CS Safe Keepers? When were they made?

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Hey guys, just wondering if ya'll could help me out. When did the CS Safe Keepers (push knives) first come out? I saw one in Platoon, and that movie is set in 1968... I just have this gut feeling that those knives weren't available then... could be wrong though...

-Chang the Asian Janitorial Apparatus
 
I don't know the answer to the question, but I do like the Safekeeper 1 that I just got yesterday. They may not have made it back then, but they arn't making the SK1 anymore either. It seems to have been discontinued, and few places still have them now.
 
Cold Steel wasn't around in 1968, but pushknives are as old as most any other knife. Push knives like Cold Steel's were popular 150 years ago, but much larger push daggers can be found in India that go back hundreds of years, but these you don't hold a little T shaped handle in your palm. They have big recurved blades and you hold a round handle that has guards that extend down the top and bottom of your forearms. It is a nasty push dagger, but so is any push dagger really. I'm not sure how old the CS style push dagger is, but it is at least 150 years old.

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I bought my CS around 1988 to 1990. I don't think they were called Safekeepers then, I think they were called Defenders.

Frank
 
Cold Steel originally made two versions of the push dagger. One was a single edge with a slot cut in the blade. The original name of this model was the Urban Skinner. They also made a double edge version like the one in Platoon that originally had a much more ominous name then Defender or SafeKeeper but I can't remember what it was but in typical early CS fashion it was completely un P.C. IIRC they debuted in the mid 80's.

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Originally posted by phantom4:
Cold Steel originally made two versions of the push dagger. One was a single edge with a slot cut in the blade. The original name of this model was the Urban Skinner.

I'd have thought it was "Urban Pal", was that something else, or am I completely misremembering?

After that, the smaller one was called Defender II and the larger one Defender or perhaps Defender I. (Now the numbering is the other way round, isn't it?)


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Cool, thanks for the information.

-Chang the Asian Janitorial Apparatus
 
This info is probably useless...but, according to my source push knives first became popular during the 1849 gold rush in California. Much for the same reasons as the derringer...small and deadly.

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The Cold Steel Defender 1 was also called:
"The TERMINATOR"

It had a 3 3/4" blade and a blk. leather sheath with a belt clip.

I bought one after I saw Platoon (when I was about 15) and carried it all through highschool. It was an awesome knife at the time (and still is!).

The Urban Pal was a small (about 2" chisel ground blade) pushknife with a brn. leather keychain sheath.

The Safekeepers are better knives (IMO) in that they have more comfortable handles and IWB kydex sheaths.

There was also a special version of a Safekeeper made for the Bruce Willis flick "Color of Night". It had a 6" blade!

Hope this also helps.
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