Batoning is not a form of cutting.
Batoning is forcing the blade edge through the wood with a baton to split it.
Again, two different things.
There is also the median, a hard wood for you to baton might be easy for them.
Jersey woods are different then Washington woods.
A bad heat treat is incorrect. A hard edge does not mean a bad heat treat. The blades are heat treated to around rc62, thats combined with the thin edge and the pressure of batoning.
Think of it this way. Take your tall brunette hottie with big brown eyes, she weighs around 115lbs right.
Well if you put her in heels with the heels having a 1/4in surface area on the bottom she is putting 460lbs of pressure on the floor under each foot.
It may not seem like alot of pressure but it is.

The lock didnt break so why are you talking about it?
Those cheap 440c blades were probly not heat treated.
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