One of my knives got a real workout today! Lots of Pictures

PetrifiedWood

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I offered up one of my BushPick knives for a pass-around on a bushcraft forum I'm a member of. One of the guys in the pass-around put it through it's paces today and it passed with flying colors! The only exception is that it suffered a chip in one of the dymondwood scales at the pommel, and after the testing it had dulled enough so that it did not shave anymore.

Anyhow, I got permission to re-post his pictures here.

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Here you can see the split. I assume this is from batoning the knife on the pommel to drive the tip into the bamboo. In his own words, "not a big deal". It's a failure of the dymondwood itself, not my heat treat or construction methods. (Though I did ask the folks testing the knife not to baton on the handle.) I'm glad it made it through with as little damage as it did.

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Here he actually uses a wooden mallet to baton the knife into some punk wood...

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He said after all this it no longer shaves. But he will strop it.

Overall I am pleased with it's performance. It handled a severe beating and didn't chip, roll or snap. The handles stayed glued on, and it did well overall. Now it just has to make it past 3 more testers! :biggrin:
 
Congratulations on the positive results and man, if there were an award for a well documented photo-journal post, you'd win it! Keep it up.
 
Congratulations on the positive results and man, if there were an award for a well documented photo-journal post, you'd win it! Keep it up.

Thanks! But I can't take credit for the pictures, they were taken by the gentleman who evaluated the knife.
 
Nice knife and apparently well made. It's good to see your hard work proving itself like that isn't it.
 
Nice knife and apparently well made. It's good to see your hard work proving itself like that isn't it.

Yes!

I have to admit I was a little nervous as he posted those pictures in 3 parts and I kept waiting to see some catastrophic damage but the knife held up! I guess I am doing something right! :biggrin:
 
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