- Joined
- Jul 10, 2017
- Messages
- 3,795
Looking forward to seeing your end results on it, sir
One of the things that surprised me about the Chaos knives I have, (Tanto & Kukri), is that the one piece aluminum handle is milled/cast to accept both the tang AND a good amount of the ricasso. Oftentimes when you look at the ricasso closely on a knife, you can see that it's shoulder, (where it steps down/downsizes to become the tang portion of the blade), rests right atop of the handle's guard. But, sometimes the guard is cast/milled with a little bit of a slot to accept part of the ricasso, one not being able to see the shoulder/tang transition point. Of course the Chaos series has an all one piece guard/handle, and they simply mill/cast it to accept the entire tang AND part of the blade's ricasso, achieving that added support for that shoulder transition area of the blade.
I believe Nut-n-Fancy is onto something about the solid metal handle to a steel blade likely being the culprit in his Chaos knife breaks. Again, he mentioned the vibrations, and the fact that those vibrations had nowhere to go. As he was wacking on shale stones with a Chaos knife, one could hear the "ting" sound that was a totally different sound from the other blades he did the same type of testing on. The other blades did NOT have metal handles. I think that if the Chaos is used on less than rock solid surfaces, (literally), than the blade life expectancy should probably fare just fine. But, with the SK-5 carbon steel blade being hardened, the 6061 aluminum handle likely being hardened in some way, and then hitting something like stone, (shale or otherwise, it's a hard surface), it will likely cause all that hardness and vibration to cause something to give, (read as break).
One area that did not break during the Nut-n-Fancy tests on the Chaos knives, was that tang/ricasso shoulder area I mentioned above. I feel that if the blade's ricasso simply butted up to the outside of the one piece handle/guard, a break there would have likely occurred.
My Chaos knives are just being kept as collectibles that won't be seeing any actual use, so they surely ain't gonna break on me
![]()
As for most other folks out there that are using them, I would guess that most of their Chaos knives will hold up and not break either. That is, as long as they understand that their knive's have limitations... and, that they don't go out and bang them against such hard things as rocks... lol!![]()
Is that a Cold Steel bowie in there?