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Cold Steel Laredo Bowie: SK5 vs San Mai III Tang Type....
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Do you have any idea about production methods? Full tang or rat tail is much less labour intensive than putting a cable between the tang and the pommel.
On the one hand we have Cold Steel who have a long history of making knives, who think that the cable adds to the combat ability of their knives, on the other some random individual on the web who doesn't.
Who should we agree with?
Choices... choices...
as one of random individual , i think cable tang is an easy way to fasten the pommel and let the un-trained men to work well . and also let the handle and pomel looks cool and neat.
FOR getting good lookings Sacrificed strengh , and this is what your long history of making knives CS have did.
and do you have any idea about combat ability adding by cable design ?
"the cable adds to the combat ability of their knives" a kind of Superstition i think.hey , how about throw them against trees ?
if your combat knife shattered like that , how about the ability of combat left ? and do you know which cable tang knife served in army ?
and you really think this one's COMBAT ABILITY is wores than cable's ?
good luck .
dingy
ps: the history of CS making knives is not too long , compared to old brothers here , man.
FOR getting good lookings Sacrificed strengh , and this is what your long history of making knives CS have did.
and do you have any idea about combat ability adding by cable design ?
"the cable adds to the combat ability of their knives" a kind of Superstition i think.hey , how about throw them against trees ?
if your combat knife shattered like that , how about the ability of combat left ? and do you know which cable tang knife served in army ?
and you really think this one's COMBAT ABILITY is wores than cable's ?
good luck .
dingy
ps: the history of CS making knives is not too long , compared to old brothers here , man.
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The cable tang shouldn't break under normal utility use. The whole argument that it wasn't durable came because some guy was hitting the wooden handle itself to baton. Course it broke. I've done chopping with a Laredo Howie and it never broke. Hitting handles is a dumb idea.
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You mean the untrained Japanese workers who make the Natchez, Laredo, and the Trailmaster as well? Racist troll is racist.
The justification Cold Steel use for their cable tangs, which are more difficult to assemble than a rattail tang, is that they lighten the handle, moving the balance of the blade to make it more lively in the hand, and they absorb shock in blade on blade fighting.
They are designated as "fighting" knives, which is to say they are designed for the kind of blade on blade combat that nobody engages in anymore. They are not throwing knives, they are not bushcraft knives, they are certainly not designed to be hammered into a log like a nail. Cold Steel are quite clear that if you want to do those things you should buy their throwing knives or a Trailmaster.
Rattail like tangs have been used for centuries in kukris and western swords. Their lack of compressive strength has no effect on their fighting ability.
The justification Cold Steel use for their cable tangs, which are more difficult to assemble than a rattail tang, is that they lighten the handle, moving the balance of the blade to make it more lively in the hand, and they absorb shock in blade on blade fighting.
They are designated as "fighting" knives, which is to say they are designed for the kind of blade on blade combat that nobody engages in anymore. They are not throwing knives, they are not bushcraft knives, they are certainly not designed to be hammered into a log like a nail. Cold Steel are quite clear that if you want to do those things you should buy their throwing knives or a Trailmaster.
Rattail like tangs have been used for centuries in kukris and western swords. Their lack of compressive strength has no effect on their fighting ability.
" is that they lighten the handle, moving the balance of the blade to make it more lively in the hand, and they absorb shock in blade on blade fighting. "
rattail is heavier ?
if the CS wanna lighten why use the big grass guard and pomel?
rattail knife do not move lively in the hand?
shocking forces can not be bare ? is it a big deal?
have you get into knife fighting yet ? and where your words from?
you mean lots of full tang and rattail tang fighting knives are Inferior to The justification Cold Steel's cable tang knives ?
NOW how do you evaluate The justification Cold Steel's full tang TAIPAN and even biger warcraft wasakasi ?
if the cable tang is the best way to make fighting knives whyThe justification Cold Steel' not change all the fighting knives to cable ?
rattail is heavier ?
if the CS wanna lighten why use the big grass guard and pomel?
rattail knife do not move lively in the hand?
shocking forces can not be bare ? is it a big deal?
have you get into knife fighting yet ? and where your words from?
you mean lots of full tang and rattail tang fighting knives are Inferior to The justification Cold Steel's cable tang knives ?
NOW how do you evaluate The justification Cold Steel's full tang TAIPAN and even biger warcraft wasakasi ?
if the cable tang is the best way to make fighting knives whyThe justification Cold Steel' not change all the fighting knives to cable ?
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The problem in the posted pictures, which have been around the internet for a while, was incorrect batoning technique.
http://brkca.com/docs/batoning.pdf
The rest of your incoherent posting doesn't deserve any further response.
http://brkca.com/docs/batoning.pdf
The rest of your incoherent posting doesn't deserve any further response.
NOW how do you evaluate The justification Cold Steel's full tang TAIPAN and even biger warcraft wasakasi ?
if the cable tang is the best way to make fighting knives whyThe justification Cold Steel' does not change all the fighting knives to cable ?
you can not answer it
if the cable tang is the best way to make fighting knives whyThe justification Cold Steel' does not change all the fighting knives to cable ?
you can not answer it
NOW how do you evaluate The justification Cold Steel's full tang TAIPAN and even biger warcraft wasakasi ?
if the cable tang is the best way to make fighting knives whyThe justification Cold Steel' does not change all the fighting knives to cable ?
you can not answer it
I don't even know what a "Warcraft Wakasaki" is, I don't see anything in Cold Steel's lineup by that name? If you mean the Warcraft tanto, it's not designed solely as a fighting knife, it's designed as a knife that can be used as a weapon, but can also baton, chop, or do any of the other duties Youtube reviewers like to do with big knives. As for the Taipan, it IS NOT DESIGNED for the same kind of knife on knife combat that the Bowies are, it's designed strictly for stabbing.
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NOW how do you evaluate The justification Cold Steel's full tang TAIPAN and even biger warcraft wasakasi ?
if the cable tang is the best way to make fighting knives whyThe justification Cold Steel' does not change all the fighting knives to cable ?
you can not answer it
Cold Steel make precisely two fighting Bowie knives, the Natchez and the Laredo. Both are made specifically for fighting, both were specifically designed with the cable tang.
Their other knives are not fighting Bowie knives. They're very different in shape and purpose.
