Will it Survive? Spyderco H2 Blade Steel VS Smoky Mountain River | 2 Weeks in Acidic Water
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- We had to put the new H2 blade steel to the test. Find out if this corrosion resistant blade steel is up to the task of surviving the water of the Great Smoky Mountains!
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Believe it or not, I snapped my Caribbean Leaf compression lock, rinsing it out from saltwater on a sandy mellow beach in Greece, luckily on Blade Forums Sal (king of the best knife company) arranged with me to get a replacement and just wanted the knife for analysis. It is one of the 10 or so compression lock failures in the world (just my luck) due to faulty material/ higher power. Also due to Serbian export laws, I couldn't send the blade itself, so I sent everything except the blade. Again thanks to Sal and Spyderco, I now have a sheepsfoot Caribbean and a Frankenstein Caribbean fixed blade (I had friends make a fixed blade out of my Caribbean Leaf blade). My new Carribbean remains my swim shorts knife for swimming in the sea 😊.
I have one too. I have put it through hell. Not broken 1 yet.
@@landscapingspecialist as I said, my luck is one of 10 in all compression locks out there 😆
Smack in the middle of my vacation too
That is an awesome story!
@@SMKWcom Thank you, that's how I ruined my knife, and I don't abuse my knifes... Just use them... It's just my luck 🤣
That's really impressive. One time I was coming back home from a club in Memphis, and I had to pee really bad. I made my friend pull over so I could go pee. When we got home, I realized I didn't have my phone OR my knife, which was the first decent knife I had ever purchased. A SOG Trident. I ended up going back out to look for the items, with no luck. I was more upset about losing my knife than my phone haha.
Keep in mind, I am almost 50, so I have learned to treat my knives better, however, when I was in my early teens I ruined a Buck 110. I snapped the blade throwing it at a tree and trying to get it to stick. Broke my knife and my heart. You would think I would have learned, but a day or two later, I ruined the tip on my Buck 119... throwing it at the same tree. 😂
Ha, I pretty much did the same thing with my Swiss Army Knife -- sheared the main blade in two trying to throw it up in the air and land tip down.
Think a lot of us damaged a knife or two the same way Mike!
Started collecting about 1 1/2 yrs ago, started with the elementum, moving up to in price and quality, started mods, and all kinds of fun. Recently got a Victorinox sd classic for the wife, and it inspired me to bust out my little box of childhood knives that had a nice small Tinker from the 90’s. I was excited and cleaned up the scales and was thinking of making a lanyard. But… when opened the tools i found BOTH the main blade and second blade had the tips broken clean off. Looked like i had been using the main on as a screwdriver! I was shocked, then resigned and tossed the knife in the trash. The next morning i had a thought, maybe send it to Victorinox and see what they say. Dug it out of the trash and shipped it off. Now, just 3 weeks later, i have it back, cleaned with new main and second blade, plus they replaced scales and the toothpick and tweezers. It is smooth opening and looks amazing. Grand total to restore this 30+ knife - 5 bucks! Unreal, what a great hobby, and great to have these kinds of people and companies involved. Thanks.
The knife community is filled with great people and companies and Victorinox is among the best!
Wasn't me, but: I hit a rough patch a few years back, and instead of being homeless, checked myself into a Rescue Mission. For the first couple of months there, you get assigned a "job" to help contribute to the mission, and mine was in the kitchen. They had a couple of chefs on staff to guide us as we fed everyone. The head chef there used to go above and beyond for his crew and would often send his own money to get us energy drinks or a pack of smokes.
After a few months, they then help you get jobs, and Chef was getting homeless people and addicts jobs in 5 star restaurants! Well, a few of us who were in the working phase all chipped in and got him a $350ish custom chef's knife as a show of appreciation. (Wasn't as into knives yet, don't remember the maker) We got all of the shifts together and had a nice little party while the rest of the mission ordered pizza for the night. After the food we presented Chef with the knife, bring a tear to dude's eye as he's opening the box, and proceeds to somehow stumble while standing still, and drops that beautiful knife, tip first onto a tile floor! Broke about 3/4" off the tip before he actually touched it! Chef was absolutely crestfallen.
The guy who actually took care of getting the knife made took it back to the maker, and he ended up with a 6" custom chef knife, at no extra charge because the knife community is amazing and the maker was a shining example of that.
