Jungle Bowie Failure

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Skip to about 6 minutes in to see the Jungle Bowie.


Needless to say, after watching the super thin Ontario sp5 breeze through this, I was shocked at the benchmade's performance.
 
just found a used benchmade jungle clip. I heard they weren't very popular but I couldn't pass it up. I guess I'll strip it and thin it's edge a bit to make it a slicer since it doesn't seem to hold up to thumping too great.
 
I was so excited because it seemed Ike the perfect lightweight Bowie, but I think they ran their hardness a little too high to squeeze more edge retention out of it. The Ontario sp5 has a much thinner edge and didn't even flinch at the bone chopping, and it was half the price.
 
I have seen many such destruction videos, but they tend to represent the extremes of what that blade can and cannot sustain. I am genuinely curious how many such extreme activities are encountered in real life? Does chopping bones quality as an activity that one routinely encounters in the course of using the bowie? Or would there be a better tool to chop bones?
 
choombak said:
I have seen many such destruction videos, but they tend to represent the extremes of what that blade can and cannot sustain. I am genuinely curious how many such extreme activities are encountered in real life? Does chopping bones quality as an activity that one routinely encounters in the course of using the bowie? Or would there be a better tool to chop bones?
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When I do destruction tests, I like to imagine shit has hit the fan, and I'm testing the knife to see how it handles any conceivable task it could possibly be needed for. There's always going to be a better tool, I'm just assessing what this one can handle as a multi-functional tool. The bone chopping test is more a catch-all durability test, not really based on something you're going to regularly do in real life. But in an apocalypse, bones have nutritional marrow in them, and you might not have a better tool to open them up with. Granted, im sure a rock could be used just fine lol.
 
The conclusion is that thin edges do not perform well on dry bone.

N2s
 
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