![]() ![]() Hey, I gave my K2 and a few other knives this weekend for some hard use stuff as well! No where near as ordered and structured as yours but still some points of data. I hope you enjoyed reading about my tests, and please comment! :) :spyder: The Military is not the best choice for challenging bushcraft activities, but it excels as a large, light blade for whittling or food prep. I think that a K2 + a PM2 would make an amazing outdoors combo. The K2 is unparalleled as a folding "chopper," or if you really want the extra blade length. The Manix is the best choice if you could only have one "do-all" woods knife for batoning, light chopping, and whittling. Third place: Military CRUWEAR, at 29 points :eek: (Yes, I know, well beyond "hard use," but that was the point.)įirst place: Manix 2 XL S90V, at 38 points I gave the Manix an extra test by pounding it into a stump and then hitting the handle several times with a hatchet, but it still didn't fail. I spine whacked them and pounded the blades into stumps, but they wouldn't fail. As for lock strength, none of the locks failed at any point. ![]() Misc.: I'll leave things such as sharpening/edge retention up to the experts. Although the K2's shape is good, the hard edges make it less than comfy, at least for me. ![]() The Millie won out over the K2 due to the chamfered scales. The jimping on the Manix combined with the overall shape made it the winner. Ergonomics (subjective, of course.) Manix 10 points, Millie 6, K2 4. The K2's lack of a choil and swept point made it very difficult to complete this test.ĥ. The Millie was slightly better at this due to the finer tip. The Millie and Manix benefited greatly from the choils. The Manix needed fewer than 10 hits, and the K2 went through in 2 whacks.Ĥ. Sorry Millie didn't even make it all of the way through the stick after 20+ hits. K2 10 points, Millie 4 points, Manix 6 points. The Manix wins due to the dropped tip and full liners, which made striking the handle less likely to damage the scales.ģ. The K2 would have done very well, but the trailing tip got stuck in the baton on every strike, making it very slow work. The Millie worked better than I had envisioned, although it got stuck fairly often. The infamous batoning test through dry Russian olive slabs. The K2 takes the medal for 3 finger grip and substantial forward weight.Ģ. I had to use a standard "hammer" grip on the Millie, which decreased the efficacy of chopping. I prefer to use a 3 finger grip for increased leverage, and while this works well on the K2 and Manix, it is very uncomfortable on the Millie. The Millie and Manix are really just too light for this. The knife with the most points at the end of the tests wins.ġ. They were tested in a random order and all three knives completed any given test before moving on to the next one.Įach test has 20 points to be distributed between the three knives. (The fact that they are seconds should not affect results, as blemishes are only cosmetic.)Įach knife was touched up on a UF stone to achieve a level playing field. I decided to test three of the seconds I picked up at the SFO sale last weekend-the Farid K2, the Manix 2 XL S90V, and the Military Cruwear. ![]() For this test, I wanted to find the overall-best large, outdoor hard-use folder from Spyderco. ![]()
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