Got this email from CS a while ago

Charlie Mike

Charlie Mike

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Re: mods to Spartan

Thank you for your suggestion.* I have passed this email on to our R&D department.*
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Our plate is very full for new products coming up, but they do look at all suggestions.** If it is an item that will become part of our line, R&D will release that information when it is ready for production.
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Again, thanks for your suggestion and your enthusiasm for Cold Steel.
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Anthony Russell

Customer Service

Cold Steel, Inc.
 
I'd do the job for free.
 
They should make a spartan with a variety of blade styles like the recon 1. Tanto's,clip points, and kopis.
 
I could baton the piss and everything else out of this knife and then make lunch with it. Bet it would be a good soldier's knife. Rock ON.
 
I'd like to see a drop point version with a long as possible straight blade edge like a Lone Wolf T3 and maybe some stippling on the handle, maybe.
 
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crunky said:
Just curious, what suggestions did you make to them, CM?
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Tanto regrind by TheCarbideRat. All contact surfaces - blade/pivot/liners are polished. Blade is polished. Screws are spun polished. Custom fit grip job. Pocket clip stripped and polished. Sap lanyard. Choil cut.
 
A drop point etc. would be more popular and more likely to be adopted by CS if they did really think about going for it and I bet it would sell. Don't sell short get a nut from them. ;)

If I was a buyer i would get both tanto and drop point [and G10 scales of course ;)]
 
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And by the way feel free to use the pics I sent you of your knife [and the ones of my Spartan tanto].
Bear in mind mine @3.6" blade length is street legal in many more states than yours.

and btw :p, LOL.
 
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Yuppie? MMA fighter? Redneck? Student? Housewife? Banker? SEAL team member? Inquiring minds want to know but since there is nothing but silence i guess you are NOT MUCH.

EDIT: by way of explanation: if one introduces a word like ninja into the discussion it can give some random guest from the web the wrong impression, making things worse for knife owners and potentially feeding into anti-knife laws. Sure, it's fun to talk it up about ninjas and sentry de-animation but can we do it and make these references in the non-guest sub-forums only?

I talked about this possibly being a soldier's knife, and it could really give Benchmade / Emerson / Strider a run for their money BUT and i extrapolate that 99% of our servicemen will tell you the same thing - they use their blades virtually only as tools, so no, I was not introducing a weapon aspect. Leave the weapon to the weapon forum, wherever that may be.
 
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that is very very nice, did you change out the pocket clip on that spartan mod? my spartans clip is just blank / no cold steel
 
I think he is just a weak( but more expensive) folder owner and it get's catty about the strength of the spartan. Real female like if you ask me.
 
Hmm, I must be missing something. What's wrong with ninjas? Mall ninjas, sure, I can see that being derogatory. Ninjas though, are awesome. Just ask Ryu Hayabusa, the World's Greatest Super Ninja. On a slightly more serious note, my nickname is almost always Ninja <insert my actual name here>, and I'm pretty sure it's meant to be complimentary. I don't know if they'd go for that mod to the Spartan. The whole reason the blade is shaped like that is so that it can be marketed AS a spartan, viz 300, I'd bet, and another Tanto with a funky handle just strikes me as...boring. Too boring for Cold Steel. I could totally be wrong though.
 
badJuJoo said:
that is very very nice, did you change out the pocket clip on that spartan mod? my spartans clip is just blank / no cold steel
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I got some spare clips from MORIMOTOM. I don't know which model they came from.
 
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