Tanto Blades Suck with Example

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True Story 3/22/2017: I handed the customer 3 bananas off the 5 banana bunch and put them in the old woman's shopping cart, trying to make it seem as if I hadn't just rammed the point of my CS recon mini tanto blade into my index finger. We talked for about half a minute more. Right before we parted I checked her three bananas hoping no blood had gotten on them. There was a little spot of blood on one, not a full drop, so I wiped it away with my other hand. The red sort of went away and I said yep, this a good one. About twenty minutes later it stopped bleeding.

OK I will tell you why I won't buy another tanto blade. The top of the blade is longer than the bottom of the blade so it can be difficult in some situations to judge where that point is, and the cutting surface is flat so a tanto blade is like cutting with a razor blade. I've never found a good use for the vertical edge. Based on what is known from history, the tanto shape was used to puncture whatever you were trying to kill, esp when you needed to go through someone's armor. I learned tonight that it does excel in that area.

Coldsteel knives are hardcore, that thick Carpenter tool steel is extremely powerful and should not be taken lightly. It makes a VG-10 spyderco look like a child's play thing. I think for now on I'll carry the spyderco since its lighter and easier to handle, and save the cold steel for when that kind of power is truly needed.
 
jonathan8219 said:
Coldsteel knives are hardcore, that thick Carpenter tool steel is extremely powerful and should not be taken lightly. It makes a VG-10 spyderco look like a child's play thing.
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Sharp things will hurt you if you jab them into yourself, a VG-10 Spyderco included.
 
I always use a blunt tip rescue knife or in a pinch a butter knife for banana stabbing. No injuries in action in over 50 years!

[video=youtube;PcZ35D981hI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcZ35D981hI[/video]
 
jonathan8219 said:
Coldsteel knives are hardcore, that thick Carpenter tool steel is extremely powerful and should not be taken lightly. It makes a VG-10 spyderco look like a child's play thing. I think for now on I'll carry the spyderco since its lighter and easier to handle, and save the cold steel for when that kind of power is truly needed.
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How is that steel "powerful"? :confused: Because it is thick? Would equally thick, say, VG-10, be less "powerful"?
 
jonathan8219 said:
True Story 3/22/2017: I handed the customer 3 bananas off the 5 banana bunch and put them in the old woman's shopping cart, trying to make it seem as if I hadn't just rammed the point of my CS recon mini tanto blade into my index finger. We talked for about half a minute more. Right before we parted I checked her three bananas hoping no blood had gotten on them. There was a little spot of blood on one, not a full drop, so I wiped it away with my other hand. The red sort of went away and I said yep, this a good one. About twenty minutes later it stopped bleeding.

OK I will tell you why I won't buy another tanto blade. The top of the blade is longer than the bottom of the blade so it can be difficult in some situations to judge where that point is, and the cutting surface is flat so a tanto blade is like cutting with a razor blade. I've never found a good use for the vertical edge. Based on what is known from history, the tanto shape was used to puncture whatever you were trying to kill, esp when you needed to go through someone's armor. I learned tonight that it does excel in that area.

Coldsteel knives are hardcore, that thick Carpenter tool steel is extremely powerful and should not be taken lightly. It makes a VG-10 spyderco look like a child's play thing. I think for now on I'll carry the spyderco since its lighter and easier to handle, and save the cold steel for when that kind of power is truly needed.
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In regards to punching through armor; the Japanese Tanto pount does not look like the American Tanto point, you most likely stabbed yourself with.

In regards to the 'power' of a CS over a Spyderco = :D
 
And what about the poor customer who now has your blood on her food? You absolutely should not have let her walk out with food items you sold her with your blood on them. This is customer service 101: do not contaminate products with possible blood borne pathogens. Seriously not okay.
 
Something tells me a clip-point, drop-point, spear-point, or whatever-point blade would have done the same thing....
 
SpySmasher said:
I hear ya, brother.

I was slicing a tomato with my Himalayan Imports Kukri and accidentally cut my foot off.

To much power = total mess.
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For something as dangerous as a tomato I play it safe.



Don't ask what we do for potatoes out here!
 
FWIW, the American Tanto blade shape does kind of suck. I'm with you there.

I'm a little puzzled by how the "power" of blade steel is measured.

But cutting yourself on a banana is pretty impressive.
 
craytab said:
And what about the poor customer who now has your blood on her food? You absolutely should not have let her walk out with food items you sold her with your blood on them. This is customer service 101: do not contaminate products with possible blood borne pathogens. Seriously not okay.
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^^ This, you idiot!
 
Sometimes i just rip the banana off the bunch like a savage instead of using a knife, I have quite abit of power in my fingers.

Ps, very interesting first post on this forum
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I say go with a Japanese Tanto style. It has a much cleaner design to it and I'd bet it could still cut bananas. Though, if you stab yourself with it it'll bleed the same as if an Americanized Tanto cut you. Just don't cut yourself. Or.. Get a sheepsfoot. That way you won't pierce your finger with the tip unless you really screw up.
 
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