Cold Steel will be saleing Tomahawk sheaths this year

Well I'm sure there are some of us who dont want to spend twice the price of the hawk on a blade cover for something thats gonna be tossed in the trunk with the rest of the bug out gear or just wants something that works and doesnt have to look pretty.
 
I'm interested in the ax gang hatchet and trainer. Looks like another good offering for the hawk lineup this year.
 
Good points, those covers are inexpensive and serviceable. I'll keep making my own, though.
 
Cyblade said:
Cold Steel just showed what new products they are coming out with and it appears they will be offering some blade covers for thier tomahawks for 5bux msrp.

http://dealerscorner.coldsteel.com/New/Default.aspx

they are at the very end of the list.
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Thanks for posting this. Sadly, the sheaths look like the flimsy pieces of junk that Cold Steel is using on the Kukri Machetes, etc. Mine literally fell apart on my first camping trip with the Kukri.

Too bad they aren't making them like the thicker tougher sheaths on the Bushman and the now discontinued Long Hunter and Barong\Spear Point\Bowie bladed machetes. Those are actually tough sheaths with good reinforcement.

Not sure what's happening with Cold Steel nowadays but outside of the Bushman, Spetznatz Shovel and Tomahawks, almost none of their line is really interesting anymore and it just seems they just keep getting rid of everything quality. The 12" Barong Machete they just discontinued is so good it was like a poor man's Carbon V Trailmaster whereas the newer South African made machetes are fairly crude with terrible low quality flimsy sheaths. The new San Mai SRK rattles in the sheath, and the AUS8 SRK does not hold an edge even compared to some of my cheap 400 stainless series Gerber folders (I had both a Carbon V and an AUS8 SRK until recently. kept the Carbon V). Too bad, as Cold Steel has offered some really great yet affordable stuff for most of its history, but now it seems to have succumbed to profit over quality whereas before it seemed to do both right.
 
I guess my take on these sheaths is this, You can buy one sheath that lasts a lifetime for between $25.00 and $40.00 or you can buy 10 at 5 bucks each that don't last at all.
Cold steel hawks are cheap because they're made in Taiwan but none the less decent tools. A well made sheath takes from one to three hours depending on the complexity, plus materials. Also, a sheath for a $30.00 cold steel costs the same as a sheath for a $200.00 custom. Would you put a POS on a custom hawk?

Best regards

Robin
 
I think it's great they'll have cheap ass sheaths available. I think a lot of people are put off from trying hawks out because the only decent cheap ones are CS, and I keep seeing people worried about sheaths for them.

This is a good gateway for people wanting to try hawks. If they decide they want to have a custom hawk made after this, or like the CS enough to mod it and make it "theirs", then they can have a decent sheath made for it, but not have to spend $40 to sheath their $30 hawk that they may end up not liking.
 
Cpl Punishment said:
I think it's great they'll have cheap ass sheaths available. I think a lot of people are put off from trying hawks out because the only decent cheap ones are CS, and I keep seeing people worried about sheaths for them.

This is a good gateway for people wanting to try hawks. If they decide they want to have a custom hawk made after this, or like the CS enough to mod it and make it "theirs", then they can have a decent sheath made for it, but not have to spend $40 to sheath their $30 hawk that they may end up not liking.
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Very well said :thumbup:
 
Cpl Punishment said:
I think it's great they'll have cheap ass sheaths available. I think a lot of people are put off from trying hawks out because the only decent cheap ones are CS, and I keep seeing people worried about sheaths for them.

This is a good gateway for people wanting to try hawks. If they decide they want to have a custom hawk made after this, or like the CS enough to mod it and make it "theirs", then they can have a decent sheath made for it, but not have to spend $40 to sheath their $30 hawk that they may end up not liking.
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+1 CPL. Well said.
 
Good. I doubt this will hurt custom makers of high quality stuff, but it will make hawks more accessible and practical for a lot of people, myself included.

Maybe when they come out I'll pick up a frontier hawk and a one of these covers to go with it. :D
 
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