Glad the got you a new blade for him! The knife community is a great place filled with wonderful people
Clearing the forest last fall I lost my carbon steel pocket knife. I was looking for it for a day but I couldn’t find it. Next weekend we got 8” snow on the ground. I thought I lost it forever. Once the snow melted this spring I started working on the property again and luckily I found my knife without looking for it. Needed an extreme cleaning and rust removal. Not the prettiest now but fully functional and razor sharp. I will take care of it and never gonna lose it again.
Nice video TC I would love to see more Rough Rider videos if you could have time for that. I bought 10 RR this spring at SMKW and you were kind enough to have a selfie with me and my wife
Wishing you guys all my best;
Richard
Rough Rider is a house brand so we will always have videos here and there on them! Glad you found your knife and were able to make it useable again!
I “borrowed” a kershaw leek from my stepdad when I was a teenager. it was my only knife for years. I lost it and found it multiple times. broke the tip off and reground it at school. I used it to rescue a duckling that was tangled in fishing line in front of my wife to look like a hero. I used it as fidget toy until the speed safe bar finally broke and I retired it. One day I plan to get it fixed and put it back into the rotation.
Kershaw has several Leeks out now if you want to keep that one in a honored place
When I lived in Pennsylvania about 15 years ago I was loading my tractor/trailer in the winter with snow on the ground.& I lost my Kershaw Blur I Was very disappointed.. Figured I’d never see it again. When spring came I just happened to be in the same spot loading my truck and I found it on the ground with dirt & grime all over it. A little gritty & a bit of rust. Cleaned it & was good as new
That is awesome!
Hey TC & SMKW peeps! I have 2000 fully serrated Endura that I lost in my backyard roughly 11 years ago! A year ago my youngest found it while making mud pies! The clip eroded, the blade is still good and because it’s pinned together, I can’t fully get it clean 😡!!! I still use it but, I sure would like a “new” one 😁!! Cheers!!!
Thanks for watching and good luck!
Ok, here is my story about the toughest work folder ever. I work in a wholesale supply warehouse and carry a combo blade leatherman crater cx33. My pocket clip had bent out a little bit, which caused it to catch on the torn forklift seat (forklift certified baby!) and pull out of my pocket onto the pavement. I didn't notice right away and was moving around 1060 gal septic tank pallets. So, of course, I set a pallet down right on my knife and pushed it across the asphalt, probably about a good 30 feet or so. Once I realized my knife was missing, I pretty much knew right where to look. I raised up the very large, heavy pallet and boom. There she was. A little chipped up and scratched to hell from tip to tail with significant blade play. But still, fully intact. It still opened, closed, and locked. Which blew my mind. I went from pissed to bummed to impressed. I knew I had to try and save it. So I called leatherman to see if they could help. I sent it off, and they were somehow able to bring it back to life as good as new! I still carry a leatherman crater at work, but not that one. After many years of hard use and abuse, it earned its retirement right at my desk. Proudly displayed, scars and all, as the toughest knife in the business! 😤😤😤
That is awesome that Leatherman was able to save it for you!
When I was young my dad lost his job and ended up giving my two brothers knives he made. He was short on money and this was the only way he could get us Christmas I love this knife. He is not a pro at making knives but he put his heart into all three. Well, I ended up leaving mine at my grandparents to keep it safe as I grew up, and later in life, I went to their house to find it. I looked high and low and I was not able to find my knife. One day after they passed away I was helping clean out their house and I picked up an old humidifier from when I was a kid. This thing was much heavier than it should have been so I opened it. Right there sitting in water from maybe the 70's was my knife. It seems my grandmother saw it and it scared her so she hid it in there for about 30 years and destroyed the knife. I still have it but the rust is so deep it will never look the same as it did when my dad gave it to me. I should have never left it at their house and stored it someplace safe.
Thanks for watching and we are glad you found it at least.
When I was much younger, I took my Boy Scout knife and tried to hack at a bush with it. Just as you would expect, it came out of my hand. I searched everywhere for that thing and never could find it. About 15 years later, my parents and I cut the hedge down. And I found the knife. Still have it - VERY crusty now. Was a good lesson.
That is awesome that you found it!
Honestly the closest I’ve come to ruining a knife would be a bk2 which has (accidentally) clipped rocks and stones, been dropped a lot, caught in torrential rain and some snow, used to pry and also cut birthday cake, but still is doing ok! Cheers!
Awww you gave your knife a Birthday party!
