co tam nowego w temacie?
Spojrzenie na Howlera - warto!
"I can go one better than that :
[link widoczny dla zalogowanych Użytkowników]Here is a picture of my brother (215+ lbs - yeah he doesn't look it but he is ~6'5") hanging from a Howling Rat. I did this yesterday evening as I was curious as to what would happen when it broke (sorry Jennifer I should have had more faith). To be fair to me, I thought it would break mainly because my brother had been using it and he is slightly more than a little extreme with knife use, while I have some restrictions, he has basically none.
Plus the knife had been heavily sanded, if you check the review you will see not only had all of the coating been worn off, the top of the primary grind had been thinned out, the edge had been profiled to a zero-grind (and seen *heavy* hard use). I measured the thickness before flexing and it was significantly below 3/16". Anyway, while he was hanging on it and swearing on me for asking him to do this while he was drunk (he is a barbarian after all and had just got back from pillaging Pouch Cove), I took a few pictures, with the above one being the clearest. You can see little if any flex in the knife.
While the steel is not overly thick (I would not call 3/16" thin), the blade is very short. If the p-ATAK had a 7"+ blade then you could readily see the knife crack as the torque would be very high. But it isn't trivial to break even 1/8" of steel if your leverage is only a few inches, which I discovered when I broke the Deerhunters awhile back. In any case the knife should never shatter into multiple pieces, especially if it is spring tempered in the spine. It should not splinter like that even if it wasn't differentially hardned if it is a carbon steel, assuming of course it isn't a high alloy one like D2, which can break like then when overstressed.
INFI will not shatter like that, it just breaks clean, it will also take *huge* flexes before it breaks. Busse had pictures of the flexes you can achieve on the web. As for the metal and concrete cutting making the knife splinter, just consider what this would mean if it was true. You take your $500 "tactical" knife and are chopping some wood or whatever and hit a few hard contacts (assume you are fighting someone and so a series of hard cuts and smash into a belt buckle), would you now expect the knife to splinter when prying because of the damage done to the edge. You should not - especially if the spine is spring tempered which should prevent cracks from propogating even if you somehow manage to macro-crack the edge, which I have never even done and I have tried to pound knives through hardened steel rods using a framing hammer.
-Cliff Stamp"
... Piter, masz rację - Howling Rat nie jest wykończony tak pięknie jak GB czy AD - ale też działa! Cheers!