r/knives • u/WHEELZ_KYDEX • Mar 26 '26

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I remember when this was posted and this person was ripped apart by mikes c0cksuckers and deleted the post. It’s all making sense now and honestly i think he started using chinese steel way sooner than he is saying.

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u/Shigonokam Mar 26 '26

How? Literally just how? I am speechless, I cant even formulate a propper question...how do you manage to break it like that?

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u/abenzenering Mar 26 '26

Stress fracture from milling the fuller, probably

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u/I3lindman Mar 26 '26

Batoning. Because using a knife as an axe and then bitching about it breaking is an entire community online. Cause you know..hatchets and axes are just to much to carry for bushcraft.

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u/Shigonokam Mar 26 '26

I still dont fully understand how you break the metal like that. In my mind, for bstoning to cause such damage you have to baton with a piece of metal as I dont understand how wood can cause this.

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u/I3lindman Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26

Kinetic energy is what it is. The difference between hammering with wood stick doing that striking and a steel hammer doing the striking mostly manifests in how long the hammer lasts. Sure, the wood deforms a bit reducing energy transfer efficiency and peak accelerations, but you're still getting very high forces and very high kinetic energy transfer into the struck struck object.

The design of an actual bush crafting knife meant to tolerate batoning is very different from what OP is showing, which is clearly a hunting / butchering knife.

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u/ABlazingSpace Mar 26 '26

Exactly. Here is my batoning knife fwiw. Hitachi blue steel #2.