Comments by "Mikko Rantalainen" (@MikkoRantalainen) on "Best Knife Brand? Benchmade, Buck, Zero Tolerance, Spyderco, Cold Steel, Kershaw, SOG, CRKT, Ontario" video.

  1. Great testing as usual! I think you should include a test where blade is heavily damaged (like try to cut a concrete block with 10 kg pressure with it) and then sharpened. In my experience some manufacturers make something called "edge harderning" which allows sharpening the blade only a couple of times and it cannot stay sharp after that because the hardened part of the metal has already been removed by sharpening / reshaping the blade. I'm not sure if this edge hardening is done to reduce manufacturing costs or to make the blade safer because it will not snap/shatter but just bend under too heavy tension.
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  2. Great review! That Smith & Wesson knife is $9.99 in the official store right now so it has even better performance/price ratio. Too bad that they don't seem to ship to Europe.
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