I can tell you guys from experience, that my Benchmade CQC7 (Emerson Design) slices & dices rubber like nobodys business...lol!

Yes, driving and gesticulating in an offensive and threatening manner can be interpreted in many, many different ways I've discovered.

For instance, you demonstrate aggression like that to the humvee escorts in Baghdad, they will oblige you by shooting you with automatic fire, without ever stopping to ask what you really meant.

...except you live in jersey. not trying to start a flame-war, but im not sure wantonly slashing tires and stabbing car doors is necessarily condusive to what ETS is promoting. but who am i?

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Try batoning with the hing UNLOCKED and at about a 45deg. angle...
This is supposed to be the correct way with a folder, and will avoid damage to the hinge.

True enough, and nothing wanton about my actions, just citing anecdotal evidence in support of the durability of this particular knife.

I would never condone another person should take such matters into their own hands, unless they feel so warranted. I just wanted to point out that this knife is capable of accomodating their needs should the situation arise.

Wow, that advice seems contradictory to reason. It may be that you are correct, but I would imagine that with the lock disengaged, the only thing supporting the force on the blade then is the hinge itself! I would also be concerned that, with the lock disengaged and the blade already less than aperture, that a hard blow could result in driving the blade out of the wood and snapping it shut under load. If fingers are wrapped around the handle in such an event, there is a real possibility of significant digital injury. Maybe not a high risk of occurence, but a dramatic outcome if it did.

I interpreted that advice as letting the knife hang loose, with the handle dangling alongside whatever wood you're batoning. Maybe use your free hand to hold along the hinge/top of the blade, so that it won't fly if you hit it too hard. Maybe I'm thinking about it wrong, however.

Yep, I think you have the right image. My concern is that someone would want to hold the handle to maintain control over the knife during the striking. That would probably be okay to start with, but once the blade is into the wood, I would want to hold the handle in such a way that if the blade passes out of the wood on a baton stroke it won't drive shut with your fingers in the way. I don't know as I'd want to be holding the blade while I am batoning at all. That's like holding a nail while I am hitting it with a hammer; too easy to mash a finger. If the blade were a lot longer, then I suppose you could hold that part of the blade that is not going to contact the wood.