Cold Steel?

darthsoaker said:
How thick is the plastic on you Voyager? I have a Native 3 which, while considerably thicker then many knives, is also incredibly strong, adding steel liners to it would be quite redundant. Which FRN Spydies have you bent with finger?
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The handle on the Voyager is about Half an Inch thick, But its Super Strong.

The Spyderco Atlantic Salt, The handle is soft and you can squeeze it or bend it with your fingers.



darthsoaker said:
On the flip side, have you visited any Cold Steel forums? I haven't, as I don't know of any. But I bet if there was one, people would be just as likely to show off there collections.
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Your right, No Cold Steel Forum... Wish there was. I wont be Talking to the Spyderaholics on their site much more as I can't stand their "Holier than Thou" Attitudes.
Whatever is said that has anything to do with another Company is wrong in their eyes. I allready got banned once for mentioning Cold Steel and arguing with them over a matter of opinion.
 
There is no one knife company / custom maker for everyone , it would suck if there was only one. At the end of the day , buy what makes YOU happy.

I have Case , Queen , Schrade , Buck , Strider , Al Mar , etc production knives , each one for a different reason. Each one has a different feel and different attitude.

Whatever you believe in is fine , we all voice our opinions , the only one that matters in the end is your opinion , as it is you who has to shell out the cash for what you want.

I never have one maker/manufacture I recommend , always fit the tool to the task.

CS doesn't interest me in the least. Does CS have a following ? sure , though many will be quick to admit , that while they were once CS users , once they saw what else was out there , they gave up buying CS knives.

CS , perhaps a good option for some , definately not for me.

Each manufacture has its fan base , but to hear CS fans claim they are the best there is , is totally bogus. Heck to claim anyones are the best there is not correct. Most are certainly better made than the CS products I handled at SHOT show this year. felt like Fury brand junk to me.

It's your $$$ to spend.
 
Every one of these threads makes no impact at all on my purchasing policy regarding CS (nyet).

Unfortunately many people and many companies do not realize that you will be MORE successful, have MORE customers, and have MORE longevity (not to mention more happy), if you do business with integrity.
 
Tomahawk23 said:
I wont be Talking to the Spyderaholics on their site much more as I can't stand their "Holier than Thou" Attitudes.
Whatever is said that has anything to do with another Company is wrong in their eyes. I allready got banned once for mentioning Cold Steel and arguing with them over a matter of opinion.
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Example: Thread "SS Spydie: Police or Endura" Your post: "Neither one, they both suck."

That is generally considered "troll like".
 
Broos said:
Every one of these threads makes no impact at all on my purchasing policy regarding CS (nyet).

Unfortunately many people and many companies do not realize that you will be MORE successful, have MORE customers, and have MORE longevity (not to mention more happy), if you do business with integrity.
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I have no problem with the Integrity of Cold Steel.
They make Quality products and they back them up.
To date, no one has bellied up to Lynn Thompson's Challenges.
Sure they don't have a forum, but neither does Benchmade.
I would love to see what a Spyderco Tomahawk or a Benchmade Battle-Mace would look like.
Cold Steel just promotes to a wider Audience, thats all.
 
I have no problem with the Integrity of Cold Steel.
They make Quality products and they back them up.
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for the record , CS doesn't make squat ! They are a design company , not a manufacturing company , so since they don't actual make anything , their company is ALL marketing.
 
John T Wylie Jr said:
for the record , CS doesn't make squat ! They are a design company , not a manufacturing company , so since they don't actual make anything , their company is ALL marketing.
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Very true. And some OF the factories that make CS knives also produce some of the Spyderco and Benchmade knives as well.

TR Graham
The Glocksmith
 
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T.K.C. said:
I wouldn't buy a Cold Steel (Cold Steal is more accurate.), if they were the last knife company on earth!

They do not make knives, they just market them. Their advertising is over the top and they blatantly steal other makers designs. I hate thieves.
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Wow, I guess when Armageddon comes you will be unarmed, haha.

They pay another company to manufacture knives to their standards. Is that so different to pay employees to make knives to your specs? Just a different business plan. No need to hate.

If they are stealing other designs, where are the lawsuits?
 
John T Wylie Jr said:
for the record , CS doesn't make squat ! They are a design company , not a manufacturing company , so since they don't actual make anything , their company is ALL marketing.
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Unless Sal himself is melting ore, hammering on an anvil, grinding and honing all by himself, then both Spyderco and Cold Steel pay someone else to make their knives.

Both have a business model on how to make and sell knives.
 
Cannon916 said:
Unless Sal himself is melting ore, hammering on an anvil, grinding and honing all by himself, then both Spyderco and Cold Steel pay someone else to make their knives.
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Sal does not = Spyderco. Sal + Spyderco employees= Spyderco.

