What is the hardest thing you know of a knife being put through?

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88M SOLDIER

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I'm looking for a hardcore folder but I would like to see some fixed blade stories too.
I just bought a strider GB and an Emerson Commander, I also have a TOPS moccasin ranger that i plan on using the hell out of.

Who has the baddest fixed blade or folder out there?
 
Well I would have to say..... magnesium flint is the toughtest thing I have ever used a knife for..... you know the type... the square jobs with the strip of flint on the top... scrap some magnesium off into a littel pile and spark it with the flint. seems to be very hard on the knife edge.

Hope this helps
Hydraulicman
 
Once I try to splint a dry old coconut in two with my BK7. The thing was so hard that remove part the coating on the blade :eek:

I do not know if was some kind of mutant coconut, but that one almost ruin my knife!



BETO

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That's got to be the Concrete Block Chop that Swamprat did on their battle rat a few years back. The entire block was cut in half while the knife were only dull out a bit (no chip). That is all that you can ask for for a knife that's below $150!! hell I wouldn't expect a knife to do that even if it cost $300!!
 
Worst I saw was Rob Simonich shooting his Raven Combat edge with a .45. A real bullet splitter.
As for me the worst I did was cut a galvanized 'swamp cooler' off my Mother-in-laws roof with my Severtech. It's A2 tool steel so I was using it as a cutting tool. :p
 
Mutant coconut.....that's funny, Alberto!

Checkout some of the Strider "testing" stories floating around the web!!

Nice web site by the way, Alberto.....great photography!

Larry S.
 
Practical Use said:
I saw a picture of a Benchmade AFCK M2 stabbed through the hood of a car.
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i did this myself with a MOD trident
was a bitch pulling it back out though
 
Hi 88M,

I've been trying to answer this question for awhile now. As far as actual testing, I'll have to second testing by Cliff Stamp. He's a knut that has tested MANY blades to the breaking point and beyond. He mostly tests fixed blades.
http://www.physics.mun.ca/~sstamp/
I've heard some negative comments about some of his testing and possible biases, however I've not found anyone else doing tests that are as thorough, methodical, or "extreme".

I asked a similar question on a thread "compact rescue/pry knife" that you might look at - it's a few pages back on this forum - and got some great advice.

From the research I've done, it seems that for a production folder you probably can't get much tougher than Stryder. There are customs out there that will probably out perform a stryder, but I don't have any specific examples.

In fixed blades, there are LOTS of solid knives in terms of lateral strength, however if you consider price and actual cutting performance, it appears that Swamp Rat knives are pretty hard to beat. One step up will get you a Busse Combat knife. Busse makes (argueably) just about the toughest overall knie out there, and has the tests and waranty to back this up. I'm hoping to get myself a used Badger Attack sometime in the near future.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

SCDUB
 
One very unintentional test that an older Busse Badger Attack went through was stopping a .40 cal bullet in a training exercise gone wrong. The knife suffered some coating loss and the wearer suffered brusing from the knife. One of the Mods on the Busse forum is trying to pull up the pic and the thread if you want to take a look.

Rob
 
Larry S. said:
Mutant coconut.....that's funny, Alberto!

Checkout some of the Strider "testing" stories floating around the web!!

Larry S.
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Funny but true, and a little scary. I have read some of the Strider, Busse and Swamp Rat test, all of them very impressive. But that coconut really freaks me out. I mean, is was just a coconut, not a brick!
I'll post a picture later to show the damage.


Larry S. said:
Nice web site by the way, Alberto.....great photography!

Larry S.
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Thank you Larry, that website was a kind of experiment to learn web design by myself, I think you are the first person to visit it aside from me :D


BETO

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oh wait
i remember a men's magazine, either maxim or fhm having a series of pictures with strobe lighting
there was one with an SOG Seal 2000 being struck with a round
the series of shots showed the round being cut into 2 :eek:
 
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Cliff's great grandfather's most famous test :)
 
I've never thought of shooting my knife edge with a pistol.not A bad idea,or maybe i'll find A mutant coconut, how much would it cost to ship one to Tennessee, Alberto?
 
My father-when he says "hand me your knife for a second" I swear that will automatically void your warranty and it constitutes gross abuse and neglect. He refuses to wipe carbon steel off and knives are screw drivers and prybars. And the killing part is he gets PO-ed when you hand him the flea market cheapie I salt around for him. The BM Griptillion I bougth him was used to scrap crud from the grill-use a brillo pad dude.
 
Benchmade has the remains of a 970 (CQC 7) that was used by a technician checking explosive charges being set to demolish a building. This was the final check. The countdown was already underway. Since authorities had been notified, surrounding buildings evacuated, streets closed, etc., any delay at this point would have to be absolutely necessary for a very good reason. The technician unfortunately dropped his knife down one of the explosive-packed holes. to safely recover his knife would have taken several hours. So, he knew that he would just have to say good bye to his knife. Later, while checking the rubble for any possible undetonated explosives, the same technician came across the remains of his knife. As a joke, he sent it in to Benchmade for LifeSharp service. Benchmade replaced the knife.

Benchmade has the remains of an 812 (AFCK) that was dropped into a roaring campfire and recovered from the ashes the next day. That one was also replaced.

But, I like the story of the guy who quite literally blew up his knife best.
 
Here is a picture of the damage in the coating, the result of a long and bloody duel against a mutant coconut:

http://www.strangevistas.net/beto/misc/Damage.jpg

I was thinking about it, and I realize now that was a problem of technique... I wanted to split a coconut in two to make a primitive torch, I should have used a saw, not a knife. The coconut was very dry, then very hard, and the small and spherical shape makes it very difficult to cut, and once you crack the thing, it traps the blade, damaging the coat.
It was stupid, but I was so excited with my new knife that I wanted to cut everything I found :)

88M SOLDIER said:
how much would it cost to ship one to Tennessee, Alberto?
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About $20. But I am afraid that the government catches it and use it to make an evil army of mutant coconuts soldiers :D


BETO

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