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Title: ABS Pre Test Knife
Post by: DANA HOLMAN on July 15, 2011, 10:44:00 PM
This is a video of me with my first Pre Test Knife, this is a full tang knife, 1/4" 5160 steel 9" blade and OAL is 14"
http://www.youtube.com/user/holmanknives
Hope you enjoy the video, on You Tube
Dana
Title: Re: ABS Pre Test Knife
Post by: Steve Nuckels on July 15, 2011, 10:52:00 PM
Nice work Dana!!!!!

Steve
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Potomac Forge
Title: Re: ABS Pre Test Knife
Post by: L. Harris on July 15, 2011, 11:28:00 PM
DANG!!!!!!!!!!!  :eek:
Title: Re: ABS Pre Test Knife
Post by: Toecutter on July 16, 2011, 12:37:00 AM
Very cool Dana, that was great to see!  Thanks for sharing.

Nathan
Title: Re: ABS Pre Test Knife
Post by: SveinD on July 16, 2011, 05:29:00 AM
Sturdy stuff, and still shaving sharp, wow!
Title: Re: ABS Pre Test Knife
Post by: kbaknife on July 16, 2011, 08:23:00 AM
That's why it's called the "Performance Test".
Nicely done.
Title: Re: ABS Pre Test Knife
Post by: tippit on July 16, 2011, 09:25:00 AM
Dana,
You are on your way...good work!
Title: Re: ABS Pre Test Knife
Post by: Bobby Urban on July 16, 2011, 09:49:00 AM
That is awesome but I just don't know how you take a knife you worked so had on, that is at the perfect hardness to still shave after all the abuse and then you fold it in half!

I know, I know, your eye is on the bigger prize but it always kills me to see that.  

Although I can only imagine it being a "right of passage" so to speak for JS and MS smiths to have a bunch high quality knives in their collection that have been folded and broken.

Great job on the video by the way - a lot of that home brew stuff turns our a shaky and out of focus.  Your video is really clean.  Thanks for sharing

Bob
Title: Re: ABS Pre Test Knife
Post by: 4est trekker on July 16, 2011, 09:57:00 AM
:thumbsup:      :clapper:
Title: Re: ABS Pre Test Knife
Post by: Kevin Evans on July 16, 2011, 10:20:00 AM
Nicely Done my Friend!!  :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:
Title: Re: ABS Pre Test Knife
Post by: DANA HOLMAN on July 16, 2011, 11:57:00 AM
Thanks guys, I think it turned out ok, it bent more at the ricosso then I thought it would but all and all I'm HAPPY. Just a couple more years and I can do the real test, a lot of thanks to everyone and thanks Lin, I talk to lin a bunch
Dana
Title: Re: ABS Pre Test Knife
Post by: mulie on July 16, 2011, 09:06:00 PM
Very cool.