I've been perfectly happy with this knife, and I know that I shouldn't have been putting pressure on it in the way that I was. The last thing I want to do is have this tar Ben Orford's reputation in anyway.
Possibly a bit late for that.
I've been perfectly happy with this knife, and I know that I shouldn't have been putting pressure on it in the way that I was. The last thing I want to do is have this tar Ben Orford's reputation in anyway.
I've been perfectly happy with this knife, and I know that I shouldn't have been putting pressure on it in the way that I was. The last thing I want to do is have this tar Ben Orford's reputation in anyway.
He's a good maker with a good rep ~ a big part of that good rep is wanting to know that there's a potential issue.
Don't be embarrassed ~ we all stuff up at some point and it's usually just moments after thinking something along the lines of 'Is this safe?'. If your issue highlights a potential heat treat issue, then you're doing him a favour by getting in contact with him.
A knife that could withstand being hammered into a tree and then have someone stand on the handle could have its blade broken by the twisting force of batoning a gnarly piece of wood.
A carbon Clipper is a very tough knife and will take this much abuse:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_HMDcMsamg&feature=player_embedded#at=526
..yet I managed to break the blade while batoning a gnarly section of Gorse:
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That's a real bummer. Next time you might consider buying a BattleBar from Hoodoo Knifeworks.
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Barry, genuine question. With regards to toughness, why are live swords still typically made from carbon steel (or variants of), and never to my knowledge from CPM-3V?
I was googling for similar instances of this failure mode and came across this image of a broken bushcraft knife. Unfortunately there isn't a photo of the end-grain, so we can't compare the crystalline structure, but it's a remarkably similar break. Can anyone shed any light on the forces involved in this failure?
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...Can anyone shed any light on the forces involved in this failure?
It was accidentally dropped on some rocks and driven over by a small tractor with a lawnmower attachment on the front, pulling a trailer loaded with firewood. A lot of firewood. As in, 8 feet long and 4 wide of heaped high trailer's worth of firewood.