Awesome. Thanks a bunch for confirming this! I'm just going to assume that the cutouts were introduced after they got rid of the taperTapered tang looks as full as can be. Be careful taking off your scales as only one side can turn and can easily result in stripped bolts. View attachment 2755002
Whatever man. First you give wrong information stating the tang has not changed whether it was skeletonized or not since its creation. Then when shown evidence of contrary you became confrontational, mocking me for "taking Joe-X's advice". I only mentioned him because I came upon his 2 destruction videos when watching WCT review videos and they revealed a structural change in tang design under the scales of the post GSM models which I felt contradicted Cold Steel's website description of the item. I already mentioned in a previous post that I have zero interest in buying the Italian WCT if it had a cutout tang. I'm not here to debate the durability of a cutout tang vs solid tang. I don't care about Joe-X and his methods. His 2 videos simply provided me with new information regarding the tang design of the post-GSM variants.okay when you get yours if it has the weak tang as ya call it. hang a car from it and let's see......
Cold Steel's website still describes the current WCT models having "full tang". My interpretation of "full tang" had always been a solid full tang. Some people may use "full tang" to describe any tang that runs full width of the the handle extending all the way to the end of the handle thus skeletonized tangs would still qualify as "full tang". Since I could not rely on Cold Steel's description of the Italian made WCT, I came on here to see if any forum members on here owned the Italian made versions and could confirm the tang design by checking under the scales (thank you again,

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