Nah, it's more like "I'm fairly strong now, but I'll keep going to the gym and eating protein to become as strong as humanly possible given my genetics."
Strong is okay, but stronger is better.
Or like Mr. Burns said, "I'd gladly trade it all for a little more."
My reason for posing the questions was that I wanted Forumites to think of relevance of actions, of testing a product with tasks beyond the product’s design parameters, and the resulting publicity. I have been intrigued by your answers!
Yesterday, we finally received the knife back from the Polish Umnumzaan test video. As we had stated previously, there was no way we could comment on the reported performance without inspecting the knife. I know my designs, and I know the performance capabilities of my knives. I knew there was no way that an Umnumzaan within tolerance would fail as a result of the tasks shown on the video; there had to be something else….... Did you know my knives are programmed to tell Dad what goes on when they come home, and they always tell the truth!!
Not shown on the video was that the knife was repeatedly spine whacked extremely hard, until the ceramic ball was deeply pounded into its pocket and into the ramp of the blade, putting the lock out of tolerance. You can see the pound marks on the back of the blade in the photo below. The hardness of the blade is 58-59 RC – it takes a lot of pounding to introduce these marks. With this treatment, there is no way any lock will stay in tolerance. An out-of-tolerance lock can fail even a light spine whack test.
I do not particularly care what people do with property for which they have legitimately paid.
Quote Stabman: “If I had the money to buy a Ferrari and proceed to use it for a rifle target, that would be my prerogative.” I totally agree.
What I cannot tolerate is inappropriate “testing”, and my legitimately made, high quality product portrayed to be inadequate when the testing is misrepresented.
Quote Scott Dog: “Publishing it and implying that a Ferrari is an inferior car because it doesn't tolerate rifle bullets is clearly crossing the line.”
I am not a big fan of the spine whack test. I don’t go fighting with my knife every day, and neither do my customers. As for slashing back and forth in an emergency situation, I believe I would be cutting carefully and rapidly, not randomly hacking and slashing. I see the test as an extrapolation of a theory, with little practical relevance.
I am not afraid of criticism and can take negative comments. All I ask is that testers be upfront with what they do, that the tests have practical relevance and that the results published represent the whole truth.
I have confidence in our product and in my staff.
We all do our very best to get the very finest to you.
Chris
