Better blade design for wood chopper

[txdm]

Hey Sleek, I found a couple of pictures of the kabar, and it looks like the tang follows the handle contour all the way to the edge on all sides. The handle is two slabs.

[bubby]

Sleek if it says full tang, it is the  width of the handle

[sleek]

Not always I am learning bubby.  I have owned several full tang KaBar knives and though they are full tang ( length of the handle ) they were not full width and failed at the blade/handle joint as a result.

[osage outlaw]

My vote is for something like this.

[sleek]

I bet that splits wonderfully!

[sleek]

Is that a lawnmower blade?

[bubby]

Full tang or tang through sleek

[osage outlaw]

I don't think it's a lawnmower blade.  I saw a guy post that on another forum and I really liked the design and overall look.

[sleek]

Full tang or tang through sleek

Whatchu mean bubby?

[bubby]

Well a true full tang as you know is the width of the handle, a through tang is a narrow tang that goes through the handle and either has a screw on butt plate ro goes through and is peened over, like my dads old army knife

[sleek]

Well, that ladies and gentlemen, is new knoweldge to me. Thanks bubby.

[Hawkdancer]

OO,
That looks like a machete design from either South America or SE Asia, good for chopping through jungle growth.  That one might be re-forged spring steel, I have a blade that looks very similar. 
Had to get out my KBar to check the tang setup, it is peened in, probably for manufacturing expediency.  😀 Not real sure how you might make one fail, except by twisting the wrong way, which ain't real good in close combat👹 .   I would be very upset if it broke dressing out a deer or elk!
It was a gift. ( Issue KBars ain't KBars, anymore😱😤😩.)
Hawkdancer

[sleek]

Hawk, i have gone through a couple kabars and they both failed where the handle meets the blade. It gets very narrow there. I was battoning and splitting staves when it happened.

[bubby]

My dad was in korea and his issue knife was leather washer butt cap handle, tang through design, nothing wrong with it at all , great knife, but some of the newer cheap nock offs actually have a threaded bar welded on to a short tang and a very weak way to build a knife

[sleek]

The last one I broke, the tang looks thin as the end of a file tang. There isnt much there. Actually,  the peened end of the tang is its full width all tje way to the blade. Very disappointing.