Cold Steel Secure-Ex nightmare! Sheath issues still not adressed! Beware!

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EatingSarma

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I carried 3V Mini Pendleton as EDC for the first time and when I pulled it out to cut a zip tie - it was as dull as a spoon. How did it happen? Because in the morning before I went to work it was razor sharp!

There's the answer:
Even CPM-3V steel is no match for dulling power of Cold Steel Secure-Ex sheath.
Secure-ex sheath will make your blade trully secure, you won't be able to cut yourself, or anyone for that matter even if you try!
Sheath itself is carefully executed in a way that you don't even need to press the blade against it while drawing to get the ultimate dulling effect!
Cold Steel master engineers have made sure to design it in a way that it will dull your blade while you're simply carrying it.

So, my 3V Mini Pendleton Butter is safe even for little children.


Jokes aside, I was lucky to still have my D2 Boker GoBag in my backpack. So I'm still using a knife this one should replace, that is until I get a proper sheath for this one. Because Cold Steel will give you a really crappy sheath and pretend it's all fine.

Cold Steel usually ignores threads about their sheaths and will not adress these issues so I thought that it should be posted here as beware to people.
 
BladeScout said:
Havent used my CS synthetic sheaths enough to experience any dulling but then I never cared much for the look/feel of the CS Secure-Ex sheaths anyways. I make leather or kydex sheaths for my CS knives right off the bat. You could make a new sheath and ditch the Secure-Ex sheath, if its not to your liking.
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That's what I will do. But I'm just making this thread to let people know that Cold Steel sheaths are useless. And to put this issue to the light as Cold Steel is refusing to acknowledge it.

Nobody is expecting sheaths to be perfect, but these ones aren't even usable. Yet you still pay for them when buying the knife. They should give people more options IMO, at least an option to pay less and buy a knife without crappy sheath.

Also it is sad that you cannot use the knife right away when you buy it, especially when it's from company that markets their knives as weapons.

Imagine getting a Cold Steel knife, taking it somewhere to wilderness or to battle to discover it has sharpness of a butter knife because of crappy sheath full of glass...

I'm not saying that all of their knives are getting dulled by the sheath, but Secure-ex does have lots of dulling potential and it will significantly dull your knife if you ever slide your blade against it. And it's always possible it will start to dull your knife with time. This is not just a polymer, this is full of glass fibers. Especially interior it seems.

Why would someone choose such a poor material is beyond me. But I'll at least tell people how bad it is.
 
EatingSarma said:
Nobody is expecting sheaths to be perfect, but these ones aren't even usable. Yet you still pay for them when buying the knife. They should give people more options IMO, at least an option to pay less and buy a knife without crappy sheath.
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Thats what I like about Terävä.
Terävä offered that option at one point; you could buy their excellent knives cheaper sans sheath. I like that option and I bought the Skrama, the 140, the 110 and the Mini Puukko, then made leather sheaths for most of them and kydex for for the Mini. Even better, three of the knives came with a liner. A great deal.

That aside, the Terävä sheaths are thought by most to be very good.


EatingSarma said:
Why would someone choose such a poor material is beyond me.
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Its cheap.
 
I have a new San Mai Tan Pan I bought on a whim a couple months ago. I liked the idea of the Secure-Ex, but i do find it to be a bit lackluster and see where it could bugger the edge.

I plan on making a new sheath for an otherwise awesome fighting dagger the next time I made it to the leather supply store. I already have a couple designs in mind.
 
From razor sharp to butter knife in one pull?
Possibly a slight exaggeration there?


This video compared the fresh edge, after 10, after 30 and after 100 pulls out of the sheath - still cut paper at the end.

And that's on SK5 steel..

So while it will dull your knife...in one extraction is unlikely.
 
Their sheaths are the major reason I don’t buy their knives. Ive bought a couple, my most recent being a push dagger that never came out of the sheath as sharp as it was when I sheathed it. It’s a shame, because I like some of their designs and I’d be buying them if they came with decent leather instead of a cheap, plastic feeling pair of pants.
 
Baggins said:
From razor sharp to butter knife in one pull?
Possibly a slight exaggeration there?


This video compared the fresh edge, after 10, after 30 and after 100 pulls out of the sheath - still cut paper at the end.

And that's on SK5 steel..

So while it will dull your knife...in one extraction is unlikely.
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The problem with that is that he only tested one sheath and one knife. There are going to be manufacturing variances in the sheaths and knives, such that some will make more edge contact than others.
 
I've been disappointed by many of the sheathes that came with new knives: C&C Buck 212, Benchmade Puukko, Roselli and CS SRK and Master Hunter. I've made leather sheaths for all of those using the originals for a pattern. The best leather sheathes I've acquired in the last couple of decades have been the well-made ones from Marble's, when Mike Stewart was running the place.
 
Mitchell Knives said:
Some Secure-Ex sheaths seem to have more contact with the edge than others.

All will dull your knife to some extent.

Cold steel needs to cut at least $20 from the price of their knives to account for this.
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Yeah, "Chops through a hog skull, dulls on plastic" doesn't have much marketing merit.
 
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