[Blueflag]

A knife with a hollow handle is a broken knife in the bush. Ya need a real tang into the handle. IMHO.

[editor-surveyor]

>> “ Ya need a real tang into the handle. IMHO” <<

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Most of those knives are made from solid billets, and are strong enough to use as crowbars.

[taxcontrol]

Before the whole Rambo craze, I had a guy who lived in my neighborhood who was a knife maker. His survival knife was a 10” pipe that he had heated and hammered 1/2 of the knife into a blade and then welded on a guard.

Ugly thing and heavy but it worked though.

[ansel12]

Unless it is a Glock, which is sometimes called a crow bar that is a knife.

But aside from trivia, your point is correct, a knife needs to be checked for a full tang.

[LibWhacker]

WHA...??? What'chyoo talkin' about? Legendary maker Chris Reeve makes indestructible hollow handled survival knives. Check out the Chris Reeve Project Knife destruction test here. Long video, so skip to 28:50 to see the most pertinent part.

Note that is an issue not even related to the handle per se.

Poor guy. Reeve knives are not cheap. Probably cost him at least $400. That's where they were last time I priced them.