I didn't ruin one, but I lost my new SAK tinkerer at a jobsite in the dirt for a year, returned to do some maintenance at the site and found it peaking out of the dirt, washed it, lubed it, gave the blades a strop and it was good as new. it's back home in my pocket going on 3 years now. First one I've ever lost and found again
SAK’s are very corrosion resistant.
Glad you were able to find it!
Well, I once had a friend back many years ago who was a SMKW customer service representative, back when Big Bill (tall guy, baldish, grey hair) was the manager. She gave me a small camp knife, our families spent weekends together. One night after touching the little guy up with Flitz, closing it and falling asleep...it ended up falling into a bucket I keep by my bedside for Reflux disease "emergencies" . Needless to say I woke up later after being sick that night ...and found what was left of the little camp knife. Stomach acid (hydrochloric) can REALLY do a number on high carbon steel😂😂. Thanks for letting me know that after filtering and boiling my water from that river, I should ph test it and add baking soda. 😂 I used to live 20 minutes from the store. First knife I bought there was a Japanese made Gen 1 SOG TOMCAT.
OK that is one of the most unique was we have heard of a knife being damaged lol
Fun video! Thank you for doing that1
Thanks for watching Stitch!
To this day I can't figure out how it happened. On a fishing trip, after being totally trashed, the next morning when the trusty Buck 119 was unsheathed to open a pack of bacon, it came out with half a blade. The tip half was still in the sheath. And buck makes some pretty thick and solid sheaths. Maybe it broke when rolling side to side sleeping. I mean it was a nice, clean and even break. Almost exactly in half. Still scratch my head over that. Yes, Buck replaced it.
Thanks for watching Franz and we are glad Buck took care of it for you 👍
It was my Buck 110. It’s the Ruger 10/22 from 2010 with the Nickel Silver bolsters and the black scales. I had it since new and was my edc up until the tip broke on it last summer. I stuck it in a stump and it got knocked over. Still devastated!
Many a stump have claimed a knife just like that
I try to protect my premium and more expensive knives. Keep them out of danger. I've lost a Penguin in a campsite in the heavy rain. Couldn't go back until several days later. Yes, the blade was ruined. I think it was D2. Loved that knife, but it was easy to replace with more premium steel.😊
I've found the opposite to be true. I've lost more cheap knives than premium one...because I tend to do a better job keeping track of it, and in the few instances where I have lost one, you better believe it gets found fast. I usually don't even bother looking for a budget knife.
I picked up an Emerson (not Kershaw) for $50 at an estate sale. I sold it to a close friend for the same amount I paid for it. He loved it for about a year, until he lost it in the sand dunes of Lake Michigan. He went back and looked for his beloved lost knife to no avail. Should I win, this knife will be gifted to him. Thank you SMKW for all of your videos and a great store/website!
Thanks for watching!
I have tried to ruin (test) my spyderco snap it in H1 years ago when I found out about the steel that could potentially keep up with salt water fishing. I buried it in a little cove when out kayaking and got it out a week later. everything came out good besides the little rubber grip. Awesome steel. Thanks for the content!
Thanks for watching and for your knife tale!
I purchased a Cold Steel Pendleton Hunter in person from SMKW and dropped it perfectly vertical "like a light saber" on concrete and broke the tip off, which sucked because I really liked the knife.
Thanks for the purchase and ouch! We have been there and done the same thing Lee
Hello SMKW, My first carry knife was the classis Buck 110 folder w/brass bolsters. I was getting it out of the sheath and dropped it on concrete (early 70's, until stolen '10ish!). This caused a huge dent in the outer edge of the bolster and a couple of other scratches! That really set me aback as far as damaging knives, for sure! Be safe and take care, "God Bless", sincerely, Randy. 🙏😇👊
Thanks for watching Randy!
Impressive! For 2 weeks in the water, the blade looks great. I use a Leatherman Wave multi-tool practily every day to keep it in good shape and working condition, I use a little oil to keep the parts working properly. Years ago, I damaged the first one since then. I upgraded to the Wave and love it
You are taken good and proper care of it 👍
Regarding this test video, it would be nice to have some “control” knives to compare it to. Maybe a H1, a common carbon, and a common stainless.
Had a CRKT knife that was my EDC for 2 years (my favoriteat that time). I lost it in my yard while mowing. I searched for days and couldn't find it. 3 years later I bought a metal detector. While playing with the metal detector I found the knife. It was very rusty but I did clean it up. I continued to use until I lost it again 3 months later while mowing the lawn. It took 2 weeks with my detector to find it again. Moral of the story for me was not to carry a knife while mowing my yard! At least not my good knives anyway. I do have an acre of yard so that's why it took so long to find it.
