LOL! I thought I was the only one. My best ringing is the Spetznatz shovel when struck by the knob of my walking stick. Rings like a bell! I love the singing sound of a good machete slashing through the brush and the thud of a well stuck hawk, too. My gosh, who would have thought steel could be so musical? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />

Good Lord, y'all have me beatin' all my knives together like some kind of madman now. I feel like an idiot, but the alarming thing is that I don't care <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />!!!

LOL !!! It is like one big "group therapy" session is needed....everyone "banging" their blades together.... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

The local trappers all do that ,they figure a good ring means a good heat treat.

I've been ringing blades for years. I've heard the same thing about the heat treat, which is what made me start doing it in the first place. I've never learned anything from it, other than every blade makes its own sound.

My railroad spike knife rings like there's no tomorrow!

I have to agree,I always 'ping'the blade.It seems like INFI makes an almost brittle sound like it would snap at the slightest bend,of course we all know better.But each blade does have it's own sound.I was reading a Lone Wolf and Cub comic(I know it's a comic book but bear with me)Anyway the main character Ogami Broke an enemies sword with his own Katana,he knew it would break because of the ring of the steel when they locked blades,this resulted in the enemies death.I know this is just fiction but anyone familiar with this series knows the amount of great historical detail that goes into them.No magical swords or half cat people,just very realisitic representation of the time period.Anyway I always think of that issue whenever I hear the different sounds of blade steel 'pinging'

I have to agree... You're crazy

I do not think you are crazy.

Now the guy who told me could smell the difference in steels by taking a wiff...well that seemed strange but the guy who told me that he could tell the quality of the steel by how his own blood would cling to the point of a knife...now that was nuts. He wanted to stab his own hand before he would buy a knife,,,,yep that was crazy. To each his own! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/banghead.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/banghead.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> Dan

Wow doing the rounds of the knife and gun shows over the years must have exposed you to some interesting people Dan.


I love lone Wolf and Cub. Another great historically accurate Comic I like is called "Crecy" about the battle between the french and English at Agincourt where the lower class English longbowmen slaughtered 10 times their number of super rich French knights.

My DMCG is all by itself, nothing to bang. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

you know there are 6 Lone Wolf and Cub movies

so then who's with me???

lets start the busse kin band.

we'll have a symphony of SR77,SR101 & INFI.

i cant sing for crap but i can play the ASH-1 & DFLE like there aint no tomorrow.