Testing a knife after heat treating

[Daniel Fairly Knives]

It's OK, he's protected by the power of rainbows

You called it dude!

 

[rustyrazor]

Exactly. Wait... what? Contradictory much?[/QUOTE

Sorry James, allow me to clarify for you:

a Ka-bar type knife should be tested in the fashion to take a beating and hold up under extreme use... the ability to make hair thin slices is not the most important task for it and conversly the Scalpels main function is to make those precesion slices ...and the ability to baton it is just not a requirement, so we cant hold them to the same test standards. My point was in reference to "bladsmths" earlier post and that being if a knifemaker decides he should hammer a particular knife through a mild steel pipe or the door of a volvo, then he obviously knows that knife was meant to take a beating and is testing it that way. Who are we to say "when are you going to need that" or "use the proper tool, that's not a knife's job" when in reality we all have our own ideas on what our customers need and test our blades to satisfy ourselves that the tool we provide will be satisfactory. I dont expect my customers of my combat style blades to ever have to baton through 6" hardwood logs or hammer them point first through aluminum deck plate ...but they might, so i test my combat knives to make sure they can do it in case their life depends on it some day.

 

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

I think you are mis-reading my posts.

I was saying that a knife should be tested in a manner that simulated its expected use.
You test your combat knives for uses that they may encounter in combat....which is what I was saying.