440C Stainless Steel
Blade thickness 1/4"
RC Hardness of 57
Blade head: 4 1/2"
Draw knife:2 1/4"
Blade Width: 2 1/2"
Blade to handle: 6 3/4"
Handle:6 1/4"
Handle scales Micarta
Summary of test:
Cutting: I peeled an apple and cut some 10,000 lb webbing the Predator did this easy.
Chopping: I chopped a 2x4 this was not hard to do.
Batoning: I begin to baton a landscaping timber and broke the tip off with the wood baton. The tip is very weak since the knife has saw teeth and leaves the tip vulnerable to this kind of failure.
Cutting: I cut the webbing again and only noticed a little decrease in initial sharpness.
Whittling: I would have liked to do a field test but I didn't have time. I whittled a stick down to a point using the narrow edge section of the predator. The knife performed well at this task.
Saw: I sawed some clean notches in a 2x4 about 3/8" deep very quick. It was hard to go any deeper as the blade would bind.
Concrete: I chopped into a concrete block chipping the edge from time to time. The knife did not break during this.
Hammer Impacts: Using the 3 lb steel mallet I hammered the knife edge into the cross grain of a 2x6. The knife took some heavy hits and did not break. I then hammered the saw portion of the predator to see if I could get a failure. I could not do so. I flattened the saw teeth but the blade held up fine.
Concrete/Hammer: I hammed the edge into a concrete block splitting the brick. The predator took some very hard 3 lb hammer impacts on the narrow and saw portion of the spine never breaking the blade.
Concrete continued: I hammered what was left of the tip into a concrete block,breaking it into several sections.
there was no further damage to the damaged area of the broken tip.
Flex Test: with the tip secured in the vice about 1.5" I flexed the blade to about 20 degrees until the tip broke.
Body weight test: I placed the predictor in the holder at the beginning of the edge grind. I stood on the handle with all my 225 lbs. The predator took all my weight just fine. I bounced up and down on the tang and still no failure occurred. I pulled the blade out of the holder 1 inch from the edge grind and repeated the test, The blade snapped this time around.
Side tang impacts: I placed the blade the vice and hit the tang with the 3 lb Hammer. The predator broke on the second hit. Only a few knives I have tested the can endure this test.
Overall: The Predator is functional. It cuts well. It chops fairly well. It is fairly tough but not super tough. The edge is brittle and some chipping did occur during very hard use. The saw is functional for notching. The tip is very weak on the predator and broke during batoning wood with wood. The blade is very ridged and did not flex much before the tip section broke. Heavy prying is not going to work well with the predator. The handle screws all fell out during chopping and impact work.
The Videos are in 6 parts posted at www.knifetests.com
Enjoy the videos. They were made for you :thumbup:
Blade thickness 1/4"
RC Hardness of 57
Blade head: 4 1/2"
Draw knife:2 1/4"
Blade Width: 2 1/2"
Blade to handle: 6 3/4"
Handle:6 1/4"
Handle scales Micarta
Summary of test:
Cutting: I peeled an apple and cut some 10,000 lb webbing the Predator did this easy.
Chopping: I chopped a 2x4 this was not hard to do.
Batoning: I begin to baton a landscaping timber and broke the tip off with the wood baton. The tip is very weak since the knife has saw teeth and leaves the tip vulnerable to this kind of failure.
Cutting: I cut the webbing again and only noticed a little decrease in initial sharpness.
Whittling: I would have liked to do a field test but I didn't have time. I whittled a stick down to a point using the narrow edge section of the predator. The knife performed well at this task.
Saw: I sawed some clean notches in a 2x4 about 3/8" deep very quick. It was hard to go any deeper as the blade would bind.
Concrete: I chopped into a concrete block chipping the edge from time to time. The knife did not break during this.
Hammer Impacts: Using the 3 lb steel mallet I hammered the knife edge into the cross grain of a 2x6. The knife took some heavy hits and did not break. I then hammered the saw portion of the predator to see if I could get a failure. I could not do so. I flattened the saw teeth but the blade held up fine.
Concrete/Hammer: I hammed the edge into a concrete block splitting the brick. The predator took some very hard 3 lb hammer impacts on the narrow and saw portion of the spine never breaking the blade.
Concrete continued: I hammered what was left of the tip into a concrete block,breaking it into several sections.
there was no further damage to the damaged area of the broken tip.
Flex Test: with the tip secured in the vice about 1.5" I flexed the blade to about 20 degrees until the tip broke.
Body weight test: I placed the predictor in the holder at the beginning of the edge grind. I stood on the handle with all my 225 lbs. The predator took all my weight just fine. I bounced up and down on the tang and still no failure occurred. I pulled the blade out of the holder 1 inch from the edge grind and repeated the test, The blade snapped this time around.
Side tang impacts: I placed the blade the vice and hit the tang with the 3 lb Hammer. The predator broke on the second hit. Only a few knives I have tested the can endure this test.
Overall: The Predator is functional. It cuts well. It chops fairly well. It is fairly tough but not super tough. The edge is brittle and some chipping did occur during very hard use. The saw is functional for notching. The tip is very weak on the predator and broke during batoning wood with wood. The blade is very ridged and did not flex much before the tip section broke. Heavy prying is not going to work well with the predator. The handle screws all fell out during chopping and impact work.
The Videos are in 6 parts posted at www.knifetests.com
Enjoy the videos. They were made for you :thumbup:
I must pay $ 1000 and wait 2 years for it
