I Bought The Cheapest Bowie Knife: Is It Worth It?
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In this video, I bought the cheapest Bowie knife off Amazon for only $13.99, and I'm testing whether it's worth it. I'll be evaluating three aspects: build construction 🔨, sharpness 🔪, and its ability to survive various tests 🧪. Initially, I check the knife's sharpness, noting that it's not extremely sharp right out of the box. I also discovered that the guard is loose. I attempted to sharpen it with a $1,300 sharpener and achieved some improvement.
I proceed to test its cutting abilities on paper 📜 and then move on to more challenging tasks like cutting a tomato 🍅 and opening a soda 🥤. Next, I try chopping a 2x4 🪚 to see if the edge holds up, and it doesn't hold sharpness very well.
Afterward, the knife goes through a dishwasher cycle 🍽️ to test its durability, successfully surviving. Lastly, I do a brutal test where I try to bend the blade, and the tang breaks off, revealing that it's quite tough but doesn't hold an edge effectively.
I also dismantled the knife to examine the handle's construction, showing that it's quite resilient. Despite some drawbacks, I find the knife to be worth its $14 price tag, especially when I was a kid, this knife would be very fun for me! 🌟🔪
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Would be nice if you can do a HRC test, possibly send a piece to be analyzed to see what alloy it is, and even try to see if you can improve the heat treat, and making it better value.
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Man im glad it didn't fall on your dad's head after hitting the light 😬 maybe follow shooting range saftey rules when bend testing?
Yea you should really do that
Keep Mr. Jeff safe 😂
Refreshing and new your approach to low end knives at 81 now that is all I've ever known and to date none have failed under norml knife use handles fit is some times a problem it's always been fixable there biggest failing are the sheaths . I thank you for your honesty. happy Trails
I love how genuine Kyle is in all his videos. This is just a simple knife test but his authentic enthusiasm and excitement over the whole process just takes the whole thing to another level. What a great channel.
Love the edits. Howie scream is lolz.
I remember buying a flea market knife as a kid. Piece of junk, sure, but everybody should have that experience once. haha
So good! Loved it!
I like this new Series TOO!
Thank you for such quality content. Long time follower. You contributed heavily in my decision to start making knives a year and a half ago.
Great video!
I would have loved that knife as a kid, too.
I had my grandfather’s old army knife that I salvaged from his shed.
Moldy leather handle and rusty pock marked blade, but I loved it.
I guess I was easy to please back then.
Great video these cheap knife tests are always fun. Small editing mistake possibly though after the 2x4 chop, the paper cut test is cut off and we don’t get to see it :(
I would have loved to have that knife also as a kid, but all I was allowed to have was a Cub Scout knife. When I was 18 I bought my first real knife with my own money. It was a Buck 110. That was the beginning of my disease. I still have it today. Fun video. 🔪🎸
What kind of commie ass troop were you in? In mine we all had bowie knives by the time we were Webelos
One item you didn't mention - was it a true through tang? It didn't look like the cast pommel actually attached to anything...
I'd love to see the same series with you trying to make the same knife better. Better heat treat, Geometry, and Handle Design.
Kyle, about a year ago I got a Schrade Bowie/machete, long as my forearm that came with a hatchet for Christmas. That thing is an animal. You should make one!! That would be amazing! I was out messing around with it cutting down some 7 ft tall razor grass (From Alaska, our grass gets insanely tall!) didn't see this willow bush behind one clump of grass and it went thru the grass and cut the willow bushes main stem completely in half, guess I got it sharp. Haha.
Is it possible to re-heat treat a stainless blade to improve performance?
I was thinking the same.. maybe he can forge from scratch and make a high-quality knife out of the steel.
New best series alert 😂😂😂❤
Poor dad & light! 😆Lol! Glad he's ok!
I ame stil waiting on that lapis lazuli handel vid
worth the money. Good for learning sharpening, too.
