Test Knife

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one knife maker to know the extent to which his knives can be trusted, it becomes neccesary to destroy a knife in the pursuit of knowledge and better skills.


Here are two bad pictures of a knife I made for the purpose of testing to end. I'll be putting it up against these tests:

Cutting manila rope till it needs to be sharpened again
Cutting red oak till it needs to be sharpened
Drop test on concrete driveway
Cutting brass rod
Bend test (put in vise and bent till it stops)
Then when the blade is destroyed I'll test how durable my handle attachment method is.