I'm not a huge fan of Nutn,
What about Cold Steel knives? Are you a huge fan of those? Because you're posting this in the Cold Steel subforum, where, generally speaking, proponents of Cold Steel knives congregate to talk about them.
but he was able to break 2 Cold Steel Chaos blades pretty easily. It happens almost at the end of the video:
Did you watch the same video that I did? He didn't break any Chaos blades, let alone two. He managed to put a crack in the aluminum knuckle guard by having his friend smash it against a rock like a hammer. So what?
There was no catastrophic failure, no broken blades--but you didn't mention that in your post. You also didn't mention that the thinly ground, double-edged Chaos blade took the same abuse (thirty-plus full-strength whacks against stones) as all the other single-edged blades and survived without issue. (Try doing that with a Gerber Mark II or an original LF&C Model 1918 and let me know how they fare.) Nor did you mention that the San Mai Recon Tanto passed the "test" unscathed. You also failed to note that Cold Steel replaced this guy's broken Chaos (which he broke doing the same moronic nonsense) with a brand new knife without question, despite the fact that he clearly destroyed it outside of the warranty's abuse parameters.
So, you posted this video in the Cold Steel subforum solely to castigate Cold Steel even though the video actually shows the company and its products in a pretty good light. In other words, you're a troll. Do you have nothing productive to say?
But but but I thought cold steel were unbreakable!
No, they aren't, nor has Cold Steel ever claimed them to be. No knife (and no thing, for that matter) is unbreakable.
And why not hit it against a rock?
Because it's stupid to do so.
It's just as much of an unrealistic test as what cold steel usually puts out am I wrong?
Yes, you are wrong.
I wouldn't trust it for what it was intended for.
So don't. Based on what I saw in the video, I would. It took a beating and was still functional.
If it's a trench fighting knife the slate rocks are a little bit softer than body armor that would be worn.
Oh, is that what the hand guard is for, punching people in their plate armor?
I guess honestly I'm just still sore about the stupid lawsuit. Kind of hypocritical cold steel goes around suing people but yet their own knives break also. Suprise.
Ah, so you really didn't have a point, other than to come into the Cold Steel subforum to complain about a settled lawsuit that didn't involve you in any way and to berate Cold Steel for making products that can be broken through abuse? I see. Thanks for your insight.
So I think it's a good balance looking at when it actually happens what caused it and how to remedy it possibly redesign in the future. Hopefully Cold Steel's taking note.
Yes, I'm sure they're jumping right on that desperate demand for knives that can break rocks. That's your idea of a responsive knife company? Some idiot comes up with a new way to abuse a knife and Cold Steel is supposed to accommodate that? This isn't the Busse subforum.
Cold steel has done this often in their proof videos,
Which Proof videos? I've seen them all and don't remember anything like this "test." Pommels breaking cinderblocks? Yes. Blades breaking rocks? No.
so why not do it to test toughness of the steel.
Because it's stupid to do so.
The spine should have been able to take it.
The spine did take it, on both the Chaos and the Recon! Didn't anyone actually watch the video?!
Wow! I'm all for discourse on the pros and cons of knives, knife designs, and knife companies. But the unfiltered bile that is spewed against Cold Steel on this subforum gets really out of hand sometimes. This thread is a great example of that!
-Steve
Just funny to see how responses suddenly turn to common sense to defend the brand and nevermind all those testing and Demko versus videos where Cold Steel never loses. As if Cold Steel will ever publish a video of their knives breaking or losing. They aren't sprinkled with pixie dust after all.