I Just Got The FFBM In For The Destruction Test

noss4 said:
Yes this is basically the way the break occurred. They were dead blows. There was no more room for the edge to push trough. The FFBM was taking the full impact before it broke. When trying to hammer the edge against a solid steel surface a soft edge will collapse. This did not happen with the FFBM The edge was hard enough and tough enough to support itself. Very cool ! :cool:
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I am sure the vibrations were killing your hands, lol....:D
 
Well, I guess my claims of my FBM chopping through a femur bone of a wild pig without denting or rolling the edge aren't that far out after all... As a matter of fact, the edge of my CGFBM was unharmed. But the coating was marred... :D:thumbup:

Good show. Thanks, all involved.
 
i wonder if the Boss Hog has watched it yet? He's gotta be proud!:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:
 
amazing how little edge damage there was. At the end of the test, 2 minutes on a belt sander would've brought it back to like new condition and could do everything over again.
 
slipfirep40 said:
I want a cgfbm, anyone know someone in the market for a kidney?
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No but do you have a liver?

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Thanks everyone it was an awesome test.


Cobalt said:
I am sure the vibrations were killing your hands, lol....:D
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O-Yeah !!! after I lost the handles the vibrations were bone shattering. My hands were shaking afterwards. The amount of force and impact it takes to pound a blade through that tubing is unreal. :eek::eek:
 
honestly, I don't think the knife would have broke if it had not met the cross section of the pipe and weld. In talking to another hog we agreed that the blade being locked in like that kept the energy and vibrations from dissipating and all of it went into the blade. The blade had to break. Lucky for noss as he would have been there for quite sometime I think.

INFI is some wierd stuff. It does things that I cannot explain. As you use it it will begin to dull slowly then all of a sudden it will be sharp again and you did not do anything to it. I experienced this a lot with my knives I have used for years. That is why when I see someone do some short comparison testing with little wear to the blades it means little as INFI will not show it's true colors until you really start using it a lot. But you have to have experience with INFI to know this. If you know little about it and test it you really don't know how to interpret the results.:D

Also, I think the CG, SE and LE's would have performed better because they would have had less resistance while cutting into the steel pipe due to a better blade geometry.
 
Cobalt, how are we to take you seriously? You need bouncing bajongos back in your avatar, STAT! Seriously, then I'll listen again... :p
 
Cobalt said:
honestly, I don't think the knife would have broke if it had not met the cross section of the pipe and weld. In talking to another hog we agreed that the blade being locked in like that kept the energy and vibrations from dissipating and all of it went into the blade. The blade had to break. Lucky for noss as he would have been there for quite sometime I think.
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I'm know 100 percent it would not have broke if I would have missed the welded cross section. at this point I was throwing everything I had at it. No one should be upset it broke. The FFBM went through some insane hard use before the end. It survived at tasks that have done in other blades. The edge was still together this was the most impressive part for me. The knife suffered very little damage in the end.

For me shearing steel tubing is just normal use for the FFBM I would not hesitate to do it again if I had my own. The edge can take it. In fact I'm sure you could mount the FFBM on a hydraulic press and use it as a steel tubing shearing blade. The edge is this hard and tough. :thumbup:
 
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