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I tried this once with an AK magazine and failed, but this steel would be a lot harder, so I was optimistic. With darkness falling, I was running out of bushcrafty things to do with it, so I decided to see if I could get it to strike sparks with a piece of chert. That same spot also makes a fine fire steel striker. The unsharpened swedge did a pretty good job making scrapings. You could still use it to cut a bow drill notch, but it's not much better than sharp rock. However, once you get as deep as the end of the teeth, it pretty much stops cutting. The saw back felt like it was actually going to work great, with the first few strokes biting in nicely. Being a lefty, there's no edge on my side.īut, you can overcome this by increasing the angle until you force it to bite.Īll things considered, I ended up with a pretty respectable feather stick. That chisel grind problem reared its ugly head when it was time for me to try using it as a knife to make shavings. Stab splitting proved to be no problem either. I considered sharpening it, but I figured it would be more fun to use it in this battlefield pickup condition, so I kept the edge as it was.Īnother downfall that this blade has is the fact that it is a chisel grind, with no edge on the left side.Ī knife doesn't have to be sharp to pound it through wood, so I got started batoning a piece that was about as thick as the blade could span. I don't think these were ever intended to be paper cutting sharp, but this example definitely saw some use before I got it, and the edge was pretty rough. It failed the paper cutting test right off the bat. Obviously, it's intended use is being able to fix it to the end of a rifle.īut I figured I'd play around with it and see how it would work as a knife. I'm not a proper collector, so correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this one is a Yugoslavian bayonet.
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Over the years I've ended up acquiring quite a few of these, and they just sit in my parts bins, never having any fun. Today I decided to have some fun with an unconventional cutting tool.