Cold steel voyager or spyderco resilience?

Freman Bloodglaive said:
The Voyager is a relatively thin full flat ground AU8 blade that comes hair shaving sharp from the factory.

The Spyderco is a relatively thin full flat ground 8Cr13MoV blade that comes hair shaving sharp from the factory.

If your sharpening skills are up to snuff you can keep either knife razor sharp.

From a cutting perspective there isn't any real difference, what it comes down to is personal preference and while I like Spyderco knives I do find the Voyager to be a better fit for my hands.
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This the best reply to the thread that I've seen. I have all of these knives, and some for a few years now. I like them all. B.T.W., the Resilience has a very large and very ''slicey'' blade. My resilience went through the washing machine a couple of years ago, and was found\heard banging around in the dryer later. It has a few slight dings on the edges but still works perfectly... The large Voyager fits my hand like it was made for them.
 
Big Mike said:
Well Rev has covered it fairly well. :thumbup: :cool: :thumbup:


Sal builds knives that are designed to function well as cutting tools. ;)


Lynn builds knives that are designed to sell well and make him money; :eek:

...well, he really doesn't make 'em, but be sure makes money on every one sold. :rolleyes:

Big Mike
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So, Sal is going to personally make me a Spyderco knife, where as Lynn is going to pay folks working in a factory to make me Cold Steel knife (which apparently won't work well as a cutting tool). ;)

Thanks for clearing that up!
 
Honestly, the Voyager I owned kept an edge significantly better and actually had better edge geometry than my Resilience. Cold Steel pushes the strength of their knives so hard that I think people either forget or overlook the fact that they make really nice slicers as well. I would get the Cold Steel now and, instead of getting the Recon 1 later, take a long, hard look at the Manix 2 XL. That thing is very strong, slices like crazy, has very good blade steel and will be a great high-end cutter for you.
 
Insipid Moniker said:
Honestly, the Voyager I owned kept an edge significantly better and actually had better edge geometry than my Resilience. Cold Steel pushes the strength of their knives so hard that I think people either forget or overlook the fact that they make really nice slicers as well. I would get the Cold Steel now and, instead of getting the Recon 1 later, take a long, hard look at the Manix 2 XL. That thing is very strong, slices like crazy, has very good blade steel and will be a great high-end cutter for you.
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This is what I'm gonna do.
 
Honestly you won't be disappointed with either choice. The spyderco is definitely bigger in the pocket than the large voyager. The stonewash finish on the voyager hides fingerprints etc better than the satin finish on the spyderco, and nothing really sticks to it either...it almost seems like they put some sort of non-stick surface on it. Once again, the usable blade on the spyderco is larger and slices very, very well, the voyager I have with the clip blade is no slouch in the cutting category either, and I think, although I've never actually done it myself, that it would penetrate better if you needed to stab something with it. Honestly, if you got the voyager now, the resilience afterward, you might not even get to the recon 1, it isn't all that different from the voyager except for the handle. Both are great blades for carry or show, the voyager being the tougher of the two with it beefed up lock, but honestly I've found through using them both, that the spyderco just plain cuts better...but I think that has to do with it having a larger, thinner blade.
 
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