thats a chefs knife

That was a pretty entertaining test. :) Wouldn't have thought of trying that but it was interesting to see. So the good old zombie-apocalypse classic sure wouldn't be the greatest all-round survival knife.

Dude, you have the best narrative voice. It kinda sounds like those movie trailer voices.

Can you use a Butcher Knife for a Survival Knife? YES! the Old Hickory Butcher Knife is one that is actually tested and used by several Survival Gurus.

"I advise never to do this... Woaaa!" Tac you are the funniest person I've ever seen.

I knew it... Michael Myers had a great taste! A kitchen knife never let you down! 😁

this is why I love KZfaq, I stopped watching TV.

Awesome. It's funny you made this, just last week I was also filming some footage with a 12 inch bladed Winco Chef's knife. Not survival with it, but it's crazy for knife throwing/bottle slaying.

Nice demonstration, the steel was probably really hard for holding an edge in food prep. I have seen vids of guys testing Old Hickory butcher knives as survival knives with no problems. They are 1095 and made in the good ol US of A at a price around $12!

Good for a laugh. The knife did better than I thought it would.

Tac, your video are always entertaining man. Thanks for the laughs!

Wow, I am a butcher and use Victornox brand knives work supplies and this was very entertaining to watch! We use our 10" blades to chop whole chickens up all the time and I've use mine to go through the bone on Turkey drums and thighs before! I was kind of rooting for that old knife to survive your testing, kind of bummed out now ;-)

Yea Old Hickory Would Be A Great Choice They make great knifes with many uses. Carbon steel of course & stay sharp, many people cut and shape to desired look, some leave as found. I have done both. If we take a look back in time we will find that house hold butcher knifes were being used for a lot more than in the kitchen . They were a great trade item as well and highly sought after by the beloved American Indian tribes and talk about people who used knifes they were among the top of the list. I myself have purchased a good many and love them for so many things be yond bush craft. You can still buy new at reasonable price or like my self find at yard sales, swap meet, E- Bay, i also have found some old carbon steel butchers made in Japan that are great knifes equal to Old Hickory. A few i believe to even be a tad better made , sad but true in my opinion . Good video thanks & Thumbs Up !!

It's magnetized because you were banging it with another chunk of steel. It's an old technique to make a magnetic "compass needle" in a survival situation- obviously with small bits of metal.

Tac; Brilliant vid !!! Lucky you gave mama a nice new set !!

I enjoy using the thick meat clevers as beaters. The amount of weight they have makes chopping very easy. Thanks for the vid tact! :)

When I hear “butchers knife” I instantly picture a CLEAVER. what you are playing with is what I refer to as a “CHEFS KNIFE”.

Also, that's a chef's knife. It's primarily for cutting veggies, a butcher knife is designed for butchering meat.

Loving the videos man!!!

Awesome vid man, I love these kinds of tests

Tac love your vids Buddy. Subscribed

Frontiersmen, mountain men, trappers, farmers, buffalo hunters, and Indian fighters used plain old butcher knives throughout the 18th and 19th centuries in this country, and God alone knows how many scalps were taken by trade knives, which were pretty much the same thing. You just have to keep in mind that it's a knife, not an axe or a maul. Bowie's knife was an innovation in the fact that it actually was thick enough in the spine to allow some heavier use/abuse, but butcher knives work just fine when they're within the limitation of what they were intended to be used.

wooow awesome tests! thank u!

Bout to go buy a little kitchen knife to keep in my pack for game processing. Thanks for the inspiration tac

I love these brutal tests, great vid

I like it when you test shit to the breaking point

Michael Myers felt sad until you brought out the other knife ;)

The vid that introduced me to your channel Tac

Yes, it can be a survival knife. While one person puts on a ski mask and flails at green wood standing, another person will pick up dry branches and use them in a fire and expend significantly fewer calories. The guy with the 1/4 inch thick bladed knife that is 7 inches long will be frustrated in cutting meat and fileting fish while the guy with the butcher knife would do the chore without reflection. As usual, the video is "entertainment".

