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- Oct 17, 1999
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I gave my Ka-Bar USMC to my six year old son to play with. He chopped on brick, uncomfortable and sounds bad. He chopped geraniums, very satisfying, swish, chop, vegetation falls to the ground. He chopped on a pine 2X4 chop, chop, chop....and didn't make much headway. I decided to finish the job. Hey, did you know that if you stroke through (across) as you chop you get bigger chips to fall of? Anyways, I chopped through a 2X4 with my Ka-Bar and wow! The edge was chipped and rolled and deformed (more than when my son handed it back). It was fun though. My questions are, is it normal for pine to deform and chip an edge? Is my observation that stroking across the surface of the wood, as opposed to a direct ax-type strike, takes a bigger bite out of the wood correct? Is a Ka-bar differentially hardened (edge vs spine/center)?