K-Bar 14 ¼ destruction test
I was doing a blade-flexing test by putting it in a vise and bending the blade
I was able to get about a 20 to 25 degree bend about 10 times before the tip broke.Unfortunately I didnt have the camera running for this test.
Now it was time to work this knife until total failure. With the camera running.
With a broken tip I proceeded with impact testing, beating the back of the blade with a hammer in to a 2x4 over and over. No blade breakage and no edge chipping.
Then onto breaking a brick then hacking away at it like a log. The edge never chipped.There is one chip near the tip after striking my tubing notcher (wild swing) on the workbench.
Next onto a large landscaping brick hacking away the sparks really begin to fly (literally) I hammered the blade splitting the brick. After this there is still no blade failure just blade denting. I was still able to cut four layers of poster board I glued up from another project.
I whacked PVC pipe cutting it like a tree branch cutting it clean.
I moved on to hammering into metal conduit. Finally chipping a thumb size notch out of the blade.
Back to hammering in to 2x4s the blade finally broke in half at the broken notch.
However even with the blade broken with only about 2.5 inches left I continued to hammer and chop with the blade.
On to the handle: Milt posted a reply that the handles on K-Bars arent tough. The video Proves him wrong. Locking what was left of the blade in the vise I beat the hell out of it
with a hammer, over and over. The hammer just bounced off like hitting a car tire.I set the handle on fire and let it burn for a minute then beat it again and again.It finally took a 15-pound sledge and about 8 hard blows for the handle to fail.Kraton G is indeed a tough handle.
Bottom line this is one tough knife it took a hell of a lot of insane abuse to destroy it.
Since there is some debate between the K-Bar Bowie and the Becker BK series
I will perform the same test and see what the Becker can take before total failure.
I already ordered the Becker BK 9 I will have it posted after the 1st or so of January.
The videos of the above torture test are in 10 minute 3 parts. Total 30 minutes of knife Hell.
Hope you enjoy the Video ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl1Cuj7JKDs part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Le8NZ9T-E part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY9zJYpQBHI part 3
I was doing a blade-flexing test by putting it in a vise and bending the blade
I was able to get about a 20 to 25 degree bend about 10 times before the tip broke.Unfortunately I didnt have the camera running for this test.
Now it was time to work this knife until total failure. With the camera running.
With a broken tip I proceeded with impact testing, beating the back of the blade with a hammer in to a 2x4 over and over. No blade breakage and no edge chipping.
Then onto breaking a brick then hacking away at it like a log. The edge never chipped.There is one chip near the tip after striking my tubing notcher (wild swing) on the workbench.
Next onto a large landscaping brick hacking away the sparks really begin to fly (literally) I hammered the blade splitting the brick. After this there is still no blade failure just blade denting. I was still able to cut four layers of poster board I glued up from another project.
I whacked PVC pipe cutting it like a tree branch cutting it clean.
I moved on to hammering into metal conduit. Finally chipping a thumb size notch out of the blade.
Back to hammering in to 2x4s the blade finally broke in half at the broken notch.
However even with the blade broken with only about 2.5 inches left I continued to hammer and chop with the blade.
On to the handle: Milt posted a reply that the handles on K-Bars arent tough. The video Proves him wrong. Locking what was left of the blade in the vise I beat the hell out of it
with a hammer, over and over. The hammer just bounced off like hitting a car tire.I set the handle on fire and let it burn for a minute then beat it again and again.It finally took a 15-pound sledge and about 8 hard blows for the handle to fail.Kraton G is indeed a tough handle.
Bottom line this is one tough knife it took a hell of a lot of insane abuse to destroy it.
Since there is some debate between the K-Bar Bowie and the Becker BK series
I will perform the same test and see what the Becker can take before total failure.
I already ordered the Becker BK 9 I will have it posted after the 1st or so of January.
The videos of the above torture test are in 10 minute 3 parts. Total 30 minutes of knife Hell.
Hope you enjoy the Video ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl1Cuj7JKDs part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Le8NZ9T-E part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY9zJYpQBHI part 3
