Post Mortem Reflections: CS dead?

Vlade said:
Honestly maybe I'm different but when I look at my cold steel knives it don't feel the same. I don't enjoy them the way I used to. It's hard for me to describe.
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I totally understand and agree with you! It just ain't the same.

It must be for all the reasons that we've talked about. The purchase by a terrible corporate glutton GSM; the use of low end 4034 stainless steel, promoted as the greatest steel innovation of all time; the lack of any exciting new knives; the jacking up of prices to ridiculous levels; the lack of customer service; the terrible new warranty; Lynn Thompson becoming basically a "consultant" to the new ownership, which obviously cares about nothing except how to suck as much blood out its customers as it can before somebody drives a stake through its heart.
 
Probably going to get a Mayhem at some point if the street prices reach a reasonable level.
 
Where were they sitting? I see no Cold Steel advertising behind it. I saw a shorter video with the pegboard rack and he was standing in front of it pulling knives off where knives were hanging from ,like on top of the stacks of knives on the pegboard...
 
I just can't imagine buying a self assisted knife with no service no parts and no warranty. I'm not interested in anything that they're selling.
 
My thought; I bought an original tanto for $100 the first year out, used it carried it. These are now collectors. I am a user not collector. The current line, 3V is EXCELLENT for use. NO WAY am I paying the prices for 3V Cold Steel to use and abuse. There are other as durable and better priced options. Now for collectors, how many DECADES down the road will a Cold Steel Natchez bowie in #V be a real valued collector piece??? Not in my lifetime for sure. I still use and EDC Voyagers and AD-10, with the huge numbers for sale and produced will they ever be collectors?? doubtful It also seems the plastic bats, clubs, canes are being heavily mass produced and prices are really affordable. The old saying All Good Things Come To An End
 
gatorsnake said:
My thought; I bought an original tanto for $100 the first year out, used it carried it. These are now collectors. I am a user not collector. The current line, 3V is EXCELLENT for use. NO WAY am I paying the prices for 3V Cold Steel to use and abuse. There are other as durable and better priced options. Now for collectors, how many DECADES down the road will a Cold Steel Natchez bowie in #V be a real valued collector piece??? Not in my lifetime for sure. I still use and EDC Voyagers and AD-10, with the huge numbers for sale and produced will they ever be collectors?? doubtful It also seems the plastic bats, clubs, canes are being heavily mass produced and prices are really affordable. The old saying All Good Things Come To An End
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Yeah I'm the same way I use my knives on a regular basis. Unfortunately for me it destroyed their Collective value. But I bought them to use and that's what I'll do. Time to move on you got to live with the living not with the Dead
 
goldie said:
Holy crap,boy are we disgusted, this is what its become, we are on the cold steel forums recommending other brands 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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I got a condor hog sticker in 420hc. I don't like it and it's got a convexedge which is almost impossible to resharpen. Unless I take it to the machine shop and have them put a regular Edge on it. I can't say for their smaller knives though. But Condor does make good stuff
 
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