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Maybe he's talking REALLY old, like Stone Age. I love my D2/S30V/ZDP-189 blades but I do believe stone tools take the edge in toughness lol.
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Especially with the internet in place this is entirely false.You are totally right these times it is no easy to find a good knife for a god price.
My production Battle Rat chopper has a differentially heat treated blade...
What they don't make the way they used to is the users of knives. We used to treat our knives as cutting tools designed for specific tasks. Mainly cutting. The knives we used were generally much thinner and had much smaller tangs than what we see today. Why? Because we didn't feel the need to beat the heck out of our tools. We used the proper tool for the job at hand.
Were knives made better "back in the day"? Probably not. As knowledge in engineering and metallurgy increases the quality of the tool will get better. Unfortunately, we are living in a time that we don't take care of things. If we break it we either send it back to the manufacturer demanding that they replace the tool that we broke or we just buy another. We really need to go back to taking care of our tools and making them last forever.
:There was no lifetime warrantee that we could break up our knives and then send them back to the maker to be replaced.
The tempering process used on Swamprats(just making sure we are talking the same knife/brand) are homogeneous temper.
Wrong. Look up "Battle Rat Differential Heat Treat" and you'll see what I'm talking about.
Get your facts straight.
In todays mass production of anything quality has suffered. Knives are one tool that has been effected by this. Does anyone have or know of any knives that are made with the old school quality that knives used to be made with? I am very curious to see how many are actually left because when I buy a product I would rather spend more and get a durable product than save money on mass produced junk that wont last. A knife that will last longer than the owner and their grandchildren
Well a very good argument against "things were better back in the day"
Female breast size has been increasing each generation for the last 100 years.
However... a even better argument for "things were better back in the day"
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So have mens.....
As a few others have mentioned, there is a big difference between the way a lot of people expect out of their knives today, versus in the past. I don't remember batoning being a big thing a few decades ago