Sounds like that knife just loved being outdoors!
you guys are like "tactical twins"!!!!
Lost a little two blade budget slip joint knife in the garden years ago and found it a few years later still functional but rusty. Also my grandkids lost an Eastwing hatchet in a deer plot field which I found a few years later and restored with paracord on the handle covered with epoxy instead of the original stacked leather. The handle works, not a great job though. I could attach pictures of that before and after if I knew how.
We have many a work knife and ax that have...aftermarket mods of paracord a lot like you are describing lol
Great video as always. My story is that i brought my first ever expensive knife for me the MKM Makro 2 and the sheath was to tight so i heard that you can put it in the oven for 10 minutes and it forms the sheath. So i did and went in the garden to set the lawn mower up completely forgot and 2 hours later the sheath had melted the g10 was bellowing smoke and my oven completely ruined from the g10 toxic fumes. In future i hear wet forming is slightly safer.😢
Thanks for watching Scott and we hope you form fitted wet leather sheaths work for you 👍
I had a Spyderco dragonfly. It was my first knife. My mom got it for me when I was young. I was offshore shark fishing and dropped it to never be recovered. It sucks because I loved that knife and my mom has passed.
Sorry you lost it but it is awesome that your mom bought you a knife in the first place! Thanks for watching
When I was 11, my grandpa gave me a single blade Barlow to clean fish with because he thought the steel was better than my stainless Victorinox. I lost it playing hide and seek. About a year later I found it again, but now it was rusted shut. Idk what I've done with it since, but I cried the day I lost it, and I cried the day I found out again.
Greetings TC, I got one for you... When I got married, I used to cook dinner. I bought several expensive kitchen utensils, knives, pots, and pans. My wife and I moved to Puerto Rico Mother inlaw, who I love deeply used to cook dinner for us. One evening, I got home early and walked to the kitchen, smelling her amazing cooking when I noticed she opened a can of beans with my Zwilling J.A. Henckels Twin knives. It took me 2 weeks of overtime money to purchase the block set of 5. One by one, they were destroyed, and 2 of them were used in the side garden to cut mangoes and bananas for kids. By the end of that summer, my Zwilling J.A. Twin knives were gone $300.00 of 2 weeks of overtime gone away..
At least you got some amazing food to help with the hurt
Yes, I did... I love MA so much that I just eat my pain away 😆😆😆
Growing up I had the classic gas station double edge boot knife that me and my friend use to take turns throwing it at a power line across the road and I made contact with and it almost melted the blade into! The spark show was awesome and man I miss that cheap knife it had a wooden handle and brass guard and tail cap on the end!
I had a case sod buster I kept in the garden and I would dig it up to cut suckers off of my tomato plants. I still use the knife today.🍅
That is awesome! Love a good mater knife
Have worn the ARK neck knife almost most everyday last 5-6 years on my chest bare zero corrosion still! It’s why I keep it
I've lost so many knives, I was afraid of spending to much money for one. Thank God the love of a good woman got me to change my ways. I still haven't lost the 940 Osborne she got for me, even though I had misplaced it for a year once. 🙏💕🍻
The 940 is a good one and we are glad you found a good woman as well!
I remember my grandpa giving me a Gerber dagger it was either a mark1 or a scuba dagger. I absolutely loved that knife and as a young boy would, I used and abused it. My parents shot sporting clays competitively at the time and at one of their shoots I remember playing under a tree and cracking nuts with it, well as we were leaving I realized I had left it behind and when we returned it was gone! I hope whoever found it has enjoyed it!
Thanks for watching and we choose to think your knife made some other kid very happy for years to come
so cool im a big fan of you guys
Thanks for watching!
Nice test --- I damaged my Victorinox Swiss Army Knife Huntsman by being an idiot. I had the main blade open and was throwing the knife up in the air, trying to get it to land point down in the ground about thirty feet away. After the third or fourth throw it missed the grass completely and landed on the asphalt...tip down of course. The blade sheared in two, breaking off about halfway up the nail nick. This was absolutely devastating to my eleven-year-old self because it was the first knife I bought with my own money.
It always hurts more when it is your own money!
I’m glad you didn’t find a foot severed from someone stepping on the blade lol Thanks for sharing bud very informative. I guess mine would be a Zt 350 that fell out at work and I didn’t notice till it was going up a belt on milling machine into a dump truck in peices at least it wasnt the most expensive knife I own😂
Not the ZT!
