Cold Steel G.I. Tanto... interesting.

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I recently modified one, didn't like it's look, just bought it after that famous Youtube vid...

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It is a screaming deal. You can get em cheap as dirt and beat the damn tar out of em.... And not have to worry about it. They are easy as pie to modify into exactly what you want. (As long as it's thickish and tanto shaped) If you want a stout knife that can take abuse and that doesn't have to be babied, look no further!

I bought one and beat the crap out of it. Threw it around, chopped up everydamnthing, stabbed it through an old washing machine. The coating looked like hell so I sanded it off. Cut a bunch more stuff and the blade's nice and dark again. I liked it so much I bought another one.
 
I'm not a Lynn Thompson fan but he just went up a step in my book; I don't like liars, felons, and especially military posers either!
Cold Steel was making tanto designed blade before "strider" (not his real name) ever told his first lie so I don't think one can say CS took the design from "strider".

I need to buy the next one of these I see.
 
I know i'm a knife geek because I wouldn't sell my modded G.I.T for under $125. Probably an offer of 180 and it's yours Lol.

It has an ESEE sheath, i'll post a pic and you guys tell me if i'm loco. ;)
 
I've been eyeing one these to put in my pack as a backup blade. Really wish CS would release the clip point version I saw in a thread in the CS subforum.
 
^^^ Lynn C. Thompson, drama king.

Sold lotsa steel though, a real, real lot of it. ;)

Him and Mick Strider are probably buddies...
 
I like the modded blade where the bottom is rounded off. I just don't what CS calls a "tanto." I would probably grind the edge until it was one single curve, grind the top guard away, strip it, texture the handle a bit, and then head for the mountains for some testing.

And yeah, Thompson is a huckster. What draws me to this knife is not his hype but the recommendations on this forum.

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FFK said:
I like the blade length .......but different handle shape would be easier to hold when slippery .....idk...more Gerber LMF like handle
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Yeah, definitely, but they'd take advantage and add a couple extra bucks to the price tag. I'm actually in the process of making some handle scales for mine.
 
Also very happy with mine. Only bad parts IMO is the top part of the hilt/hand guard, handle scales that might as well be bricks (which I'm in the process of "fixing" myself), and the blade grind was uneven on one side, bur for $20, who cares.
 
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RDog said:
The part that gets me is why the wasted space between the blade edge and guard? But still, its a good knife to money ratio.
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The space works quite well as a choke-up point for more delicate work. Looks ugly, functions well.
 
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