Cold Steel Carbon Steel Military (Mod. 1)

Thomas Linton

Thomas Linton

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Another day at eBay. :rolleyes:

"Won" an "original old Blackjack Mod. 1-7" in "good used condition." Great, I wanted a user.

It arrived. Condition's fine but it's a Cold Steel carbon steel version of Randall's Model 1.

Any opinions on respective quality of this knife vs. the Blackjack Mod. 1-7 I thought I was getting?

Any idea what steel CS was using? Not marked "Carbon V," for whatever good that would do.

(At least I know it was owned by a smoker. The leather handle smells like an ashtray.)
 
GarageBoy said:
Is the blade coated in black? Also, what is the handle material?
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Bright blade.

Leather handle with what looks like aluminum butt w/ lanyard hole - secured by nut on threaded tang.

Brass double hilt.

b/w/r/w/b spacers at top and bottom of handle.

This is not the current version.
 
The blade is marked "Cold Steel Carbon Steel," and from the look of it that's the case - not SS. So, from what you say, that leaves 1095.
 
Cold Steel until recently was never forthcoming with their steel choices, instead of stating 1095 they'd use "carbon steel". The only other connection I can think of is that it's been said BlackJack and Cold Steel used Western as a US contractor during both companies early days, so I'd bet it's in the same class as the BlackJacks.

Never heard a bad word about them, the cost was the big thing that kept the Cold Steel from being as popular.
 
BB, good point on possible common source. It is convex ground like the BJ's. I'll ask Mike Stewart.
 
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