multiple brands and their resilience to hight impact/ steel type and quality of steel

[littleriddick]

i have stuff from kershaw:thumbup: ,west cut ,gerber:jerkit: ,buck,blackjack,kaicut ,hibbens,kabar
,camillus ,survivor,sabre,a.g. russel,forschner:thumbup: ,compass,master cutlery, browning ,beretta ,winchester, s&w, schrade/ old timer pre 2004,frost cutlrey:barf: ,cold steel ,benchmade , and i would like a little conversation from people who have had good or bad experiance w/any of the knives types of steel how durable they are in general and high impact resilience reports of them. input would be interesting.

 

[me2]

I have some experience with Old Timers and Benchmades. The OT is one of my favorites. It gets very sharp, holds it for a while, is easy to resharpen with the Spyderco Sharpmaker, and has cut a lot of stuff without chipping such as sheet rock, concrete floor board (the kind under ceramic tile) and aluminum cans. Its a peanut style 2 blade folder, so its not seen any impact. Mine is carbon steel and actually tested harder than my 440C Benchmade TSEK.

Benchmade makes a very tough folder in the Axis lock models. I abused an old 730 Ares, with red and black G-10 scales, for years before sending it back to have the blade replaced. The last straw came from batoning it through sheet metal, 22 gauge IIRC. The edge chipped, but it kept cutting until the task was done. The chipping was from accidental lateral loads (read "twisting because of bad technique"), but even then the chips were still less than the width of the edge bevel. The knife showed no sign of breaking at the point of impact and was still tight and smooth afterward. Man I miss the 730 series from BM. The steel on my model was 154CM.

 

[littleriddick]

i have a benchmade griptillian in 154 cm and it survives drywall and much more with me as an every day carry along with my cold steel ak47 aus8a w/aluminum scales which i like for durability. aus8a gets some crap but i put an edge on it after at least six months of everyday use and i shaved my head with it as though it was a razor and it didn't cut me but my gillette fusion w/new blade cut the crap out of me 2 to 3 times in 1 shave. i like old timers as well it is the kind of knife you would want to pass down to your kids or something. they are very durable it seems. and my pre-2004 cave bear is in awesome shape,in fact i put a razor 17degree edge on it in a matter of minutes.