Eddie DeLuca's Review of the CQBT
I have known Dave of DS&S TACTICAL for more than 20 years. We have trained together and worked together on many projects. Dave built a Knife for me we called the CQBT - Close Quarters Battle Tool. I've been using it for several years.
Eddie DeLuca's CQBT (After years of use - and after testing) .... including the impromptu tests described below. Those are the original "digital" patterns which Badoracle hand-engraved onto the blade and handle of this knife, still visible after years.
The other day I was out at one of my many mineral mines TheHitManMine.com, I've used the CQBT for everything from hammering to digging,prying, chiseling etc., but on that day i was just relaxing so i walked up to a large piece of wood that is an old mining timber I stood up many years ago. From about 5 feet, I took out my CQBT and i threw it. It stuck very well - about 3/4" to 1" deep. Mining timber is very dense, strong stuff. So, thinking I would test the knife, i grbbed it and snapped it to the right. It just ripped out a large chunk of the wood.
So then I thought I'd test the tip strength, and I kept doing this type of stuff digging into the wood with the knife held in an ice pick grip. I was just chopping away until i made a hole about 3" deep 6" long and 4" wide.
On the way back to the truck i threw the CQBT into the rocky ground a few times; sometimes it stuck and sometimes it just bounced off the rocks. So after about 15 min of that abuse, I went on to do my work, and forgot all about it.
Later that night i was using the CQBT to cut some rope and plastic sheeting. It cut very easily - then I remembered that I had beet the "ever- loving-shit" out of this knife, and it still was performing great. It only had very light scratches on it and still held its edge. When I got home, it sharpened very easily and I put it up for the next time I need it. I've used almost every knife ever made - and never have i seen a knife that could do this with so little damage. Dave has a winner here.
If you want a knife that will stay with you and be there when you need it then you need a CQBT.
Eddie DeLuca
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