An obsession with lock strengths

[Sean]

Well... at least he had the guts to post the video after the fact.  Not sure I would
have.  Come to think of it, I doubt I'd ever do something like that to any knife.  

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

What an idiot

[Zag]

What an idiot

Exactly my thoughts...
Surprisingly gorilla tape didn't protect his hand from the blade ............... 

[jzmtl]

Lol, I think that's one situation he needed spyderco's boyle detend, so his upside down grip won't disengage the lock bar!

[Turnstone]

I guess I don't want to see it if he cuts his fingers off 

[duckman1975]

What an idiot

Exactly my thoughts...
Surprisingly gorilla tape didn't protect his hand from the blade ............... 

Don't be so harsh on the kid, we all make mistakes............. kinda happened to me also 

[Andreas]

Well he did take precautions that I myself would have thought was sufficient - taping the blade and wearing gloves... but still, poor knife

[Mr. Whippy]

I think he needs a bigger bandage for his widdle cut. 

[Andreas]

I think he needs surgery! You're right, that was a ridiculous amount of bandage. I cut part of my fingertip half off this summer and didn't have 1/10 as much crap on there as he did for that small cut

[Chako]

What he needs are those Kevlar/ring mail gloves if he so wished to abuse his knives in such a way in the future.

[Andreas]

There once was a man with a knife


Who took precautions to protect his own life


But something went wrong, maybe he was just too strong, how will he explain this to his wife?

[MultiMat]

Lets hope he does not do some gun safety locks tests  , "OK I am putting the 12 gauge shot gun in my mouth , I have put a big cork in the barrel too protect me  , gosh that cork tastes funny.......... I gots half a head cause it makes me look cool " 

[Sazabi]

There once was a man with a knife
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As an aside, that Orange Ladybug is .

[Grant Lamontagne]

This is a simple case of a kid trying to look like he knows what he is talking about, and we were probably all there at one point- most of us just weren't "fortunate" enough to have video cameras and YouTube at the time! 

With knife ads like Cold Steel's PROOF series, Dark OPS' puncturing aircraft skin and communist body armor while controlling the blood spray, and that other one where the company used a steam hammer to pound their blade through 1/4" steel tread plate (I can't remember who did that) it comes as no surprise that people think there's a need for such extreme testing and virtually indestructible locking systems.  Just like how every knife nowadays has to have a "shaving sharp" edge and some fancy steel.  It's all fancy BS.  Yes it's nice to know that a knife will stand up to something heavier than it is likely to encounter in day to day use, but the reality is that these things that make it able to be pounded into a solid block of granite without damaging the tip also makes it virtually impossible to sharpen in the field, and makes the spine too thick to easily cut anything that isn't dressed in chain mail.

This is a tragic video, and I hope this kid learned from his mistake and doesn't do stupid crap like that again.  It's too much to hope for, but I also hope he realizes that there's not likely to be any point in his life where he's going to have a legitimate need to pound a folding knife backwards against a wood block. 

Def

[John]

 


Send the rajah to me and get yourself Barbie doll,you can spine whack it all day in safety 

[sappyg]

Send the rajah to me and get yourself Barbie doll,you can spine whack it all day in safety 

 

if he does things like that to his knives just imagine what's in store for his pathfinder.

[Zack]

I think I traded something with this guy in BF.  And excuse me...he got staples for that little cut.  What a wuss.

[ryan1835]

 

[sappyg]

he is persistant i'll give him that. 

[John]

I really want to send him a large Douk Douk for spine testing,whack! snap shut! OUCH!   

[Sean]

So remember if you are doing that last test you don't need eye or hand protection apparently. 

[Mr. Whippy]

I think I traded something with this guy in BF.  And excuse me...he got staples for that little cut.  What a wuss.

Wow.


What the hell happened to the human race?  Staples? 

That was sorta the average weekly wound when I was growing up.    He should wear a helmet too.  He could put an eye out.

[jzmtl]

Yeah eh? I've had a lot worse wound that I just put a band aid over.

[Paul]

 

[Ashley]

Cut didn't look that bad but I guess maybe it was in actual life.