My "Nice Beater" Experiment

[So-Lo]

Well she hit the door today. Its going to be a long hard next few days for her. Yup, I'm on vacation starting today............. this means honey do's! :grumpy:

So, we(Should say "I am") are going to put down about 500 Sq Ft of hardwood floors, and a few other odd jobs. Anyways, here is where the fun starts.

I was looking at my knives and thinking about what knife to beat on. As its going to need to cut out all the old carpet, cut tar paper... and a bunch of other beater jobs. I didn't want to trash my better knives....


so........ I NEEDed a "nice beater"

I thought a combo edge would be best for the job.

and. ZDP will hold the edge

and a Saber grind will be able to do light-med prying

Some more "before pics"

 

[So-Lo]

And we will see if she is still centered when done

I will be posting the "after pics" to this thread next Friday.

I am not going to try to kill this knife, but I will not hold anything back (if it breaks it breaks .) If a paint can needs to be opened during the completion of the "honey do" list. I will pry it open, if a bag of cement needs to be cut open...... she is going to do it! If sheetrock needs to be cut....... yep, shes going to do it!

Thanks for looking at my "nice Beater"

 

[So-Lo]

She took the beating like a champ!

I did some really nasty things to this knife, and nothing broke. It was a pry bar, chisel (even smacked the butt and spine with a hammer ), construction staple puller (100s of staples were holding the padding to the sub floor), and of course a knife.

The two chips were totaly my fault. ..........

As I thought, the combo edge worked great. The SE part cut the carpet great, and the tar paper when it was up in the air. The plain edge cut the tar paper great when it was on the floor, and cut the wood great when needed.

I found the Spyder hump (the top area of the hole) works great as a pivot when prying. Just poke the tip under a staple (holding the knife upside down), and put the top area of the hole on the floor then push the handle to the floor.

Anyways on with the pics

and, the hammer marks. I was cutting under the jams getting the stuff my undercut saw did not. So I poked the knife under there, and let the hammer rip. It worked great, as would a chisel....... but what the hell it a "beater" right?

 

[So-Lo]

Tip took a beating and its still there. Yes ALL of it! There was a few times when I was prying the carpet tack strips off the floor and thought she was going to give, but it did not let me down.

I will be doing a take apart review when I can get some time. It was a great beater knife, the FRN worked great. Maybe a little too grippy at times. It took the hammer like a champ, and the prying. Lockup was normal Spyderco wiggle when new, but now has a little more wiggle. But I did hit her with a hammer........LOTS. So that can be expected. The ZDP held a edge for about half the day, but diamonds brought her right back up to snuff.

It was a huge job, and Im glad I had this E4 to help me "get er' done!"

Thanks for looking

 

[nephildevil]

lol

i'm curious:thumbup:

 

[Capt. Carl]

The endura will definately take one hell of a beating!

 

[THG]

Whoa, I thought that was a Delica.

 

[So-Lo]

 

[jacktrades_nbk]

good test for zdp steel ...
im curious to...well, who isnt ?

 

[bdws1975]

oooooo...I'm subscribing to this thread. this sounds like FUN!

brett

 

[Dekz]

Definitely interested in the "after" pics.

 

[PB Wilson]

As I glanced at that last pic, I thought you already broke off the tip.

 

[Fred Sanford]

This will be a cool thread. Good luck with it man.

I wouldn't pry open a paint can with it though, but that's just me.

 

[USSR]

Where's that frigging popcorn smiley? This will be highly entertaining.

 

[Redrummd]

Heck my Lone Wolf Double Duty has done all of those tasks and much more and it is a automatic..... I bet the Endura survives with nothing but dirt on the handles, a few very small nicks in the blade, and a few scrape marks on the side.

So, share your predictions........

 

[Jos]

WHAT! You killed the box... how are you ever going to sell it NIB if you don't have the box...

Oh... it's going to be a beater...

Guess it's OK then!

Kind regards,

Jos

 

[miro44]

Cool, I bookmarked the thread

 

[IUKE12]

Looking forward to this one

 

[offsetlover]

i usually hate spyderco, but i cant deny they do a darn good job with their zdp-189. gonna be interesting to see how she holds up. post pics!

 

[adorable_harree]

I bet she'll hold up. No, it will hold up well.