Most amazing feat you've seen with a blade?

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Seeing people post pictures of them whittling hair into 1/2's and then 1/4's absolutely amazed me. I bought my first S30V almost immediately after seeing that.

Then the picture below inspired me to ask "What's the most amazing thing you've seen a blade do? Knives, axes, steel, khukuri... doesn't matter."

EDIT: This thread is going places i hadn't predicted so.... "Quality Steel or Skill... it doesn't matter".

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Probably isnt that amazing but when i was helping my folks out with house renovations, we needed to pry up some wood floorboards, but my dad left the prybar at his workshop, just so happend that i had my HI chiruwa Khukuri in the truck :D, an hour later and all finished

Amazing in that few blades out there would be able to be used in such a manner without being damaged
 
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Murray Carter's videos are always pretty interesting.

I like the one where he puts a knife in a vice and then splits paper airplanes neatly in two by chucking them at the edge. :eek: Or where he shaves with a spoon.

Good lord that's sharp!
 
[video=youtube;phbDaI85apU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phbDaI85apU&feature=plcp[/video] This:
 
Watching someone literally split a hair is pretty impressive.

Also just some cutting practice with katanas is pretty impressive. How they can cut thick bamboo and other such materials so cleanly, almost with out disturbing the material.

I wouldn't F with these guys.

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Grease said:
Sadly, this one aint impressive. Lead is so soft, even a butter knife can split a bullet. Katanas just do it more cleanly.


The best I've seen is a chef deboning a chicken with a butcher knife.

Oh, and he did it in under 10 seconds.
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that's the skill of the chef more then it's the knife he's using.
 
My buddy and I were in high school and really hammered. I threw a switch blade down by his feet and my aim was a little off. For a second or two we both stared at the knife sticking out of his foot. I thought that it was quite amazing for a few seconds, he less so I believe.
 
Sword swallowing has always impressed me.

Although the knife through four quarters is impressive - especially if done all at once.
 
deathofallthings said:
Watching someone literally split a hair is pretty impressive.

Also just some cutting practice with katanas is pretty impressive. How they can cut thick bamboo and other such materials so cleanly, almost with out disturbing the material.

I wouldn't F with these guys.
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Glad you said "these guys" because, like the chef de-boning the chicken in 10 seconds, its so much more about their skill than the swords. Don't get me wrong, Japanese Ninhonto are IMHO the most powerful non-projectile personal weapons in existence, but the part where these guys make a cut and then another ABOVE the first cut without disturbing the fall of the bamboo just blows me away.
 
IMO Isao Machii is da bomb, though I think his cutting a pea pod (lying on a platform, not fixed in any way) in half horizontally was his most impressive. And I believe he did it from the draw, holy cow.

Someone on the forums mentioned cutting through the hinges of a car door in an emergency--that's got to rank up there. And if memory serves it was done with a folder!
 
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