THIS CHINESE knife is good!?? CHINA Will beat American knifebrands!? 

I would suggest that if you're in a survival situation, don't shoot your survival knife with a rifle!😂

*DO A SHOOTING TEST WITH MORA KNIVES -- STAINLESS vs CARBON*

Not all Chinese made knives are junk. They also produce high quality knives for high prices but most of the time they don't reach the western market. Several US brands are also produced in China, so...

Even though the knife eventually broke it was able to take a considerable amount of abuse before it broke. I ordered it.

I’ve tried d2 steel and yes it’s very brittle. People may give 420 shit(for good reason) but I’d still rather have a knife that dulls fast than chips.

Well you managed to OUT- GAY yourselves once again......

Brother F005.. Cheap as chips and D2. Came sharp and with a scandi grind. Convexed it and I like it. Been batoning and using it pretty harshly. Seems to keep it's edge and no damage has occurred. Made in China

I'm thankful that I found the DBK boys this year. Happy Thanksgiving everyone

It's not a bad knife overall, as long as you don't shoot at it hahaha

I think shooting the knife is what caused its failure, no one shoots their survival knife

Blacksmith and knifemaker here!... let me have a look at that grain and I’ll tell you why it shattered 🥴😂

i live in south east asia, my grandpa friends work as bamboo furniture maker. and he uses only one machete to collect bamboo for 40 yrs. thats sup9 machete made from leaf spring steel. 😁 life proof steel isn't it?

Great video boys! I really enjoyed this one, it felt a lot less cookie cutter than usual. It was fun to have an unexpected turn and then you compared it to the patriot manly. It would be fun to see some more bushcraft tasks too, like maybe going head to head with each other to make the fastest and cleanest "Try Stick" or something.

I am Chinese, glad to see some real knives made in China. Funny thing is I never seen or heard these knife ,and didn't even know where I can buy one. I just don't get why they don't sell them in China.

Thousands of years making knives combined with the latest CNC, Robotics and every country in the world sending PHD level machinist to start companies in China. My 30+ year old Chinese kitchen butcher knife is still razor-sharp, hardly worn, original grind still barely visible, only sharpened on a Chinese made 12'' steel. If it says made in China written in English then that's the knives they sell to the West. My knives have Chinese writing on them and this is the stuff that they keep for themselves it's a big difference. 40 years ago I used to study Japanese and Chinese joinery and it would cost $5,000 us for a low-quality saw made by a master. If you wanted something very high quality it would cost you $15,000 and up. Even today you can pay $5,000 for a regular quality pair of bonsai scissors.. I have butcher knives coming in the mail from Thailand right now. The Chinese beat the American stuff a long time ago we just don't buy it here they keep it for themselves. Spend $200 on a usa-made knife and spend $200 on a chinese-made knife. The Chinese $200 knife will be much better than the American. Some companies like Kuby buy their D2 steel from Germany United States and Japan

Another amazing video guys 🤗 Keep posting the fun stuff 👍👏🏾 Greetings from Austria 🇦🇹 🍻

Ain't this the first Chinese knife from a legitimate company tested on this channel? All the other ones were no name scraps.

Good work guys, keep up the funny videos that are also great information.

Great video, as always! And... damn, this air rifle powerful as hell

I own a QSP Puffin folding knife in S35VN and love it.

Got my DBKoin yesterday, been fidgeting with it non stop

The jaakariipukko is the best knife shown by far.

Hi, I'm wondering if your DBK edition have the same large hole's in the tang like the original knife. I broke my A1 pro in half while batoning, which left concerned about "thin tang's".

Pisses me off when I start watching these and suddenly it’s 2am!

What Pellets / Caliber do you use and how much Energy has the Airgun? Do you have a litte piece of the broken Bison? I could analyse it (if not too small) and make a picture of the microstructure. But the fracture area looks like fine martensitic grain. I also think that D2 is too brittle.

KB-BAR BK16 VS BK2 What happens? 🤔

Very interesting....people keep going on about a survival situation....all the the people I know of who end up in a real survival situation dont even had a knife with them.

