It Makes Me Just Shake My Head

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viper1833

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Ya know it really makes me have to just shake my head sometimes when I see someone "Reviewing" a knife. They run it through all kinds of "Tests" that a knife should never be run through. The moment it breaks, or defects the automatically pass it off as a piece of junk and move on to another knife. I suppose watching people put knifes in vises and break them, or stabbing a hard tree with a lock back tactical knife and the lock back fails and they say it would not serve the purpose it was made for just gets old after a while. The reason I am posting this is I saw someone break a Ka-Bar USMC knife beating on it carelessly, then broke it off the tang then told me that I should ditch mine cause its a crap knife. I have 10 years experience with the Ka-Bar USMC Fighting Knife, as a Marine Veteran, and Civilian. Dont get me wrong I just laughed him off and went about my day, but the more I thought about it, it made my blood boil. Anyone else have thoughts on this.
 
You should ditch that crap knife like your friend said. I'll be happy to dispose of it for you. ;)
 
I don't pay much attention to the nay-sayers, honestly. I've seen the extreme tests videos, and I've given them a good pondering, and really, they're EXTREME tests for a reason.

Doesn't bother me. If you like a knife, I'm not going to tell you how crappy it is, because it's not my place.
 
I don't mind the extreme test, It lets you know the absolute limits of the knife if for some reason you had no other choice. Pushing it beyond its limits and breaking it then complaining it broke is just stupid.
 
viper1833 said:
Ya know it really makes me have to just shake my head sometimes when I see someone "Reviewing" a knife. They run it through all kinds of "Tests" that a knife should never be run through. The moment it breaks, or defects the automatically pass it off as a piece of junk and move on to another knife. I suppose watching people put knifes in vises and break them, or stabbing a hard tree with a lock back tactical knife and the lock back fails and they say it would not serve the purpose it was made for just gets old after a while. The reason I am posting this is I saw someone break a Ka-Bar USMC knife beating on it carelessly, then broke it off the tang then told me that I should ditch mine cause its a crap knife. I have 10 years experience with the Ka-Bar USMC Fighting Knife, as a Marine Veteran, and Civilian. Dont get me wrong I just laughed him off and went about my day, but the more I thought about it, it made my blood boil. Anyone else have thoughts on this.
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It's nice to know that your head is used for more than a place to hold your cover.
So far nobody has built a tool that cannot be broken when misused enough.
 
I think I know thr YouTube channel you're talking about and yeah, it's dumb what they do. Any knife will break if given enough pressure and abuse.

That said, the Kabar is a very tough little knife. I wouldn't hesitate to take it for any outdoor trip, because it's a tested design that is guaranteed to perform.
 
Knives are made for cutting stuff. Really, they are.

Those extreme tests are there to show you the capabilities of the knife, under extremely tense situations, where you might be caught without the proper tool. I do them all the time, only, I don't make videos and post them on youtube. I just simply make notes, and file them away.

Now, some knives, like the BK3 are not designed to be "cutters" per say, but rather have a sharp edge that can cut.

I too feel your anger when someone puts a knife in a vice, and hauls on it, til it breaks and then claims "junk" and tells people to throw them away. I would much rather know how far it bent, or what kind of LBS/IN you were putting on it, gimme some data to work with.

Some tests do render some good results, like one I did on a BK7. I drove it tip first into a tree a couple of inches, then I stood on it. It held my 230lbs no problem, didn't bend or break. Did the same thing with the 1217, guess what? Didn't bend or break either. Now, to me, that is a real world function, that one of my knives would have to do. I can think of alot of different reasons I would need a 3-4' more reach when trying to get up a tree, or to get something out of a tree.

I don't think I'll ever have to cut a concrete paver in half with a knife, so, I've never conducted that test.

To close, I don't think extreme, hard core tests tell you anything about how well a knife cuts, check out the CATRA stats if you want to know that.

I love my Kabars, and no "extreme" test on the internets is gonna change that.

Moose
 
Another thing worth considering is that there is variation between units, even in mass-produced items like KA-BAR knives. Making an evaluation of an entire line of products based on a sample size of one is not particularly great data.
 
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