Odd voyager

[rycen]

No

 

[Sir Drop-em Flat]

Oh that was a copy from the catalog my bad

 

[Sir Drop-em Flat]

Simple. Email Demko, he has a website. I am curious, if you look at the spine of the blade, you will see a variation in the color of the steel. It will be faint, and run the length of the blade. This will let you know it is a San Mai blade.

There is a slightly darker line down the center of the spine if that is what you mean

 

[Your Name Goes Here]

There is a slightly darker line down the center of the spine if that is what you mean

That is what I mean. A lot of fake San Mai knives, well, look fake just by looking at them (if you have seen real San Mai blades to compare them to). Also, a way to tell is from looking at the spine, you can see the layers of steel used to create the blade.

 

[The Whip]

S Sir Drop-em Flat , you've presented a very interesting piece! It's entirely unlike any Voyager I've seen. Your Name and jlauffer already have mentioned some unique features, but I'll summarize and add to the list:

1) Japan-made, VG-1 San Mai III Medium Vaquero blade, which I don't believe was ever offered in production.

2) Pre-2010 blade stamping/labeling consistent with Japan-manufactured blades.

3) Thumb studs consistent with Japanese Cold Steel blades.

4) Handle style from the 2010 switchover, but by then the blades were made in Taiwan.

5) Handle is the Tri-Ad styling, but the lock is not a Tri-Ad because it has no stop pin (or else it is a Tri-Ad but has a standard screw mount in place of the stop pin, as shown in the early Medium Vaquero stock photos).

6) Demko-style pivot pin with Cold Steel labeling. I've never seen that before.


In addition to the 2010 catalog copy rycen shared, we know from a post made long ago by the old Cold Steel moderator that during the transition from the original Voyagers to the Tri-Ad Voyagers Cold Steel intended to offer the Tri-Ad Voyagers in San Mai III. But they ran into issues with production capacity from Japan and couldn't make it work. Yet they must have made at least some Japanese prototype models, because they created stock photos of two never-produced, San Mai Tri-Ad Gunsite Voyagers.

Based on your knife's history, I think you've got either one of those Japanese transition prototypes that never went into production, or else a true one-off made out of parts by the employee who gave it to your friend. From everything I see in the knife's construction, I'm guessing it's a transition prototype.


-Steve

 

[Corn Knife]

Pretty sure that is just a little bit of trash, you can send it to me and I'll take care of it for you All joking aside, that's a nice looking specimen you have there!

 

[Juan Lopez]

I recently acquired a Cold Steel Voyager from a friend who knows someone that works at Cold steel but I can't find any images that look like it when looking up it's specifications, I'm wondering why it is different than the others.

I wanna be friend of your friend.

 

[Chris_Texas]

Looks real to me and I want it!