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Also I've seen several reviews of different grinds. They test it in cutting raw meat put densely into a denim sack (don't ask why
). The result was convex grind knives made significantly deeper cut.
Although of course I agree long blades do greater chopping than smaller knives with lanyard. But it's only thanks to its weight.Interesting. Looking at it. It's stylish.
Thanks!
As for the chopping, folks, you may be mad at me, but have anyone ever seen an axe, the tool designed to chop, with blade longer than machete? I mean that weight chops, not the length. If so, we don't need the long blade, we need power hit. As I already said, the lanyard gives you that power with a leverage, as you hold the knife way too further than the normal grip, with only an index and middle fingers on a handle and the rest on lanyard. Moreover, there is even more power from a swing between the end of handle and a your fingers on lanyard.
Physics!
Don't be mad, just try
You do you man... if you like chopping with smaller blades that's great! For me, a knife that size is the wrong tool for the job and inefficient for anything other than small de-limbing or thumb size branches. I have tried with a lanyard - much prefer an axe or machete/long blade depending on what I'm chopping. Blade length isn't the question, leverage is. I'd submit that it's force that chops and weight is a piece of that equation but not weight that determines it. Mechanical advantage via leverage (the further away you are away from what impacts what you are chopping) the more power you have. A felling axe vs boys axe vs hatchet - you could make all the heads the same weight, but the chopping performance change drastically becuase you can impart way more force on it.Interesting. Looking at it. It's stylish.
Thanks!
As for the chopping, folks, you may be mad at me, but have anyone ever seen an axe, the tool designed to chop, with blade longer than machete? I mean that weight chops, not the length. If so, we don't need the long blade, we need power hit. As I already said, the lanyard gives you that power with a leverage, as you hold the knife way too further than the normal grip, with only an index and middle fingers on a handle and the rest on lanyard. Moreover, there is even more power from a swing between the end of handle and a your fingers on lanyard.
Physics!
Don't be mad, just try
This doesn't make sense to me? A BK2 and a wildlife hatchet weight roughly the same have drastically different chopping potential. Objects don't chop themselves... they rely on humans to chop with them - and we use leverage as a way to increase our ability, so the same effort accomplishes more.Although of course I agree long blades do greater chopping than smaller knives with lanyard. But it's only thanks to its weight.
I'm a hiker, I tend to go as light as possible each time. So I compromise on it using the power of the science
Yeah, that's what I meant. I like the N695 and N690. Tough, high corrosion resistance, holds an edge well enough and fast to touch up/sharpen.
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Man, try to get up from your couch and go up to a high mountains with 25kg backpack.
I can chop logs with a pocket knife, you can't. Well, sorry
That's not about wrong or not. That's about optimal.You do you man... if you like chopping with smaller blades that's great! For me, a knife that size is the wrong tool for the job and inefficient for anything other than small de-limbing or thumb size branches. I have tried with a lanyard - much prefer an axe or machete/long blade depending on what I'm chopping. Blade length isn't the question, leverage is. I'd submit that it's force that chops and weight is a piece of that equation but not weight that determines it. Mechanical advantage via leverage (the further away you are away from what impacts what you are chopping) the more power you have. A felling axe vs boys axe vs hatchet - you could make all the heads the same weight, but the chopping performance change drastically becuase you can impart way more force on it.
To each his own tho
Good luck in your quest! The search is half the fun!
As a joke this is ok, but if seriously it's sad. Did I say "to baton with a ball"?I have spent a significant portion of my adult life in the woods/outdoors with all kinds of knives and grinds, and I can state from experience, that you will not see any difference in a full flat vs. a convex primary bevel when splitting/batoning wood.
With an axe? Yes. But not a knife.
You are getting your physics all mixed up. There's a reason why wedges are "wedges", and not balls. A wedge (or knife) by nature of it's profile, will split better than a metal ball. It has very little to do with friction - it is all about mechanical advantage of the force applied.
Ok, I see. Keep carrying your axe to your hikes. God bless you.Why would I want to?
To make fire. When it's all wet and keep on raining, you can only make fire by splitting some logs up to the dry core. I mean even if you have any kind of "dry fuel", tinder, sorry, I don't know the precise word in English for that, but you know what I mean, so even if you have that stuff you'll fail making fire 'cause all wood around is wet. You must get that dry core.
Again, there's no right, it's optimal. It's what you really have.
