My stomach is growling like crazy now thanks, where you eating? I bet that 801 destroyed that steak.
I have handled it before it definitely is a good material. I have rubber mats here at work than can handle tons of pressure. But they are nearly slick as wood even after being shaped.My Winkler Dynamis also has the horse stall handles, and they're like you said, more uniform looking. I think it's because the handles are flatter though, and less carved out. I love the material though, sticks to your hand like it's glued to it. It's got to be pretty damn tough material too, when you consider it's designed for 1000 pounds on 4 sharp hoofs to walking around on it day in and day out.
Cooked slabs of meat have fallen prey to a ZT0200, ZT0301, and ZT0560 in my hands. I did not take photos, though. D'OH!
I believe all my ZT'S have cut meat. not very many in restaurants. But at work on lunch eating left overs.
Here is a busse(that rhino might like because it is thinner) attacking a baked pork chop at work on lunch.
Three Amigo's
Winkler / Sayoc: Spike Hawk, Bontac, & Madumi
Is the Spike Hawk exclusively a weapon? Seems like the shape of the edge would make it a poor chopper of wood and other materials, but I admit my ignorance.
I've read that it's an old style borrowed from headhunters from the Phillipines. A normal flat face can glance off of a round target. With these, the point sticks and then the rest of the face drives in behind it. It still chops wood pretty well with that spike, but it's definitely there for defensive purposes more, especially when you consider that it's designed by Rafael Kayanan (a Tuhon in Sayoc Kali). The sweet spot in the head is between the two angles on the face, and they drive whatever you're hitting into the vertex. Though I've found that it likes to get somewhat stuck if I drive it into something really hard like hickory or curly maple. That said though, a tool of this size is more suited for smaller task anyhow rather than splitting big chunks of firewood all day.
It also serves some pretty utilitarian purposes like a skinning blade, which I found it excels at during last years deer season. Also, If you look at the swell of the handle near the head, it has the same profile as a Sig P226, and is very comfortable to choke up on and do fine work with (as well as punch **** stuff with). There pretty popular in the Kali world, such as the Tracker Dan Grey Matter (The Graymatter? - Tracker Dan Designs) and Sayoc Warhawk by Head Hunter Blades (Sayoc Store - Sayoc Kali -).