Truthfully, has anyone on here ever had a cold steel knife fail???

I have owned and still own Cold Steel products since the early eighties. Mostly Carbon V fixed blades like the Trailmaster, SRK, Recon Tanto, ATC Chopper. They don't get alot of use individually but collectivley some. I try never to abuse them certainly not just to see what they will stand. My tomahawks have served me well as has the Spetnatz shovel. The carbon bladed twistmaster is one of my sharpest knives. So yeah, I have been satisfied with no failures.
 
I broke 2 pro throwers that broke in half while bouncing them off a tree stump.
 
have a cold steel recon and i have beat the crap out of it! no problems holds a decent edge very tough and easy to sharpen :)
 
db said:
Oddly my very first CS folders lock would fail pretty often. It was called the Ultra lock or something like that. It was a type of liner lock, and not the Benchmade style lock. That knife had one of the best blade grinds I have ever seen. I also have had 2 Voyagers, the old ones with the plastic pocket clips. One of them after a time the lock bar became loose but it never did fail. Lost both in the woods I think it was due to the pocket clips. They didn't hold very tight. Not sure I could call the old Voyager clips a flaw as I did like them but they didn't really work very well.
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Do you mean this one? It's the one that got me started into the knife world, love this knife!

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He was batoning with a folder, but its still a failure.

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I have a SK-5 Trailmaster that recently has started to make a weird noise when I chop with it. I assume something in the handle is broken. I guess I should send it back to CS but right now I dont have the dough to spare for shipping it all the way to the US.
 
Buffalohump said:
I have a SK-5 Trailmaster that recently has started to make a weird noise when I chop with it. I assume something in the handle is broken. I guess I should send it back to CS but right now I dont have the dough to spare for shipping it all the way to the US.
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Check the hand guard to see if it's loose or will move.
 
My uncles friends neighbors daughter is married to a guy that lives next door to a Marine that served in Iraq that had a friend in the Army from California that knew a hunting guide that heard from another hunting guide that one of his clients had a co-worker that said that his brother-in-laws friend chipped a Cold Steel blade while hammering it through a pipe like on one of those internet test videos.

I have no reason to question this very credible claim so I wouldn't buy or keep any Cold Steel products! (besides my SRK, Recon Scout, Gurkha Kukri, American Lawman, Bushman, Samburu Spear and Trailmaster... But thats it!)
 
I've beaten the hell outta my American Lawman and it's never failed me. I've heavily used my new Hold Out II and it's still solid. Both knives have zero play in them and I've only tightened up the AL once. Geez, my Emerson CQC14 failed after only a month or two, and even after repeated "fixes" by the company. So it's not always how much you pay for a knife..... FWIW, I just lost my Hold Out II. I've searched everywhere except where it is. :( I now have the smaller Hold Out III coming my way. No gimmicks with the American Lawman or the Hold Out knives. They work and are solid.
 
Splat said:
I've beaten the hell outta my American Lawman and it's never failed me. I've heavily used my new Hold Out II and it's still solid. Both knives have zero play in them and I've only tightened up the AL once. Geez, my Emerson CQC14 failed after only a month or two, and even after repeated "fixes" by the company. So it's not always how much you pay for a knife..... FWIW, I just lost my Hold Out II. I've searched everywhere except where it is. :( I now have the smaller Hold Out III coming my way. No gimmicks with the American Lawman or the Hold Out knives. They work and are solid.
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It was the Lawman that woke me up to all the Triad lock brings to the table. Once I saw it, tested it and used it I knew then and there we had something really great here! I ordered my Demko custom shortly after that first Lawman was purchased and just because I knew the second I awakened that this was the lock I'd been waiting for my whole life! Glad I lived long enough to enjoy it! :thumbup:

This morning I was trying to push a long wide log into the fire box and it wouldn't fit. I split that log with the Rajah 1 using another log to force it through the thing by batoning it and once again it just proves over and over what an awesome design it is. You gotta love it when you can confidently pull out a folding knife to do something like that! Awesome man! Two thumbs up to Andy Demko! :thumbup::thumbup:

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I think they're great! I've owned and heavily used/abused several for many years now without any problems.
 
powernoodle said:
He was batoning with a folder, but its still a failure.

