Quick question on the AK

[willrise]

Anyone find the the ak-47 to be to flexable when cutting
Mats and large water jugs?
Just curious
that is all

 

[MORIMOTOM]

do you mean the blade flexes?

or do you mean, would it be useful in cutting such materials?

 

[Last Visible Canary]

my own bottle cut with the factory edge was reletively dissapointing, but I was using a poor technique for the ak47. I was doing a back cut one handed, left to right (right handed) when I should have been doing a push type cut, right to left with both hands. The blade was not heavy enough or sharp enough for its own weight to carry it through the bottles, so I would have had to push it through to make it work.

That could have been fixed by me either propelling it ultra fast (not possible with my level of accuracy), or bring it down to 18 degree's per side high mirror polish. I didn't get to try it before I had to sell it though...

If you mean flexible as in the blade literally curved from side to side as it would when you have it in a vise - not at all. at 3/16" through hardened, I could flex it with my hands bending it over my knee, but just barely

 

[pbubsy]

I don't know exactly what you mean, but I had a Ruck for a brief time (before trading it towards a SHBM ~booyeah~) and I could easily flex it when holding the handle on one end and the upper part of the blade in the other (not getting a fully encompassing grip because of a SHARP edge). They're a good thickness, but INFI is a nice, flexible metal as far as that goes. You'd never have a problem with with any Busse bending on you or being brittle (breaking). The only cases I've heard of with INFI breaking were when a guy took a small paring sized knife, hammered it into a cinder block and started kicking it......and where people have shot them with a gun. Normal use isn't a problem. Check out Cliff Stamp's SHBM if you need verification of that. Or Cobalt's for that matter. INFI's amazing!

 

[Tyrkon Lawson]

I train with my AK daily and have done lots of chopping, especially on wooden posts. I have had no flexing problems. The blade stays straight as an arrow before, during, and after it hits the target.