Condor Bushcraft 4 inch - destructive flex test (part 2/4)

[wb5mgr]

Btw I own 4 condor knives so I still think they are good value for money.

[wb5mgr]

Not bad but it did not quite come up too the standards of a good forged blade. A good forged blade should be able to bend to 90 degrees w/o breaking.

[ronaldo77782]

I just got my new condor knife and though you were trying to make look bad I like condor knifes great knife for the price

[lmglange]

@ronaldo77782

I do not get what you mean. I like condor knives

[ronaldo77782]

What are planing to use this knife for any knife would break under enough pressure or are you telling me that there is a knife that would take any abuse and still be in one piece and will cost you 25 bucks bull shit

[lmglange]

@ronaldo77782

I am not sure what you are saying. of coarse it can break.

ESEE knives does flex test of their knives and post them on their website. With this video I am prooving that the condor knvies are just as flexible. And condors only cost a fraction of the ESEE knives. Allthough the egde retension is slighty less than ESEE - condors are still great

[SBPStudio]

meh...buy a Mora

[thaiguysabu]

still, for the price these things can't be too bad. i have a mora clipper, but i do like thicker blades. i'll probably get this and the bushlore knife. that thing is thick as hell.

thanks for showing us this.

[lmglange]

@thaiguysabu

my pleasure! I have the Condor Woodlore (4.3-4.5mm thick) but the egde is so thick that I cant make a featherstick with it. I have used 2 hours on a 240 grid sharpening stone but its still not cutting near my wetterlings axe!

If you buy the woodlore you have to have good sharpening/honing equipment and the a little skill to do it. It requires a lot of work due to a really steep secondary bevel Condor has put one.

[pikulicluka]

@lmglange May I ask for your opinion? What knife has your preference when it comes to bushcraft? The Condor bushlore, or the one in the video, a Condore CTK236-4HC (bushcraft knife)?

I'm looking for a bushcraft knife, so I need to choose between the two.

Hope you can help me out with this!

Cheers!

[lmglange]

@pikulicluka

buy all means the " condor bushcraft 4inch"!!! its tough enough for all the batoning you will need and it carves with the factory grind!!

the condor woodlore (I own it) comes with a really thick terrible egde (thick scandi grind with a very thick secondary egde). I cant make a featherstick with the woodlore.

I have used hours on 100 grit paper and 160 grid stone and the woodlore still sucks at carving anything. You serious equipment if You want to fix the woodlore's egde

[lmglange]

@lmglange sorry ... I mean the bushlore not woodlore.

allthough the bushlore comes with a really nice sheath which almost is worth the entire price of the knife and sheath...

the sheath I got was not the one pictured at heinnie.com or condor.com

[pikulicluka]

@lmglange I see. I definitely need a thinner blade anywas, for I'll most certainly do a considerable amount of woodcarving with it. But, here's the point that's been bugging me for a while now: the blade thickness of the Bushlore is 5/32". This is fairly thick for a bushcraft knife indeed, and thus I concluded you were right. But then, after some research, I found out that the famous 'Ray Mears Woodlore Knife' had the exact same blade thickness as the Condor, yet it's a broadly praised knife!

[lmglange]

@pikulicluka

Rays Knife is a scandi zero grind... much different from the condor bushlore. also the condor bushlore is varying in thickness between 4.3mm and 4.5mm so its a bit thicker than Rays

[lmglange]

@pikulicluka The Fallkniven H1 is 5mm thick with a convex scandi grind but with its acute egde it carves really well (i dont own it but has considered it alot and read reviews). Carving ability depends primarily on egde geometry - especialy regarding the egdes "acuteness"/thinness... and other thinks like the egde being close to the handle to maximize cutting power (like mora's has). These charateristics for a good carving knife is not present in the C. bushlore but alot better in the BC 4".

[pikulicluka]

@lmglange Thank you! You made me buy the bushcraft basic, and I'm very pleased with the knife!

Youtube needs more people like you; you were an immense source of information and help for me!

So, once again, thank you!

[pikulicluka]

@lmglange I can only presume that the difference is in the edge itself, although you claim to have spent quite some time on reprofiling the edge, with no genuine succes. So this leaves me with a final question: if, indeed, the blade isn't good at woodcarving (which I believe is true, by the way), then how come that the RM Woodlore is considered to be one of the best bushcraft knives out there, even though it has the exact same blade thickness as the Condore Bushlore.

Thank you for all your help!

[drumgodtim]

Broken!!! Dang!!! I have looked at a Condor but did not know enough about it to make a purchase...