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Thought that I'd share a neat pic that was taken of me at a post Blade Show get-together hosted by Wallace and Will Fennell of Camillus Cutlery. We were doing cutting tests of fixed blades using various mediums: rope, beer cans, wood, and empty shotgun shells. In this pic I am using Jerry Fisk's personal knife, his own Arkansaw camp knife to sever an empty shotgun shell in half. The idea behind this test is to stand the shell up on a flat surface and in one stroke, cut through it. Undoubtedly, this is the hardest cutting test I have done, because if you do it with too much power, you'll end up swatting the shell right off the table. Instead, you use a combination of power and wrist action to "sting" the shell to get the knife edge to bite into the plastic.
Photo by Terrill Hoffman
Photo by Terrill Hoffman