my seal pup elite is coming tommarow

[benchmadebob]

what kind of tests do you guys do with your knives when you first get them?? not noss4 tests but just general stuff

 

[mmmotorcycle]

peel and apple, shave hair/paper, slicing various ropes, making a fuzz stick, and sometimes chopping.

What were you planning to do?

 

[benchmadebob]

chop branches cut papper carboard and just cut random stuff

 

[mmmotorcycle]

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.

 

[Absintheur]

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.

 

[Silverdagger]

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.

 

[johnu2]

That was actually the Field pup, not Seal pup

 

[johnu2]

chop branches cut papper carboard and just cut random stuff

It's not really heavy enough to chop branches unless it's really thin

 

[jfindon]

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.