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I just got a Glock knife from a friend of mine as I bought him a knife recently. And he really wanted me to beat the hell out of it together with him.
I know that some of the stuff we did with it isn't really intended use for a knife, and is pretty much abuse. That being said, it is even mild compared to the stuff I did with some other knives.
First impressions:
1. lightly rounded tip and few slight rolls on part of not that sharp edge...
Grind not symmetrical, and is generally bad, but considering the price - I'll cut them some slack.
2. Comfortable handle and nice and functional sheath. Ambidextrous, no complaints here.
3. The knife comes oiled with something that smells awful.
Maintenance:
It's ridiculously time consuming to sharpen for a carbon steel. It is hard to get it sharp.
Coating is rather easy to peel off so you'll need to oil it a lot.
Usage:
1. Handle is comfortable and has no hot spots. It did get slippy when wet.
2. Guard is sometimes getting in the way, but it's still better to have it than not to have it.
3. Terrible for slicing, not much better for chopping.
4. It has nice balance to it so I can see why would army use it.
5. Beer opener does the job well.
Steel performance:
1. Terrible, simply TERRIBLE edge retention.
2. Surprisingly decent for batoning (but that is kinda useless considering you'll probably never need to baton at all) but will also damage your baton.
3. My friend actually bent the tip on an accident. He used it to pry off tree bark for no particular reason. And what shocked me the most is that I was able to straighten it back by stabbing into wood and prying in the other direction?!?!
4. I was throwing it just for fun, solid thrower, tip again got bent, straightened and then bent in another direction. But edge did suffer from some rolls, despite being very obtuse.
5. I did some batoning again just for fun and when I came home I noticed that entire knife has some curve to it.
To sum it up:
That's a bayonet or sharpened pry bar. It sucks as a knife. It's just soft steel.
The best thing about this knife is bottle opener.
Intended use of this is probably just lots of stabbing and sometimes prying, I can't see steel this soft breaking, you don't really need edge retention on something you use to stab.
It is a good bayonet or field knife.
But it performs rather poor as general use or bushcraft knife. It can still do these tasks - just not that good.
We lost it somewhere after that, I think beer has played role in there tho.
I know that some of the stuff we did with it isn't really intended use for a knife, and is pretty much abuse. That being said, it is even mild compared to the stuff I did with some other knives.
First impressions:
1. lightly rounded tip and few slight rolls on part of not that sharp edge...
Grind not symmetrical, and is generally bad, but considering the price - I'll cut them some slack.
2. Comfortable handle and nice and functional sheath. Ambidextrous, no complaints here.
3. The knife comes oiled with something that smells awful.
Maintenance:
It's ridiculously time consuming to sharpen for a carbon steel. It is hard to get it sharp.
Coating is rather easy to peel off so you'll need to oil it a lot.
Usage:
1. Handle is comfortable and has no hot spots. It did get slippy when wet.
2. Guard is sometimes getting in the way, but it's still better to have it than not to have it.
3. Terrible for slicing, not much better for chopping.
4. It has nice balance to it so I can see why would army use it.
5. Beer opener does the job well.
Steel performance:
1. Terrible, simply TERRIBLE edge retention.
2. Surprisingly decent for batoning (but that is kinda useless considering you'll probably never need to baton at all) but will also damage your baton.
3. My friend actually bent the tip on an accident. He used it to pry off tree bark for no particular reason. And what shocked me the most is that I was able to straighten it back by stabbing into wood and prying in the other direction?!?!
4. I was throwing it just for fun, solid thrower, tip again got bent, straightened and then bent in another direction. But edge did suffer from some rolls, despite being very obtuse.
5. I did some batoning again just for fun and when I came home I noticed that entire knife has some curve to it.
To sum it up:
That's a bayonet or sharpened pry bar. It sucks as a knife. It's just soft steel.
The best thing about this knife is bottle opener.
Intended use of this is probably just lots of stabbing and sometimes prying, I can't see steel this soft breaking, you don't really need edge retention on something you use to stab.
It is a good bayonet or field knife.
But it performs rather poor as general use or bushcraft knife. It can still do these tasks - just not that good.
We lost it somewhere after that, I think beer has played role in there tho.
