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I am with Wick 100% here, there really shouldn't be a dimes worth of difference in a knife being used as a knife, or even being abused, with a full tang. If one wanted to take things to the full extreme and be able to say that every last percentage of strength was obtained, whether it would ever be noticed or not, you could heat treat the tang and draw it back to an appropriate hardness for maximum impact vs. tensile strength, but it is easier to just not harden the thing. Now if the blade is damascus, you have to harden it and draw it back or it will give a really goofy looking etch on a full tang.
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