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Don't knock it until you try it.
I purchased one, pretty much just so I could try my hand at making a stacked leather handle. But I decided to try this knife out as well.
The knife is well constructed, and the heat treat is nice. I prefer my ESEE for everyday tasks and edge retention, but this knife holds it's own for the amount I paid for it. I tried ordering it direct from cold steel, but for the second or third time they screwed up the manual data entry which canceled the transaction. So I reordered at a cheaper price from one of the BladeForum supporting dealer websites nearly $30 cheaper than the CS order, and that transaction went smoothly and arrived quickly.
I only have crappy disassembled photos, taking pictures and reviewing this knife was an after thought.
I pried the last part of the tip after sinking it into the stump the pictures were taken on, to see if it was brittle and on the unacceptable end of knife quality. It wasn't and the tip shows no breakage nor bending after quite a few tries. The edge was chopped into the top of the piece of wood you see pictured, and then it was popped out with a twisting motion parallel to the spine, to see if it would make one of those deep chips, it did nothing. I also smacked the blade down flat a few times to see if it would shatter, it did not. I do not believe in destructive testing, so that wasn't the kind of muscle used here, just enough to see if the knife was worth the price, and it performs about where the purchased price should be expected to.
The only "flaw" if there was one, is that under the guard there was no coating and the 1080 series steel is clearly starting to rust there out of the box. I am sure it would have a healthy service life despite that, but it is a flaw none the less.
I purchased one, pretty much just so I could try my hand at making a stacked leather handle. But I decided to try this knife out as well.
The knife is well constructed, and the heat treat is nice. I prefer my ESEE for everyday tasks and edge retention, but this knife holds it's own for the amount I paid for it. I tried ordering it direct from cold steel, but for the second or third time they screwed up the manual data entry which canceled the transaction. So I reordered at a cheaper price from one of the BladeForum supporting dealer websites nearly $30 cheaper than the CS order, and that transaction went smoothly and arrived quickly.
I only have crappy disassembled photos, taking pictures and reviewing this knife was an after thought.
I pried the last part of the tip after sinking it into the stump the pictures were taken on, to see if it was brittle and on the unacceptable end of knife quality. It wasn't and the tip shows no breakage nor bending after quite a few tries. The edge was chopped into the top of the piece of wood you see pictured, and then it was popped out with a twisting motion parallel to the spine, to see if it would make one of those deep chips, it did nothing. I also smacked the blade down flat a few times to see if it would shatter, it did not. I do not believe in destructive testing, so that wasn't the kind of muscle used here, just enough to see if the knife was worth the price, and it performs about where the purchased price should be expected to.
The only "flaw" if there was one, is that under the guard there was no coating and the 1080 series steel is clearly starting to rust there out of the box. I am sure it would have a healthy service life despite that, but it is a flaw none the less.
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