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This video makes me want to puke, I see nutinfancy repeatedly put a lot of lateral stress on the blade, to the point of it bending while he's yanking it sideways through dried wood.

I've beat the piss out of my pocket bushman and all I did was bend the crap out of the handle to the point where it had a good half inch of radial blade play... I'm sure if I take knives and cross baton in some dried out wood and repeatedly apply lateral force to the blade like that I'd see some failures as well.
 
shortwinger said:
My uncles friends neighbors daughter is married to a guy that lives next door to a Marine that served in Iraq that had a friend in the Army from California that knew a hunting guide that heard from another hunting guide that one of his clients had a co-worker that said that his brother-in-laws friend chipped a Cold Steel blade while hammering it through a pipe like on one of those internet test videos.

I have no reason to question this very credible claim so I wouldn't buy or keep any Cold Steel products! (besides my SRK, Recon Scout, Gurkha Kukri, American Lawman, Bushman, Samburu Spear and Trailmaster... But thats it!)
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Ain't it the truth - LOL!
 
The oldest folder I have is a Cold Steel small Clipmate from the late 80's. Don't know what the steel is, mine is their San Mai blade. There is no blade play, the knife still gets as sharp as I want to take time to make it, and the lock is as solid today as it was when I brought it home from the store. No chips or rolls on the edge after years of warehouse use (before she "retired" in favor of a VG10 D4). All I've ever had to do was to glue the rubber scale back to the liner on one side.
 
I haven't used Cold Steel folders half as long as some of the other fellas in here, but I have used them quite hard and never had a single one fail. Cold Steel gets a bad rep for their aggressive marketing, but they have top notch engineering and quality control.

My very first knife, a 2008 Voyager in satin combo, is still going strong.
 
I've been using there stuff since the late 80's also. Carried one of their tanto folders when I was in 10th MTN. It got a lot of hard use and is still good to go. I have never had any of their stuff break on me and I have a lot of it.
 
I can't recall ever having a knife from any maker 'fail'. I broke the tip off of an inexpensive Buck fixed blade while I was using it as a garden tool, but I'm pretty sure prying rocks out of the ground isn't what knives are supposed to be used for. I loaned my Kershaw DWO to an idiot and it came back missing the tip, but again who knows what sort of abuse it received?
 
shortwinger said:
my uncles friends neighbors daughter is married to a guy that lives next door to a marine that served in iraq that had a friend in the army from california that knew a hunting guide that heard from another hunting guide that one of his clients had a co-worker that said that his brother-in-laws friend chipped a cold steel blade while hammering it through a pipe like on one of those internet test videos.

I have no reason to question this very credible claim so i wouldn't buy or keep any cold steel products! (besides my srk, recon scout, gurkha kukri, american lawman, bushman, samburu spear and trailmaster... But thats it!)
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lol!!
 
I will not buy cold steel products again. I have the ti lite 4", pos does not even deploy anymore. Used as a edc blade and the smoothness is not there anymore when deployed.
 
I bought the original Tanto from Cold Steel directly from the Great Western Gun show many years ago. I never used it and thought it was great. Years later I gave it to my nephew who had lusted after it for years. We went camping and he was excited to put it through its paces. He simply starting knocking some small 1/2" branchs off log for the fire and the Tanto snapped right at the guard where they had a 90* shoulder.

When he called Cold Steel to tell them they said "Oh Well to bad it is not covered" He was crushed that Cold Steel did not even want to see the blade nor even consider looking at it.

I will never buy a Cold Steel product ever again just for their lack of even checking out their own work snapping in half....they did not care.
 
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