okay, so normally I don't really post threads unless there are pics, but I thought I could just post one of me just kind of talking.
I just wanted to share some of the hard use my knives went through... you know... just so you know I don't pamper them.
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I'll just get right too it...
so easter sunday, I went to my cousins and brought my knives for a workout as usual.
After we chopped for a little firewood to burn the next day I looked at this stump of a tree we chopped a long time ago...


and I started batoning through it, both with the DFLE and my rd9.
I'm not sure what it was... but it was some HARD dry wood.
pretty knotted too.

I would get through it some, the pry REALLY hard on the knife to cxrack it and baton the knife down more.
we beat on the DFLE and rd9 really hard too.
we would pry with the DFLE, then stick the rd9 under it and pry and we made some serious prgress through that tough stuff.
we would stick the knife in, then grab some vines or roots on the ground and use them to pull even harder on the knife.
the knives really flexed and at some times I was worried that the knife would break, then I would remember the pics of Dans torture testing and noss's destruction test and I would get some relief.
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and the great warranty (on both the knives) didn't hurt either.

I even hit the knives together once accidentally and they are still in fine condition.

the knives must have bent to 35-40 degrees at times and still went back to true.
anyways I was just so satisfied because this was tha hardest I'd pushed them in a while, and I figured I'd share, even though I couldn't popst pics.

so anyways we got through it and had some nice dry wood for the fire.

also, I slept over, only today I didn't have all my knives with me... actually, no fixed bvlades at all.
just my little kershaw vapor.
and all we had to start a fire were 4 big logs, so knowing I could split with a folder I batoned away and got through two of the thick logs and then split them into small pieces for shavings and fuzzsticks to start the fire.
speaking of whcih it was the only fire we started with just natural stuff. (well we used a ligher just once to start it)

anyways, I just really felt like posting... so I did...
maybe I'll add some pics of my knives to this thread later.
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also, does anyone know how to fix scuffing up of res-c?
mine is messed up a little at the end of the handle because we had to beat it through the wood to get more of the point out to baton on.


thanks.
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you call that hard use?

lightweight.

haha


nice pic EMF.


we need more

I know...
I wish I would've taken some of the knives flexing.
oh well.

I'm sure some have used their knives way harder, but for me it was a break through, maybe gradually I can get to know what they can take (well, know for myself at least) and I will start to use them harder and harder.
until now all I've done is chop with them.

maybe soon I'll be destroying garage doors and cutting through nails.
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it was sarcasm bud.

talk about feeling stupid. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />
(well I'm kind of used to it)

I figured it was, but seriosly, I'm sure to some this is nothing.
can we get a pic of your DM stan?
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(jk)

now i wanna see this <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/loopy.gif" alt="" />

A few scars just gives her some character <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> If its just finely abraded and you want to darken it you can probably use some ArmorAll, but I doubt you'd have a good color match unless you did the whole handle and I wouldn't want that. Anybody tried it? If you have deep scars I'm sure you could fix it cosmetically but I really doubt you could do it and maintain the same level of durability in the treatment area and it would probably just shred again the next time you whacked on it.

Focus on her inner beauty! hehe

we've had such posts in the old days.

true, but eventually it's going to have to get temporarily fixed, it pretty torn up but not that bad yet.
I think dice said you can use heat to fix it one time.

while i wish there were more pics, its kinda hard to work a camera and work a knife at the same time <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

ive got a couple blades that have dominated pesky nails
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