Buck knife cutting a bolt....

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Jubapocitohee said:
What is the picture on the box? I just watched a video of a Carothers delta 3v knife being pounded through a chain with no damage to the blade. They were doing tests before that with hammer a nail. Seemed pretty tough. Does that image imply that a Buck can also be hammered through a nail without chipping the edge? Just curious, I haven’t found the need or the courage to do such a thing.
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We are getting off on a tangent here but OK. It is a 1940's (?) historical reference to when Buck's founder Hoyt Buck would demonstrate the toughness of his blades by cutting a nail/bolt on his anvil. It became an iconic image for the company. Keep in mind that back then his blades were hand ground from old files. Not sure how well a modern finely hollow ground 420HC blade would hold up. Bet if I looked surely someone on YouTube has tried it.... :)

Ha Ha made me look but yep, someone did!
I cringed while watching but it did seem to survive..
 
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We are getting off on a tangent here but OK. It is a 1940's (?) historical reference to when Buck's founder Hoyt Buck would demonstrate the toughness of his blades by cutting a nail/bolt on his anvil. It became an iconic image for the company. Keep in mind that back then his blades were hand ground from old files. Not sure how well a modern finely hollow ground 420HC blade would hold up. Bet if I looked surely someone on YouTube has tried it.... :)

Ha Ha made me look but yep, someone did!
I cringed while watching but it did seem to survive..
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No! That's UN-possible! You can do that with a hollow ground blade . . . well, unless you can.
 
I'm pretty sure Chuck Buck used to do this. He'd stop at a hardware store on a sales call, grab a nail out of their nail bin, and hammer away. Of course, he also did thousands of demonstrations of how to sharpen a knife. The two things may have been related... :cool:
 
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dsutton24 said:
I'm pretty sure Chuck Buck used to do this. He'd stop at a hardware store on a sales call, grab a nail out of their nail bin, and hammer away. Of course, he also did thousands of demonstrations of how to sharpen a knife. The two things may have been related... :cool:
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In the Ables book there is a photo of Chuck and Frank buck doing the bolt cutting for a group of young boys (Boy Scouts I believe). That was not in the 40's, it was the 60's and is on page #26.
 
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Lol. No its just staged. I probably should only post that picture on April fools day.

I can’t find it now, but one of the old advertisements said “Hammer blow must be straight and true”. Or something similar.

I figured it was their out, if you tried it and damaged your knife. It would be because you weren’t straight and true.

The old stove bolts and such weren’t very hard and it was common to chisel them off. So a good knife could do the same.

You were probably more likely to damge the spine with the hammer than the edge
 
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eveled said:
Lol. No its just staged. I probably should only post that picture on April fools day.

I can’t find it now, but one of the old advertisements said “Hammer blow must be straight and true”. Or something similar.

I figured it was their out, if you tried it and damaged your knife. It would be because you weren’t straight and true.

The old stove bolts and such weren’t very hard and it was common to chisel them off. So a good knife could do the same.

You were probably more likely to damge the spine with the hammer than the edge
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I was 90% sure it was staged, but I had to ask. I know those 124s are tough, but...
 
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