I still see it as a way of cutting. splitting, I think is cutting.
but besides that...
I guess "bad" heat treat isn't quite the word for it. but i don't see wood as a very hard medium and I just don't think if your going with the grain of it that there is even much compression on the blade.
but I guess it depends.
and as far as the wood goes... he never really said what kind and if it was really hard wood I think he would have mentioned it.
okay... so, if you took a log and layed it sideways and batoned through it that way (like you would to bring a small tree down) I think that theory about compression certainly applies.
I'm talking about the lock and stuff because, I just said if anything thats what I would expect to fail, and thats why batoning isn't normally done with folders.
I just think a really hard brittle edge has almost no beneftis. it MAY hold an edge longer, but if you can't even split wood with it, thats annoying.
You still dont see my point.
Wood can be a hard medium as there is quartz in its. Thats why satin finished blades get scratched when chopping or cutting.
Wood is a natural thing, its grain does not run perfectly up-down. There are knots etc.
Knots are very hard to get through.
Griptilians do not have a extremely hard edge. The have a hard, thin edge for cutting. Again two different knives with two different purposes.
Nearly every folder would have this happen to it if you batoned with it.
What folders do you have, would you baton with it?