Not for nothing, that’s some gorgeous scenery.
Most visited National Park for a reason 👍
Man, all my knives come from SMKW, so all my knives are indestructible! I come there every July and buy 4 or 5 knives. See ya next month!!
See ya soon Suggs!
Didn't really ruin it, but dropped my Protech Malibu the day after I got it and had to work on getting the blade back to good condition.
Always hurts a little more when it is an automatic that is dropped
i had an old timer stockman with a broke off spey blade and i took a drimel to it puttin serval scratches in the blade and messed up the edge. Luckily, I took a polishing wheel to it and resharped the edge and it looked new and got all the scratches out. I later traded it to my friend for a Buck 110 from 2003.
Glad you were able to bring it back and make it useable again!
I've broke a few knives in my younger days! Using them for pry bar! I finally figured it out when I started buying my own knives!!!
We all have had to learn the hard way not to use a knife as a pry bar
Ok, when I was a teenager, living in Fort Knox, Ky., I was in the Boy Scouts. We took a trip out to a safe training area, on a hike. And yes I had a really nice Buck 110. And, yes, being totally clueless, I busted it in half, using to pry. I never used a knife to pry ever since then. Have a great day TC, Greg and Isaac!!!
Thanks for watching David! We all have had to learn, the hard way, not to use a knife as a pry tool
I had a Buck Odyssey 1 which I loved. One day a girl at work locked her keys into her running vehicle in the parking lot. So I lent her my Buck knife to pry the window down to get to the keys or lock. She ended up succeeding, but broke about a 1/4" of the tip off the blade! 😱🤣
Ouch!
@@SMKWcom Yeah, now it's also a flat screwdriver! 🤣
I had a Benchmade bailout in CPM M4 that I had with me fishing and totally left it behind on the boat for about a month. Came back and luckily found it but it might as well be a fixed blade with a ton of rust at this point haha
That is one way to modify a knife to a fixed blade lol
I had a nice double edge dagger I carried in the service. A moving company personnel thought they needed it more than a US Serviceman! 😖
Ouch!
i was fishing on the charles river in my home town and i had a kershaw chive on my lap after cutting some line. i remember standing up thinking i got one but no all of a sudden there it goes right in the water. i had that little bad boy sense high school. so upset i thought it was gone for ever i go back about a week later trolling with a magnet hoping it would stick. an yes sir i finally pulled it up. So happy i did get it back still have it to this day but man the blade tip is broke an so small from sharpining it so much. now she just sits in a drawer well worth retired after having it for over 12 years
That is awesome that you were able to get it back!
My favorite knife I’ve had was my first spyderco, started a new job where carrying/using a knife is prohibited. Somehow ended up losing it after starting. Have yet to replace it. 🙃
We hope it just got lost under the seat of your car or is in a old pair of jeans 👍
What did he do? Hugged a rock with his face? 😂
Hugged a rock and tried to kiss a fish
Awesome test. I fortunately do not yet have a story.😊
Thanks for watching Mike and we are glad that you haven't had a bad one yet👍
In a previous life, I used my Bowie knife to chop down every tree that stood in the way of connecting the railroad from the east coast to the west coast. The blade began to dull and nick by the time I chopped my way through thousands of trees. But like I said, that was another life and a loooooong time ago. 😏
Thanks for watching!
that kind of blade i wonder how to sharpen,hope you can do it as a content on your next blog
I broke the main blade out of a 75 case stockman with blue bone handles. About a half inch of blade left there pin is lose and spread the bolsters. I still continued to use it for quite a while until I broke part of the cover off one side and knocked the shield out of it. The broken blade actually made a pretty nice box cutter being short with out a point. It still resides with all the others as a reminder of what not to do with my knives.
Sometimes we need that reminder around
I had a Henckels bread knife that was my favorite when I was still working in restaurants. I dropped it one day on the tile floor and the blade snapped into 2 pieces. Very sad day
Always sad when a good kitchen knife gets broken
You guys have the best job in the world! I drive a commercial garbage truck and it blows! I can’t even imagine getting paid to work with knives.
Thanks for watching and for the hard work that you do
I bought a SOG Sealpup many years ago. I thought it was pretty dull out of the box, so I attempted to sharpen it on a wet stone. I had zero experience sharpening so I rounded the edge pretty bad and scratched the sides of the blade even worse.
