Review- KFU FattyCrafter

Fatty Fatty 2x4

The KFU FattyCrafter

I received the KFU FattyCrafter 6/2/12 after coming home from doing a show in Hohenwald, TN. Wow! What a knife.

First impression is good. This is a nice looking package. Knife is great and the sheath is made very well. It is adaptable to any belt, pack or system whether you are right or left handed. A+

Huge F’n handle, sweet wood and very cool liners. SS pin and thong tube with a nice etch on the blade.

Specs:
Weight - 14 oz 400gr with sheath
8.8oz 250gr without sheath

OAL- 9.210”
Handle- 4.960”L 1.190”H 1.136” W
Blade- 4.250”L 0.138”T 1.100”W
Edge- 4.020”L
Grind- 0.799” +/-
Pin- 0.250” Thong- 0.250”

Sunday 6/3 I carried it around with me all day while I did some forging. Used it to prep and devour some wonderful venison steak. The steak even left some markings on the blade.



Wednesday 6/6 was my testing day. First up is my go to destruction test. There is part of a 24” PVC water pipe at our water plant that can eat up a blade. I poked it more that a dozen times w/o damage and chopped quite a few times. The only thing hurt was my temple as a piece whizzed off and hit me leaving a mark. This pipe is over an inch thick and when chopped at, pieces sound like bullets whizzing by.



Started to chop up an 8” PVC pipe. As you can see I chopped a good hole through it. This stuff is strong and there were chips everywhere.



Cut some garden hose into little pieces without much effort. No challenge, still sharp.



Fatty Fatty 2x4 pt2

Don't know why but I can't post many pics in one thread. The pic of the upcoming 2x2 ended up on the first thread. Okay...

More chopping. Started this next phase with some old construction lumber from a demo next door. The 2x2 went faster than I can remember(see 1st thread). After a few whacks on the 2x4 I had to put a lanyard on to keep it from slipping out of my hands. I used a couple zip ties for this and it worked for me. It took some work to get through the 2x4 but the knife came out much better than my shoulder did. After I got home to play some more I noticed that one of the scales maybe both had separated a bit. Without even checking it out my hands just kinda snapped it back to normal.



And the last thing I tested it on was stabbing an old mailbox a bunch of times. About ¼” of the edge rolled a tiny bit. The edge was cleaned up with just a few licks on my stone.



Fatty Porn



All-in-all this was truly a beast of a knife. Chris did a great job on it and I’d be proud to own any of his work. Thanks Chris for letting my participate and all the communication.