Boss video fella I've wondered about that for a while , probly magnetised from being on one of them magnet blocks that you stick to a wall

Use what you have. I've done it with rocks, and sticks. If you have any control over what all you have in a survival situation, it's not a survival situation. It's fucking around in the woods, take a radio, and have a friend pick you up. You survive. It's your job, use what you have.

can you make a detailed video on your shelter/fort that is all around you during this test?

You are the definition of badass!!! Needed to tell you.

it is apparent that this guy makes videos for the humor value alone..

That chefs knife is very hard and brittle, the downside being that you can’t really use it as a survival knife. You can use it as a carving knife or to cut through meat because it’s a thin blade, not split wood.

thats what im exactly looking for thx man

So, to add a new question to the list of ETERNAL questions such as "does a tree make a sound in the forest when it falls if no one is there to hear it"; "is a piece of crap knife, REALLY a piece of crap if you can't break it?"

Identifying a "survival knife" is difficult for many people. My mentor is a former paratrooper. He decided that modified Glock knives were the survival knives for his girlfriend and himself. After "bugging out", and then settling down in one area, which is the better "survival knife", the Glock knife that can dig holes and spear people or the $12 Ontario Old Hickory butcher knife? When you are puttering around the camp/abandoned building or foraging for seeds/grains/small game, which would you be more likely to be carrying? Or you get a $12 Mora knife and compare that to a 1/4 inch thick 7 inch bladed "survival knife" and reflect on why the Scandinavians were able to get by in the winter time with the $12 knife.

I have a modded old hickory butchers knife I use for everything except food while camping. It works great! I did break it eventually while trying to cut down a tree.

Thanks that was a blast to watch! In a survival situation, I would be being careful with stuff not pushing it to the limits of abuse. Although it's hard to say for sure what kind of situation you would be in. I was wondering about this though since I do have a chef's knife, a Forschner 10".

Basically is the same design all purpose knife (called "facón"),that used the "Gaucho" in Argentina,Uruguay and southern Brazil.

I'm a trained butcher and I never used a knife like that. I saw the Chef's at tech. college using knives like that. I used Victorinox knives, the smaller knives look like Mora's and you see Dave Canterbury using smaller versions of the larger knives. I wouldn't like to rely on the smaller ones to baton wood but the bigger ones would be fine.

Unfortunately, for %95 of the population when the shtf, a Chinese made chef knife will be their survival knife lol.

Nice brother.. Good stuff...

who would have thought that a butcher knife of mysterious origins and unknown steel out performed the k-bar smhl

I wonder the same results would happen with a premium chefs knife made out of aus10x or sv45 would fare against premium survival knives made out of the same materials.

Just to nitpick, that's a chef's knife. Butchers use boning knives and scimitars.

kitchen knives are harden higher then other knives and are prone to chipping rather than rolling over, that hard shock just snapped the blade

I've done similar but for different reasons. I wanted a small piece of steel to make something else whilst on a farm in the middle of nowhere, so I got a cheapo knife to destroy. Almost bent it in half several times before it broke, then tried to drill a hole into it (by hand no drill press) and screwed up two bits. Some of the "cheapos" can be quite strong LOL.

Not surprised. This is a cheap chinese drop forged knife. Lot of things can go wrong when forging: heated too much, forged too cold, cooled too slowly after forging, overlooked annealing, etc. This make this kind of knife (drop forged knives, not "butcher" knives - this is a chef knife by the way) not very reliable for hard use. A very simple knife stamped from sheet steel can perform much better, because it's been properly laminated and heat cycled on an industrial scale at the factory, and you just have the quenching and tempering left to do (which still might go wrong, but not as likely as heating + forging + cooling down + annealing/normalizing + heating + quenching + tempering).

we have pretty high demands on blades toay,wood is hard,try making a flint knife and you realize just how good even the crappiest modern knife is.

that's cool. the blade is like a magnet.

