How much can 154cm take before it chips

5022 said:
sure they do, when I take pictures. There really cant be to many lies in those.

but i dont relaly care if people belive me. I am posting here becoause i had a recent problem with a purchase. people like Cliff and other who know what they are talking about with knives help. Somthing you really dont get at the benchmade forums.

maybe I photoshopped those chips in both blades. Lol you benchmade fans are pretty funny.


BTW this knife is my brothers. I am trying to get this problem resolved for him.

no way id take a 710 over a MIlitary or Manix
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We don't think you photoshopped the chips, it's just that you didn't get them cutting wood. ;)

I'm a Benchmade fan, a Spyderco fan, CRK fan, Swamp Rat fan, and a fan of a few other makers. I have a 710, a Military and a Manix. Of the 3 right now I like the Manix best, probably because I just got it a few weeks ago. But I'd definitely take the 710 over the Military any day.
 
Ryan8 said:
You guys could just block the entire class C at the server you know...
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We could, but there is the possibility of locking out some upstanding members of the forum.
 
Cliff Stamp said:
Yes it could. Untempered martensite is *extremely* brittle for example. Here is a knife used for very light chopping on woods :

I have no idea of course if 5022 is telling the truth, but that damage is possible as he described it.

-Cliff
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If this were the case - that knife would have chipped while it were being sharpened against a VERY hard object like a grinder first VS a small tree limb later on in life.

Shinanigans,

WYK

P.S. I'll take MY 114+ non-banned posts over 5022's 46 posts. ;) I wonder how his Sebenza is doing...
Anyways, I recently used my L6 Bowie for some chopping and splitting. There's some scratching on the surface, but the edge is still good.
 
I have seen chips like this. A few years back I was on the Angeles Crest Hwy. I was chopping wood off the road with a United Elite Forces Bowie, which is a Pakistani cheapie. That said, I saw strange dents in the blade that could not be explained by bad heat treating.

Their was a stretch of dirt road nearby. I figured it out. Passing vehicles would throw grit onto the wood. It was these that caused the chips. I have also seen this when cutting wood in areas that have had sandstorms out in the desert.

Chris
 
Here in Malaysia, there are some pretty big shrapnels from WW2 exploding bombs n shell embedded in the timber the lumberyard are processing. I have seen bandsaws having the teethts ripped out when they cut into the shrapnels. Makes a awful shrieking.
 
Wasn't the pic on the STD paper pulled from the archives?
I seem to remember that from waaaaaaaaaay back.
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WYK said:
If this were the case - that knife would have chipped while it were being sharpened against a VERY hard object like a grinder first VS a small tree limb later on in life.
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It might have, that would explain why it came dull. That is exactly the behavior of the Skirmish I recently handled. The chips there are much smaller of course, you would not see them on the picture in this thread you would need high magnification.

-Cliff
 
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