Cold Steel Voyager

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I'm just looking for opinions on this knife. Seems durable, lightweight etc.

Give me the good, bad, and ugly.

Thanks!
 
Holds an edge great, pretty durable, very strong lock, light weight.

I haven't really pushed one hard to know if it's a hard use blade or not personally, my Recon 1 is my hard use knife.
 
I work in maintenance in the food production industry; for several years in slaughterhouses. I abuse all my tools, knives included, because of time critical need to get the job done. We can always get more tools. The only two work knives that ever held up to the physical abuse I subject them to at work were a Buck 110 and a Cold Steel Large Voyager. However, the wooden scales on the Buck didn't react well to the water and cleaning chemicals, i.e. sodium hypochloride, bleach, etc. Only the Voyager left standing. It takes a pounding, twisting, punching, prying; really easy to sharpen (sometimes only using a screwdriver shank as a steel puts the edge back), holds the edge reasonably well. At work, for my hand tools, it's Klein, Channelock, and Cold Steel.
 
I carry a EX large "5 Voyager (SE) Its very tough. Had it for about 8 years & it has taken a lot of abuse.
 
I have the older medium and large ones. I got both serrated. I regret that. Since, I grinded the med. one to a hollow grind, and may do the same on the large, I don't know yet. The large serrated would make a good self-defense knife , that can rip through jackets,etc;but for practical use , I would stay with the large Plain edge.
 
Cold Steel takes a lot of flack because of its owner.

But an awful lot of their knives are good value for the money.
 
Have had many of the older versions, and still say its the hardest using knife on the market today that will easily take an awesome edge and hold it, all while being fairly cheap in comparison to other brands. I say get a couple man!
 
I had a medium Voyager plain edge for a couple years. I actually liked it...
The only problem I had was when I first got it. The texturing is fairly aggressive and the pocket clip had a lot of tension to it, so it was a little hard to get clipped in pocket.

A little judicious sanding under the pocket clip, and relieved a little tension on the clip and all was fine.

I like the thinner blade profile on the medium Voyager. It still locked up solid after a couple years of use..

Some of their knives don't really appeal to me, but I would own another Voyager. If you really want a tank of a knife, look at the folding hunter.
 
I had a Voyager and liked it. It is one of Cold Steel's better knives.

That said, I think the lower-end Spyderco knives like the Delica, Endura, or Native are better made with better steel and better values for the money. Kershaw makes many knives in the $35-$55 range (like the Junkyard Dog II or one of the Leeks) that are better built and also provide more for your money IMHO.

The Benchmade Avalanche or Griptillians are better, too, and the mini version are about the same price or less than the Voaygers, depending on the size you choose.
 
On the one I had there was no ugly; just one of the best in it's price range. I would buy another one in a NY second!
 
Besides the lower priced Spyderco's and Benchmade's what knives fall into the price range and comparable durability to the Cold Steel Voyager. It seems that from the comments so far is that the Cold Steel is a tough-everyday-usable knife.

I'm just curious what else may be worth looking into before purchasing a new blade.
 
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Besides the lower priced Spyderco's and Benchmade's what knives fall into the price range and comparable durability to the Cold Steel Voyager. It seems that from the comments so far is that the Cold Steel is a tough-everyday-usable knife.

I'm just curious what else may be worth looking into before purchasing a new blade.
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In the Voyagers price range I don't think any other brand can really match it for what it is and can do. :thumbup:
 
I own three Voyagers (X2 serrated, XL Tanto PE and a large Clip PE) and they are all great folders. The two larger ones have seen a lot of action and stayed sharp for a very long time, the large is new and almost unused so no comment yet, but I'm confident it will do well.
One small warning: VG-1 is quite hard, and slightly prone to chipping. I've not been able to tell what material caused it, and the chips are almost too small to notice with the naked eye, but it does happen.
But like others have said, for the money, few others compare. They are very light for their size, strong and tough, ergonomically sound, fast to open, can't find much fault with them.
And they are not expensive. ;)
 
I`ve had a 5" Voyager in my EDC rotation for 6 years now....you can`t beat it for the price....
 
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