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thatmguy

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What paces/tests have you put your favorite Wauseon Wonder through??

Anything ever scare you so you thought you'd have failure, then VOILA, no harm done??

Yours in Nuclear Paces,
Mike
 
Mike,
I was taking a bush out with my BA-e once and was working on this one root. Full Swing and I hit a piece of concrete buried in the dirt.:eek:

I thought for sure I would have a huge chip out of the blade, but just a little roll that was easily fixed with the ceramic rod.

This isn't too harsh of treatment however, it emphasizes the common things that will kill other brands.
 
I was digging up and splitting an old fencepost one time with my basic 9. I didn't know it, but it was wrapped in concrete. I chopped on that stuff for about 10 minutes before I decided to look and see what was taking so long. There were big chunks cut out of the concrete. The 9 just had a few really small chips in the edge. About 20 minutes with a benchstone, sharpmaker and a strop and it was good as new. (but with more battle scars... - they just make her look even more purty!)

I know lots of other knives that would not have survived that kind of punishment. Busses are just INFInitely tough! :cool:
 
Geez Ant, are you and I the only ones that use our knives around here? ;)

I thought this thread would be 2-3 pages long by now. :D:D
 
Once, I was using my SH2E to remove wild rose bushes from my fenceline (those of you that have had experience with these demonic plants know how annoying they can be), and I accidentally chopped into the barbed wire for quite some time before noticing. I could not tell any change in the edge; from what I could tell, it was totally unaffected!

I have also done some flex tests with my SH, and all of them have shown the SH's toughness. I have never approached the flex levels in the performance videos, but I have bent the blade at least 10-15 degrees or so. I have stuck the tip into a hardened old stump and flexed the tip only, and the tip just bounced right back to true. I should add that these flex tests took a good bit of physical exertion, especially the full blade flexes.
 
Wacking rocks is not something I prefer to do, but it does happen sometimes when chopping on the ground or splitting firewood. I've never really severely chipped an edge, but I have mashed or rolled little nicks into it pretty good from rocks or hitting nails or staples during furniture and cabinet demo work. I just work the edge with a ceramic stone/stick and in a reasonable amount of time, the damage eventually blends out to a nick free trip across the fingernail:)
I've done similar work with a couple other popular blades and while they might still get the job done, getting the edge back is a pain in the arse, especially in field/trail conditions:(

On one occasion I was bored and was hammering the blade of my SH and BM into some 6" dia. fenceposts and pushing and pulling to see how much I could tweak the blade. The bastid would bend slightly then all I could hear was cracking and before too long it would just open up into a splintered mess:cool:
 
Sorry for the crappy pics, I need to get a digital camera.
Below is the end result of the above pying session.
 

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This one shows the chopping performance of four different knives.
Each knife was swung as hard as possible for the same amount of chops, IIRC it was 25 chops per blade.
 

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Sevenedges, hope they helped.

Great pics. Nice to see independent corroboration (sp?) of what we all know.

Mike
 
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