magnacut toughness in a long fixed blade.

No problem!

https://imgur.com/a/rKqQZ3q

6 pieces lined up

https://imgur.com/a/w240rPI

Used about 1/3rd power here

https://imgur.com/a/VIQRnfV

not quite enough to get all the way through all 6, I have no doubt if I swung with half force or more it would have though

https://imgur.com/a/et9BuGF

close up of just how far it did go through the last 3 it just couldn't get through in the bundle of 6.

https://imgur.com/a/DFcBBXg

aftermath on the plywood, some nasty scaring there to say the least!


Next up, oak branches, stay tuned!
 
Crag the Brewer said:
Even though I personally disagree with almost everything.....

I think it's Super Awesome that you have the conviction and perseverance to have it made the way You wanted.... For that, good job, I think that's Great!!!!

I hope it's everything you wanted it to be and more.....
I know it's Fun having a blade made to your specs
Good times, ahead... :)
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Thanks, that means alot.

I do have to wonder what you disagree with most though. If it's just some of the aesthetics you dislike, ok, fair enough, everyone has their styles they like, but if it's functionality you question I will challenge that.

I made this blade to be a nice in between of a machete/ bolo type blade and a chopper to be used on harder and thicker pieces of wood, and to have some slicing capabilities.

If this blade performs 90% as well as a machete on light brush work, and atleast 90% as good as the best chopper out there and it slices to boot it's living up to my expectations and is an overall more well rounded blade than anything els out there.

Could you perhaps make a chopper that chops a little better? sure, maybe, but can it do all a machete can do? can it slice with ease through cardboard ect?

some people are cool with carrying around 3 different blades for 3 different tasks, I'm not.

So I challenge you to see just how good your best chopper can chop and if it even can do 10% better than mine, maybe it can't, and even if it can can it slice!?!?

come on lets see it, or does my blade that "looks like it needs to go back into the comic book pages" scare you from the challenge? 😁
 
Rockwelledge75 said:
Thanks, that means alot.

I do have to wonder what you disagree with most though. If it's just some of the aesthetics you dislike, ok, fair enough, everyone has their styles they like, but if it's functionality you question I will challenge that.

I made this blade to be a nice in between of a machete/ bolo type blade and a chopper to be used on harder and thicker pieces of wood, and to have some slicing capabilities.

If this blade performs 90% as well as a machete on light brush work, and atleast 90% as good as the best chopper out there and it slices to boot it's living up to my expectations and is an overall more well rounded blade than anything els out there.

Could you perhaps make a chopper that chops a little better? sure, maybe, but can it do all a machete can do? can it slice with ease through cardboard ect?

some people are cool with carrying around 3 different blades for 3 different tasks, I'm not.

So I challenge you to see just how good your best chopper can chop and if it even can do 10% better than mine, maybe it can't, and even if it can can it slice!?!?

come on lets see it, or does my blade that "looks like it needs to go back into the comic book pages" scare you from the challenge? 😁
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This blade has a nice bolo edge profile :thumbsup: it should chops really well but a little heavy for long session slashes. It performed well chopped through 5 bamboo stalks. What is edge geometry of this blade? If not too thin, perhaps test chops bamboo at node, going from young green to season then dried seasoned. 0.75"-1" diameter oak dowel is not easy to cross grain chop through, be mindful possibility of severe edge damage.
 
Crag the Brewer said:
Even though I personally disagree with almost everything.....
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Yes. I'm not going to get into all of it, but:

Crag the Brewer said:
I hope it's everything you wanted it to be and more.....
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It's not.

Rockwelledge75 said:
some people are cool with carrying around 3 different blades for 3 different tasks, I'm not.
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The ergonomics are a total disaster, unless you hold the knife right in the middle of the handle, and keep it there for a whole session. So good luck using this knife for smaller knife tasks. I don't blame Richard338, he was just following the design instructions. But this design is completely inadequate for small knife tasks.

Rockwelledge75 said:
So I challenge you to see just how good your best chopper can chop and if it even can do 10% better than mine, maybe it can't, and even if it can can it slice!?!?
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Well, it just so happens I have a friend's pond I want to help him clear a camp site in. So your MagnaCut chopper against my AEB-L Barax that I will be making once my current batch comes back from Peters'. Unedited video of one hour of work, starting with brush clearing. We can test each knife as a "one tool solution" via:

Chopping;
Slicing;
Hacking;
Slashing;
Choking up for carving and other more precision oriented tasks;
Ergonomics and useability over a full work session;
Ease of carry and deployment (such as on a hike or portaging, or clearing a camp site, you do have a sheath, right?);
Maneuverability for defensive movements.

At the start and end of the video, we can show a close-up of our working hand and see how many blisters and abrasions our hands received using the knife for an hour of real work.

I anticipate my knife will be ready to go by mid summer. That gives us time to dial in the contest specifics.