Spyderco has a factory in Colorado, that produces a variety of knives.
 
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omahawk stated:
Some answers...
Yea... I know its made of H-1, I'm not an idiot.
The Odd Blade play was because the handle is made of that FRN crap and its soft.
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Sorry, try again. It's no softer than what Voyagers are made of. I've owned voyagers since they began making them, just as I bought the Endura when it first came out. I own 8 voyagers in various sizes, and blade styles, and even a couple serrated ones which showed me how brittle the cold steel serrations are. You are wrong here.

I fixed the looseness on the police by Clamping it with a towel in a Pair of Vice-Grip Pliers. (it gets loose when I use It... and I use my knives hard, not just for opening Letters and then resharpening them on the Sharpmaker.)
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You imagined fixing a loose police model this way, just like you imagined FRN is softer. If you used it so hard, where are the battle scars. You posted the image of a new police that you had made an attempt at engraving. Anyway, if you wanted a hard use knife you should have tried a manix.

I wonder... Who out there has only ONE Spyderco and Uses it every day?
I used my Voyager every day for years, never needed to buy more.
But it seems to me that most Spydy Buyers have a huge collection.
If the knives are so good, then why do you need so many of them?
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You learned nothing hanging out at the spyderco forum, did you. Plenty of people have used spydercos hard, and for long periods of time. You were mostly talking to collectors there. You are either so dense you missed that in a couple months over there, or you are so desperate to win what you percieve is an argument that you come up with bizzarre statements like these. I believe it's the latter.

Lynn Thompson Doesn't NEED to make videos to sell his knives either, Is just an extra added perk. Cold Steel Sells themselves as well. I'm sure that Cold Steel makes just as much or more money as Spyderco per year... Its just that its a collection of 30 or so Hard core Collectors thats keeping Spyderco afloat by buying 2 copies of 10 different knife handle colors for each knife they make.

Cold Steel buyers only need that one Good Knife.
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Yep, more bizzarre, inane bullshit that isn't even worth responding to. This from a guy who has more cold steel products, and knows more about the company than you do. Maybe you should wear a helmet when you play with your plastic baseball bat kid. I really don't think you can afford to lose many more brain cells. Joe
 
Dear 3G:

I wasn't defending Tomahawk23 as much as pointing out hypocritical behavior.

And this thread started out with someone asking about Cold Steel knives. Somehow it has been hijacked to personally pick on one member, even going so far as to hyperlink to other forums. Wow you guys are real brave.

Why not get back to giving the original poster what he wanted, an honest opinion of Cold Steel knives?

Some of the responses here have been made by people who admit that they would never buy a Cold Steel knife. I don't know why they would bother with posting this, because they obviously have no experience using them at all.


I have Zytel Ti-Lite. It is a good very sturdy knife, but a bit too thick for my liking for carrying in a pocket.
I have a couple of fixed Cold Steel knives, Master Tanto, Carbon V Trailmaster, and the Recon Tanto. I personally prefer fixed blade knives, but they are impractical to carry on a daily basis. They are very rugged, I like the feel of the kraton handles, and they can cut and chop with the best of them. I think they are are a great value for the money. And like it or not, you can see what they are capable of in the Proof video series.

I ordered a pair of Scottish Dirk Spikes, and was kind of PO'd that they were made in China. Seems everything is made in China nowadays. They are well made, fit and finish are very nice, but I only use them as letter openers.
 
darthsoaker said:
Sal does not = Spyderco. Sal + Spyderco employees= Spyderco.

Spyderco has a factory in Colorado, that produces a variety of knives.
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And what about the Spydies that are made in Japan and China? Are they Syderco owned factories or are they making knives under contract, just like Cold Steel?

This is not a slam against Spyderco, but why would you think one company be wrong doing this, yet another doing it is okay?
 
This thread is about Cold Steel knives. Tomohawk, Cannon, John T Wylie, they all are human beings, and they all have opinions.
However, I don't want to see another thread closed because of personal attacks, skeletons in the closet, and whatever the other member did to your grandmas nephew's sisters boyfriends ex-girlfriend.
It's fine to compare, talk about Spyderco vs Cold Steel. It would be hypocrytical of me to say that it wasn't. But the fight is between Cold Steel and Spyderco, not Member X and Member Y. Keep this thread alive.

I'd say the consensus is that CS makes some very good products, some decent products, and some genuinly worthless products. They also make some very unique products, that might work very well, or be crap, but have very limited utility.
Buy a CS if you like, don't if you don't. Ultimately, it is your (OP) decision.
(and the final word on CS vs Spyderco- You're both idiots. We all know the highest quality products are Mtech

:D
 
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