Not all D2 is created equal, and HT is key also, so I personally not going to say it's due to being D2 per se. I think those makers who use quality D2 that really know their HT would have survived that one, but can't be 100% sure of course.

I appreciate your information, thanks fellas.

Buy a knife that your proud to own. Don't forget to support your local businesses. They need it!

D2 is a very good steel for industrial die-cutting/tool applications, and it is good for SMALL knives that are used primarily for cutting. It is highly wear-resistant, but NOT strong laterally like a 1095 or other carbon steel. Heat treat is also a factor here. So, if you want a knife that holds an edge and will not be used for ANY lateral stress applications or high impact situations, D2 is fine. Where you have problems is when the knife gets too big and/or people start pounding on them, they WILL break.

:O < - My face when bullet smashed the knife in half. Unexpected for sure.

Such a sweet beginning

D2 is a Tool Steel. The Main Task is cutting, stamping and milling of Metal. It can easy handl pressure. But bending will kill it. So the heat treatment is Not the Problem. Depends on the size of the carbides and the toughness of the structure. These are my experiences. Greetings from Germany. 🤗🤗🤗

Awesome video, love the rifle test 😎

Happy American Thanksgiving, Veldheer Mikkie!!

You're the best guys keep it up

Fuck yes, been checking every hour or so for availability of your TRC Apocalypse since you mentioned they were coming back into stock. Managed to get one in time, now to wait less than patiently for it to arrive in Australia!

Totally the D2 ran pretty hard. It never stood a chance against that high powered gun you guys love so much. It's a good knife for the price though. Sandvik would have been a better choice for QSP. Nicely finished though.

Excellent as usual-great job

Another quality video lads 🍻 where's the Bradford guardian 4.5 cpm3v? Come on!

You guys are funny and a little strange, my kind of people.

That Air Rifle is a MONSTER 😮👍🏻

Doesn't a lot of that come down to which type of D2. There is the forged d2 and the new one I think is CPM. Well it's powdered metal anyway. The CPM aligns the molecules more evenly for a stronger steel (or something like that).

6:41. legit looks like something cold steel would design haha

lmfao i bursted so hard when the thing shattered

I’ve had a good experience with qsp

civivi and we knives are chinese manufacturers and their folding knives are pretty fantastic

I'd love to see you review the stainless Jaakaripuukko to see how it holds up to the 80crv2 in the destruction test

One of my favourite knife, in my collection: beautiful with blue micarta jeans, it develops a very keen edge very easily, real D2 is a joy to sharpen (beware of fake D2, sadly comon). I like a lot its longer handle, good for gloves. Experts will know how to avoid breakages, in real use scenarios. Kydex factory sheath is excellent and I made them myself. Premium knife and preatty cost-effective. 🇮🇹

Happy Thanksgiving! I know it's an American thing but I'd definitely have the DBK Boys over for dinner!

Really good steel! Awesome video dudas

You maybe on to something? A video lining up many different knifes and/or steels for your destruction tests...maybe having different countries represented...Just Say’n

I would like to see a better steel knife from QSP tested here, that would surely be interesting.

Heat treatment, I have too believe that! I love D2

if you look on the bright side, not you have a serrated blade and a v edge carving blade

Still the best knife reviews on the tube. Thanyou. China knives are getting better and better.

Good video as always!

Of course I will like your video, my brothers from another mother ❤️!!

That grain looks OK, it's not that fine but at least it's fairly homogeneous, which is better than nothing. Ideally we want to see grain that is so small it is imperceptible, it should look like grey cream on a fractured piece. The worst grain structure is large grains approaching the size of salt crystals that aren't uniform in size. That usually comes from incorrect soak times (time held at temperature during heat treat), incorrect temperature (usually too high) or incorrect quench method (too fast or too slow). In an industrial setting with vacuum ovens and tight QC this is easy enough to avoid.

I’ve gotten some OerLa knives lately and they are really good for china knives and low price.

Sell a delicate blade, deliver it sharp. I'm no rocket science ist but it looked twice the thickness of the patriot, just saying. Love you guys.

