TheApostleP once tested the Insingo's abilities, and noted the swedge on the top saying, and I quote "This knife is a pierecer" on one of his telling and incredibly useful YouTube videos. Now, we all know the benefits of the Insingo blade with it's relatively flat profile making it easy to sharpen, it's food prep qualities, whittling capabilities, and subjective good looks, but there seems to be a lingering question about its ability to function in a defensive manner. I'm wondering if anybody has tested the Insingo's piercing ability? I searched for videos and couldn't find anything, but it remains a naturally obvious question that wouldn't be hard to answer. If such a video doesn't exist and someone has a suitable test medium lying around, I'm sure many on here would like to know the Insingo's limits when being used as a defensive weapon much like has been tested with the PM2 and other knives on YouTube.
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Insingo for Piercing & Defense
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Good questing. I do not own an insingo style knife so I can't comment. I do on the other hand own a small sebenza 21 clip point and its a great piercer with no issues. It cuts everything I need it to cut.
My only CRK is a large 21 insingo. It's my work knife seeing duty daily for a whole number of work related tasks. None of these tasks include piercing though. It's fantastic for everything I have put it through but I would like to know if it could be used as a piercer in the extremely rare occurrence. The clip point appears quite obviously useful as a piercer should the occasion arise.
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Nice knife. After looking at the insingo blade design. I could see where the clip point would be the better for piercing. If you use your insingo as a self defense weapon you better have the knife at the right angle or you could risk not puncturing and rolling your wrist instead. Look at the picture you just posted and really think about it. You will see what I am talking about. With all that said, I would still not want to be stabbed with that insingo blade. :thumbup:
I have a small Insingo, and its tip is more than sharp and pointed enough to pierce flesh. Besides, it doesn't take much to pierce human flesh. Probably the Insingo is best snap cutting or slashing for such an eventuality. In the past, many people used to use straight razors as weapons, and they don't even have a point.
Hopefully my post isn't too inappropriate for this forum.
Jim
Hopefully my post isn't too inappropriate for this forum.
Jim
That's just it, you would think it's awful for piercing from the pictures, but relevant folks have said it could be used in that regard because of the tip and swedge, and I refuse to discount the Insingo unless it's proven so.
Appropriate goes out the window when you're discussing protection. If you have a family and your knife is the one thing separating them and harm it isn't going to matter what you're holding....A number 2 pencil will be your best friend. Ugly as it is, these things happen!
I have never used my insingo for that purpose and I have no idea if it would be useful in this situation so I appreciate your posting this. I think it would be inappropriate to talk about piercing flesh in some contexts, but this isn't one of them....People encounter bad situations all the time, and sometimes it's essential to protect oneself and ones family from harm.
In the extremely rare even that the knife needs to be used for self defense could it hold up as a piercing and/or protection knife? That's all I want to know.
You would think so, but you wouldn't know unless it had been tested in this regard. Somebody needs to thrust this knife into an object. Maybe a dead pig? Believe me this isn't meant to be a creepy carnage thread, but sincerely a thread to know the Insingo's limits in piercing capabilities.
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This is really a quite rediculous question. Any knife will easily open up a person, blade style means nothing. That said, if you are defending your life with a pocket knife something has gone very wrong in the lead up to that situation. A knife is a shockinly bad defensive weapon and for a long list of reasons. I carry an ASP or Bonowi for people, my CRK stays in the pocket. 
This is really a quite rediculous question. Any knife will easily open up a person, blade style means nothing. That said, if you are defending your life with a pocket knife something has gone very wrong in the lead up to that situation. A knife is a shockinly bad defensive weapon and for a long list of reasons. I carry an ASP or Bonowi for people, my CRK stays in the pocket.
Alright Haze I agree that a knife isn't a great, or even good defensive weapon. You're likely better off with a long sharp stick when it comes to holding off perps, but I don't care what it takes to protect my loved ones in a bad situation, and since it's virtually impossible for non LE to acquire a concealed firearm in California, or most of the civilized world, we have to do what we can with what we have.
If I don't decide to carry 3 knives and a spear to work one day, and all I have is my Large Insingo 21, I may very well be in the same boat as all the poor saps around me when the shit hits the fan. I would like to know if the Insingo can stab if need be, and I don't think this is a ridiculous question to ask. I think most people who own them would like to know as well. If nobody will confirm or offer link to a video that confirms, I will be dawning my gloves and finding something (legal) into which I can thrust my Sebenza!
But before I do this, I have to point out that there are quite a few videos on youtube of people who have the time and the means to test knives on subjects like this. Is it too much to ask they test one of the most popular knives in a similar fashion? I hope not!
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If you cut up a bad guy YOU become the bad guy. The romance of "knife fighting" is pure fantasy and needs to be thumped with the big giant stick of reality. Forget about knives and either go through the motions to get a gun, carry a batton or learn some sort of fighting system. I have bitter experince with this subject and can tell you anything from a broken bottle to a splinter of wood to a handcrafted dagger will go right through the skin.
I cut myself to the bone with a Mnandi just a week or so ago, the tool used means nothing at all when skin is involved.
I cut myself to the bone with a Mnandi just a week or so ago, the tool used means nothing at all when skin is involved.
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Hold up? Yes, it's very durable. Yes, it has a pokey tip so it would cut a man.
Now, I would think a screwdriver would also be decent as a piercing tool with the right thrust. Just saying.
With all due respect ... and I mean this genuinely ... I think you are overthinking this. It's a pocket knife ... a folder at that. It's a sucky defensive weapon but would do in a pinch. I mean in a real life even what exactly would it need to do? Maybe a stab motion or a slashing motion or two. Yes, a CRK could do that no matter the blade shape.
If you cut up a bad guy YOU become the bad guy. The romance of "knife fighting" is pure fantasy and needs to be thumped with the big giant stick of reality. Forget about knives and either go through the motions to get a gun, carry a batton or learn some sort of fighting system. I have bitter experince with this subject and can tell you anything from a broken bottle to a splinter of wood to a handcrafted dagger will go right through the skin.
I cut myself to the bone with a Mnandi just a week or so ago, the tool used means nothing at all when skin is involved.
So are you saying that one would get in trouble if one were to use a knife against somebody who was pummeling one with mere fists? While I disagree with the premise, I can see how this would end up badly for the knife owner in question who did something beyond just protecting themselves with said knife.
But what about said person who is in the forest and has an insingo and needs to kill a wild boar or deer with nothing more than their folding knife? or Let's say someone wants to pierce a maple tree to get syrup/sap? Can it be used in this manner?
We're not answering the question of whether or not the Sebenza Insingo can pierce objects.
This is a simple question about blade shape and dynamics!
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Dreaming up silly situations is totally pointless. The blade of ANY knife can of course piece anything you might need it too. You seem to have your mind made up and are just waiting for the answer you want, it's not comming. People are talking but you're obviously not interested in listening...