Noss,

I loved the test. When you started hammering that lovely S6 through the pipe I was stunned. <--- first time I have watched any of the videos.

Great job and great fun to watch.

Welcome to the Yard.

VoxHog : Thanks, I glad you enjoyed it. When a knife can tackle something like the pipe test. I know it's super tough.

Diceman: Yea a dogfather would be awesome. I see a good field test first for this one. A lot of heavy chopping and batoning.

Gawd a dumpster mutt would wear ya out Noss!

WhichDawg: yea with the shorter blade it should be even harder.

id like to see a test o the dumpstermutt oh and btw heyy noss

itxploded: Hey bro.. Yea it would be interesting.

I try not to talk about other knives on the forum but seeing as you are around Noss and seein as how I enjoy your tests, can you please explain why you gave the Ontario RAT such a low score when it seemed to do well on your tests ?


Ps the Scrapper 6 test was awesome but the result was no suprise, these are some of the toughest blades on the planet !!!

Welcome to the Yard Noss! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

(Pit - I'm a huge fan of the RATs too - I don't think they're really designed for / geared towards Noss's destruction tests though - Machete work and light chopping for the RTAKs, cutting work for the smaller RATs, but none of them are meant to be indestructible, big heavy choppers or sharp prybars like the Scrappers are! None of them are more than 3/16 thick - which is great in the cutting department, not so great in the prying department! Just a thought.)

pitman: I gave it a 3 because the blade broke fairly easy during the hammer impacts. I think it did just fine in the outdoor test other than it is a little
to flexible for me during heavy chopping. It got through most of the tests up to the hammer and it just did not take it Compared to the k-bar heavy Bowie for example. Many of the knives have been able to take the hammer with no problem.

The CS bushman for example has no problem with this and it is razor thin almost.
Look at the CS Bushman Vibration test. I did this the same night I did the RTAK II

What happened on the Ontario is it is to flexible and it is long. You could not see this in the video because of the camera angle when I was hitting it with the hammer it was vibrating very rapidly back and forth. It just fell a part when it
bottomed out on the vice one hit and a heavy vibration was all it took.

I recreated the same conditions with the Bushman it is shorter but much thinner.The bushman took a pounding during this.

Based on all the knives I have tested I feel a knife should be able to take a hammer to it's spine a great many times before failure occurs. As many have demonstrated.

This is a toughness test so the only thing I have to judge against is the other knives and how they held up. The Scrapper 6 has raised the bar. At the time I only had the earlier blades to compare against and what they could endure.

I like the RTAK II and I would probably buy another. But I'm getting spoiled on Busee blades now. I feel it is tough enough for most general use and this may be all anyone needs.

Andy Wayne: Thanks for the welcome. I'm glad to be here.

hopefully in time you can just settle in here Noss and just beg for more steel like us! lol