Anyone have any experience with Cold Steel Outdoorsmen???

[daniel4572]

I can find plenty of videos on you tube for there LITE model but looking for input on
the San Mai model.
Thanks
Danny

 

[Bill Siegle]

I have tried to love one in the past but it still felt more suited to a fighter role than the utility knife it is sold as. It has the same blade angle and sweep as the tanto version but with a little more belly. The sharpened top edge on mine didn't seem to offer much use to me. Maybe as a fire steel scraper but it lacks weight for chopping and was too close to my thumb if I tried to use my thumb to lever into a cut. It was definitely tough enough to serve well though.

 

[daniel4572]

Thanks for ur feed back Bill.
Looks like ur the only one thats tryed one out
BTW some one of your knives in the last Outdoors Life magazine!!

 

[VA27]

I have one of the early (Ventura, CA) tantos. I got an Outdoorsman when they first came out. Not enough of a difference to make a difference. I still have the tanto.

 

[daniel4572]

Well i decided to pick one up. Used it only for the kitchen over the entire weekend and WOW, it just keeps cutting and cutting.
I hope to get a chance to put it through the paces outdoors soon.
Im sure everyone knows what it looks like but I took some pics of it next to a few other knives.
Enjoy
Danny

 

[daniel4572]

Also think it would make a good companion to my Kukri

 

[Esav Benyamin]

I always liked the looks of it. Their "San Mai" seems like a serviceable steel. The Outdoorsman looks a lot like the original Japanese tantos, not like our current Americanized models. I read that the sharpened back edge was a bone breaker. I can't imagine why, maybe to extract the marrow.