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Hi guys, great video as always. Some of my Friends are very fan about the HX OUTDOORS ROCK. It's a chinese knife made in d2 steel with g 10 handle and sheet. They Say it's the knife you want to be with you if you get Lost in the wild. It seems to me a firesteel should be come with It. I'd like to ask you, do you guys know It? Have you ever tested? It would be great to me to Watch a video about It from you. Thanks guys keep doing good videos you're cool

I love love LOVE D2 but its clearly better for use on a smaller knife for more delicate tasks.

Your ever experienced the Chinese brand two sun? Very good looking knife, carbon fiber, Titanium, D2 ,...

Wow, you guys are awesome!!!

,....so there I was trapped behind enemy lines with a Chinese made Bushcraft knife and a feather stick when suddenly and from nowhere Mors Kochanski appeared in front me bearing a gift of three items, a Mylar Emergency Blanket, a roll of Paracord and a sharp as hell Mora knife. What should I do? Do I swap my Chinese knife for the Mora? Decisions, decisions Maybe you could decide with a "Cheap Bushcraft Knife - Off!!! ...said the new subscriber from Canada who has really been enjoying your channel!!

Another great video

It's a tradeoff. I bought a condor 1095 steel blade for work in forestry. One week later it was covered in 40 years of rust. Who wants that? I grabbed this an an old timer because I don't plan on shooting my knife. I want it for cutting and don't want rust.

Is it the steel or is it the heat treat? I would guess its the heat treat. On both knives. I think I can shed some light on the controversy around D2, but this will take some explaining. You know how sometimes someone will claim to have a super secret amazing heat treat that allows an average steel to compete with a super steel. With D2, that actually kind of exists. Or rather D2, is arguably kind of the original super steel, but it is supposed to require a really complicated heat treat in order to reach its full potential. (For an example of D2 as a "super steel" check out Benchmade's custom knife builder. Notice they still offer D2 for a few blades, that its at a very high hardness, and that there is actually an upcharge vs the default option of S30V, though I admit they are using a powder metallurgy version of D2). On the other end of the spectrum, in recent years there has been a trend towards imported budget knives using D2, which means they are probably not heat treating the steel to its full potential. There are a few reasons for this: 1, Its complicated to heat treat correctly. Moreso than some more modern super steels like S30V. And this is not likely to be done with a budget knife. Plus budget manufacturers using D2 might not even know how. If I understand right (and I might not, I'm just a nerd and not a knifemaker or metallurgist) to get the best out of D2 requires something like 3 separate cycles of tempering with cryo-quenching in between, and on top of that I believe at least some of the steps are time sensitive. So a manufacturer of budget knives either might not even know how to heat treat D2 optimally or just might not bother in order to produce the knives quickly and inexpensively. 2, D2 can still be pretty good with a less than optimal heat treat. It can also be heat treated simply, left fairly soft (like say mid 50's), and still have above average wear resistance compared to an inexpensive stainless steel because it contains so much carbon. This would kind of make sense for a good budget knife. The steel itself is probably easy to find and cheap to buy pretty much everywhere because its such an old formula and used so frequently to make dies. As long as it isn't heat treated to a high hardness, its probably not too difficult to machine. And if left relatively soft, it will still make a fairly decent knife (some corrosion resistance, not too brittle, and still with above average wear resistance) 3, Even if a budget manufacturer knows how to do the optimal heat treat, it's way more expensive to make a knife out of D2 this way. Not only do you have the added time and expense of the extra tempering and quenching cycles, but the fully heat treated steel is then going to be way more difficult to grind, mill, sharpen, and finish. Like probably going from a little more difficult than VG-10 to a little more difficult than S30V. As you guys can probably explain better than me, most of the cost of making a knife is in the labor and the wear on the tooling rather than the raw materials. So depending on whether the maker has opted for a fairly simple heat treat or the very complicated, optimal heat treat, with D2, you could actually end up with 3 different sets of properties: 1, A fairly soft, reasonably tough, surprisingly wear-resistant blade (kind of like a more wear resistant AUS-8, though obviously with less corrosion resistance) using a simple heat treat and leaving the steel soft to keep it from being too brittle. 2, A very hard, quite wear-resistant, but very brittle steel, because its been fully hardened, but not fully tempered. (I can't find an RC number for the fixed blade Manley, but they might fall into that category because they do run their folding knives in D2 pretty hard) 3, Optimally heat treated D2 that's been through its full triple temper/quench cycle which will be very hard, surprisingly tough for its level of hardness and wear resistance (optimally heat treated D2 isn't in the same league as say 3V for toughness, but it might rival say 154CM at really high hardness because when its properly tempered, D2's best toughness will come at a surprisingly high hardness, I think RC 62 or maybe even 63), and surprisingly wear resistant for a steel with basically no exotic carbides. Essentially, it will be almost like CTS XHP (after all, XHP is basically a tweaked powder metallurgy version of D2) So I'd guess when you get a completely awesome knife in D2 (like say that Autine Leuku at over $400 and 62RC though to be fair, I don't think you ever shot that one), its probably been optimally heat treated. If you get a cheaper knife (regardless of where its made), its probably going to have a simpler heat treat that doesn't let the steel reach its full potential. Would optimally heat treated D2 in that same blade shape take the shots and not shatter? Honestly, I have no idea for the Chinese knife, and I'd guess not for the Manley. But either way, I'd be surprised if a sub-$60 knife like that made of D2 had been fully tempered.

