Striders can slice and dice and cut Cold Steel's in half!
One Strider owner's experience...
"My D9 is a big 'ol chunk of steel that works great for cutting padlocks, chainlink fence, and on one occasion a Cold Steel Recon Tanto (in half)"
Striders are as

as can be.
NO one should expect a Strider to be a Sebenza, in terms of fit and finish. That's kind of stupid. When was the last time a tank had the fit and finish of a BMW? Mercedes?
Strider Knives build war knives. Not your Sunday going to meeting knife. They are overbuilt, hardcore knives! I think the quality is amazingly good though.
This is what Duane Dwyer said once (co-founder and co-owner of Strider Knives)....
"The Military Folder's (SMF) pivot pin is the largest in the industry. It's custom made of hardened 400 series steel, and the the pivot pin is where folders fail when they have too much flex in them. We don't want this knife to move too easily, so we made it
strong enough to be the closest folder on the market to a fixed blade knife when in the open position. When you're out there in a true tactical situation, the one thing you give up is the luxury of redundancy, so we intentionally built the Military Folder to be substantial."