Deltaboy1984
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Thanks..
I'd hate to think my money paid to kill someone's boy in the services.
Sam,
Can you get a macro of the broken tip so we can see the grain size better?
Are you going to grind it back to see how it holds up with further abuse?
Will you be resharpening it and working over some rope?
Are there other production folders that can survive the tear out test on a 2x4?
And, consider that profit is being made every time that knife changes hands right up until it gets to the consumer. The Chinese get profit once, we get profit off the same product 4 or 5 times. Look, this is why manufacturers do stuff off shore to begin with. Trust me dude, American profits are being made on the back of foreign products.
Sure.
Considering the thickness of the tip (a full 1/8") , the shallow amount of penetration and the medium hardness of the steel I was surprised at the failure.
Sam, can you recap the folders you've tested that lived?
For the less knowledgeable of us... what's the significance of the "pine tearout" failure?
Does this indicate poor metallurgy, heat treat, blade geometry?
Those are freaking HUGE and they aren't even even! That's a bad heat treat.
He'd get it right.
That has to be a materials issue right?
What does this translate to in terms of the knife's weaknesses?
clamp it in a vice and snap the blade about an inch back from the new tip. I'd be very interested if the same uneven grain size manifests side to side.
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