Quick tale of the Scrapper 5 Combat Grade.
Not an INFI story but I'm putting it out there for comparison if anyone has done anything simmilar.
My S5CG is my EDC. One job we were on the other day was repairing an old red oak floor. A few planks had to be torn out, trimmed and put back. If you have ever seen a hardwood floor repair you know the lower half of the groove needs to come off to fit the last piece in for a spot repair.
With no table saw handy I decided to baton the strip off of this 2 foot long section just to hurry up and call it done. I worked my way to the halfway point in the floor board, beating the S5 with an old unusable section of oak when it suddenly stopped. It stopped hard. It crossed my mind that it might just be bound in the grain so I slammed the blade one more good time and it didn't budge.
I wiggled the S5 out of the floor board and took a look at the edge. No damage whatsoever. Not a glint on the edge at all. Now, upon closer inspection of the floorboard I found that my blade had been in hard contact with a 70 year old section of a hardened "cut" nail which now had a heck of a notch cut into it.
Needles to say I am VERY happy with my S5CG and it is still gliding through paper like it was fresh out of the cardboard wrapper.
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