Please do elaborate. I've got popcorn and newtons laws over here waiting patiently.
Its called distribution of stored energy. Google that.
When a knife splits wood the energy that transfers from the blow to through blade is dispersed through the splitting of the wood. when a knife is thrown not all of the energy is passed to the tree or target and causes stress and damage to the knife.
Run your car into a tree sometime and tell me what happens.
Go ahead and throw your knives I won't lose sleep, but don't think people who actually use knives as TOOLS will take a knife"hard use" argument seriously based on throwing. just saying
Wait, Your argument is you broke a bk7 (although you haven't shown proof) in 1095, where's the tests for sr101? So your complete argument is based on an unknown knife, assumed variables, assumed velocity, then you put numbers together and even your math says you shouldntt break it, but you did? Seems like your calculations may be a bit off then. I don't get where your going this?
And the OP never said he planned on throwing the knife at all, so again I'm not sure where you are going with this?
I believe this argument has run its course. there is a knife throwing forum for a reason. lets get back on topic seriously now.
LOL.
My "argument" is that no one has presented demonstrative data, theoretical or otherwise, that throwing knives not specifically HT'd for the purpose necessarily leads to fracture and therefore constitutes gross abuse and is an unreasonable measure of durability.
In the thread I began, my initial hypothesis was that throwing a knife of general specifications (no brand) will destroy it via catastrophic failure. Using newtonian physics (which you claimed to have at the ready??) and empirically generated data regarding strength and toughness of the selected knife steel at the selected hardness, my calculations bring me to the opposite conclusion, namely that throwing a knife of the specifications presented will NOT destroy it by catastrophic failure unless there is a serious material flaw in the material to begin with. That is, throwing this hypothetical knife (with properties similar to a number of "hard use" knives) is not a problem. If your knife breaks, there was something seriously wrong with it.
Now, I doubt my calculations and seek support from the community... but no one has presented an alternative calculation and conclusion demonstrating otherwise.
Until such a demonstration is offered,
MYTH.
As to throwing a knife as demonstration of its durability, I know a lot of soldiers who use knives as tools that would be convinced by that. Actually, from your own arguments, throwing a knife is an excellent demonstration of its toughness, and who would argue? The physics supports that. *shrug*
FYI, I started a new thread in the knife-throwing subforum to again seek proof that "hard use" knives are too brittle to throw. I hope to get some useful replies...
Well then, by all means, have fun big boy.
Now, is it too much to ask to keep the thread on topic?
Please do, but let's try to stick to objective facts and avoid unsubstantiated myths , shall we? Please?
