Fallkniven A1 vs TOPS Silent Hero Knife | Battle to Destruction’s Edge | The Great Chop Tournament
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Clash of titans! Finally the winner of the dual grit chop testing, the Fallkniven A1 faces off against the winner of the 1095 Carbon steel tournament, the TOPS Knives Silent Hero - in a brutal clash of chopping power.
It's Chopping time; The Home Slice Presents - The Great Chop Tournament
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Will the VG10 stainless core of the Fallkniven A1 be able to compete with the differentially tempered 1095 of the TOPS Silent Hero? BTE Thickness & BESS Sharpness tested, 17dps Fine Edges stropped clean on Denim.
Who will prevail? The Silent Hero by TOPS Knives, or the classic A1 by Fallkniven? It's time to chop!
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Love the first video of the tournament bro! Pumped to see the other brackets and to find out who will reign as the chopping king!!
One blade to rule them all! As long as Frodo doesn’t throw it into Mount doom…. I am in New Zealand after all…
Catching up on your work after being away for a while... Great stuff, nice to see you constantly improving your controls and methods for testing. Looking forward to the next installments of the Great Chop Tournament!
😊 welcome back my friend! More fun chopping tests to come!
Best silent hero really good
Thanks - I enjoyed it!!!
Silent Hero outperformed the A1, but on a survival camp trip, i still would choose the A1. Basicly because of the ergonomics on the handle and overall performances. The Tops knife won this one without question and the 1095 steel is an awesome steel to sharpen. Thank you for round one Gabe, stay safe friend.
Thanks Jeroen! Yeah, I would probably choose based on how high of impact I plan to put the knife to, and the heat/humidity of the area I’m camping.
Despite taking more damage in this high impact test, the A1 is pretty alluring just based on the fact that the performance is so good, it swings harder, and it’s stainless!
Good job! Pretty impressive results!
Thanks man! I had a lot of fun making the video, and although it’s pretty casual, I’m really looking forward to seeing what happens with this whole chop tournament.
Also have some really awesome blades coming up, these two were only scratching the surface!
Awesome stuff, looking forward to this cup/tournament and results. I do enjoy the simple carbon steels for how much easier/quicker they seem to sharpen with sub optimal stones or improvised sharpening systems.
Yes, it seems to me that a fairly balanced stainless steel will sharpen nicely, but for some reason there does seem to be a more satisfying razor edge reached more easily on the carbon steels!
I thought the Fallkniven would be one of the favourites, along with the Becker, but, as we've seen so many times before, practical tests can yield surprising results.
I was also extremely surprised! However, I did have my concerns that if we increased the shock we would see some of the higher carbide volume steels struggling. It will be interesting to try 3V.
Love it Gabe....I have knife lusted after the Tops Silent Hero for a long time...just love the shape of them! You know I would really like you to try one of my Camp Boss designs in 14C28N against these guys....much more suited to chopping duties than the Coastal Camper...I do the Camp Boss in 4mm and it is a little forward weighted...maybe we can talk....more power my friend
Hey Wade, good to hear from you! I would so so love to see your design of the Camp Boss!
To be honest, this tournament is already full, with 16 blades already sharpened and ready for testing! That said, I’m having so much fun, I already want to do another one!
Flick me an email if you want to collaborate!
Tops silent hero is the best 😮❤
I really enjoyed it!
When you say 17 thousands of an inch does that mean a 17 degree angle on each side?
Hey J.P. great question. A lot of how an edge cuts depends not only on the steel and heat treat, but on the shape. 17 degrees per side would describe the angle that is formed by the 2 sides of the edge coming together. Think of it as a V that could get thinner or fatter by the top points swinging in or out (different edge angles).
Another super important aspect of slicing "geometry" as we like to call it is the thickness behind the edge. If we return to the illustration, imagine you measure how far apart the top tips of this letter v are (on my screen it's probably less than 2 mm). Now imagine you elongate the sides like this V (now probably more than 2 mm apart at the top).
If these (v & V) were edges (that is, that a knife grind started from the top points of each) they would have the same angle, but the uppercase would be "thicker behind the edge" because whatever you cut has to be pushed around edge shoulders over 2 mm, creating compression and resistance.
Note that if the V had sides of the same length, but the angle was taken more acute, it would bring the behind the edge thickness down, and a wider angle would result in larger BTE thickness if the sides remain the same.
Behind the edge thickness is impordant because it only ever goes up as you sharpen, so if you want a really efficient blade, it needs to start as thin as is safe for the intended purpose (chipping can happen if you go too low on steel too hard or knives made for impact/chopping). It's hard to redo your BTE thickness unless you have a belt sander and a lot of skill.
Does that make sense? So, 17 thousandths of an inch refers in my video to the thickness of metal where the edge ends (the distance between the points of the V)
@@homeslicesharpeningThank you brother, I really appreciate your comments. Glad to learn something new today.
Btw, I hope the BK9 is in the tournament. A difficult dynamic though, if you start getting into even bigger heavier blades or better steels like 3V, neither of these two has a chance.
There is a BK9 - and a 10 inch 3V chopper with Peter’s HT 🤤
And those are not even the only fun options to come hehehe…
Tops silent hero will out perform bk anyway every day dork
😂 what a douche! You really called someone a dork over this? Hilarious what a loser. 😅
I wish the Silent Hero had a little thicker handle in the area closest to the blade. I bought one a while back and ended up returning it over the handle. It felt good when using the choil though.
Yeah, the choil is really well executed.
The narrow portion close to the blade feels good in hand to me, but I have really small hands, it also does feel like a somewhat weak point in the design - like that is right at the point where prying something would cause the most strain, you know?
@@homeslicesharpening agreed. I probably would not have used it to pry for that reason. Otherwise I really like the design. I had it at my desk for almost a week playing with it and hoping I’d get used to it, but that didn’t happen. I ended up getting a Bravo Clip point from DLT instead. Ironically the handle on that one is just a hair bigger than I like. The BK 16 is a Goldie Locks handle for me. So I’m thinking Bravo LT version would be a perfect add to the collection at some point.
@@Rooster-fo7lg Nice!
What's that liquid you were putting on the trees aftershock cut them?
Great start to the chop tournament. Looking forward to see what other blades will be in it and what the winner will be.
The liquid is basically just super concentrated RoundUp - it’s not the most effective poison on the market, but it’s inexpensive and if you put it on a fresh cut and it gets drawn down into the grain of the stump it increases our kill rate pretty substantially!
This enjoyed this video, but I can't figure out why you would be using a knife for all that clearing. Please tell me you usually use a machete or small axe regularly. Cheers
Haha! Fair! Yes, you’ve caught me! Not all the trees felled in the video were chopped down with 6 inch survival knives!
I do testing in the mornings, tackling a lot of the smaller trees. And for that I use my knives. These two are the smallest specimens in the tournament, I have 4 knives with 7-inch blades coming, and from there on out it’s all 10 inch choppers or longer!
I also have some axes and machetes and swords that will be featured in the tournament.
But on a normal day I do testing with smaller blades for a bit in the morning, and then come back with a team of people with axes and machetes to do heavier clearing in the afternoon.
My main tool for clearing large areas is a 20 inch handle Husqvarna carpenter’s axe, which I love.