Jan Hendrik
Elite Cafe Member
I decided to enter for the Randburg Knife Club Cutting Competition the 2nd of April 2016. So a week before the time I started making my competition cutter in the evenings after work. I wanted to add a little something to my knife to make it look meaner and ended up doing silver inlay in the blade just before the handle.
The steel used was 5160 spring steel and the handle is South African Wild olive wood. There were strict specifications regarding blade length, width and overall length that all the competitors had to adhere to.
Here is the link to the youtube video of the cutting competition: https://youtu.be/D90h21YC1sk
The cutting course we had to complete was a real challenge! Chopping through a wood beam, ropes, water bottles, golf ball, tennis ball, drinking straw, pool noodle, apple, coke can and through another wood beam. All of this without having the cutting edge of your knife warp, bend, crack or chip. If any of these defects were present 50 points would be deducted from your score! The cutting test was also performed against time which was deducted from your score.
In short: I won!
And my inlays stayed secure!
We had a blast and I can hardly wait for the next event.
The steel used was 5160 spring steel and the handle is South African Wild olive wood. There were strict specifications regarding blade length, width and overall length that all the competitors had to adhere to.
Here is the link to the youtube video of the cutting competition: https://youtu.be/D90h21YC1sk
The cutting course we had to complete was a real challenge! Chopping through a wood beam, ropes, water bottles, golf ball, tennis ball, drinking straw, pool noodle, apple, coke can and through another wood beam. All of this without having the cutting edge of your knife warp, bend, crack or chip. If any of these defects were present 50 points would be deducted from your score! The cutting test was also performed against time which was deducted from your score.
In short: I won!
And my inlays stayed secure!
We had a blast and I can hardly wait for the next event.