It is a good learning experience
I don't think it counts, but I destroyed a Victorinox Tinker using the Philips screwdriver for installing the TV rack in my room. The Tinker fell apart (it actually desintegrated) but the rack was placed steady and good to go
It fell apart so your TV didn't 🫡
a couple months ago i was throwing around my Gerber fixed blade in the yard getting it to stick in the mud. Only a few throws in it only went in a few inches and i heard a nice click sound. Turns out there is a large rock just under the surface and it chipped off about a quarter inch of the tip when it impacted. Sad day lol
We all have been there!
I was fishing at Dale Hollow Lake reservoir. Had a Gerber Paraframe in my pocket that I beat the crap out of. Upon giving an assist on landing a nice ‘smalley it fell out of my pocket by the docks at Star Point resort. The new world record smallmouth has probably added it to his collection
We all have paid the knife price while fishing once and for some of us more than that
I sort of ruined my Gayle Bradley 2 doing some renovations on my grandparents house with my dad after they passed away. Cutting sheet rock, ripping up carpet cutting plastics you name it. Oh by the way, by ruined I mean put a few scratches in the blade 😂 that m4 steel is super tough
Broke the tip off my Swiss Army Knife Fisherman blade from digging 50 cal black powder bullets out of a tree 😢
Many of us have had to learn the hard way that a knife is not a pry tool
I was sharpening my Socom Bravo on my Work Sharp Precision adjust I was putting a 15 degree angle on it and before I realized it I had scratches halfway up the blade I mean it still functions but it doesn't look good with all those scratches in it😢
Scratches and scars just go to show that you use your tools 👍
From what I've read H2 isn't an upgrade to H1 so much as a very similar alloy Spyderco switched to due to supply issues witn H1. IIRC on paper it should have slightly better corrosion resistance and slightly worse edge holding than H1. I think that isn't really an upgrade for most people given that H1's already basically immune to corrosion in normal use in salt or fresh water, but it probably doesn't make much difference.
i had ordered a para military 2 from youns a couple of years back and at first i wasnt real big on it but the more i used it it grew on me and became one of my favorite knives at the time if not my favorite but a year ago or so in the winter time it was snowing and its part of my job for when it snows i have to plow the roads and keep them salted and i had my pm2 on me while i was working well after i got home i felt for it in my pocket and it wasnt there i had tried going back and retracing my steps but i couldnt find it and i was heartbroken well around a year passed and i was getting ready to buy another pm2 and i was looking around in my truck for my hat i had misplaced and i scooted the seat back and there my pm2 was just sitting under my seat the whole time i was beyond relieved from finding it again so after a year of thinking some random dude picked it up on the side of the road or something like that i finally have my pm2 back in my collection /edc 😀
That is the best kind of ending to a lost knife story!
Swiss Army knife my father gave me. Was my favorite. I got a fishing hook stuck in a tree. Tried to pry it loose with the blade. Not a good idea which I found out when the blade snapped. Wasn't a good idea with a slip joint I know.
Thanks for watching Todd. We all have to learn the hard way not to pry with a knife 👍
I bought one of the H1 steel and Went to Miami Beach no. I live in work as a mover that was 15 years go. I never cleaned it
That is a testament to how well they hold up in high salt environments
My crkt m16 EDC during my time in the military was used for everything.from letter opener to makeshift hammer and everything in between. It was ABUSED !
First day using my Para 3 at work I was reaming out a flexible plastic tube for my olier gun so I could continue threading pipe and I got a big chip in my blade. But I rather use my knifes then look at them!!
Knives are tools to be used 💯
I used my Benchmade osborn 940 to cut my wife’s umbilical cord. The dr was not happy when he handed me the snips and I pulled out my 940 then proceeded to slice that thing like a fresh hot ham on thanksgiving. The way home from the hospital she asked me why, I told her it was my favorite knife, she asked to see it and tossed it into the nether realm. I still dream about my 940. One day we will meet again. 👶 🔪 🪱 🐷 😱 🤿🔪
Better she threw the knife out than you...
Here for the contest
I got a Dremel for Christmas when I was a kid, around age 12. I had also just started _collecting_ knives from the local flea market. As any know-it-all 12 year old would, I combined the two trying to make the knives “better.” As expected, I ended up mangling a few of those flea market knives with the Dremel before accepting the fact that I wasn’t actually improving them and I was in fact destroying them.
