Various Ozark Trail and unbranded knives I had sitting around. Not going to bother averaging these or adding them to the database. At this level of hardness, I don’t consider these to even be knives. Simply a pointed edged object. The CRKT is the exception to that comment.
Verified on a 51.88 and 59.8 HRC Verification Block.
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Woof…
Nobody should be shocked for the cost, haha. Good to get some verification on the suspicions though.
If anyone is interested in seeing the process for testing on a Rockwell hardness machine, I made a video this weekend on my YT channel. https://youtu.be/bMhN3VrRyk8?si=tcnXpymeTJrkr8K3
That 54 felt like an overachiever in this group … yikes.
Also… what steel is that M16?
So that Walmart bugout everyone swears by really is junk huh, who would’ve thought..
Exactly what I expected from those Ozark Trail knives. Supposedly they’re 3Cr13 which is commonly run in the low 50’s. They have a reputation for inconsistent heat treatments so a couple being even softer is no surprise.