K-Bar D2 Quality ?

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I have a Ka-Bar D2 impact Spear Point and have used it to do a little wood cutting which it managed with ease.
I just wondered however if anybody had used one for some serious batoning as I am curious how good Ka-Bars D2 is and how it holds up !!!
Yeah I know what your thinking , go out and try it............I will , soon , but I thought I'd ask first !!!!
 
I live in the east coast.It's wet here most of the time.That said I have mostly carbon steel knives.The D2 extreme stacks up well against them.
 
That was a good proof. I had that questions too since I really like to know the performance of various Ka-bar in D2. Cheers.

Frids
 
My first knife was the D2 Kabar extreme and it is a really good knife. I tested it by cutting through the front windshield of a car, a junk broken one, and sawing through it. The blade wasn't too sharp after that, but a good diamond sharpener will fix it up. The only downside is teh coating doesn't stay on through that kind of abuse. And i stabbed through the car sheet metal with it too. the tip stayed intact just a little dull. Also i was just screwing around with a friend, who has an original kabar(good quality and cheap but not as good as d2), and threw them at a dirt hill just for throwin practice and they got pretty dulled but didn't chip on rocks.
 
front windshield has a plasticky something in between the glass, I guess he sawed through that
 
I'll watch out for "knifed-up" windshields, and stay out of that trailer park.
 
The car was going to the junkyard and the only reason I used it on the wind shield was because I just wanted to see how the blade held up. I didn't want to have confidence in some weak knife. and I didn't see any Cold Steel videos before i did it, and their videos just over play what the knives do.
 
msterkek6969 said:
I tested it by cutting through the front windshield of a car, a junk broken one, and sawing through it. The blade wasn't too sharp after that, but a good diamond sharpener will fix it up.
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That is impressive. I cut up a windsheild out of a bus and it basically took the entire edge off of the knife which was a strider WB. Glass is pretty hard and in my experience will readily compress the edge on steel knives.

-Cliff
 
The car was going to the junkyard and the only reason I used it on the wind shield was because I just wanted to see how the blade held up. I didn't want to have confidence in some weak knife. and I didn't see any Cold Steel videos before i did it, and their videos just over play what the knives do.
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Well, fair enough.
There are some other forum members who do some pretty severe testing on blades.
 
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