What do you want from a video review?

So-Lo

So-Lo

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I have been thinking of doing some video reviews on a few of my knives. Posted on youtube more than likely.

Do you like cutting tests?
Mostly showing and talking about the features?
This vs that type of thing? (SNG vs Sebbie)
other stuff?


They will be done in one take, no fancy words on screen. No music, just a review.

Good idea, or its been done enough all ready?


I only have EDC type folders. :cool:
 
I could show how beefy they are and such, but I will not try to break them.
 
Use, use, use, and comments about use.

To put it crudely I see a lot of videos on youtube where the person fondles the knife and says it feels good in the hand and it appears well made and that is it. Many don't even open the knife and hold it to give you any sense of the ergos. Those reviews (to me) are completely worthless.

I want to hear why you chose the knife you did over others, what you like about it and what makes it so suitable for the cutting you do.
 
1. DON'T MOVE AROUND! We want to see the knife, and with low quality videos like youtube's, we need you to hold still so we can look at it.

2. Show us all sides.

3. Close-up of the locking mechanism, how it works.

4. Show us the grip.

5. Maybe show us how it looks clipped in the pocket.

6. Open and close the knife a few good times.

7. Cutting tests aren't that important. That's going to be determined mostly by how the owner sharpens it. Plus, all it is is cutting paper or something, unless you want to chop free-dangling rope or something extraordinary for us lol
 
I agree with Vivi I like to see people useing the knife. Comments on what your doing with it and what you like and dislike. Not really cutting tests but useing it for something. Cutting meat fruit, veges, rope, plastics, wood, and/or really anything.
 
I'd like to be able to see the knife clearly from all angles. I'd like to see it next to something of known size for scale - possibly other very common/popular knives.
 
show us the knife in every position all the time while talking, so if we'er not interested in what your saying we can at least hopefully see what we want to know. compare it to another knife in the video or something to see size and finish comparison. If no other knife use a ruler, lighter, soda can etc. Tell us how it feels, tight, strong, why you do or don't like it. How it sharpens, how it came and how much and where you got it. Write down the specs, price etc. and give that first off. Use an outline and do the best you can. And thanks for asking.
 
Show the knife from all angles, both open and closed. Show it in comparison to a well-known knife (Endura or buck 110). Show the locking mechanism from all angles, and slow enough to get the concept of how it works. Open and close the knife a few times; use the flipper if it has one. Cut everyday things - paper, cardboard, rope, maybe some carpet, etc. - and leave out the stabbing through a car door / breaking a cinderblock with the spine stuff.

Maybe show how easy (or hard) it is to resharpen. If it has a pocket clip, show it in use (coming out of a pocket) instead of just being in-hand.
 
waffle said:
Are you still thinking about doing one?
:o
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Yes, I'm in a hardwood floor project for the wifey right now. So it will be another week or so, might review the endura 4 zdp combo edge I bought for a beater knife for the floors. Its holding up fine so far. :D
 
Well, since no one knife can 'do it all,' the knives tested could be shown cutting materials which benefit from a thicker edge, a thinner edge, a polished edge, a coarse edge, a deep hollow grind, a full flat grind, all that sort of fun stuff. The locks could be tested by placing them in a padded vise and torqued and twisted in all directions to show whether they might unlock during certain types of cutting and then they could be spine-whacked on something like pinewood or hard rubber to demonstrate resistance to accidental spinewhacks without marring the knife's spine.

I wouldn't suggest using the factory edge or maker's edge as everyone should be resharpening their knives and comparing coarse/thick, coarse/thin, polished/thick, and polished/thin edges to each other would require a few resharpenings.
 
Oh yeah and all these test done by pretty women with nothing on but high heal shoes. :)
 
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