Please fix your blade grind Cold Steel

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If anything, Cold Steel is overly picky with their QC in my experience. I’ve had a few “seconds” I couldn’t find a thing wrong with.

I’ve never had one with a bad grind. Maybe a hair off here and there, but nowhere near what I would call “bad”. Most CS knives I’ve had have been nearly perfect out of the box, and every one had good a good grind and a damn sharp edge.

Something’s fishy.
 
Valvofolife said:
Not fishy at all. I am not going to spend any more of my time and effort helping CS to try and save face. They have mud on it and they should stay dirty. I think that buyers should beware.
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I don't see how posting pics of a badly made knife would help them "save face", but it would certainly help the rest of us make more informed knife buying decisions. That's hardly a waste of time.
 
AntDog said:
Pics or it didn’t happen.
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When I have time to play around I’ll find my angle cube, get my micrometer set out and take lots of pictures. I was a quality engineer for years and know how to take measurements. There are those nonetheless that will still doubt the validity of my claim and stand behind Cold Steel to death. Others in knife forums may find my data very helpful in their knife selections.

I’ll finish sharpening back to 17 degrees on each side perpendicular to the spine. Then I’ll use my AD10 lopsided blade with 7/16” edge bevel on one side and 1/8” on the other as a dedicated garden knife. Digging in dirt and prying rocks out of the ground may work out fine with such a beefy handle. Every time I jab the blade in the ground I will think Cold Steel and there inability to control the quality of their knife grinds.
 
hexenjager said:
I don't see how posting pics of a badly made knife would help them "save face", but it would certainly help the rest of us make more informed knife buying decisions. That's hardly a waste of time.
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Your right. I woke up this morning still fuming over this issue. I owe it to other knife users to provide hard data. Die hard CS fans can then enjoy making fun of new account posters again. More of my data will hopefully follow…
 
Valvofolife said:
Your right. I woke up this morning still fuming over this issue. I owe it to other knife users to provide hard data. Die hard CS fans can then enjoy making fun of new account posters again. More of my data will hopefully follow…
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You’re right. 😁
 
Valvofolife said:
Zombie thread? Why would the thread still exist if it wasn’t valid.
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You resurrected a thread from 6 yrs ago, hence the zombie thread. I have no apple snail in this goldfish aquarium, but that is what “zombie thread” is implying.

I don’t have any Cold Steel knives, but if I owned one with a bad bevel grind, why not grind it til ya find it even? The uneven bevel I mean.
 
The whole thingsl sounds off. I'm sure if you got in touch with Cold Steel they would be interested to know where/who sold it, if it is a 2nd being sold as a full price knife etc. Just because you've had two that apparently have poor primary grinds seems strange and then unreasonable that you wouldn't check if have had it once before.
Unless you bought both at the same time and both had bad grinds. Even then, why not get in touch with Cold Steel.
It just seems odd that you seem more interested in convincing people not to buy Cold Steel products than getting to the bottom of the issue.
 
It is probably a waste of time typing this since you don't seem to be fooling anyone, but as a knifemaker I thought the geometric implications of your claim were interesting.
Sure enough, given the basic parameters of blade height and thickness, even the most extreme skewing of the primary bevels (a chisel grind), would require far less mismatch of the secondary bevel angles to compensate.
 
Andy the Aussie said:
.................yes that will teach them !!!!!
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Or maybe I will do a real life test video by dropping it point down onto my back patio stones, dragging it behind my truck for a few miles and then running it through the garbage disposal.

… It would make me more mad if it held up.
 
Valvofolife said:
Or maybe I will do a real life test video by dropping it point down onto my back patio stones, dragging it behind my truck for a few miles and then running it through the garbage disposal.

… It would make me more mad if it held up.
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.....as long as it makes YOU feel better and diminishes the grief you are feeling I guess.
 
I'm just marking this spot to prove I was here when we all revisit in the future.
 
AntDog said:
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Polished my edge a bit more with my Venev 800 diamond stone and Spyderco ceramic stone and I love my AD10! Now I wish I hadn’t taken off so much steel with my Wicked Edge. Blade is smaller.


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Well whaddaya know…. Blade grind looks symmetrical in those pics.

I think you might have “blade grind” confused with “edge grind”.

Anyhow, I’m glad you like your knife now and don’t want to turn it into a garden trowel. Doesn’t look like you took off too much steel at all. That blade has plenty to spare.
 
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