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David Weaver
..for a giggle, I went out and looked at "5160 vs. 1095" and I can't say I found too much other than that 5160 does get good press for big knives.
The knife world is filled with a lot of guys who will write a blog post with definitive conclusions (some of them are right, but some of them are way off). One said that if you were in a survival situation and had to have a knife that didn't break and sharpened easier on a rock, you'd pick 5160
If I had the inclination to make good videos, I would make a spoof knife video called the post-2k knife survival test and it would have the following stations:
* cutting 5 feet of tape off of packing and cleaning the residue off
* cutting five boxes into pieces small enough to go into a recycle bin as fast as possible
* sprinting to a station where kids were opening presents and cutting all of the packaging away from the toys - the stuff that seems less designed to be packing, and more toy stabilization/retention so that they can ship a finished toy from china in a box and not worry about it rolling around (you guys with kids or grandkids know what I'm talking about)
* a station with a campfire and 4 kids screaming "I don't have a stick for my marshmallows....I'm not putting marshmallows on bark, either!!"
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- Edge holding *PIC*
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