Most popular Cold Steel Knives?

kaosu04 said:
If you want a balisong, go with the benchmade bm42. When it comes to cold steel, pretty much everything over $70 is overpriced. Especially the swords.
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Here here. I handled an arcangle bali in SF and was horrified. The handles were so loose, and it felt so light. No real meat to it. And yeah, I could never pay full price for one of their (Japanese) swords. My katana was less than half price when I bought it.
About their O-Tanto from their new sword series, I can do with out it. That thing is just a little too large.
I'm thinking I may pick up a Grosse Messer some time soon.
-KC
 
I'm not sure which knife sells the most at this time, that would probably change from year to year, but IMO the knife that made Cold Steel and could be considered a symbol for the company is the original Tanto. It's gone through some changes but it has been around since the early 1980s. It is the knife I think of when I hear "Cold Steel."
 
the recont tanto is solid. ti-lite is solid.

as for the arc-angel, I actually like it a lot. perhaps you got a bad model. mine flips very well and is tight with minimal jiggle and very smooth. Flips almost identical to a BM42. it is a bit lighter, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

my only gripe about the arc-angel is that it's in carbonV.
 
I would disagree. Cold steel is very commercialized, but they do make good knives. The Ti-Lite. the Voyagers and Vaqueros, which you cannot deny are good knives, and excellent value (find me another 6" Folder in AUS-8 or better for $60). The recon tanto. The pendelton hunters and master hunter. And the trail master.

Sure they make crappy knives, but they have good knives as well. Part of the reason Cold steel has such crappy knives is they tend to be more radical in design than other companies, for example Benchmade. Benchmade sticks to the same formula; small differences in handle or blade shape, but for the most part the same knife. Cold steel's designs are vary greatly, which makes it basically hit or miss. They do miss more often than they hit, but you have to admire their willingness to experiment, AND the ones that hit are indeed excellent knives.

And I have found no problem with cold steel's warranty. They have replaced my ti-lite 3 times now; first time i got pissed and threw it in poor form and the tip broke off. Second time i accidently dropped it down the steps and tip broke off again. Third time my idiot friend used it as a prybar and broke it. Each time I sent it back they sent me a new one within a week.

You can't just brand the entire company as crappy.
 
Laceration said:
I think Lynn Thompson must have kicked his ass. Why else would he be so venomously angry towards him? I bought a CS Voyager and I was very pleased with it. For some reason Cold Steel gets bashed for having an aggressive marketing campaign. The prices in their catalog are outrageous but I wouldn't pay list price for BM or Spyderco's stuff either.
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Fo Shizzle.
 
..and I take no offense and I stand by my views.CS stuff(of which I own several can be quite good-esp.in certain older production runs)In fact my TM(circa 2001-Carbon V-excellent mirror polished,near perfect grind lines will warrant a rehandling<walnut/maple> and a new "Randall-type" brass hand guard)Some of the newer ones I don't like(esp.420J steel,new Carbon -V TM's are blackened etc.) and I stand by my opinions that in many designs(UWK,SRK,ODA<my fave>are good in CarbonV and can stand to be rehandled/reguarded.Never saw infamous CS videos or met Lynn Thompson and I'm certainly no parrot or knife newbie(except in # of postings )Also because of Bladeforums I DID learn something new about CS and other cool knife stuff-so what's the problem?? :cool: :cool: :cool:
 
acolonelofcorn said:
My opinions on COLD STEEL were formed long before I ever got online, much less on this forum.
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So which Cold Steel knives have you actually handled and used?
 
OK guys that is enough. The kind of language and personal attacks in this thread is not cool here.


Think about it. A member came in and asked a legit question and this thread has deterioriated into something that belongs in W&C.

If you have a legit answer or something to add to the actual discussion of this thread by all means post. Otherwise it would be wise to head off to another area and play.
 
IMO, the company's reputation doesnt mean anything. If I saw a great knife with a cheap price made by Dell, should this stop me from buying it? Who cares what company the knife is made by? If you want a knife for use, get one that will do the job. If you want to collect a knife for looks, then find one that looks good to you. If a few tiny words on the blade of your knife makes you think less of it, then you should probably find another hobby.
 
Ugh. Well frost cutlery is an exception. They dont make knives. They're just randomly generated piles of junk that happen to resemble knives once in a while. Frost Cutlery is like the Dell of the blade world.
 
Cold Steel has some good knives. Others are not, but most are OK or better than OK. You have to do a little cherry picking with them and make sure you order through an outfit with a good warranty.

IMHO Cold Steel was better in the past when they were a smaller operation.

These things said, Cold Steel does have very servicable stuff and they are also willing to innovate. I have never been less than satisfied with anything from them, except for a Recon Scout that had an assymetrical tip. That was promptly replaced under their warranty.

By the way the flame war on the other thread about Cold Steel was very funny.
 
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