He is very creative, I like his style
probably found these videos a bit too late. not sure why but I do love knives. bought a hunting knife on amazon some years ago because it might come in handy some day.. was pleasantly surprised by the quality and sharpness but it was at least a 100€ if i remember correctly. unrelated but the more sensible thing I did was buy an 'emergency' knife from an approved supplier here in Belgium. have it in my car. it's a window breaker, seatbelt cutter and classic knife
aim for Moraknives
Hello to France Kyle!!! Dans les années 80 nous avions des couteaux offerts par nos parents qui vennaient d'Espagne en acier 420 et on étés heureux, nous vivions à la campagne avec des bois de chénes autours, c'était la belle époque d'insoussiense!! Un grand merci Kyle, Dieu vous a en sa Sainteté, c'est certain!
I wish I could have as much fun doing anything as this guy is having cutting soda bottles.
A message to my friend. Thank you brother
I would like to see next time you take one like this and make a cheap one into something spectacular
Seriously? Not bad for the price. I don't expect stainless to get hard enough for retaining an edge, but, I'm a rookie and know very little about stainless, maybe it can.
Looked like a bit of fun 😂.
Не видел такой же тест вашего Боуи за 18000$
I love too see You do the same thing to the Carbon Steel version the Black Tech Bowie. 3cr is tough but edge holding not so much...
Next video:"...same tests,one of my knives..."
for real, we want to get into really a good test and do $10,000 knvies one of these days. But first we need to figure out a good way to test a knife.
Please do more videos like this with pocket knives.. 🙏👍✌️
Cool video, it would be interesting to see one of your knives tested the same!
Do this with one of your knives, honestly I think the most exotic materials you use will be much worse. Especially in the dishwasher test and pattern welding would be brittle
Now do the same exact test with one of your knives
I like the JoergSprave energy of this video.
Would it be possible to come learn bladesmithing with you?
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@@KyleRoyerKnives I'll look into it!
would be cool of you could harden it to where it would hold an edge. seems like that's the only thing it's missing to make it decent.
when u will make hard test your knives? is it so good your knives for multi thousand?
Would you ever recreate this exact blade yourself maybe using that handle pattern?
Great knife for 14 bucks.
Every day user, hold an edge well enough, can't shave with it but you can baton and stuff like that
Please make another sword 😭😭 your the only guy who makes luxury blades on here it’s beautiful
For comparison to make a knife of similar complexity, how much would that cost from you or your dad?
Pommel looked to be zinc coated?
Tang design and thickness would be an awesome video imho
That's a 100.00 knike, after all the food you cut up!😅
Sharpening blades is half the fun of knives. So it doesn’t bother me if I need to sharpen more often.
Man, you went to town on that watermelon! Nice demonstration, but after watching so many of your videos, I guess I just expect all knives to be better.
But does it Keeeeeelll?
😂😂😂 good thing that $1300 sharpener can make a $13 sharp for a while lol
Im glad you didn't kill your dad, next time considering what happens when it breaks Kyle 😢
Now put your knives to the same test. I want to see you hit your stone handles with a 2lb hammer.😂. JK. LOVE YOUR WORK!!!
Not gonna lie for 13-14 dollars you do seem to get more than your money's worth. Somewhat shoddy sharpness and construction is compensated by the toughness of the material, took an absurd amount of bending to shatter it
show the tang!
I’d rethink that bending …. It’s definitely NOT Worth it
You need to etch your maker marks on it, resharpen and sell online... LOL ... Big profit of a 😂😂😂
Huh, honestly for just 13$ that's actually not too bad. Like it's not a *_good_* knife, but you know what i mean
can you do that wih ru knfie? live?
Any bowie under $100 not made by cold steel is gonna hold up just as poorly as this one. The market's got a MASSIVE gap between crap and quality
Edit: I also suppose that Cold Steel's OEM, windlass, does also make a decent bowie under $100 but that thing's basically a sword and not really something to take out backpacking lol
This video gets a thumbs down because I hate watermelon. Just Kidding, awesome video folks, as always.
Bending those knives makes me NERVOUS!!!! Maybe put up some plexiglass or something....
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Do same with your knife
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