http://www.knifetests.com/ not kind to BK9 Knife

Those tests don't hold much water with me.

I have a BK9 and have used the heck out of it and it has just smiled and asked for more :)

Did you watch his abuse of that knife? Of course it'll break if you're trying to cut a brick in half.....
 
I haven't used my BK9HH for much other than as a machete.

BUT I've used my BK7, its little brother, to pry open snapping turtles and bust open the sternums of white tailed deer.

That's plenty tough enough for 'real world' use I reckon.
 
noss4 isn't the brightest light in the shed, and his so-called tests mean little when it comes to real-world use that doesn't involve 3-pound sledge hammers.

IIRC, another beacon of ineptitude, Cliff Stamp, broke a BK-9 by hammering it into a tree and trying to support his 250 lb. weight on it. :rolleyes:
 
C. Stamp also broke a newly released Becker Machete by choping a frozen tree limb in winter. When I called him out on it, he just ignored me.

His testing is of little value, but many people think he is an authority on knives.

Regards,
FK
 
Guyon said:
IIRC, another beacon of ineptitude, Cliff Stamp, broke a BK-9 by hammering it into a tree and trying to support his 250 lb. weight on it. :rolleyes:
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But cold steel knives can do that! Didn't you see the video :rolleyes:

Yea, when will I be hammering any knife into a solid brick of concrete..... never. I was impressed with the batoning and chopping, and then it slicing paper like it was nothing.
 
If you want to make knife that survive knifetests.com best solution would be sending them a piece of sharpned spring steel, half inch thick :) It wont hold edge "very" long, but with a help of sledge hammer it should work just right. :)

And to the bk9 - other purpouse, other design than cold steel g.i. tanto, and therefore it had different results.
 
I've seen his site and videos before and I think he is a member here. Bottom line, the hokey "Holloweenesqueness" of the website and his penchant for dressing like his favorite slasher movie star (under the guise of a "need" for anonymity) put it into the proper perspective, for me at least. It is nothing personal, to each his own, it looks like he has fun doing, but it is not for me and offers nothing of value for me to spend my time there.
 
Noss tests knives to see if they do what he wants. If you're not after the same thing, you may view knives differently.

My trusty Cabelapers show an average thickness of 0.025" at the point where the coating ends and the edge begins on my Ka-Bar brand BK-9 (random measures from tip to ricasso) and that's thin enough for turning a full-powered swing into cutting/chopping Nirvana and thick enough to not to die while cutting materials one might cut with a hatchet (the large branch I need to dismember is hiding under snow :o ).
 
thombrogan said:
Noss tests knives to see if they do what he wants. If you're not after the same thing, you may view knives differently.
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Problem with his "tests" is that he misleads some people new to knives that the raison d'être of a blade is to cut through blocks and steel plate. Folks here at BFC have admitted that they don't buy a knife until noss4 has demolished one like it. Hopefully, they wise up after a while. :p
 
I noticed he gave the legendary USMC KaBar knife the same rating as the BK9. The KaBar has performed magnificently for 60+ years in REAL battlefield conditions. You can still find many intact WW2 KaBars, worn out, oversharpened, rusted, but still able to go through another war.

If you have a mind to, you can destroy anything.

Are people expecting to buy Excalibur on the internet?

They're knives. They're tools. Nothing is indestructible.
 
Guyon said:
Problem with his "tests" is that he misleads some people new to knives that the raison d'être of a blade is to cut through blocks and steel plate. Folks here at BFC have admitted that they don't buy a knife until noss4 has demolished one like it. Hopefully, they wise up after a while. :p
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i cut through steel plate with my necker. takes a long time, and boy am i tired... hah :)

one could take a super wrecking bar crow bar, throw a shaving edge on one, and along the edge, heat treat it properly (assuming good steel, and some old ones were), and end up with something nearly unbreakable, and excellent to destroy things with and still make fuzz sticks. however, nearly unbreakable still means breakable. some testers are ... over zealous and the methods questionable.


Bladite
 
Guyon said:
Problem with his "tests" is that he misleads some people new to knives that the raison d'être of a blade is to cut through blocks and steel plate. Folks here at BFC have admitted that they don't buy a knife until noss4 has demolished one like it. Hopefully, they wise up after a while.
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For a very small subset, it is why knives exist. Luckily, only the heaviest and fairly pricey varieties of Mr. Busse's larger knives survives that test.

For folks who want lighter, thinner, whatever knives, there's the rest of the Busse line, the Becker line, the Ranger series, the Chris Reeve One-Piece series, puukkos and leukkos, all kinds of khukuris, and even a lot of decent stainless fixed blades and folders.

My Becker BK-9, Takeda chef knife, and Himalayan Imports Ang Khola may not pass all tests, but they pass my tests. Well, I do still need to break in the BK-9, but my goodness is it a fine booboo snipper!
 
I've just got to add that it must be a very offputting thing to design a knife, bring it to the market, get accolades from people from all walks of life who've used it, and have it dismissed because it doesn't pass some particular task for which it wasn't designed.
 
Guyon said:
noss4 isn't the brightest light in the shed, and his so-called tests mean little when it comes to real-world use :rolleyes:
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:thumbup: I agree with the above statement ! No matter the brand or steel from which it is made from they all have there limits,I never pay attetion to his tests.
 
I don't know how the guy rates knives, or what his ratings are. Really, to me they do not particularly matter, because the things that matter to him do not show up in my considerations.

The value I do derive is being able to, at times, see the knife in action. Also, I will watch the first part of a video, and see the knife's original sharpness, and how the ergos appear to be. I did watch the BK-9 test up through the part where he started breaking concrete blocks.

If the knife did it once, it is impressive. If the knife failed, it is not a problem with the knife, it is a problem with the tool for the application. Really, I don't expect concrete cutting performance with a knife, and if it does manage to acheive that, is most likely compromising in other areas. Really, a cold chisel cuts concrete all day long, but that doesn't mean that I want it for a knife.

If the guy wants to keep breaking knives, that is entirely up to him. Whether there is a value to it is really up to each person to figure out.
 
Noss4: "O crap. it breaks when you slam in into concrete or beat it with a sledge. Meh, give it a two."
 
Well he does appear to be enjoying himself and I suppose it keeps him off the streets and out of the bars........

ethan
 
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