I still collect knives but I tend to keep them unmodified these days. 🤣
We have had to learn quite a few lessons the hard way as well
I would like to see a side by side comparison with a knife suing S30V and maybe 1095 carbon steel. And also micarta and pakkawood handles. Alas, I don't have an interesting story of knife I ruined despite doing numerous wrong things I did with Camillus Fighting Knife but I do have a somewhat interesting story of a knife that I indirectly ruined. It was while I was in the army and we were acting as aggressor force against the headquarters element of Reserve Transportation unit. We were given orders to infiltrate their security and attack their TOC (Tactical Operation Center). I instructed one of my corporals to cut the telephone line once we got passed their perimeter. He commented that he didn't have wire cutters. I told him he could use his Camillus, that it would cut WD-1 with no problem at all.
The weather was perfect for us to sneak in. It was raining which covered any noises. After we got passed the line, I sent the corporal off to the trail from the main gate to TOC to look for the telephone line. After about a minute the entire headquarters went dark. A few seconds later the corporal returned and I asked him did he find the telephone line. He said yes but it was much harder to cut than I said. And he complained about the wire sparking and shocking him. Instead of the telephone line He had cut the electrical line from the main generator. We looked at his knife after we got back and he had some of the biggest gouges I had ever seen, some as deep a 1/4 inch. Apparently he didn't know the difference between a half in generator cable and 1/8 in telephone wire! We were commended for the attack on the TOC that included tossing a CS grenade into the middle of their staff meeting. I offered to buy the corporal a new knife but he said he would just keep the one he had for the memories.
Thanks for watching and for the ideas for future vids. Sounds like you might need to send that Corporal a knife even after al these years lol
I had an all steel spyderco provenator ( I think it evolved into the stretch model) I had in my jeans pocket . Our neighbor was getting hijacked so my brother and I ran out to assist him. When we got home afterwards I realized my knife wasn't in my pocket 😢 my brother and I searched a good hour in every Bush on the street on the road etc... it was gone! 😢 I went to buy another...only to find out it was discontinued! 😢
Lost but for a good cause. Good on you and your brother for helping out a neighbor
Story time for the giveaway:
Went kayak fishing about 4 years ago at a private pond. While fishing, I had an urge to use the restroom (number 2). I paddle to shore, and find a spot to do my business. Afterward I went about my day. Toward the end, I realized my CJRB Ria was missing and I just knew it fell in the water and was gone. I chalked it up as a loss. Things happen. I ordered another one when I got home because it's one of my favorite little pocket knives. Couple of months later, I get a text with a picture from my uncle and, to my surprise he found it while on the shore in that same area. Evidently as my pants were at my ankles, the knife (clipped in my pocket) came loose and fell out on shore and I never noticed LOL. It has surface rust on the blade but overall it was still in serviceable condition after I cleaned it up. I carry my newer one still and this one hangs out with the rest of the knife collection as my backup now in case something similar happens again. If proof is needed for validity, I can show the knife to you. That's probably my craziest knife story.
That is a great story and we are glad your uncle found it for you!
In my 20s I lost my favorite pocket knife which was a Ken Onion blacked out folder. How I lost it was ... I got pulled over by MA State Police and they seized it for ; get this... being concealable at night LMAO. I kid you not. I loved that knife and it was probably enjoyed by that trooper for years.
I snapped the blade on a boker strike trying to pry open a floor drain when my septic tank backed up in my house 2 weeks after we bought it 😑
That is a tough one to lose
I destroyed my favorite para 3 by essentially welding a hole through it while trying to trim back some wire that I didn’t know was hot.
That sounds shocking!
@@SMKWcom hahaha it was! Luckily I wasn't injured, but my para 3 is toast. Did ya'll pick a winner?
How about cutting open bags of salt for swimming pools and pretty much destroyed a benchmade mini bugout.
A native 5 with magnacut is in my future!!!
I had an original sog tomcat,and being the dumb kid I was I had zero clue how to sharpen it..I gave it away ..I had zero idea how valuable it would be one day,and I wish I could find one for the original price I paid..zero chance of that🙄
SOG makes some awesome knives and we are sure it made your friend happy to receive it!
BladeHQ did this awhile back in the utah salt lake for 60 days if I remember right
Ben did it! We do not have salt flats here so we made due with Black Bear and Rainbow Trout infested waters
I got a buck mini when I was 8 years old and used through several years of cub scouts and Boy Scouts now I can’t find it.
