I think knifetest.com does a better job of showing if a knife is going to fail, he puts them thru the ringer. Chopping down a tree doesn't show how far you can push a knife, it just shows how to kill a tree. Most people in a real world scenario (Camping,hiking,hunting or even survival) have little need to fell 10" diameter live trees, not even for shelter.
Right.. because everyone uses a knife to bust up concrete. Don't get me wrong, I love knifetests.com and I think Noss does his best to provide some of the best unbiased (although unscientific) reviews out there. I bought some good knives through his testing.
Concrete testing is a good way to know the ultimate stresses of the knife, but chopping a tree down is definitely a more common application. If someone wants to test it that way, I'm totally interested in the results. Also, I don't see Noss doing his test on smaller EDC folders. I guess it's not in his forte right now, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Most people in the real world may have little need to chop through a 10" diameter live tree, but they'd certainly have less reasons through do the same through your urban materials.
Nutnfancy hasn't forced me to buy a single knife he reviewed. But he's provided some good information on my decision making. But he certainly has done more than his share to spread sound opinions. Certainly more than me, and certainly more than you. At the time I read your post, you have a total of 10, I have a total of 27. Well, unless you have several accounts in other forums with hundreds of posts, we certainly haven't contributed much have we? He has hundreds of videos, and we don't even add up to 40 posts in bladeforums.
I prefer his knife vids to be 15-20 min tops, but have you ever been in a knife discussion? I can talk about knives, applications, pros & cons for a long time. I respect how thorough he is, even if I may disagree with some of his perspectives.
