Thoughts on this bad review

knives, like cars, are made for different tasks. Do you think that a corvette and a hummer would fare equally crashing into brick walls? around an oval track? in the quarter mile? or through a mud bog? You also have to take into account what kind of steel you are working with when you are thinning an edge. When you thin an edge way way down, the carbides in steels like S30V and D2 (which are very large) actually lose support from the surrounding steel matrix, and are easily "chipped out" of the edge. (in some cases the carbides are as thick as the cross section of the edge and nearly fall out in use). I think that there are some useful parts to Cliff's reviews, but there are some ridiculous parts as well (pardon the spelling). I don't own either of the knives in question here, so I have no real world basis for an opinion, but I just wanted to mention that intended use of knives has to come into the picture....at least IMHO.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
I like it myself. My understandfing is, Cliff felt otherwise -- before he even held one.
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Yes much the same way he could tell everyone how well a certain Kershaw blade could or could not cut and perform in a certain steel. All this of course without ever using one himself by his own admission. :jerkit:

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All I read was his bit about the CRK Project 1 in A2 "chipping out readily when chopping wood" to realize his CRK reviews were a bit scewed. I couldn't accept that A2 that was underhardened @ 55-57 RC would "readily chip" instead of roll. Add to the fact that the edge bevel of a Project is around 20 degrees each side then it's really hard to believe.
 
They try to keep the actual vehicle identification a secret, but ... Car "C" is The Batmobile!
 
Yep, but we better be careful. He may chime in here and remind us again of his credentials and papers and why he is right and we are know nothings with a gang mentality. Maybe he can provide some links to those papers since they are apparently very obscure and hard to find. :confused:

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