Ok, I just finished watching the comlete test of the Strider, here are my observatioons.
critique:
1. When you batoned the strider you did it with a 2x4 instead of a hammer like you did with the other test knives. When you did start using a hammer it did not take long for the strider to self destruct.
2. You did not baton it into plywood like you did to the other test knives. Plywood is much worse than plank.
3. Tip test was into weak soft chair metal and drawer metal. Good test, but does not show pryng strength. Anyone will tell you that you can pond most good knives into 1/8 inch steel which is much stronger than the stuff you used.
4. Not using the spine of the knife as a hammer to tighten and loosen the vice like you did the other knives. Again, I'd bet the strider would have failed based on how quickly it did fail when you started hammering on it.
Results:
1. The strider is the worst chopper I have seen. I have had smaller knives chop better than that.
2. Tip penetration is as bad as I have ever seen. I think you did as much blunt force trauma to that chair as you did penetration.
3. The knife had trouble cutting cardboard right from the start because of it's rediculously thick edge.
4. You batoned it into a brick tip first, which is it's strongest area. And the metal chipped off in a small 1 mm layer. The way it chipped is nteresting. Shows me what I have suspected. That there is no direction grain strength. I call that SUPER BRITTLE. Not good
5. You then hammer it into the chairs side hinges and partway into the second one the blade self destructs.
I'd bet that bushman and the Kabar Bowie would have taken more. I don't think the strider would have survived the initial hammering that you gave the other knives and you chose not to give this one. If you count the time that it took for the strider to self destruct when you started hammering on it with a hammer on the spine versus how long the other knives took to fall apart whe you started hammering n them with a hammer on the spine, I think you will find that it rated much worse than the other knives.