Why was this knife discontinued? (Cold Steel Triple Action)

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So as the title says, I found a video of this on youtube not long ago and I am curious how come it's discontinued? Thanks in advance.
 
Nobody outside the company can say for sure. Most likely sales weren't justifying production cost, simple as that.
 
It's an interesting knife, and fun to play with once you get the hang of it...two big problems though :(. Biggest one, SOFT aluminum handles...like crazy, scratch if you breath on them soft. The one advantage to that leads to the second problem... getting the hang of it. In the time it takes to learn smooth one handed opening and closing you WILL ding the heck out of the handles, but your edge will be mostly ok ;).

That being said, I've had both and wouldn't part with the remaining double edge:p;).

~Chip
 
Some smaller dealers still have it available and I’m pretty sure I saw it available from the CS store.

No idea why they chopped it though.
I like CS stuff and balisongs but this didn’t appeal to me much.
 
ScooterG said:
It was too tactical and the company didn’t want to tarnish their reputation.
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I regret that I have but one like to give to this comment. Solid work, sir, solid work indeed. People are usually lying when they type lol, but I laughed out loud when I read this.
 
NewUser93 said:
So as the title says, I found a video of this on youtube not long ago and I am curious how come it's discontinued? Thanks in advance.
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I had one of these when I was younger. It was the tanto version. If I remember correctly I loaned it to a friend who promptly lost it. (Don’t lend knives to friends, there is no way they will care for your knife as you do)

I have a very similar but smaller knife called the Fred Perrin Le Trifolder. The issue with it is that the edge is on the opposite side if the blade as the Cold Steel example. This means if you don’t grip the knife tightly while you cut the blade has a tendency to want to push the knife open.

Edge is to the left in this pic.
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So you can see that unless you tightly hold down the third section there is nothing preventing the blade from folding back. (Edge is to the left, imagine putting pressure on it)
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I have heard these knives called “Jacobs Ladder” knives. They are overall fun to play with but imho mostly a toy. Unlike a balisong which is a great practical design.
 
Lapedog said:
I had one of these when I was younger. It was the tanto version. If I remember correctly I loaned it to a friend who promptly lost it. (Don’t lend knives to friends, there is no way they will care for your knife as you do)

I have a very similar but smaller knife called the Fred Perrin Le Trifolder. The issue with it is that the edge is on the opposite side if the blade as the Cold Steel example. This means if you don’t grip the knife tightly while you cut the blade has a tendency to want to push the knife open.

Edge is to the left in this pic.
h26EsRg.jpg

So you can see that unless you tightly hold down the third section there is nothing preventing the blade from folding back. (Edge is to the left, imagine putting pressure on it)
dIiOXra.jpg


I have heard these knives called “Jacobs Ladder” knives. They are overall fun to play with but imho mostly a toy. Unlike a balisong which is a great practical design.
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Yes!! I have that Perrin, great little knife, fun to play with too. I've also played with the Tanto Triple Action, I quite enjoyed it. People are quite right about the handles being easily scratched...

Not attempting to hijack the thread, but I'm curious if anyone would be interested in a more modern iteration of Jacobs Ladder type designs with G10 handles? I have been looking around, but I'm not finding much currently available.

To the OP, I'm fairly certain the Triple Action was discontinued to make room for new products / lack of sales to justify continuing making it.
 
The_Iron_Joe said:
Yes!! I have that Perrin, great little knife, fun to play with too. I've also played with the Tanto Triple Action, I quite enjoyed it. People are quite right about the handles being easily scratched...

Not attempting to hijack the thread, but I'm curious if anyone would be interested in a more modern iteration of Jacobs Ladder type designs with G10 handles? I have been looking around, but I'm not finding much currently available.

To the OP, I'm fairly certain the Triple Action was discontinued to make room for new products / lack of sales to justify continuing making it.
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They’re pretty rare designs. The Perrin one I have has that Micarta oval on the front scale. It sort of helps for when I am fliping it open like a balisong.

I haven’t seen one of these knives in g10. Infact the only ones I know of are the Perrin and the Cold
Steel. Other than that I used to see some cheap chinese ones back when I was a kid in the 90’s.

Here’s an antique marbles one.
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Lapedog said:
They’re pretty rare designs. The Perrin one I have has that Micarta oval on the front scale. It sort of helps for when I am fliping it open like a balisong.

I haven’t seen one of these knives in g10. Infact the only ones I know of are the Perrin and the Cold
Steel. Other than that I used to see some cheap chinese ones back when I was a kid in the 90’s.
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Yeah, I kind of assumed that the rest of the knives made with those designs would likely be 'vintage', older cheap knives, since they seem to be so hard to find, even just pictures. Little to no documentation about them either, from what I've seen online.
 
I never owned a Triple Action but handled a couple of them way back when I used to attend gun shows. The design was pretty easy to learn to one-hand open, but it didn't feel like it would maintain its tolerances over even a short time. One-handing it required a fairly dramatic flourish.

Jim
 
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