I've recently revisited and finally fully appreciated the Dragonfly 2 this weekend. I've had two of the VG-10 and gifted both. I know, I know...I should of kept the first one. But lesson learned. This little guy is amazing.
Now I'm wondering if anyone has actually used their Dfly 2 for some hard use tasks? Work that should be used with a Manix, Millie, Gayle Bradley and others like them. Work that surprised you the Dfly 2 actually handled it. Work that could make onlookers see you and think you're insane for using a small blade, but you got the job done. I'm convinced this knife could do anything...and I just cut some cardboard :cool:
Anyone have the cojones to "hard use" their Dragonfly 2?
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not a whole lot of hard use, but it has been used for prying (my dad :rolleyes: I have also used it once or twice to do a little de-limbing on some smaller branches and it performed really well.
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Well, the good news is, so long as you don't get injured in the process, if you did break one you're not out a ton of money. There was a torture test done on a Ladybug a while back that went through an insane amount of abuse and never broke and ended up being auctioned off for charity. I would say anything up to heavy batoning on the pivot and hard prying should be ok, with the acceptance that you'll likely introduce a good bit of blade/lock play if you really beat on it. If you unlock the blade and baton by hitting just the blade itself, it'll live a lot longer. Sometimes the fact that the handle is linerless and FRN has a little flex to it will allow it to take more beating without actually breaking.
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Hi Folks!
I remember a vid of a guy cutting in half an old thick leather trekking boot with a plain regular D'Fly VG10 Black FRN SpyderEdge.
Actually it did pretty well. No batoning, but a huge lot of twisting while cutting the very stiff rubber sole.
And after that, it didn't had any significant blade play. :cool:
Anyway, if for some weird reason I would want to cut in half an old trekking boot the last tool I'd use to do it would be any of my D'Flies. :rolleyes:
I remember a vid of a guy cutting in half an old thick leather trekking boot with a plain regular D'Fly VG10 Black FRN SpyderEdge.
Actually it did pretty well. No batoning, but a huge lot of twisting while cutting the very stiff rubber sole.
And after that, it didn't had any significant blade play. :cool:
Anyway, if for some weird reason I would want to cut in half an old trekking boot the last tool I'd use to do it would be any of my D'Flies. :rolleyes:
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It took some searching for the right keywords, but I found this video that I knew I had seen in years past. Can't remember if this is a forum member or not, but it was shared here before. Enjoy!
[video=youtube;c-yP762LmI0]https://youtu.be/c-yP762LmI0[/video]
[video=youtube;c-yP762LmI0]https://youtu.be/c-yP762LmI0[/video]
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Guess we think alike!LC Kid wrote:I remember a vid of a guy cutting in half an old thick leather trekking boot with a plain regular D'Fly VG10 Black FRN SpyderEdge.
Actually it did pretty well. No batoning, but a huge lot of twisting while cutting the very stiff rubber sole.
And after that, it didn't had any significant blade play. :cool:
*Landon*sal wrote: .... even today, we design a knife from the edge out!
Well now I need one of those little yellow wonders.
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I just now used my SS Dfly to cut the top off of one of those Costco black pepper grinder bottlest, seems the mechanism quit working so I plunged the blade in the neck of the thing and cut the grinder head off! :D
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What's hard use?
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That's good cutting I don't abuse it that much, I don't even think I have used it on a boot; cardboard yes, plastic yes, nylon straps yes, paper yes, rope yes, even some terry cloths and some radiator hose. But never a boot, I am going to look for an old shoe I can destroy. :D
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