Your Toughest Knife?

Question: Can a Folder qualify as a toughest knife? Wouldn't the folding factor be the Achilles Heel of the knife? I have a few folders I've put through their paces, but almost every FB could outperform them for extreme stuff. Or, is the tough factor just a relative thing in the folder world, as opposed to comparing to a fixed?

Also, someone listed a SAK Farmer. Ok, I love my SAKs to, but c'mon, 3 seconds and the edge of my counter and a pathetic "Kung Fu Fighting" chop, and bye bye blade....
 
I have a lot of "tough" knives, but the most ridiculously overbuilt ones have to be my Busse CGASH-1s. Battle Mistresses are tough, but they're long, and theoretically, if you put enough force against them, you might get enough leverage to bend or break the things. Like if you had a tug-of-war between two tanks with the knife jammed between the two chains, holding them together.:D A CGASH-1 could probably survive that test- the chains would break first.
 
I don't own any INFI knifes so I can't compare to the Busse clan products, but my RAT Cutlery RC-6 has put up with everything I've thrown at it and only needed mild resharpening. It's really a tough nut.

I don't stress test my folding knives, but I would give my unverified nod to a Lg. Reg. Sebenza or SNG.
 
jimh0220 said:
Question: Can a Folder qualify as a toughest knife? Wouldn't the folding factor be the Achilles Heel of the knife? I have a few folders I've put through their paces, but almost every FB could outperform them for extreme stuff. Or, is the tough factor just a relative thing in the folder world, as opposed to comparing to a fixed?

Also, someone listed a SAK Farmer. Ok, I love my SAKs to, but c'mon, 3 seconds and the edge of my counter and a pathetic "Kung Fu Fighting" chop, and bye bye blade....
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a folder can be tough, up to their limit; and there are folders that have a high limit...some folders can be close enough to the toughness of a fixed...

a slipjoint can be tough worker, but come on; in the context of this thread topic, a slipjoint doesn't pass muster...

regarding the izula...a tough blade, yes; but i don't think many ask too much out of its 2.88" length...extreme stuff from a sub 3" fixed; no, i'm using something longer...
 
Busse NMFBM. I smashed through ice on concrete steps, accidentally smashing the concrete. Cut down large frozen trees, split frozen wood.

Video, screwing around


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Well, I aint got a Mistress or any real thick INFI...

Guess I would have to say my Desert Dog Father, or SOD.

Cant really hurt either one of them.
 
Fixed: Cold Steel GI Tanto

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-carbon steel (1055;))
-soft hardness (but it really takes a nice polished "hair popping" edge, my GI loves my Norton 8000:D)
= Tough as Excalibur:p (but a lot cheaper & easier to find:D)

Folder: Spyderco (old & never forget:cool:) Manix

- IMO "tough folder" = front lock (especially Spyderco models made in Golden or in Japan) , liner locks?... not for me thanks:thumbdn: (just my opinion)

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That's easy. Ranger ARC (Airborne Ranger Combat). It's a dagger cnc machined from 3/8" thick H13 steel. I'm not sure which is tougher between the production model or a custom convex-ground single-edge model he made me. Either one is tougher than anything i have ever seen that could be called a "knife". here's some pix - the knife it is compared with is a Callimus Becker Campanion (BK2, i think?). That shiny thing is a quarter. Sorry about the picture quality, that was before i learned how to take pictures :o
Also, if anyone has an Edmund Davidson Integral in S7, those might come in a close second.
I also have another Justin Gingrich Custom that is 3/8" thick 1095, with about a 5" blade (hollow saber grind), that might be one of the toughest knives made, and it's actually not a bad cutter at all. (sorry, i have no pics of that one...)
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My toughest fixed blade is Busse HOG ASH. It has a 6 inch INFI blade, about 1/3 inch thick. And – yes – it's very sharp, and cuts decently. It doesn't have the ideal geometry for cutting efficiency, but it certainly gets the job done.

My toughest folder, I would guess, is my Cold Steel Gunsite. I don't push my folders too hard, though. Most of the rest of my folders are more svelte.
 
Fixed would be custom Brian Goode camp knife , I have no doubts about it at all.

Folders ? ... I trust my Kershaw Groove the most. Actually all my framelocks I would trust in a SHTF scenario.

Tostig


nice pics by the way guys :)
 
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