New video from cold steel

dirc said:
why cs hawks?... honestly curious, seem really expensive, and... on top of that, old handaxe heads with proper ash/hickory/oak handles seem better in every way (vibration/weight/feel)

maybe I'm just missing the allure
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They cost less than $50 a piece. Most are in the sub $30 range and at my door within a few days. A couple of hours of sanding, staining, and stripping, and I have a very affordable thrower that looks a feels a lot better in hand.

Off the top of my head I currently have 2 trail hawks, 2 rifleman hawks, my daughters norse, a pipe hawk, a frontier, a diamond head Spontoon, and a tear drop Spontoon. None of them cost me more $35 and are solid users with solid (although ill-fitting without work) handles made out of American hickory. This isn't even counting the other axe-like offering that I have like the viking battle axe, two handed axe, hand axe, axe gang, etc.

Old heads and refurbished jobs are fun, but the CS fill of niche of less than $50 for solid users.

That said, a lot of their current offering is a hard pass. This last video has all of the bravado of an earlier CS with none of the earnest heart. While I would say that previous CS vids have relied on puffery, this one smacks of a bit of hoodwinkery.

The funny thing is that this particular knife was on my short list before the eye rolling presentation of a guy calling himself "stick man" because he carries a stick and also props it in the shots before cutting away to a pretty girl cutting cardboard tubes before going into the virtues of deanimation of said knife. At least with LT I knew what I was getting: a slightly overweight guy enjoying the hell out of life as he beat the hell out of a few knives in hopes to sell more.

In short: more mutilated pig carcasses and less generic eye candy, please.
 
What's not like about a hot babe performing rope cutting ? :p

However , I do miss the old CS crew and the older style, actual proof videos .

But those days are gone . :(
 
apologies, I didn't realize they were reasonably priced & had wood hafts... that makes sense then

I was thinking of those $200+ types with full steel haft, somehow confused the cs hawks with the rmj brand or similar
 
I almost got my girlfriend the serrated version of that Marauder to keep in the car, but went with a Kobun instead. Starting to have regrets.
 
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