dkblade, great write-up on the ProLite! Thank you for taking the time and posting all the photos. You've got me wanting one now!
I don't mean to divert the thread, but the requests for the return to the older Voyager designs intrigue me. I agree that the aesthetics of the original Voyagers were more pleasant. But performance improvements have driven the designs into their current form, and I don't want to see any of those sacrificed simply for looks.
Sure, this is a great-looking knife.
But it can't hold a candle to this one in cutting ability, strength, safety, or (most importantly to me) ergonomics.
The new Voyagers may not be as pretty, but they are much more comfortable and secure to hold and to cut with. Your hand just isn't likely to slip off of the handle with the new models.
Likewise, this was a beautiful knife.
But it simply can't out-perform this improved model, which, by the way, feels better in my hand than 99% of the folders I've ever held.
I like an attractive knife as much as the next guy. But I'm a firm believer in form following function. Cold Steel's stringent adherence to that maxim over the years has kept me interested in the company's new developments and kept me buying its knives. I don't want to go backwards.
-Steve
P.S. - If Sal Glesser had listened to Al Mar and forsaken his "ugly" folder, we'd never have seen this.
The knife world as we know it today would not be nearly as convenient or as interesting!
I don't mean to divert the thread, but the requests for the return to the older Voyager designs intrigue me. I agree that the aesthetics of the original Voyagers were more pleasant. But performance improvements have driven the designs into their current form, and I don't want to see any of those sacrificed simply for looks.
Sure, this is a great-looking knife.
But it can't hold a candle to this one in cutting ability, strength, safety, or (most importantly to me) ergonomics.
The new Voyagers may not be as pretty, but they are much more comfortable and secure to hold and to cut with. Your hand just isn't likely to slip off of the handle with the new models.
Likewise, this was a beautiful knife.
But it simply can't out-perform this improved model, which, by the way, feels better in my hand than 99% of the folders I've ever held.
I like an attractive knife as much as the next guy. But I'm a firm believer in form following function. Cold Steel's stringent adherence to that maxim over the years has kept me interested in the company's new developments and kept me buying its knives. I don't want to go backwards.
-Steve
P.S. - If Sal Glesser had listened to Al Mar and forsaken his "ugly" folder, we'd never have seen this.
The knife world as we know it today would not be nearly as convenient or as interesting!
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