop this time and cut the thigh clean through so that the section below the cut hung by a strip of outer fascia no thicker than 1/8th of an inch. The bowie had cut neatly through the 1 3/4" diameter femur bone in the center of the thigh. And the cut was absolutely clean- no tearing of the muscle whatsoever. Remember that is a horizontal cut through 9" by 6" of muscle and fascia, not to mention the bone! Absolutely beautiful.
If you think that I was happy with the new bowie design yesterday when I wrote my initial review on this forum- see:
http://bladeforums.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/001214.html
Well...I was ecstatic now!
So, I figured, what the hell, and cut a #2(45deg. downward backhand) slash through the greater trochanter of the hip joint and out the other side of the thigh- amputated it clean off! When I measured the cut, I had cut first through 4" of fascia and muscle, then 2 1/2" of femur bone at a 45 deg. angle, then another 7"!! of muscle on the way out! And the cut is clean, no tearing. And it was easy.
Oh, and did I mention that for the sheer fun of it, I then thrusted at the remaining thick end of the thigh as it hung there? Thrusted clean through 9" of muscle several times to the bowie's guard like it was cutting through a hanging sheet of paper.
And after all of this,how is the blade you may wonder? Not a nick, scratch, or rolled edge. Absolutely pristine. And, once again, it still neatly transects a hanging sheet of paper.
My friends, this knife has surpassed all of my expectations. I own swords that can't execute cuts like these.
Not to be morbid, and speaking strictly academically, in my professional opinion as a physician, Jerry's new Bowie in the hands of someone who knows how to swing a blade would easily decapitate a man, sever his arm anywhere along its length from the shoulder on down, or cut most of the way through his thigh in one slice, not to mention being able to run him through completely with a single thrust. That's absolutely amazing for a blade this size. I guess that when Jerry says that hollow grinding the blade decreases friction through the target, he knows what the hell he's talking about!
I wish that I owned a digital camera so that you all could see for yourselves the magnitude and beauty of these cuts.
Just think what I'll be able to cut when I have Jerry's new Millennium Espada in my hand? Heh, heh, heh...
------------------
Gaucho
Tuvo muy mala suerte...se callo en mi cuchillo.
[This message has been edited by Gaucho (edited 01-09-2000).]
[This message has been edited by Gaucho (edited 01-09-2000).]
As promised, here is the definitive cutting test for a fighting knife- meat on the bone.
On my way home from the office today, I stopped in at Johnny Foodmaster and picked up the biggest leg of lamb they had. When I got it home, I measured it:
20" long, 9" by 6" thick at its greatest diameter just below the greater trochanter of the femur bone at the hip, and 6" by 6" at the thin(knee) end.
I then drilled a hole through the femur bone 2" from the thick hip end, threaded through some cable and hung the leg vertically from an eyehook in the ceiling at head/shoulder height.
Finally, I pulled the next generation Hossom http://www.hossom.com Millennium Bowie from its case, stepped up to the hanging leg of lamb and took a #3(horizontal forehand) angle practice slash at it about one-third of the way up the thigh. Severed it clean off. Cut it like water. I didn't even bother to look at the cut off end until later. I just assumed that the bone must have somehow ended higher up the thigh. I was wrong. When I looked later, I had neatly cut through 1" dia. bone as well 7" of muscle!
OK, so far so good.
Encouraged, I then took another #3 angle slash through the very thickest part of the thigh. I felt a bit of a pop this time and cut the thigh clean through so that the section below the cut hung by a strip of outer fascia no thicker than 1/8th of an inch. The bowie had cut neatly through the 1 3/4" diameter femur bone in the center of the thigh. And the cut was absolutely clean- no tearing of the muscle whatsoever. Remember that is a horizontal cut through 9" by 6" of muscle and fascia, not to mention the bone! Absolutely beautiful.
If you think that I was happy with the new bowie design yesterday when I wrote my initial review on this forum- see:
http://bladeforums.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/001214.html
Well...I was ecstatic now!
So, I figured, what the hell, and cut a #2(45deg. downward backhand) slash through the greater trochanter of the hip joint and out the other side of the thigh- amputated it clean off! When I measured the cut, I had cut first through 4" of fascia and muscle, then 2 1/2" of femur bone at a 45 deg. angle, then another 7"!! of muscle on the way out! And the cut is clean, no tearing. And it was easy.
Oh, and did I mention that for the sheer fun of it, I then thrusted at the remaining thick end of the thigh as it hung there? Thrusted clean through 9" of muscle several times to the bowie's guard like it was cutting through a hanging sheet of paper.
And after all of this,how is the blade you may wonder? Not a nick, scratch, or rolled edge. Absolutely pristine. And, once again, it still neatly transects a hanging sheet of paper.
My friends, this knife has surpassed all of my expectations. I own swords that can't execute cuts like these.
Not to be morbid, and speaking strictly academically, in my professional opinion as a physician, Jerry's new Bowie in the hands of someone who knows how to swing a blade would easily decapitate a man, sever his arm anywhere along its length from the shoulder on down, or cut most of the way through his thigh in one slice, not to mention being able to run him through completely with a single thrust. That's absolutely amazing for a blade this size. I guess that when Jerry says that hollow grinding the blade decreases friction through the target, he knows what the hell he's talking about!
I wish that I owned a digital camera so that you all could see for yourselves the magnitude and beauty of these cuts.
Just think what I'll be able to cut when I have Jerry's new Millennium Espada in my hand? Heh, heh, heh...
------------------
Gaucho
Tuvo muy mala suerte...se callo en mi cuchillo.
[This message has been edited by Gaucho (edited 01-09-2000).]
[This message has been edited by Gaucho (edited 01-09-2000).]
