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Look away Stomper! JK test knife review!

Now I wonder why I have to many JK knives, One would have lasted me a lifetime.;) I may have to live for a long, long, long time.:D
 
Wow :eek: Great review ! Makes me happy that I chose John to make my "Last" fixed blade :thumbup: (as of now :p)
 
I am not a big "distruction-test" person but research is research and data is data so I understand some of it needs to be done.

In your opinion would 1095 or another of the other 10 series steels be better for this sort of thing than O-1 ?
 
mistwalker said:
I am not a big "distruction-test" person but research is research and data is data so I understand some of it needs to be done.

In your opinion would 1095 or another of the other 10 series steels be better for this sort of thing than O-1 ?
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Was this a general question? :D

If I were planning a general purpose knife that would have to take this kind of abuse, I would take the steel I had in the shop and use it. The heat treat is the thing when you want to make a tough knife. You just balance the steel you are using with the intended purpose. O1 and 1095 have very comparable carbon contents, so there really isn't anything to choose from there.

If I were buying steel for this, I would buy some 5160 or 1060, since they would be just a touch easier to hit the balance point of toughness/hardness with due to the lower carbon content.
 
Jake,
You're one crazy sob!

John,
You make one heck of a knife! I'm still glad to have met you and I'm proud to have one of your knives!
 
sixgunner455 said:
Was this a general question? :D

If I were planning a general purpose knife that would have to take this kind of abuse, I would take the steel I had in the shop and use it. The heat treat is the thing when you want to make a tough knife. You just balance the steel you are using with the intended purpose. O1 and 1095 have very comparable carbon contents, so there really isn't anything to choose from there.

If I were buying steel for this, I would buy some 5160 or 1060, since they would be just a touch easier to hit the balance point of toughness/hardness with due to the lower carbon content.
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Lol, thanks. Yes I guess it was...and perhaps just a little too general as I was very tired and half asleep when I wrote it. What I was wondering was this; if you knew in advance that you were making a knife you wanted to handle this kind of abuse...say chiseling you way out of or making an air hole in a partially collapsed masonry structure....and hoping for it to still be marginally functional afterwards... would the lower 10 series steels be better for that app than O-1 with it being a tool steel or would the O-1 be better.

However I think you answered my question anyway regardless of my poor wording of it. Thanks!

Brian
 
Jake, I didn't recognize you without your goalie mask. Why are you hitting knives with hammers, again?




Rick
 
This thread should be cross linked to the 'is Busse worth it'. Kind of dismantles a lot of preconceptions about INFI and its apparent superiority. I mean, that little blade went through far more than you would ever take one of its size and thickness. What would a modicum of greater toughness do for this particular knife?

Kind of glad this thread resurfaced. It should serve J as an unpleasant reminder that the renegad JK is still out there. It was shot and it is pissed. J in the end you know that thing is going to find you and make you pay!!!!
 
Back from the dead!!

man this was a fun test... John does a geat heat treat. I wish I hadnt lost this blade, it was a cool knife.

Crazy?? Yes, yes I am. But, im with Ken.... it is really quite interesting to se the results. I mean, I really beat this blade.
 
Shotgun said:
Why? Seems 1/8th is tougher than it needs to be for your use. Why not go 1/8th for superior cutting ability?
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I just like 3/16th, or well at the time I did. I am a 5/32 guy now..... 1/8 is plenty though. :thumbup:
 
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