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BK9

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BK7

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About as much bang-for-the-buck as you can get.
 
My read on this is that you like a cool looking knife. Get the Pig Sticker. It looks cool and it's only $13. Put the other $87 in a cookie jar and add money to the cookie jar until you find the perfect knife and then jump on it. Just my 2$
 
When most people say not to throw, it doesn't mean that if you pop the blade into a piece of wood it will shatter like glass on the first impact. It is more of a concern for long term throwing, and for the occasional bad throw.

For example if you throw forcefully, but at an odd angle, the tip can go forcefully into the wood, but because the throw isn't straight, the main blade body can continue to travel and put a hard snap across the tip.

Plus there are the times you miss the target and send the blade slamming into a bunch of rocks. It is because of really high impacts like this that throwing knives tend to be fairly soft and made out of really high impact steels.

-Cliff
 
People historically have used far worse materials for knives than even the low end fantasy knives made today. People have used copper and even bone knives, in comparison even the lower grade steels are upgrades. So can you use that knife - yes. The performance in many respects will be low compared to a Combat Bowie or other decent knives, but it is unlikely it will suffer gross failure immediately.

I have used a few of them, not that one in particular, but a lot of flea market level knives, the guard is likely to loosen quickly, the handle material is probably low grade rubber, the tang is likely weak, and watch the edge around knots, NIB sharpness is also probably low and the steel could be problematic to get really sharp and may be best left filed as Jeff has noted for some of the low end blades.

-Cliff
 
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