Um, what does a drop test prove?

[paul brown]

By drop test I'm referring to guys on youtube dropping a knife (blade down) to see if it sticks in a piece of wood. Are they trying to prove or disprove gravity or is there a technique where you drop a knife from a building onto what you want to cut? I think secrets are being kept from me.

 

[MolokaiRider]

Desperate for content I would imagine.

 

[115Italian]

I’ve dropped a few folding knives, about four feet in the air, into a piece of wood. I was shocked at how many locks failed when the blade stuck into the wood.

 

[oldmanwilly]

The knifemaker Walter Sorrells posted instructional videos where he would repeatedly toss a newly forged blade into the air and watch it fall and bounce around on a concrete driveway. He was checking to see how well the tip and edge held up to random shocks so that he could refine his technique.

A YouTube knife reviewer dropping a new knife, tip down, onto a piece of wood is probably just trying to generate views by forcing a knife to fail at its weakest point, running low on lawn darts, or discovered the lost sport of mumblety-peg.

 

[David Mary]

I do it, not on video, but because I like the satisfying thunk of a blade embedding itself point first into wood. Judge me all you want, but it makes me smile.

 

[paul brown]

^ well that makes sense if you like doing it. They seem to be trying to prove something. What, I can't figure out yet.

 

[David Mary]

I think a drop test on video might be a throwing test that couldn't be bothered to try very hard.

 

[nephron]

Looks like it got its intended results, people noticing and commenting on it. I gave up long ago trying to figure out some of the "testing", I just try to winnow out some facts if possible.