knifelover, I am not going to argue with you, either in public or in private. (PMs)
I regret that you misunderstood what I was trying to say. That happens to me quite often.
No offense or disrespect was intended. Your workmanship is first rate and I have gone back and looked at the pictures of them several times.
As far as ANZI and his files, I have clamped some of my blades in vices and hung a 100 pound weight on the tip and they didn't either bend or break. The weight was hung sideways, and not upright on the spine. I have also thrown some of them as hard as I could so that they hit point first on a concrete floor and they never bent or broke, or even dulled the point.
I do this with the blades, as they come from the heat treater, and before I spend a lot of time polishing and putting a handle on them.
I do that to test for brittleness. If the blade is going to break, I would rather it do it while I own it instead of someone demanding their money back for it after it broke during use.
