Toor Knives Tropical Thunder Valor CPM-3V Broke in China.

[shinyedges]

A non damaged (as in no micro cracks/fractures) .25 blade should be able to take a moderate kicking.

 

[w]

The pictures in the op are deceiving if that is the same knife.

It's not the same knife. That one has a blade thickness of .1875 inch.

 

[shinyedges]

It's not the same knife. That one has a blade thickness of .1875 inch.

Makes sense

 

[jlauffer]

Who knows when you might need to stab your knife into something to use it as a step. Ninjas do it all the time.

 

[Laurarium]

He said that he stomped on a ZT 0006 , after the Toor was broken, but the ZT did not break.

 

[David Mary]

A step that you’re going to repeatedly jump on.

 

[David Mary]

He said that he stomped on a ZT 0006 , after the Toor was broken, but the ZT did not break.

I feel like neither of these knives would have ever broken had they been used simply as knives.

 

[SharpBits]

What are the motivations for this sort of “test”?

 

[Laurarium]

I feel like neither of these knives would have ever broken had they been used simply as knives.

Yes, they would not and did well in previous testings which are normal knife use.

 

[Laurarium]

What are the motivations for this sort of “test”?

He buys all the knives with his own money and the platform profit is little, I believe he does all these for sense of achievement from contributing to the community.

 

[jbmonkey]

i didnt watch the video, but since it was testing......did the toor survive a kung fu chop?

 

[knarfeng]

Uncontrolled testing produces meaningless results. If you cannot quantify the force you have applied, then you have proved nothing. There were so many uncontrolled variables in that test that the entire thing is meaningless.

 

[Laurarium]

Uncontrolled testing produces meaningless results. If you cannot quantify the force you have applied, then you have proved nothing. There were so many uncontrolled variables in that test that the entire thing is meaningless.

Sure this is not like Cliff level of review, but he does have a rough procedure he does to all knives.
As I said before, this type of tests are more like anecdotal repeorts, but I don’t think they are entirely worthless.
I think his tests are similar to DBK in terms of procedure/control/analytic/value, difference being he is not sponsered.

 

[DocJD]

My take : knives make poor trampolines !

 

[BluntCut MetalWorks]

Note: * I make knives and often stress test them - knife users please use knives within their functional specs, unless you are enjoy sometime un-intended destruction via damaging tests*

I've 2 of mil-survival blades on the test queue and here is an impromptu video demonstrate my post above

 

[Triton]

I'm sorry that isn't testing it's merely knife abuse and really doesn't tell us anything other than this particular knife can't be stomped on repeatedly. Since I'm not prone to stomping on my knives I don't know that I really got much out of that video.

 

[l1ranger]

I would be surprised (and disappointed) if Toor replaced this knife.

 

[Cobalt]

Is there a youtube video of this?

 

[TC]

Looks like China has their own version of Joe X.

When you are the World Champion of copying, you might as well go all the way.

 

[TC]

Is there a youtube video of this?

A video link is in the top post, Chinese site, though, not YouTube. I went there and no alarm bells started ringing. Should be safe enough.