Joe X Jamokee On Youtube

[tim777us]

After a recent thread here about the failure of an sr1 lite, which is nonsense, his latest video grossly abuses an AD10, and towards the end he hammers it into a piece of wood, pulls on it beaks the tip .Hammers it again, pulls up on it,blade snaps. After that he doesnt recommend it because the tip broke too easily. Its morons like this that will scare away novices from a good knife because

After a recent thread here about the failure of an sr1 lite, which is nonsense, his latest video grossly abuses an AD10, and towards the end he hammers it into a piece of wood, pulls on it beaks the tip .Hammers it again, pulls up on it,blade snaps. After that he doesnt recommend it because the tip broke too easily. Its morons like this that will scare away novices from a good knife because they think it will break too easily. Thats why i hate these videos.It gives a good knife a bad name.

That's exactly how I felt about the Becker he abused. It's one thing to do the abuse, but to then use that platform to erroneously caution against buying a certain brand of knife, basically claiming it is garbage (which sounds like what he did with the AD10) is beyond ludicrous. No knife is even meant to take that kind of abuse. It sounds like the only thing Joe might recommend is a demolition pry bar. But those don't cut things all that well...

 

[goldie]

Its funny,before youtube, there was never any kind of abusive tests,batonning and other useless ways to damage a knife to these kind of extents.Ive watched many of the survival shows for years,and ive never seen any kind of abuse of their knives even remotely like this .Id love to hear Cody Lundins opinions of these morons,and hes carried a 10.00 mora for years never broke it; and thats one of the wooden handled ones with a partial tang.

 

[tim777us]

Its funny,before youtube, there was never any kind of abusive tests,batonning and other useless ways to damage a knife to these kind of extents.Ive watched many of the survival shows for years,and ive never seen any kind of abuse of their knives even remotely like this .Id love to hear Cody Lundins opinions of these morons,and hes carried a 10.00 mora for years never broke it; and thats one of the wooden handled ones with a partial tang.

Very good points. One wonders what people destroying these well-built knives by subjecting them to forces outside of normal parameters (such that would destroy any knife) are really hoping to accomplish. After all, you don't take a nice sports car, ram it high speed into a brick wall, and then complain it didn't survive that made up "test," and is therefore no good! It was never designed to do that! What truly amazes me is the amount of people that buy into this malarkey. It's almost like a cult! Joe's sheeple will follow and defend his methods just because they are there, and the sheeple do no research at all to see how legit these "methods" are for determining anything relevant to what a knife should be capable of. I swear, this whole crew of Joe's need to buy unhardened, sharpened prying bars. They are concerned with everything that a knife isn't meant to do, and not much of anything at all that it is designed to do.

 

[b0b]

Very good points. One wonders what people destroying these well-built knives by subjecting them to forces outside of normal parameters (such that would destroy any knife) are really hoping to accomplish. After all, you don't take a nice sports car, ram it high speed into a brick wall, and then complain it didn't survive that made up "test," and is therefore no good! It was never designed to do that! What truly amazes me is the amount of people that buy into this malarkey. It's almost like a cult! Joe's sheeple will follow and defend his methods just because they are there, and the sheeple do no research at all to see how legit these "methods" are for determining anything relevant to what a knife should be capable of. I swear, this whole crew of Joe's need to buy unhardened, sharpened prying bars. They are concerned with everything that a knife isn't meant to do, and not much of anything at all that it is designed to do.

There are some that he wasn't able to destroy, like the Work Tough Gear Hemlock Aries. He does break almost all of them for comparison, it's supposed to be a measure of how long it takes to break them and how they break. I wouldn't go there to research kitchen knives, nothing that does well in his tests is going to be a good slicer. To be fair, there are knives for all kinds of purposes besides slicing food, there's hacking knives (designed to be beat on with hammers by grandpa) , bone cleavers, ECT too. He talks about surviving drops if it was your only tool also, so I think that's where beating them on stuff comes from.
I've heard the weakness of rattail tangs and the grind on Kabars being unsuitable for multipurpose camp or survival knife use long before JoeX , he just cranks it up a notch lol.

It's dumb to say a knife is worthless because it won't do that stuff though, you are correct there. You don't always need a triad lock, but I also don't want a Leek with a broken tip when you did.

 

[Roguer]

I was surprised to see how well the CS MAURDER in AUS 8 held up.