Photos Cold Steel for utility vs weapon knives ?

Despite the appearance, I personally never considered cold Steel knives "weapon knives" or tactical for many reasons including: slow(er) deployment, pocket stick, bad pocket-clip for gloved use, not really one hande closing, no jimping among other reasons. I don't think they make good edc knives either due to some of the same reasons. My first knife ever was a cold Steel recon 1, it now has rock lock and some handle/pocket screws are stripped... got great use out of that knife for 2-3 years however.
 
DocJD said:
Couple of ..Cold Steel knives ..don't appear especially "tactical " and are very competent , all around work/ utility capable
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Not "tactical"?
That's because they were cleverly made
to blend in with the surrounding
and not raise an eyebrow ;-)
Yeah, don't be fooled entirely by looks;
good workgrade undercover
and work capable tools.
Great farm about edc thougjh :-)
 
Me personally I put more value in the ease of use and utility aspects of a knife. I like cold steel knives for that type of thing. The thing with using knives for protection is a man better be able to articulate to a jury why exactly he had to do that. Disparity of force and that sort of thing come to mind. I digress. I’d put either of those to work any day, especially if they have AUS8 blades. I like how they do that steel and really like the ease of sharpening. Good finds!
 
Gideons said:
it now has rock lock and some handle/pocket screws are stripped... got great use out of that knife for 2-3 years however.
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How do you get a knife to have rock lock? Is that where a lockback has vertical blade play? I’m assuming heavy cutting where ya really lean on it will do that.
 
I don't know what you'd consider a Cold Steel Hold Out, Luzon or Tri-lite to be except a fighting or SD knife and that's why I bought them but, like any other knife, it can be used for other things that it wasn't specifically designed to do.

I bought the Code 4 and AD-15 for different reasons; the Code 4 for camping/hiking use and the AD-15 just because it was cool but also because it can be used for camping and other purposes. However, there's no reason why the Code 4 and AD-15 can't be used for SD, even if not specifically designed for that purpose.

So, IMO, any knife can be used as a weapon or as a general utility tool, even if not specifically designed as one or the other.
 
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JC972 said:
Me personally I put more value in the ease of use and utility aspects of a knife. I like cold steel knives for that type of thing. The thing with using knives for protection is a man better be able to articulate to a jury why exactly he had to do that. Disparity of force and that sort of thing come to mind. I digress. I’d put either of those to work any day, especially if they have AUS8 blades. I like how they do that steel and really like the ease of sharpening. Good finds!
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The models I've posted above are the newest S35VN , that Cold Steel is now using on a lot of their more upscale lines . Supposed to be be far superior to AUS8 , which I never had any problem with except a little rust spotting on some . Haven't really had a chance to test these new ones out . Just cut up some box cardboard and posed for pics ! ;)
 
This one can be considered “tactical “ IMO

Fast deployment, fast one hand action for opening and closing .
Fits The hand hand like a glove and razor sharp out of box with a beautiful hollow grind . Tactical and a utility knife all rolled into one .
This CS AD10 is a home run in my book
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I own a Kudu it's my work knife that I abuse badly. Would suck as a weapon as it takes awhile to open it. Enough time if I were a lawyer I'd argue with the time it takes to open the knife, whatever you did was premeditated. Case closed (end sarcasm).

It's not intimidating looking till you open it and reveal a 4.25in blade and it's just the shear size than that does it for most people.
 
TheFactor said:
This one can be considered “tactical “ IMO

Fast deployment, fast one hand action for opening and closing .
Fits The hand hand like a glove and razor sharp out of box with a beautiful hollow grind . Tactical and a utility knife all rolled into one .
This CS AD10 is a home run in my book
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There's lots of "family resemblance " between the AD10 , 4 Max and the Ultimate Hunter .

But the Hunter has a cool orange handle and I got it for $85 (open box sale) ! :cool::thumbsup::thumbsup:
 
Wow... I thought for a second there that someone had taken a picture of my knives! I have the UH with the orange scales as shown in CTS. I have the American Lawman in CS's outstanding version of AUS8.

I have had both of those knives for some time (the American Lawman for years) and both are excellent working knives out on the job site. I can't figure out how someone could work the lock up of one of these knives to the point where it would "rock", but they would certainly be using it a lot harder than I do in my construction duties. The UH hits all right notes for me as a working knife; plenty of handle, easy to sharpen the steels, no hotspots with extended use, no giant pocket clip proclaiming some silly logo or manufacturer's name to let everyone know I have a large knife in my pocket, and it is thin enough that it disappears into my jeans with no trouble.

Plus... love the orange!

Robert
 
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DocJD said:
There's lots of "family resemblance " between the AD10 , 4 Max and the Ultimate Hunter .

But the Hunter has a cool orange handle and I got it for $85 (open box sale) ! :cool::thumbsup::thumbsup:
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Couldn’t agree more :D
Nice Score ! :thumbsup: I got a pretty good deal on my Ad10 also not as good as you did on your hunter but I payed 140 just before the new price hike to 170 :cool:
 
I see a lot of typos referring to CS knives as tactical when the correct spelling is tacticool. I would say for me some of their models are more weapon in design but that doesn't always hurt their utility. I do think they have plenty of models that might have received some aggressive designing but are still much more utility in their design.
 
I love how cold steel can make totally tactical pocket swords that function as outstanding tools.

I feel the talwar and holdout models are my favorites for tactical and practical. my talwar xl is a folding cooks knife almost: slices like the dickens. Waves out and has such a cool swedge to finish the look. I think after the last few years, theyve become my favorite company over spyderco and benchmade.
 
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I happened to have my XL Voyager in my pocket when my brother got back from an all-day fishing charter. It did surprisingly well on the larger fish. The older AUS8 steel did dull towards the end.
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Tactical vs Utility will typically be in the application. Some designs will lend to one or the other, but ultimately...you could use a spoon tactically..

You'd have to paint the spoon flat black w/ a rattle can of Rustoleum first, of coarse..
 
When it comes to self defense, most people are not trained or on a mission to use a knife. A good practical knife (e.g. Cold Steel large or XL voyager) will do quite well and be much more defendable with the police or the court than say, a CS Ti Lite. :eek: Just my .02.
 
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