Just broke my M6 in half :(

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heres the pics I have from today before I mail it. Thats as clear as this will go.

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if you look at the bottom edge were it has a big circle of blood that is where my first knuckle hit the wood when it broke.
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Do these pictures help any? The picture in post #44 is me prying sideways with the tip and it just ripped the wood apart which is shown in post #42.
 
In the last pic on post #42, there is a white area on the blade from top to bottom that appears to be approximately where the break occured - what caused that coloration?
 
thats just where I had just pried a chunk of wood out with it. It was wet and the rest of the blade was dry.It still had some grit on it from sharpening giving it a greyish green tint from the course on my edge pro.The tip was clean in that picture as it had just been stabbed in that far and pried sideways till the wood broke out.
 
lol great pics, with all the blood it looks like a Tarantino flick... But i do have a question, if i may. In the early posts, it sounded like you hurt your hand when the blade broke and your hand hit the wood with the force you were using to pry (I have gotten bloody knuckles when a blade broke on me, too). But in the pics above, you were bleeding before the blade broke. Sorry, i'm not skeptical at all, just confused about how the injury occured (which is none of my business -- i'm just being overly curious). Thanks,
-Yogi
 
Why are there chunks missing off the spine of that knife? Looks like you beat it with something? I can understand batoning with a mallet or wood, but that would not cause that kind of damage. That looks like metal to metal. In fact you did state in another post that you would use metal to hammer a knife into something. Isn't that going beyond abuse or am I wrong in that thinking. If not pardon me, but I do not like hitting metal to metal, just seems like an easy way to damage something.
 
To Yogi. That blood was brom my pinky.I cut it too. I tried choking back and hanging on the paracord for a more powerful swing and managed open up my pinky finger.It was dripping slowly but not enough to stop the task.Pinky doesnt affect my grip much. First knuckle does.

To Nuclear: Yes I have batoned it with a pipe wrench before. I dont call that abuse. The wrench is softer than the blade. I also used another knifes spine to baton it through a tree. I batoned it alot last camping trip. I dont think that thats that rough on it. It deforms the metal a little but how is that any different than chopping on metals or concrete and the edge rolls. It doesnt break(normally) The Spine is much sturdier than the edge. It didnt remove any metal from the spine just moved it around a little. I just shipped it back to the factory.I would expect it to be able to be batoned with anything. It is a survival type knife. I have batoned many a knives with metal some do break or chunk out the swamp rats just deform.

edited to add: You can bet when I manage to get a Busse FBM it will be put through more hell than I have gave this knife. I wont think twice about using a sledge as a baton on the 5/16" thick version.
 
To Nuclear: Yes I have batoned it with a pipe wrench before. I dont call that abuse. The wrench is softer than the blade.
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Hitting a knife (ANY knife) with something metal is never a good thing....
 
Hey Guys,
Let's not start attacking Wicked on this. He has supplied the info and the pics you wanted. There is no need for any accusations.

And FWIW, I have hammered on the spine of my knives with a claw hammer. I don't do this often but I have done it without any problems
 
Rupestris said:
Absolutely not. If it wasn't for him, you'd never know that it takes TWO rounds from a .30-30 to kill a Swamp Rat. ;)
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I'm glad we know, and it seems to me that it must've been fun, but to sacrifice a Rat, and when they're in such low numbers :D.
 
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To Nuclear: Yes I have batoned it with a pipe wrench before. I dont call that abuse. The wrench is softer than the blade. I also used another knifes spine to baton it through a tree. I batoned it alot last camping trip. I dont think that thats that rough on it. It deforms the metal a little but how is that any different than chopping on metals or concrete and the edge rolls. It doesnt break(normally) The Spine is much sturdier than the edge. It didnt remove any metal from the spine just moved it around a little. I just shipped it back to the factory.I would expect it to be able to be batoned with anything. It is a survival type knife. I have batoned many a knives with metal some do break or chunk out the swamp rats just deform.

edited to add: You can bet when I manage to get a Busse FBM it will be put through more hell than I have gave this knife. I wont think twice about using a sledge as a baton on the 5/16" thick version.
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WOW I gotta get me more Rats. If this thing survived that long with what you did, the rats are tougher than I thought. I thought that I was abusive on knives and I thought that Cliff was abusive, but man, wicked, you are way beyond me. I would never think of using steel to hamer steel unless I had to. It isn't so much that it is harder or softer, it is more a impact loading kind of thing. Sure, the tougher steel like the rats can take it, but for only so long before they start to get stress fractures from multiple impacts.

Automotive bumpers are designed to take 5 mph crashes and them some with little to no damage. However, if you continually bash a car into a wall at 5 mph, you will eventually do serious damage. The fact that that knife survived as long as it did, is amazing. You did us all a service. I am 100% sure that almost no other brand could have survived all that.
thanks dude.:thumbup:

Eric, when you get it can you post some real closeups of the impact damage and crack propagation, i'd like to study it. Maybe I should start using th rats for something other than spreading peanut butter.:D
 
did I read that someone put their full weight of 280 lbs on a Bandicoot?

Why would that occur to anyone in anything other than a life or death situation?
 
howlin wolf said:
did I read that someone put their full weight of 280 lbs on a Bandicoot?

Why would that occur to anyone in anything other than a life or death situation?
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because its nice to know what the knife will do before you actually need it. JMHO
 
I agree. It's always a good idea to stress your equipment before you may have to stake your life on it. Not overstress, just stress. Just in case...
 
Greg45 said:
I agree. It's always a good idea to stress your equipment before you may have to stake your life on it. Not overstress, just stress. Just in case...
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true, and I really do believe that was overstress even for me, I don't even do that and I probably abuse mine more than most people on the forums.
 
Cobalt said:
true, and I really do believe that was overstress even for me, I don't even do that and I probably abuse mine more than most people on the forums.
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thats not abuse its 'tough love':thumbup: :D
 
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