my seal pup elite is coming tommarow

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what kind of tests do you guys do with your knives when you first get them?? not noss4 tests but just general stuff
 
peel and apple, shave hair/paper, slicing various ropes, making a fuzz stick, and sometimes chopping.

What were you planning to do?
 
That ought to be all that is needed. Of course you may find your needs change as the knife becomes a more/less capable tool over time.
 
Been waiting for my Schrade Bush Knife (copy of the Al Mar Pathfinder) to arrive to do some branch trimming and sapling removal. Other knives I simply make sure they are sharp and tigh with no blade wobble. If they are then I know they will do what I bought them for without the need for extensive testing in most cases.
 
Somebody just posted a thread a week or two ago about snapping a PUP in half with no more than digging a weed out of dirt. I don't recommend weed digging as your test. The PUP won't make it.
 
I always get too impatient to think about testing it. I have a Damascus Leek coming either tomorrow or Thursday and I'm going nuts. I hate USPS because they never give you a ballpark date. It left St. Louis today and I'm in PA, so I doubt it'll be here tomorrow. Waiting is torture.
 
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