Now THIS is How You Field Test a PM2

I don't get it. Why do you act all buthurt because someone destroys their own knife? Is anyone getting harmed? Does this hurt Spyderco in any way?
 
Considering the conditions I think the PM2 did pretty good lol. What was the temperature? -40F? According to this video my Paramilitary 2 should last me three lifetimes. Translating some of the comments on the video is kinda funny. Other Russians are even calling him an idiot.
 
Wish i had that kind of coin. Hard enough for me to acquire a knife to just USE, let alone DESTROY just for the sake of it ...
 
While I hope to never to be in a situation I have to do any of that stuff to my folding knife it is "useful" information to see what they can handle. Especially when someone else is paying for the destruction! :D

I did find it surprising, even though to me that's clearly knife abuse, how easily the lock bar appears to have bent on the PM2, and how easily the blade was to snap well beyond the tip, especially on the nail, but it's a very thin profile blade. I've had to re-profile a 204p PM2 tip when dropped into kitchen linoleum flooring. It snapped the tip 1/8" back when it fell over under it's own weight once the tip was stuck into the flooring. It's also no surprise that a 0560 took that amount of abuse much better, there's probably almost 3 PM2 blades in one 0560 blade.

It's proves the old saying that a knife is the most expensive, worst pry bar and screwdriver you can buy.

One thing I do think is interesting, or at least made me think about is how say a Mule fixed blade with an even thinner profile than the PM2 would stand up, probably not very well, though you'd fix the lock failure issues. I know I catch myself assuming that a fixed blade will automatically take a lot more abuse, but considering the multiple blade failures of the PM2, if I was really looking for a field knife that could take some abuse in an emergency it reinforces that the blade shape/material is important as well.
 
Metric said:
Seems to provide some useful info on the boundaries of abuse, and it makes some sense -- the knife is clearly not designed with tip strength as a big priority, and the steel is also tilted toward the hard, edge-holding side of the spectrum. The most concerning part for me was the lock test.
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After watching this video I thought the lock failure had to be total BS. So I spine whacked the poo out of my pm2 . The results?:
Absolutely... Zero-f-ing failures. None. Same lockup as before. I'm very doubtful that this guy didn't jack up his knife well before doing this video. Also, I agree it's inaccurate to call this hard use( and not extraordinary rendition). Especially the batoning through nails part. But it is interesting.😨
 
Well it shows what not to do with a PM2 and what it will take so people won't break their knives... Hopefully.
 
Some years back (maybe 8 or so) there was a couple guys doing destructive testing on fixed blades … crazy stuff - break cinder blocks by battoning with the tip, battoning through mild steel, placing the blade between blocks at varying lengths and standing on the handle … all with "point of failure" as the goal. They would be dressed in heavy coveralls and face shields, they showed that some of theses knives could withstand MUCH more abuse than you would expect ...
I watched them abuse everything from a USMC Kabar to some of the larger BUSSE's … can't seem to find the videos now though.

~ edge
 
Thats just awful and unnecessary abuse of an awesome knife!!

Its a slicer knife. Not a nail puller, a prybar, or an axe!

Why would you try to cut a nail in half in the freezing cold anyway??? You need bolt cutters to cut though a hardened nail that thick. That just stupid to try to cut it with a knife.

Sad that such a beautiful thing was put to death in such a horrible way all while proving nothing.
 
Ed G said:
Some years back (maybe 8 or so) there was a couple guys doing destructive testing on fixed blades … crazy stuff - break cinder blocks by battoning with the tip, battoning through mild steel, placing the blade between blocks at varying lengths and standing on the handle … all with "point of failure" as the goal. They would be dressed in heavy coveralls and face shields, they showed that some of theses knives could withstand MUCH more abuse than you would expect ...
I watched them abuse everything from a USMC Kabar to some of the larger BUSSE's … can't seem to find the videos now though.

~ edge
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Hence my Nos comment. It was Nos. I think his account used to be Kife Tests but I could be wrong. All Outdoor bought the videos a while ago. They are still on YouTube.
 
Was he the guy that took so much heat because the CRK fixed blades did so poorly?
 
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