Cold Steel's new slipjoints

Hashishiin

Hashishiin

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What does anyone think of these? First, I'm giving my impressions on why I am even looking at or thinking about these CS slips.

I have been wanting to buy a slipjoint with a more useful blade shape than the ones I currently have. (Case Toothpick - blah, and Rough Ryder Cotton Sampler, it's great, I love it, but that wide ricasso makes cutting certain things a weird thing - honestly, I like my Winchester slippie the best. Good walk & talk, sharp steel, compare it to a Chinese Schrade OT Workmate and an Imperial mini-stockman and it's way better).

Seeing as though GEC seems to run their whole company based on the "sprint run" ideal, I will just patiently wait and see if I can purchase a new, red micarta GEC one day. Until then, I have been eyeing carbon steel Rough Ryders, not through choice, it just seems like I could pay a lot more for a worse product from Case. The RR has good fit and finish, and the steel is okay for me. So, I wonder if a Cold Steel slipjoint might be the budget slipjoint I need until I can get a nice slipjoint. Say slipjoint one more time...

I like Cold Steel, and quite simply I have not given their true work knives enough of a chance. I love their XLs, the "tactical" stuff, just because it tickles something inside and makes me happy. But, for work knives I have always went with Spyderco, or Ontario, or anything. My GRIK, though, Tri-Ad, small 3" blade, is so, so good, though. I wonder then, how do they do with slipjoints? Good, bad, or just "Meh, it's like Kershaw made a slipjoint"?

Black, yellow, and blue bone trappers and mini-trappers in 8cr. No exp. with bone but I know it ain't blue and yellow, could one conceivably Rit-Dye that?

Experiences, thoughts, opinions?
 
Rough Ryder makes a really fine pocket knife. F&F is superb. I used their Moose pattern to dress a deer last year, when I forgot my dressing knife, and it turned out to the best voice I have EVER used for that purpose.

If CS can make slip joints of that quality but with better steel, say AUS10, at a reasonable price (costlier than RR, of course, as they're unreasonably cheap for what you get), they could be very popular. The design and size would have to be "proper" though, as in sleek and not overly large. For carbon, their SK5 should be fantastic in this use as its easy to keep sharp and is quite tough. But, so have no experience with CS SJ knives yet.
 
jdk1 said:
Rough Ryder makes a really fine pocket knife. F&F is superb. I used their Moose pattern to dress a deer last year, when I forgot my dressing knife, and it turned out to the best voice I have EVER used for that purpose.

If CS can make slip joints of that quality but with better steel, say AUS10, at a reasonable price (costlier than RR, of course, as they're unreasonably cheap for what you get), they could be very popular. The design and size would have to be "proper" though, as in sleek and not overly large. For carbon, their SK5 should be fantastic in this use as its easy to keep sharp and is quite tough. But, so have no experience with CS SJ knives yet.
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Yeah, the one Rought Ryder I have is great, definitely better F&F than a Case. I was really primed to love Case, too. A carbon steel one in a more useful blade shape will be just great. I don't know why they can do this, but Case cannot.

I would be all over these knives if they came in SK5 or something, though. I was hoping, hoping hoping aaaaaand, 8cr. I'm not going to pretend 8cr is the worst thing ever, but I want carbon steel. I could settle for AUS-something too, but really prefer carbon. Oh, and you talk about the design and shape here so I may as well post them up here to give people an example of what I'm talking about:


https://imgur.com/a/bizwWdZ
 
I have to agree with what has already been said, I don't see a reason to go with one of those slip joints over what is already offered by Rough Ryder at a lower cost. Plus with Rough Ryder you have a lot more choices in design and handle material.
 
In short: Cold Steel - Please keep your Taiwanese factories and tooling, please keep producing large knives, folders in AUS-8/10a, S35VN, hopefully some nice carbon steels like 3V as you did with the Natchez Bowie, or good SK5, too. You really wanna do something good, bring back XHP. I'd buy another Espada XL if it was back in XHP, and probably a normal knife, too.
 
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