Yet another misinformed Youtube knife video

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not2sharp

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You have to give this guy credit, he clearly has a lot of enthusiasm. But, his knife video is full of factual errors. Lets take a look at his video and see who many we can catch.

Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th6af2Awpr4

Let me get us started.

1) at 2:24, he points to a U.S. 1917 trench knife and talks about its stiletto or dagger blade. The 1917 actually had an edgeless triangular cross section blade.



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I found the part about how the "440" steel number is how you gauge the steel quite amusing. Higher number is better than lower number. Heck, M4 and 3V must be total crap by those standards. I better run to walmart and get me some high number 440 steel cause 440 is a larger number than all my other knives.

Also "Rockwell hardness doesn't matter because we only care how easy our knife is to sharpen" lol

Its not hard to do some research and get good information before you start posting wrong info for everyone to hear. Its a downward spiral of misinformation.
 
I couldn't make it past "It's a fighting knife... it has a point on the end".
 
BladeCommander said:
I found the part about how the "440" steel number is how you gauge the steel quite amusing. Higher number is better than lower number. Heck, M4 and 3V must be total crap by those standards. I better run to walmart and get me some high number 440 steel cause 440 is a larger number than all my other knives.

Also "Rockwell hardness doesn't matter because we only care how easy our knife is to sharpen" lol

Its not hard to do some research and get good information before you start posting wrong info for everyone to hear. Its a downward spiral of misinformation.
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52100 would blow his mind! :) I didn't watch it, I cannot sit through most of the youtube knife reviews, from what you guys are posting I think you can understand why.
 
In the knife world a smart buyer generally gets what he paid for. ;)


The same can be said for UTube knife reviews. :eek:



Big Mike
 
BladeCommander said:
I found the part about how the "440" steel number is how you gauge the steel quite amusing. Higher number is better than lower number. Heck, M4 and 3V must be total crap by those standards. I better run to walmart and get me some high number 440 steel cause 440 is a larger number than all my other knives.
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But it explains why 52100 is so good! It's like the highest number I've ever seen!
 
My favorite are the guys that get whatever trendy new "hard use" knife just came out and spend most of the video talking about how "strong it feels in hand". Aka it's thick and heavy.
 
You guys think this is funny ? A couple years back a guy did a review of two knives : a case Chrome vanadium Hawk bill pruner and an united cutlery 420 stainless steel Tacticool folder with a fancy black blade. He completely be rated the case knife for being " Cheap Non - stainless " steel. It pisses me off so bad. I love carbon steel knives myself( as my user name.implies). He also thinks.that stainless steel holds an.edge for YEARS longer than carbon steel. And you know the worst part ? He picked the 420 knife for 1 reason : some famous actor used it in a movie.
 
Once I noticed he had part of his finger missing I couldn't concentrate on what he was saying. Nice clear video and no shaking camera, yea.
 
carbonsteelfan said:
You guys think this is funny ? A couple years back a guy did a review of two knives : a case Chrome vanadium Hawk bill pruner and an united cutlery 420 stainless steel Tacticool folder with a fancy black blade. He completely be rated the case knife for being " Cheap Non - stainless " steel. It pisses me off so bad. I love carbon steel knives myself( as my user name.implies). He also thinks.that stainless steel holds an.edge for YEARS longer than carbon steel. And you know the worst part ? He picked the 420 knife for 1 reason : some famous actor used it in a movie.
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Honestly, I would love to see that review.
 
Whoa, guys, if you'd watched more of this video you would have learned that... a knife is NOT JUST FOR KILLING! Be honest, I bet most of us here did not know that! So glad he said it. :D
 
Youtube is like listening to a song as you're leaving the area of coverage for that particular station. There's good info to be found, problem is, so much chaff and signal noise, it's hard to find the folks with the right info. I hate to say it, but there are so many absolutely terrible knife and other gear reviewers out there, it's ridiculous. One guy I recall, he would have the camera on a little tripod on the table, and he'd be talking about a knife, and then he'd flick the knife open or whatever, and bump the camera tripod, causing it to tip over and then he has to catch it, and all this noise comes through on the video. And the crazy part? 1. that that wasn't edited out, and 2. this happened in two other videos of his!!!
 
I'm sorry but I have to add, he also says "you want a nice sharp edge that runs the length of the blade but not necessarily all the way down the handle" Um... are there certain situations I DO want my blade running all the way down the handle of my knife?!

This guy seems like an older, well-reasoned and fairly logical gentleman. I expected a dumb teenager, so I feel kinda bad about this but... it is what it is.
 
Lost Cosmonaut said:
No worse than any given Nutnfancy video!

/donsflamesuit
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"whhhup-issssshhhhhh! Check out that jimping bro!" :P

Lol, but seriously though, it's almost as if anyone can just get on the internet and say anything they want, even if it's not correct!!! >_>
 
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