That knife withstood a lot.
I think that Noss's tests have a purpose for me. Knives that I thought would do much better broke relatively easily. Really cheap knives (like the GI Tanto really took a beating......for 20 bucks. I already knew it was tough, because that is my beater thrower, but no one would have believed me).
Infi is sure tough steel. I will never test mine to that level, unless a life depends on it , or some one's safety etc. Good to know what it will take.
I know that some people don't like Noss's approach, but that is how some of us are. No scientific method, just stupid brute force until we break something. (I know we say why would anyone do that? But look at the guy who just broke his S Jack handle scales. He used an axe hammer poll to baton that S Jack spine. Or another who batoned a new bad with the spine of another piece of infi, when he was surrounded by trees, with perfectly good batonning branches all around him.............just saying........people do crazy stuff with knives even when they don't have any real need to............so it is good to know that if my kid is stuck under a piece of concrete, and I have my CG ash and a sledge, I can cut through the concrete, or cut through a light pole if it is in my way etc.......)
I am just wondering how you loose 1/4 inch of the blade edge by accident. Without a cutting torch or an angle grinder.
I do agree that many designs would benefit with a much smaller choil. I really like the size of the choil on the Game Warden. Just enough to make sharpening it easy. On some knives I think the bigger choil fits. for example, on the FBM it does allow you to choke up if you needed to do detail work. I don't see the need for a bigger choil on the SS. The choil on the Active Duty is too small for a finger, but too big for that small blade. Just my opinion.
