Infi vs. Angel Sword Steel

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I just have to say, I am still amazed by the Scrapizashi and S7. You can't break one by bending it. I have a scizzy and stabbed it into a log and gave it a good bend one time and it sprang back like a bow. It blows my mind that something can be that hard and that flexible.
 
BePrepared said:
you mean like when you press the end cap, it stops time? that would almost justify the price
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John Coopers iron mistress bowie pulls in 2,000$+ for similar fittings. To my eyes it has a terrible grind for any kind of performance and a slippery handle for a fighter or a chopper. Yet it is beloved and highly sought after. The point isn't so much 'how does it compare to high performance makers', it's love of the perceived art or history. Art is highly subjective, and has no dependence on performance.

To say that S7 is "tougher" than INFI is not the whole story. S7 will continue to deform when INFI breaks, but that isn't necessarily where you want your performance. INFI will take more force to get it to bend and takes a huge amount of force to get it to break, even though S7 will deform further you lose edge holding and edge stability. When I think of which knife is stronger/tougher, I tend towards INFI because it will take more force to get it to start to deform and at 60rc it retains the ability to deform pretty dramatically. It's not necessarily 'technically' tougher, but it a far more practical kind of toughness for your average user, the one who isn't going to install it into a jack hammer chuck. I say that not meaning to imply anything negative at all, just that s7 is designed for the kinds of tasks that will break any steel that can break, and in doing so it loses some of the other beneficial kinds of performance you want in a knife steel.

I highly doubt that Angel Sword is tougher than Scrap yard. Compared to other sword manufacturers, they probably hold up extremely well or beat out their competitors. Scrap yard isn't a sword manufacture - they produce combat knives (and a few skinners). Their swords are basically long combat knives in geometry, with a steel that is optimized for extreme hard use, not just for fighting. Few other companies use the concrete block chop test as an assumed real world use test. They do it as a destructive test or for promotional purposes: not as a benchmark for required performance.
 
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BePrepared said:
Here's a great deal

Only $2000 and made out of "living steel" which must be awesome because it has a name
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Pretty sure i saw one at a flea market for 14 bucks, but maybe i misread the price tag
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When I was a kid I read adventure stories. They often involved some structure carved of "the living rock". What that means is, you take a big lump of rock and chip away everything that doesn’t look like a temple or whatever.

Find some of that living rock. Mine it for living iron ore. Refine it carefully. You end up with living steel. :D
 
BePrepared said:
Here's a great deal

Only $2000 and made out of "living steel" which must be awesome because it has a name
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Pretty sure i saw one at a flea market for 14 bucks, but maybe i misread the price tag
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Obviously overpriced blade from my point of view....
 
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Watch the potty mouths guys. While we all probably agree the knives are overpriced for what they are, let's not diss em here on these forums. It's not what we're about.
 
RobStanley said:
Watch the potty mouths guys. While we all probably agree the knives are overpriced for what they are, let's not diss em here on these forums. It's not what we're about.
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^ This. I was reading down the thread thinking the same. We don't bash other brands here.
 
$9k? wth? their cheap ones are what, $3,500? I'm no sword aficionado, but that seems a little expensive. They're not adamantium and kryptonite are they? Maybe they're forged from the lava Frodo tossed The Ring into.

Shameless plug or legitimate question?
 
I only found 1 thing i liked on that site. Jerry, can we get this in INFI:
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RobStanley said:
Watch the potty mouths guys. While we all probably agree the knives are overpriced for what they are, let's not diss em here on these forums. It's not what we're about.
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resinguy said:
^ This. I was reading down the thread thinking the same. We don't bash other brands here.
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What they said.
This is not the place to slam other knife makers/ manufacturers and I know that Jerry doesn't appreciate it on his forum.
Since there is too much that would have to be edited to move to another forum for further discussion , I'm closing this thread.
 
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