Knifetests.com-whats YOUR opinion

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The Chef said:
I have discovered a knife made better than all others, it will destroy the knife tests, knife tests (someone should patent that) its name...this mighty blade.

a chisel.

Good Luck with that.
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Sell it to me please:D
I'll pay whatever you want if it does well on the test. I actually bought the Cheaperthendirt knife and did some test of my own. I used it to batton through a Chris Reeves Green Beret and then used it to carve a tiki statue out of a solid block of adamantium. It's still hair popping sharp to. Didn't even need to touch up the edge.
 
DrivebyTrucker said:
Sell it to me please:D
I'll pay whatever you want if it does well on the test. I actually bought the Cheaperthendirt knife and did some test of my own. I used it to batton through a Chris Reeves Green Beret and then used it to carve a tiki statue out of a solid block of adamantium. It's still hair popping sharp to. Didn't even need to touch up the edge.
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Wow! What about the GI Tanto?:D
 
well guys i've spent quite a bit of time in sierras,swamps, deserts, riverrs, lakes, creeks . you get the idea. i've never seen any sledge hammers, vises, cinder blocks, monster mysterys or acetaleyne torchs from above the tree line to phillipine jungle to red river swamps. have met big hogs, alligators, coyotes, plenty of big snakes & some weird huminoids but none of them broke my hunting knife, or even my pocket knife. hopefully we can move on to something constructive in this forum. thanks for your patience.
 
DennisStrickland said:
well guys i've spent quite a bit of time in sierras,swamps, deserts, riverrs, lakes, creeks . you get the idea. i've never seen any sledge hammers, vises, cinder blocks, monster mysterys or acetaleyne torchs from above the tree line to phillipine jungle to red river swamps. have met big hogs, alligators, coyotes, plenty of big snakes & some weird huminoids but none of them broke my hunting knife, or even my pocket knife. hopefully we can move on to something constructive in this forum. thanks for your patience.
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Blasphemy! What if you needed to use a rock to pound on your knife?!:p

I'm just kidding. Arguments seem to be rather circular here. We'll see if someone tears apart your post.
 
He means that real survival seldom involves fending off animal attacks, the implication being that cinder blocks are even less likely to attack in the wild. What's between your ears matters more than what's in your hand.
 
Dunno guyon, survival situation can be different. In this particular case, most likely knives weren't used at all. So, the argument becomes - I didn't have to use knife and hence...???
 
Dennis used his knives. He just didn't abuse his knives.

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I don't question he used in general. I was just assuming that said knives were not used to fend off or kill alligators, snakes and big hogs.
 
Hey, after 32 pages I may as well put in my two cents.
Knifetest.com has the most consistent testing procedure I've seen on video. We learn a lot about how knives fail and how different steel types react under stress.

I find it very useful knowing which knives can take how much stress in what direction.
 
Joshua J. said:
I find it very useful knowing which knives can take how much stress in what direction.
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Good eye:thumbup: The few tests I watched I completely missed where Noss actually quantified how much stress he put on the knives!!!:foot::p

I'm just messing with you, and really don't mean to be a jerk:o, but that's exactly the problem with his site! I've use a shop hammer for everything from driving upholstery tacks to driving out 25 lb. pins on a drilling rig! And doing either of those, I could look like I was working hard when the boss walked by (whether I was or not;)), but anyone who can tell how hard Noss is hitting those knives on video please, please, please! enlighten me. Because I'd really like to know when one failed and others didn't! Just show me that every hit has the same force behind it and then it's a test, but until then it's just entertainment!
 
Actually, since we want to get so scientific and quantitative I can propse one more thing:

Knowing the hammer weight which Noss does publish, and also knowing the frame rate of the videos which is ~24 per second, or 23.98 something for super precise guys... One could calculate the speed, force, momentum whatever else. Since speed=distance/time we also need the distance which the hammer of truth travels, which can be measured in a still frame and knowing average size of the objects in the view, i.e. the same hammer of truth, (or doom if you will), knife itself, you could calculate the distance and hence the speed quite precisely.

That will be a lot more precise than "OMG it's so unscientific".

Now, before I get yet another assignment to do all that myself, I have to state that I am absolutely fine with Noss' testing, his website (which I haven't visited for over a year until I got involved in debates in this thread) and I have no urges to prove Noss ' results neither wrong nor right :), as well as no urges to convince public here to believe/disbelieve him, his tests and ratings. I believe it's a personal matter.

Just pointing out that for those willing, and putting "precise" results above all, Noss does provide more data in his videos than it is implied in this thread.

The method I mentioned above works very well for multiple fields including CSI, Ballistics experts, miscellaneous equipment tests and much more. Worth noting, the method was used by Myth Busters on numerous occasions and no doubt will be used more.
Of course high speed cam footage of Noss swinging his hammer against the chart would make things easier, but well, he's not as fast as a speeding bullet and we'll have to go with what we have...
 
WalterDavis said:
Good eye:thumbup: The few tests I watched I completely missed where Noss actually quantified how much stress he put on the knives!!!:foot::p
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That's ok, but you yourself can control more or less, how fast you swing and how much stress you put on the objects you are hammering right?
 
Hey Walter, get right on that, would you buddy? Please double check your work.
 
I must say that this Has to be one of the most interesting threads in BF history!!
 
Lycosa said:
I must say that this Has to be one of the most interesting threads in BF history!!
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That's easy for you to say. You wear one of those kinetic monitoring suits whenever you do your tests.
 
Guyon said:
Hey Walter, get right on that, would you buddy? Please double check your work.
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:) I take you have a problem with my humble suggestion in general? Or do you assume one can't control a hammer to a certain degree in his/her own hands? That'd be pretty bad.

Guyon said:
That's easy for you to say.
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And it's even easier for you, as you don't do any testing at all :) And you can't even be bothered to do calculations to prove your own theory that Noss is wrong ;) Yet you are willing that the masses (n00bs) follow your teachings. On the faith alone? That's ok, if you're gong on religious grounds, but science(that you cite so often) requires little bit more than that. After all, nobody is asking you to turn water into wine...
 
No, I just want to see Walter hop to and get those numbers for us.

Science? Religion? Didn't Gator97 learn anything from Carl Sagan's Contact?
 
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