What's the Worst You've Done to a Knife? (without breaking it)

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The worst I've ever done -
I once tried to baton through an oak log, prolly 6" diameter, with a khukri. It got stuck in a knot so I grabbed a pipe wrench :eek: and pounded the spine til it went through. Unbelievably there was no damage to the edge but the spine was pretty well dinged up. I put it on a belt sander and it was good as new, almost, in a few minutes.

How about y'all?
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About 20 years ago, I was developing a hard-use knife, and there wasn't much I DIDN'T do to it! Stuck it in a bowl of salt water for a fortnight, batoned through wood and steel using a hammer, put it in a vice and bent the blade to 45 degrees with a huge bar then hammered it back, hammered it into wood and jumped on it, cut through bolts and nails and just about everything else I could find (as well as doing lots of sensible stuff)! It still came back for more! I sent a number off for similiar arduous testing, one guy dressed a couple of deer, then batoned a load of hard wood with a hammer, opened a couple of cans, then (with a hammer) cut the bottom out of a galvanised iron bucket!
 
Without writing a book here I'll just say that I put a Busse Tank Buster through some seriously stupid and abusive 'tests'.
Didn't break that bugger. (tips hat to INFI)
 
I stupidly used an Emerson CQC-7 to hammer a sap-tap into a maple tree - dinged up the G10 pretty badly.

That was pretty stupid, and I regretted it instantly.

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I use my Benchmade 940 to pry open paint cans sometimes. Never had any damage, that is one strong point.
 
Jack Black said:
About 20 years ago, I was developing a hard-use knife, and there wasn't much I DIDN'T do to it! Stuck it in a bowl of salt water for a fortnight, batoned through wood and steel using a hammer, put it in a vice and bent the blade to 45 degrees with a huge bar then hammered it back, hammered it into wood and jumped on it, cut through bolts and nails and just about everything else I could find (as well as doing lots of sensible stuff)! It still came back for more! I sent a number off for similiar arduous testing, one guy dressed a couple of deer, then batoned a load of hard wood with a hammer, opened a couple of cans, then (with a hammer) cut the bottom out of a galvanised iron bucket!
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After this post, who wants to see MY stories.

Hey Jack; Did you ever get that knife developed? Where could someone buy one like that? :thumbup:
 
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I'd love to have a knife that tough but still able to slice and dice. Oh ya, I do have one of those. It's a Becker BK-9! :D
 
My favorite knife of all time, a Puma White Hunter, decided to run away from home and spend the winter in the back yard. When it came back home it was pitted slightly by rust. Just gave the knife character. It's getting a new sheath...
 
yesterday took my endura zdp to DMT extra coarse diamond stone (edge re-profiling to convex) it got scratched up pretty bad, but after initial reprofiling and then some finer stone polishing and then strops the edge is mirror now and scary sharp. Who cares about the scratches.
 
Besides "tipping" an old Buck Stockman years ago, I think that trying to baton a frozen log with my Rat-6 wasn't too smart. Cold temperatures + frozen block of oak = severely chipped edge. Duh.
 
I work in grocery and while breaking down a box, my Para 2 slid right through the cardboard and into the carriage I was using. I almost cried. The dent in the blade was bad enough to need a trip to Golden, CO. Thankfully, Spyderco repaired the blade and it was like it never happened.
 
When I was probably fifteen years old, I used one of these. Ruined the edge, scratched up the secondary bevel with ugly, wavy scratches. And since I was completely ignorant, I just kept pulling... and pulling... and pulling. I cringe when I think about it.

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jnichols2 said:
After this post, who wants to see MY stories.

Hey Jack; Did you ever get that knife developed? Where could someone buy one like that? :thumbup:
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I completed the project, but only 25 knives were made. It's very rarely that one comes up for sale since people tend to hang onto them. It was 18 months of time and hard work, and a lot of frustration, producing what was then an unfashionable design (no saw-back, hollow-handle, or double-guard), in a place with no recent history of innovation in cutlery techniques. I don't think I'd do it again (or if I did I'd certainly do things very differently)! For what it's worth, here's one of the reviews I referred to :)



 
One of my hand forged bowies is being passed around and torture tested right now. Its been slammed through hard woods with a hammer, along with some other disturbing things, but this is the one test that has made me cringe. All testers understand that if they break it, oh well. I want to see what it'll take. This is the latest test, its been through about 5 people on another forum so far. Like I said this makes me cringe

Tip strength test



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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prYOQOV10sc&feature=plcp
 
Easy, put it in my baggage for flight to Chicago from Tucson. Best knife I ever owned. Ever. Emerson Commander customized to manual or "secret" auto. Never saw it again. Frontier: "Too bad, so sad, your dad. Wanna free lunch on your next flight?"
 
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