Knife Debate Episode 1: Tanto vs Drop Point
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 เม.ย. 2024
- Join George and Jacob as they battle it out to see which comes out on top... Tanto or Drop Point.
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If you want to fire up the comment section do: tip up vs tip down. Or deep carry vs standard clips.
All moot for a lot of lefties.
Drop Point vs Tanto?
YES!
They both have Pros and cons.
A basic Cold Steel GI Tanto saved my life so Tanto haters can stick it deep!
tanto s are good work knives
tip won't break as easy
Drop point all day. I've got a 26 year old Benchmade Mini Griptilian that's my EDC probably 70% of the time. I have a knife with a tanto blade somewhere, I think, unless it got lost in our cross country move 3 years ago, I don't think I've seen it since we moved. I hate it, it was my basement work bench beater for probably 20 years and I only used it when I didn't have another knife handy.
Have you ever tried skinning a deer with a tanto
If all you are doing is opening packages, tango works fine. Out in the rest of the world, I’ll take my drop point 7 days a week and twice on Sundays.
A good tanto has a chisel grind. Easy and fast to sharpen properly. Most of the time, a little stopping is all that you need.
"a little stopping?" I thought tantos were Go, Go, Go! ;-)
My main edc has it but it depends what you use for, it's very difficult to make straight cuts in many materials with a chisel grind. Some other jobs are easier, though, so as always there are no solutions, only tradeoffs :v
@@Sk0lzky Very true. Chisel grinds make every curb or random rock your own personal dry hone. You'll always have a edge sufficient sharp for rudimentary cutting tasks, but precision work's out of the question.
Tanto, tip up. That's how I do it.
Tanto's can cause more damage to things. It's got piercing power and a snap cut with that secondary point is vicious. Probably why Lynn Thompson used and promoted them on tactical knives. Your cutting angle with the flat is going to be different, like a wharncliffe. They're also great at scraping things like removing stickers or paint removal.
Drop points are a jack of all trades and for getting work done rather than a focus on destruction. I've never seen a hunting tanto (unless you're hunting "the most dangerous game" ). Trying to carve things with a tanto is pretty clumsy compared to a drop point (like making a tent peg or spoon, or other bushcrafty and woody things). I'm not a fan of food prep with folders, but there's a lot to be said for that if you are... really cutting most things on a surface other than cardboard or carpet works better with some belly. Drop points just lend themselves to most folks EDC tasks well and is easier to maintain.
On a personal preference thing, I like to see where the tip of my knife is (or point of entry) when I'm in a cut for control, and when using the secondary point, that vision is obscured by the primary tip. That won't bother everyone, but it sure does bother me.
Jacob’s great, you’re great George and I rounded the tip off my bailout when sharpening 😂
So we decided to wear our Sunday best. I like the vibe. How about dressing it up for a debate with a power tie. Red and Blue for the win. Satin ties are just not the vibe.
All depends what I'm using the knife for or why I have it on me. But for the most part drop point for me
Tanto for hard use and drop point for controlled slicing, comes down to the use case. Then you can go into the weeds with a modified/hybrid tanto like a Spartan Formido, still heavy duty but with a drop point-ish tip(could maybe be used for skinning but still too thick for most any food prep).
If you think a drop point is good for slicing try a clip point, you'll be amazed.
Tanto was my favorite blade shape but I’m enjoying any other blade shape one of everything is good ha
Overall, which style has the stronger tip?
Spear point > drop point > lambsfoot > tanto > clip point.
I am of the opinion that a tanto is mostly "cool. For a hunter outdoorsman a droppoint makes just much more sense. I do'nt want a funky knife, I want a practical knife.
I didn’t know you could have over an hour conversation over a knife blade!
Straight spine without drop and short belly with long cutting edge. Basically a puukko blade shape but with full width tang. But then I only use my knives for bushwhacking and carving so if I have to use them for self-defense then I might feel differently.
Team Tanto!!
(*Pronounced "Tahhn-tow"!*)
All about that Spyderco PM2!!
