Tip Break? Not!

[Cobalt]

I currently don't have many knives on hand, since most are in storage. One of the smallest knives I have is the Ontario Quartermaster knife. I was over at a friends place and his girlfriend is a budding knife collector. All her stuff is currently FROST! hehe. Anyway, I asked her to test the tips of her Frost Bowie, Case Bowie as well as testing my Quartermaster. I got the Quartermaster ad plunged it into a hardwood board about 0.5 inch deep and pried out a big chunk of wood. I did this 6 more times with the same results. I then got the case bowie and did the same thing with it, but only 3 times, with no damage to the tip.

I guess 1095 steel properly heat treated has no problem with this kind of use.

 

[Columbo]

Cool, but I am curious. What happened to the Frost Bowie? Were services held later that day?

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Dave
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[Cobalt]

Both the Quartermaster and Case Bowie had no problems, but the Frost knife bent after the first attempt. I bent it back and told her that if we did it again it would most likely break, so we didn't. What do you expect for 20 bucks.

 

[Will Kwan]

Cobalt once the tip is bent, it is weakened and susceptable to bending (good luck telling her that). A small portion of the tip on my MD ATAK2 was bent by stabbing 2x4's. Now it bends fairly easily. Fortunately, I was able to straighten it after each bend.

Will