You don't know how many years I've been thinking about this. I bought my neighbors kitchen knives so I have a bunch of kitchen knives and there's more than one or two that look like they could handle business. Now I'm going to mess with thim just for fun. Lol.

Technically you could and would use any sort of knife as a survival knife in that sort of situation. although a shitty folder or butter knife wouldn't be much use it could still help tremendously.

first of all, that looks like a nice knife in general. I find that with flat edged kitchen knives most of the issues come with chopping mass, stabbing ergonometry, and durability. a blade like that should last you a day or so at least with heavy treatment. also, metal to metal tends to be the most common way of breaking kitchen knives since they tend to be made really brittle so they hold an edge longer in regular treatment.

nice vid

Man I tell you you should audition for the next joker. ;) your voice and your humour remind me of him. I liked the video , always wonder how much abuse the kitchen knives can take. Where is the knife made? I looked actually reasonable quality. Thanks for making the video.

Brutal, i like it !!!

I sharpen knives as a side income, most of my customers are chefs, and as a result I get to handle A LOT of kitchen knives, most of them are very high end. Just last batch I got to sharpen a 12" bladed hand forged blade that must be at lest 50 years old. I would say for out door use, your best luck would be with more German style knives, they tend to be a lot thicker at the spine than the Japanese knives (some I have seen over 1/8 thick). But the main problem you will run into is how thin they are behind the edge, and how brittle (for a woods blade standard) the high end kitchen knives are. I would imagine any decent batoning or long term chopping would start to distort the edge, that is if they do not just snap like the ones in the video.

I will give you my life savings for that cool custom knife. "The lightning strike"

You should have brought some carrots and shit lol.....you could still cut up a purse and manties with it broke like that. Great fun vid my man.

The way I see it is....if its Full Tang & not too thin, any knife like that, is BETTER than NO knife !! 👍👌

Yeah I know. I gotta eat my wheaties and shit. That's the funniest thing I've heard all week

You turned a butcher knife into a small cleaver, and with it being magnetized you could use it as a compass. Maybe it is more of a survival knife than you thought. LOL Some crazy glue will fix it right up. You could use the tip as an arrow head, and the rest as a signal mirror. See, you are half way home from being lost in the woods already. Shave the wood handle scales for tinder...Maybe it IS a survival knife after all. Just in case, take a backup. LMAO!!!

Hey you got a monster striker out of that deal Tac!

Now it's like one of those rectangle looking butcher knifes. The big heavy ones, in sept it's a mini version. That's funny good video 👍

I live in Brazil, love your videos. I have noticed the thickness of this knives, here they are a lot thinner, like 1mm thick, and that shit is expensive as fuck man...

I'm glad that broken tip didn't fly up an nail you in the face. That's some brittle steel. I love the campfire burning at the beginning. I could watch just that for 20 minutes. Maybe you should make a "campfire video".

Also tac, I like cooking so let she'd some light. First, that isn't a butcher knife, it's a chefs knife. I butcher knife looks more like a shorter cleaver, and is quite heavy, so it would probably do a lot better as a chopper and such. Oh and when you said your pinky hurt on the hilt. The hilt ist the whole bottom portion of the blade (the pomel, the handle, and the guard), so in the future remeber that. You will always look better with a wider and more correct vocab. :-)

Can you do a review on the 24inch katana machete by cold steel

Tactical, I like you! :D

Chefs knife very hard metal to keep its edge, probably HRC 60 - 62 and therefore very brittle...plus thin geometry hence the end snapping off with the shockwave. Interesting test bashing that sucker.

