Well Guys, I finally had a chance to clean up this blade and add a edge so I could test it out..
After HT there were some obvious delams.. One down by the cutting edge and some near the spine. I tried to get a pic of it.. But its hard to see with the camera.. But it was easy to see that on the cutting edge there was a small crack, where the materials were not welded..
First Jr trimmed a tall pricker bush!
Then to the real test, A 2X4
After chopping for a minute.. Mind ya, this blade is not designed to be a chopper so it was slow going but it did throw some chips!!
After about half way through the blade showed signs that the areas I was concerned about were starting to separate more.. yet we continued the test.
Almost through. and the blade failed.
He finished the job with the broken blade. it was only 2 hits away from being through..
Then he did a edge test, well on some of the edge that was left intact anyways..
and it was still poppin hair like crazy!
First I want to say thanks again to Brad for sending the plugs and letting us have some fun and experiment on this.. I will continue to try new stuff This time was not successful in some ways, yet was very successful in others.. I learned a little about pattern development and material colors etc. And to be honest. Im glad we tested it to destruction.
I was tempted to put it in a glass case with some other knives in my youngest son Hunter and my collection.. But just couldnt bring myself to do it..
God Bless
Randy