Impromptu Thrashing

Cobalt

Cobalt

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I was pretty bored this afternoon so I decded to thrash some of my thrasher knives. An Ontario 1095 bowie, a Becker Bk9 and my old trusty SHBM, which has been beat to death.

The first thing I did was chop wood in the back with all three. I did this for about an hour and a half as it was way to hot and muggy to do anymore. I then proceeded to hack a couple of Bowling pins to death. These things are quite tough, but the knives can surprisingly slice through them. However, they are laminated wood so they have a lot of spring and can dull blades. I did this for about another 20 minutes. The only deformation was to the ontario, but the other two knives held up well, with little loss in edge. I stroped after each of these tests.

Then I went to a good quality steel golf club and wacked it with all three blades about 10 times. I did this with the ontario and the edge just crumbled. The club dented but that is all. I guess because of the give and toughness of the club, the blade was getting all the damage.

I then did this with the BK9 and the edge deformed by about 1.2 mm deep and 3-5 mm long with more smaller chips in other areas.

I also did this with the SHBM and I had mild deformation at the edge which was less than 0.1 mm and hardly noticeable, but definitely dulled in that area.

I steeled all three knives to get rid of the metal protruding from the sides and then stropped and quick sharpened. This pretty much took out all the damage to the SHBM, but the other two knives had much more damage.

I then proceeded to hack the spines of the Ontario and the Becker with the SHBM. The SHBM cut into the Ontario with ease, but the becker is definitely thru hardened since the SHBM did not indent the spine of the BK9 very easily. Very little damage to the edge of the SHBM just some mild indenting which again I steeled out.

so all in all the golf club wins.

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Now my disclaimer is that this was not a real test and just fun and games, so do not infer anything by this. also these are all beater knives and they have been abused quite badly. The Ontario and the SHBM have been abused for many years and the BK9 for about a year. I feel that all three blades performed adequetely.
 
Nice action Cobalt! First time I've seen someone actually go metal to metal and provide pics. :thumbup:
 
Nice! I went to go see my grandpa a while back and he gave me an old ontario kabar. I showed him my SJT and he said that's nice, but here's a real knife! ;) It is a nice tought little knife all things considered. I used to throw a spec plus navy knife and it held up to thousands of throws, but eventually the handled came loose and it got retired. Gonna go see if I can find it and get a pic.
 


that is a sample of what I was doing with the golf club. I had nothing better to do s I did that. I wacked on them for a while but cut this little clip so you could see it.
 
Fun to watch, fun to read about, Cobalt.

That's what a guy feels like doing when the golf game is beating him down and isn't up to par, you know, something like a consistent slice that won't go away (loud groans, tomatoes sailing through the air) :D :D :D .
 
bigdog said:
WoW! You really ABusseD that blade.
Very Interesting - thanks.
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that's nothing compared to what it's been through. :D

Wicked said:
Very cool,:thumbup: it hurts a little to watch the video ;)
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wish I had recorded the destruction of the bowling pin. Those things are tough. Maybe I will destroy one today and film it.

I'll post pics of the spines of the becker and the Ontario that I hit with the edge of the SHBM. The becker is not hardly dinged, but the ontario literally has little wedges missing from it along the spine. It must be a lot softer, like an Rc of low 40's. As you can see the SHBM edge had only minor rolling, which came right out with stroping and steeling.

On wood it doesn't even roll, it just dulls after a long time. I always make it a point to chop through knots with it to see what happens to the edge. I have never seen it chip on this knife or the other two user SHBM,s I have.
 
Nice Porsche. 944?

Yeah,
that's how I feel about my golf clubs these days too.

Thanks for the edge pics, very interesting, the difference...
 
Cobalt said:
I then did this with the BK9 and the edge deformed by about 1.2 mm deep and 3-5 mm long with more smaller chips in other areas.
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I have seen a lot of variance in that steel, some is very solid like the CU/7 which was in the same class as the Camp Tramp cutting bone, and then others like the Machax which just came apart chopping wood, I have also seen breaks at low flex like with the Combat bowie. On paper it is a nice knife steel but the QC is problematic, customer support through Fennell was very hig though. Nice work.

-Cliff
 
On the clip you can hear in the background someone saying "What are you doing?"

That is typical when dealing with my wife and son. They just don't get the art and zen behind beating on a club with a high dollar knife. :rolleyes:

Keep 'em coming! :D
 
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These things are so tough, that I can literally shoot hundreds of rounds of handgun ammo at them with no ill effects. I am talking about the bowling pins.
 
Wow, awesome work! That is the most (ab)use I have seen INFI put through! :thumbup: :eek: The videos are great!
 
These things are so tough, that I can literally shoot hundreds of rounds of handgun ammo at them with no ill effects. I am talking about the bowling pins.
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I can attest to that fact.
 
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