Yeah I noticed alot of similarities between a 14" O.K.C. Old Hickory Butcher Knife and my Stromeng KS-9. it is close and maybe, just maybe our butcher knives got their ideas from there. As far as using knives in the bush, all I need is to make sure my knives are sharp and good steel. After all that's what our Fore Father's used knives, as what I use in the kitchen. So Yeah, That's what I'm talking about. I have a Paring Knife made by Cold Steel, I got for free, when I bought some knives from them. I just sown two pieces of leather together no belt loop but it's deep into the leather sheath I made for it, it's a real sharp serrated VG-1, all I use it for is food prep when we go out and that's just thrown into the backpact, but Yeah its real sharp and it just comes along, Kewl Beanz Eah, That's what I'm talking about.

Keep the hilt portion of that knife dude. Not a survival knife, but great for fine carving n' shit. And of course you could still use it for food prep in one of your bug out spots if you keep it clean and dry.

Haha, funny! I always wondered what the 10" underused blade in my set could do in the woods. Nothing! lol. Big set of beautiful kitchen knives and all I ever use is the 5" serrated blade.

you are freakin awesome btw you should have tried to cut a tomato after all this, well with what was left ha!

At least you still have a meat cleaver at the end lol

You turned it into a minnie meat cleaver tac.

Still my fav tac video 👍

Yo tac, u should design a bushcraft knife called the butcher lol..

I might buy a old hickory cleaver for this reason !

Tactical.... I am going to bug you until you tell me Butche's channel! Happy Independence day my brother of the blade!

Well, to be fair, you did over do it a bit with the hatchet. It was doing fine till you went metal on metal. And if I had an Eastwing hatchet with me in a survival situation, I'd probably be batoning it through that log rather than risking my knife

All these so called Tactical Survival Knives should be tested this way. So tired of seeing people baby there knives.

Modern kitchen knife's you cant use just as crappy as the rest we make in modern times ,old handforged kiitchen knifes you can use, the first outdoorsknives where just big butcher knives,think the first white americans had them when they explored America ,heared some story about some famous tradepost where they traded with the native americans also those knives for i think gold and other recources.

I think the knife would last a long time. It seemed to do fine when batoning and feather sticking, but any knife when hit with another metal object like that can chip, dent, and break. Besides if truly in a sticky situation and thats what you had, Im sure you wouldn't be batoning large wood or chopping. I would only use it on small stuff to reach the dry wood and to feather stick. I would like to see how a meat cleaver does, Im sure it will be better at chopping and batoning!

That was funny! You got a zombie knife!

9:00 The Shards of Narsil !

my neighbor had a 6 inch thick branch hanging over my fence so i cut it off with a meat cleaver.

Hope you got some safety glasses on when your doing this TAC lol

Buy a Miyabi knife and I bet it actually out performs majority of knives meant for your tasks. Maybe not in the comfort department when you thrust, but I do not see that knife breaking from your hatchet at all.

That's a cheap-ass stainless chef knife. You chop onions with it. There are much better steels, but the chef knife will have the narrow tip. I have a Lamson 6-inch that I carried in a sheath when I moved to Arizona. It's hot-drop forged, high carbon stainless, but it is not a woods knife : ) Still, it's a good knife

Also that knife would be GOOD f or a knife fight if you had to use it

took my brother to the hospital to have a chunk of steel removed, do you dry fire guns thinking they're not loaded?

Haha, I actually expected it to break right away. Well, seems like chefs are not ready for the zombie apocalypse. By the way, I think it magnetized because you were hitting it with another piece of metal. If you hit metal with metal it may become magnetic. I leaned that in a MacGyver episode, aaaw yeah.

"Full custom knife" 😂

Lack of mass is the downfall man, but hell you could at least get some stuff done with one of those! Like your style bro, interesting subject!

Now we are talking, breaking shit. Great review. Light duty survival OK for kitchen knives. Can't do any heavy stuff with them.

Hey Tac, interesting try, maybe Dave's videos had something to do with it? You know what Dave I mean.^^ I recently saw a kitchen knife shattered like glass, just because someone dropped it. It was tempered so high on the HRC scale, that it just shattered into 5 pieces. Still better than no knife at all when bad shit goes down, isn't it? Greetings from grmany, Soly

You should test cutco kabar