CS Recon Scout Fails Miserably

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Though CS has found a way over the years to turn me right off their products, I am glad to see that they took care of this situation in a real stand up manner. Good on ya, CS.
 
Cliff,

I understand Gyorgy's comment as the following: a very low temperature compromise the toughness of the carbon steel blade (this is just a physics). He does not say that the blade should always break.

In the meantime there is a comment by VG10 (Peter, the Fallkniven's owner) at the Fallkniven forum (Knifeforums):

Regarding heavy duty tasks in the wintertime, I'm not surprised to see the Cold Steel knife into pieces. The same has happened to my solid VG10 knives. Not many but still a few.
Only when we switched to laminate VG10, we solved this problem - so far, no laminate VG10 knife has come back to us in pieces.

That is what I call a quality survival approach to knives.

Peter
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It seems, this tread will never die.


Franco
 
Franco G said:
a very low temperature compromise the toughness of the carbon steel blade (this is just a physics). He does not say that the blade should always break.
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Almost everything will compromise the toughness of a carbon steel blade, any surface rust, any scratches on the flats, etc. . the steel should be tough enough so that the functional toughness is enough to handle all of this.

-Cliff
 
Hello Cliff, Hope your doing good. As they say;

Different Strokes for Different Folks,
As for Me and My Folks, We Will Take A GOOD Carbon Steel. :D :D
 
Always Ray, life is good. It is January and it is still not dipping under -10 frequently. I think I may go for a swim next week. Hope you can say the same.

-Cliff
 
At least you probably have a good knife that you can baton through the ice to make your swimming hole. It will be the middle of February before you know it and then you won't have to do any batoning. :D
 
Cliff Stamp said:
Always Ray, life is good. It is January
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Sheesh, are you that far behind the times up in Newfoundland? In the rest of the world it's Feb. 11th. I suppose the cold weather makes your clocks run slow.... :cool:
 
It is all relative, see that is why I teach physics not math.

Yeah Ray that is why you always go prepared, carry a good knife and a stout stick.

You can then cut a few fig leaves if you forget your trunks.

-Cliff
 
Any possibility this is the result of chinese supplied steel? They're increasingly coming to dominate steel consumption, as well as steel production...and there's no way it's the quality of western stuff...at least for now.
 
Hello-

That sound really weird. Have a Trailmaster that I have tried to destroy and can't. I have used the knife in the manner shown in the picture with no problems under the same cold conditions. Sounds like you just got a bad one. I also have a Recon Scout that was a 2nd. I haven't had a chance to play with it in the cold. I bring a back up just in case...lol.

streetmaster
 
streetmaster, welcome to Bladeforums.

Did you notice the dates on this thread are over a year old -- and with over 500 posts. When you resurrect something like that, you get people reading it and responding as if it's new and the discussion is still live.

Better next time to just start your own, maybe with a link to the older thread.
 
Not that this matters to me, a city boy. If I ever get caught out for an extended period in cold weather, I'll try to set the rubber grips on fire with a match!
 
I was wondering where your friend bought this. Cold Steel website says that there are alot of counterfeits that are not manufacture by cold steel.
 
odobo said:
I was wondering where your friend bought this. Cold Steel website says that there are alot of counterfeits that are not manufacture by cold steel.
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welcome to the forums, this is a very old thread, and that was a real CS knife, ...read on :D
 
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