Hello DBK can you plis do the test for the new fenix RUIKE F118 knife made in china a budget knife . I just loved the way you guys do the testing . Thank you will be waiting

Please could you make a vídeo about CPM 154 knife?

Thanks lads good vid I enjoyed it,👍 good laugh,

D2 is a tool steel, known for its toughness, but it requires great expertise to temper it to perfection, the blade edge will not chip if it is given a micro convex on a scandi, or given a convex grind. As we know, a bushcraft knife is not designed to be a pry bar or cold chisel, anymore than a pry bar is designed to be a bushcraft knife. Beside the abuse of this blade there was probably a lack if proper annealing to remove brittleness. Simple carbon steels like 1075, or 01, 80CRV2 , finished to 56 or 58 Rockwell would likely stand the abuse well.

D2 just isn't the right call here. It's great as a budget folder steel but just isn't tough enough to make a really convincing fixed blade. CPM d2 would have been better but even then there are better options.

I really love your videos

Very impressive GAW!

I have a folding knife from bestech a company out of china the blade is in d2 also. I almost killed myself with it and it involved a buffing wheel I was trying to clean the wheel with my knife. It flew into me bounced off hit the wall then hit the concert floor I'm fine and the only damage the knife sustained was a roll in the edge.

Hi guys, for a bushcraft knife what rating would you rate 14c28n steel and D2 steel? I always follow you with great interest, let me know what you think, thanks Michele.

Good one boys. Never buying a D2 steel knife now.

What are yours best survival and tougher knives? The tip of the knives do not breaks easily?

3:59 Nice work, Maarten!

Hey! Will I have the diamond sharpening stone from last week in your shop?

Totally worth it for that shot 🤣

I would have taken this beautiful Patriot Manly with honor 😢

DBK, Ultimate Survival Tips said in a comment he'll send you his MSK-1 Primitive knife to test if you contact him.

why haven`t you made a condor terrasaurs test yet? i know there is a lot of reviews out there but i think it is still worth it!

Love you boys❤️

D2 is not really tough if you don't run it on very low hardness and then you loose lots of edge retention... for the price this is ok but otherwise I would go for a carbon steel if you are going to abuse the knife that bad... something like SK5 or S7 would be suitable and even cheaper in production, but you never get the edge retention of D2 nor the stainless abilities...

Hey Marten :) What jacket are you wearing? It looks really interesting!

D2 is great for edge retention but the metal is intrinsically very brittle.

If this knife used a better steel and had a sharp spine for ferro striking, I would totally buy it.

Why is my name not up there? How to enter to win?

Wait.,. That one guy hidden in very slim tree??

Do you think it is time to test a Wilkinson Type D bush knife?

My guess would be it broke due to severe abuse.

What's that sweet jacket Marten's wearing?

Ruike f118 - made in China, try it out. Though v edge needs reshaping.

guys u r superheroes of 20 century :)