Noss, if you ever break your Douk batonning, I send you one (well, not exactly a Douk-Douk, but a Tiki, it's the same but chromed handle and blued blade), and a mini Douk with it. And an Opinel if you want.
I broke a Douk, but in very special conditions. First, I reshaped the "turkish point", as it's called, into a clip point, thus there was lot less material on the tip. And it did not break during any kind of use, but while I was repolishing it in a machine, it got caught, and was thrown faster than you can realise, it rebounded on the thick metal protection, and hit the concrete floor. I did not found the broken tip to reconstitute the blade at the moment it broke, but the it was clear on the bit I had that it bent at least 30° before breaking. Though the violence of the impact, it did not break at the ricasso, where I would have thought it would break, but maybe with the original not modified blade it will become the weaker point. So I'm relatively confident with the performances of a Douk for batoning, and that's my warranty as a french and ambassador of the french cutlery on this forum, to replace it if it fails during the test.
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I'm going to try and make a short video of it here soon.
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