Fikes Knives Blade Testing

This is an old video of Jimmy Fikes and friends testing some of Jimmy's blades back in 1993-1994. The video was made not only to show what Jimmy's blades would do, but also to show simple ways for others, knife makers and knife collectors alike, to test blades of their own and to know what to expect of good steel, properly forged and heat treated. The video was never edited and has a few seconds of blank screen between scenes. The first ten minutes of the video show Jimmy using a jungle honey, a design of his which has come to be much copied over the years and is a real workhorse of a blade. Hank Reinhardt, who passed away a few years ago, was a long time friend of Jimmy's and was the first person to commission Jimmy, back in the early 1970's, to make "damascus" steel blades, now commonly and correctly referred to as "pattern welded steel" blades. Thanks for watching. 0:00:00 - 0:00:39 Credits 0:00:49 - 0:10:49 Fun with the Jungle Honey 0:10:50 - 0:11:19 Hank Reinhardt and Company 0:11:20 - 0:13:25 Greg Phillips as The Standing Hair Guy 0:13:26 - 0:16:55 Slicing through paperback books 0:16:56 - 0:19:01 Chopping through paperback books 0:19:04 - 0:40:03 Slicing 500 pieces of three quarter inch rope, blade still cuts paper 0:41:24 - 0:46:15 Chopping tree limbs with jungle honey and wakizashi 0:46:16 - 0:59:55 Cutting dry rolled newspaper with jungle honey and katana 0:59:56 - 1:04:12 Chopping 2 X 4 lumber with jungle honey and katana 1:04:13 - 1:04:49 Hank Reinhardt cutting 2 X 2 with a sword made in Europe 1:04:49 - 1:05:02 Cutting very thick walled cardboard tube 1:05:02 - 1:06:29 Fun in the woods with Swords (Don Fogg using his Dha, Chris Tidwell with a waki, old man Fikes with a katana 1:06:30 - 1:11:44 Cutting down through a barrel with a katana 1:11:45 - 1:17:11 Stabbing a barrel with a tanto 1:17:12 - 1:22:12 Resharpening the tanto; a demo of how easy it is to sharpen a blade 1:22:18 - 1:27:34 Don Fogg, Maggie Fikes, Dorothy Carlyle and Jimmy Fikes forging a "full moon billet" of pattern welded steel.