I think he mentioned in previous videos that he'll pronounce it with the short 'a' sound when referring to western style tanto's. I see where he's coming from there, trying to Americanize the word, but I still prefer if you pronounce it like the language it came from and use "traditional" and "western" as the differentiator.
Tanto!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Only one way to settle this. Fight! 😂
Begins at 07:00
One point that was overlooked by the Tanto side was the piercing factor. The point on a Tanto is meatier. One could feasibly pierce sheet metal, the gauge of a car door for example, and with a long enough blade it could pierce both pieces of sheet metal in the door assembly.
That's probably one reason why I have very few knives that sport a Tanto blade.
If you put it on 1.5x speed this is OK.
Lol immediately did it I'm on 75 and skipping
I love them both, I just gravitate towards drop points. They are an American classic
Where is the microtech vs benchmade debate?
Give a western tanto blade to an amateur sharpener, and you'll end up with a drop point pretty quickly 😂
LOL yes.
I find that it's actually easier for beginners to sharpen tantos properly than curved edge knives because they don't have to change the angle
Drop Point for sure, nothing personal against tanto. I just sharpen my own knives and find them easier to sharpen.
First traditional or American Tanto? I like that I can use the American Tanto as a knife and a chisel. Hollow grind on primary and Flat on the end for the win.
Definitely a tanto blade for me
Drop point vs MODIFIED (bi-beveled, curved blade, thicker at the tip) tanto would be a more compelling "VS" conversation.
Due è meglio di uno 🎉Blade hQ ❤the best
I have both x20, I don't choose, I like them all !
Me 2.
@@JosephTaylor-zd6zl I just started collecting congress s
Aircraft paint remover will work.
Drop point, I like my Sebenza's. I need a damascus.
Drop point is much more practical. BUT even more critical is the edge geometry.🧐
Love me a nice large inkosi with the tanto but if I had to carry one forever it would be a drop point no doubt. Tactical or not drop point will get it done
Wharncliff is the way to go, or sheep's foot, insingo, those work so much better for MY applications. It all comes down to what you're doing at that point in need of the tool.
I'm a dagger edge guy
Only here to mock and start fights with the tanto people.
All in love and good fun of course.
I tried to use and like the tanto but just couldn't. It's not practical in a pocket knife.
Reverse Tanto enters the chat.
Did you go to Zhang's Chopstix of Friday? If you did not, your doppelgänger was.
Tanto because there just better why have 1 knife per knife when you have 2 with the tanto
Whoever said tanto has the same edge length as tanto (all things being equal) really needs to go back to primary school and learn basic geometry lol.
PS tanto team represent (only for the small edc though). Unfortunately due to the way I most often use them, they too often turn into a drop point lmao
Drop point
What a bunch of goofs
True story, I dislike lanyards so much, that I'd never buy a knife with one pre installed. When I see knives for sale in FB, and they have a lanyard in the pics, I scroll right by. If you really love a knife, why would you want to shove Paracord in their butt?
For punching holes in car hoods, get a tanto; for everything else, there's drop points.
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Ahm, this is actually a qustion? I was roadtripping in Australia for 6 Weeks and we only had a tanto. It was not even funny how unpractical the tanto was. Basically you can cut a rope or cable but thats it.
Lier
And notably unusable for cutting board chores
This “debate” is half dumb.
talk is cheap, do some work to prove it out
The fact that you guys are pronouncing Tantō wrong just goes to show you don't understand the structure of the Japanese language.
To have the absolute "best" blade shape or steel or handle or whatever knife attribute for the exact job at any given moment when you need a knife would require you to carry several knives at all times, but that is far from practical on a going about your daily life stuff from day to day, so sacrifies must be made on our EDC knives, so just carry what you like and what makes you happy, just having a knife when one is needed is 90% of the battle.Edit I am more of a traditional drop point or clip point kind of guy, however I do own a few tanto style (westernized tanto) as well as traditional style Japanese tanto's that are the more rounded and really like they way they work for many things, knives are just too cool to not have a bunch of different ones.