If your house is anything like ours it is in a drawer somewhere
When I was in Iraq a camel spider was chasing my shadow not allowing me to go the direction I needed to go. So long story short I threw my special edition gerber down at the spider hitting a desert pebble completely breaking the blade. Oh well another one gone. Oh yeah missed the spider!
Ouch but it does make an awesome story now
It would have been great to see what the acidic water did to a LC200, a Magnacut and another non very corrosion resistant steel?
I'm looking for a spyderco knife between $50-$130 any suggestions?
Bear in mind, everything is personal preference, so... That being said, rex 45 seems a great steel, not stainless enough though, and you can not go wrong with manix 2...
Right after we were married went to a flea market in 1978 my wife bought me a Buck 110 we lived in a up stairs apartment the plastic runners on the steps came loose I pulled out my Knife to cut the runner off my knife hit a nail head and snapped the tip off thought it was strange because they show a buck knife cutting a nail on the box but an old guy I worked with from Kentucky took it home and bought it back a few days later a little shorter but the tip looked good
The only thing that H2 resists more than corrosion is holding a good edge. Wish Spyderco would just switch over to LC200N and Magnacut for their Salt series.
thanks for watching
Sorry I'm late, I destroyed mine by being a noob and probably lazy. Bout 10 years ago I had a Lansky deluxe, it was great but worksharp had just come out with the handheld grinder and I figured I could use a zdp dragonfly to learn to use it with since the hrc's so high. Well one pass and I guess I raised it up wrong but I completely rounded the tip. It's like I cut the blade in half. I couldn't believe it. Ended up just grinding off enough to make it a wharnie and then I used the Lansky to reprofile it until it cut paper again, but this angle is like 50° or something. Steep af so it dulls fast, plus I probably destroyed the heat-treat since I didn't know to cool it. I've never touched a belt system since.
Always good to learn from our mistakes and we have made a plenty
I lost a Civivi Elementum in some guys leg at a bar one night.
Had, note the past tense, a Browning Crowell/Barker Competition Knife and had it customized with jimping and removable scales. Carried as my outdoor/wilderness blade and did a lot of batoning without issue. Well splitting some fire wood in single digit temps I had a difficult knot in a twisted pieceof oak. I done similar task before no problem but never in temps this low. Well while pounding the blade though I heard a sickening ‘tink and wiggling the blade out I found a half moon missing about the radius of a Silver Dollar! To add insult to injury and like an idiot I continued to use the blade until it broke in half. Lesson learned … use a axe, hatchet or splitting wedge or other tool designed for the job … not your favorite knife!
Ouch! Haven't had it happen in temps that cold but we have been there. Thanks for watching
Do you think this is better than lc 200 ?
H1/H2 is rust proof and LC200n is not. LC200n is way better in my opinion. It holds a good edge is pretty tough and 95% of the corrosion resistance of H1/H2. H1/H2 edge retention is crap but if you are in salt water quite a bit H1/H2 definitely has its place.
Lc200n is way better for edge retention, I wear mine in the swim shorts in saltwater, no sign of rust whatsoever. I do of course rinse it with sweetwater and wash it regularly
Damn, I don't have a good knife abuse story but I would have sent you some PH test strips, LOL
Well this was down river of Gatlinburg and several moonshine plants...
My favorite knife I had broke was given to me by my dad. My neighbor locked her self out of the house so I tried prying by the lock to jimmy the door open and a good bit of the tip broke off. I ended up getting the door open but ruined my favorite pocket knife. 😢
Glad you were able to help her out at least!
@@SMKWcom ya she was happy.
...please, for my mental health, use a stick to poke around with to look for it next time. Especially with that serrated blade...
Exactly 😂 I was thinking the same... I kind of expected to have a video with a little bit of blood testing the rust proofness of h2...
@@mladenvojinovic Right!
H2 isn't so much an upgrade is it is a lateral move to replace the now more or less unavailable H1.
thanks for watching
I've broken a couple bucks. But I've never broken a case or schrade usa
Ouch!
I destroyed a knife by trying to keep water off it in a dyneema bag. Unfortunately there was water in the bag😢
That happens more often than you would think!
Who won guys, I am curious about the best selected story (all are good)
We are still waiting on the winner to contact us. If they don't soon we will choose a different one and get in contact with them. As soon as we get a conformation we will announce the winner
@@SMKWcomDoes the winner know he or she or they/them 😂 won? How does he or she or... know? For the life of me I can't figure the mechanism out...