anyone compared blade stock thickness recently? pre gsm to gsm?

[jbmonkey]

I bought a super cheap large voyager from the site that has super sales sometimes....anyways.....it feels like gsm may have gone to a thinner blade stock on it? im not sure as I couldn't find my older voyager to compare.

knife seems fine other than clamp pack style....should be a fine slicer, but my memory of voyager were a thicker stock...not real or stupid thick just decent amount to still slice but have some durability on harder use. maybe im remembering it wrong?

 

[knarfeng]

I bought a super cheap large voyager from the site that has super sales sometimes....anyways.....it feels like gsm may have gone to a thinner blade stock on it? im not sure as I couldn't find my older voyager to compare.

knife seems fine other than clamp pack style....should be a fine slicer, but my memory of voyager were a thicker stock...not real or stupid thick just decent amount to still slice but have some durability on harder use. maybe im remembering it wrong?

You got a micrometer?

My large drop point voyager came in a box and I measured it as 0.135" just behind the thumb stud.
Specs say it's supposed to be 3.5 mm, which would be 0.137".
I checked both a sales site that I know seldom updates their descriptions, as well as the Cold Steel web site. Both say 3.5 mm

edited to add:
In general, for machined non-critical surfaces, a tolerance of +/- 0.003" is considered a tight tolerance. So I consider my knife to be within spec.