Money-mouth.jpg
 
David Mary said:
Yes. I'm not going to get into all of it, but:



It's not.



The ergonomics are a total disaster, unless you hold the knife right in the middle of the handle, and keep it there for a whole session. So good luck using this knife for smaller knife tasks. I don't blame Richard338, he was just following the design instructions. But this design is completely inadequate for small knife tasks.



Well, it just so happens I have a friend's pond I want to help him clear a camp site in. So your MagnaCut chopper against my AEB-L Barax that I will be making once my current batch comes back from Peters'. Unedited video of one hour of work, starting with brush clearing. We can test each knife as a "one tool solution" via:

Chopping;
Slicing;
Hacking;
Slashing;
Choking up for carving and other more precision oriented tasks;
Ergonomics and useability over a full work session;
Ease of carry and deployment (such as on a hike or portaging, or clearing a camp site, you do have a sheath, right?);
Maneuverability for defensive movements.

At the start and end of the video, we can show a close-up of our working hand and see how many blisters and abrasions our hands received using the knife for an hour of real work.

I anticipate my knife will be ready to go by mid summer. That gives us time to dial in the contest specifics.

Money-mouth.jpg
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Yeah ...but his has a beer cap opener ! :p
 
DocJD said:
Yeah ...but his has a beer cap opener ! :p
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I can open a beer or other such capped bottle with a house key, so you'll have to forgive me if I am not impressed by that.
 
David Mary said:
I can open a beer or other such capped bottle with a house key, so you'll have to forgive me if I am not impressed by that.
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In this case , the designer is the customer / consumer .

He needs only to be impressed / pleased by his own efforts .

You must please guys like me , if you want to conduct a business . Much higher bar . ;)
 
DocJD said:
In this case , the designer is the customer / consumer .

He needs only to be impressed / pleased by his own efforts .

You must please guys like me , if you want to conduct a business . Much higher bar . ;)
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How many Beers are required .......to be Opened?
 
BluntCut MetalWorks said:
This blade has a nice bolo edge profile :thumbsup: it should chops really well but a little heavy for long session slashes. It performed well chopped through 5 bamboo stalks. What is edge geometry of this blade? If not too thin, perhaps test chops bamboo at node, going from young green to season then dried seasoned. 0.75"-1" diameter oak dowel is not easy to cross grain chop through, be mindful possibility of severe edge damage.
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Thanks for the compliment! yes, it chops very well, and is quicker and lighter in the hand then you might expect. I don't know whether I would want to be doing brush work for hours with it as there are some machetes that are a little lighter and a thinner that might be better at that, or at least less tiering, but as I've said before this is a hybrid blade and designed to be a good all around workhorse for things I might encounter when out camping.

I just finished chopping my way through several oak branches of various sizes and small oak tree trunks, some alive and some dead and a little harder, it went really well, it's not something a machete would have performed well on, and I'll be posting the results soon.

and as for the oak dowel I know just how hard those can get when seasoned and it's not something I'm interested in trying as it's just not something I'd encounter in the field, but I do have other really good toughness tests coming up like cutting seasoned oak firewood and a special surprise at the very end I wont reveal yet but it should be very convincing of just how tough this steel is even at 62.5 hrc in a longer tinner blade profile as oppose to all of the shorter knives you typically see made with this.
 
David Mary said:
Yes. I'm not going to get into all of it, but:



It's not.



The ergonomics are a total disaster, unless you hold the knife right in the middle of the handle, and keep it there for a whole session. So good luck using this knife for smaller knife tasks. I don't blame Richard338, he was just following the design instructions. But this design is completely inadequate for small knife tasks.



Well, it just so happens I have a friend's pond I want to help him clear a camp site in. So your MagnaCut chopper against my AEB-L Barax that I will be making once my current batch comes back from Peters'. Unedited video of one hour of work, starting with brush clearing. We can test each knife as a "one tool solution" via:

Chopping;
Slicing;
Hacking;
Slashing;
Choking up for carving and other more precision oriented tasks;
Ergonomics and useability over a full work session;
Ease of carry and deployment (such as on a hike or portaging, or clearing a camp site, you do have a sheath, right?);
Maneuverability for defensive movements.

At the start and end of the video, we can show a close-up of our working hand and see how many blisters and abrasions our hands received using the knife for an hour of real work.

I anticipate my knife will be ready to go by mid summer. That gives us time to dial in the contest specifics.

Money-mouth.jpg
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I might just take you up on that David, just fair warning though, I did 30 min worth of work today on oak no less and my hand isn't even sore, much less have blisters, the handle I had made which was also to my specifications is performing great!
 
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I continue to be impressed by this blade, the design more than lives up to expectations and Richard's work was phenomenal in making it.

It makes pretty quick work of small to medium sized branches and even small tree trunks both dead and alive.

edge remains sharp after 30 min of intense chopping, not much else to say other than it's an amazing piece of work.

Next up, oak firewood, stay tuned!
 
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