INFI vs .357

dingy said:
i often wandering that ,the infi is too rigid!
you see this ,http://www.knifetests.com/ColdSteelKukriMacheteDestructionTest.html

a cheap ting can do that! amazing! i dose not mean that the cs carbon steel is Superior then the wandering infi ,i just think more Flexibility is better to the infi ,http://www.knifetests.com/BussefFFBMtestpage2.html as you saw this before , i think ,with more flexibility ,the blade can pass the steel tube! right?
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The Battle Mistress passed the steel tube. In fact, it almost passed it two times instead of just one. On the other hand, you might notice that Noss, for some reason unknown to me, tested the Kukri Machete and Battle Mistress differently: the machete went through the steel tube test first and afterwards went into the side tang impacts - whereas the Battle Mistress was tested for side tang impacts first and then hammered through steel tube. The Battle Mistress survived the side tang impacts with no damage whatsoever to the blade (only the handle scales came loose). The machete bent into an L-shape in the side tang impacts test and developed a large tear that went almost halfway through the entire flat height of the blade. What does this tell us? It tells us that if the tests had been completed in the same order, the machete would most likely have broken in the steel tube part of the test. But so much for the whatifs for my part... :D

I don't think more flexibility would be better at all. The Cold Steel machetes have very poor edge retention. They lose their edge very quickly, whereas INFI holds an edge well. What good would more flexibility be, when it would mean a softer blade and therefore some loss of edge retention, too?

As for the whole shoot a bullet at a knife edge thing, others have already explained that better than I could. No magic involved. :D
 
MORIMOTOM said:
there is a basic 9 or 7 that was dubbed a dive knife. it had a fully serrated blade, pretty cool looking.

last i remember, kaak had it.
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It was for sale not too long ago, but not by KAAK. Sat on the Exchange for a long time.
 
Dingi, those are parlor tricks. That is all about edge geometry and sharpness than steel. I would bet I could get most any steel with an Rc of 57 plus and the right edge profile to do that.

however, the minute you hit it laterally, crack!! because they cannot take a sie impact, again normal.
 
Cool video. I've seen it several times and wondered why the bullets did not do more immediate damage. Aside from their density and velocity (energy) they are also spinning at 1000x rpm. I would think the spinning, even for a fraction of a second, would cause more damage to the sword, and rather than just splitting the bullet, fragment it.

But then, I'm not a physics guru!
 
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