With all this Cold-Steel hooplah going on today, can anyone suggest one?

crimsonfalcon07 said:
This. Honestly, if I was going to get a CS folder, and I wasn't going to get a Voyager, I'd get one of their ridiculous ones, like a Rajah or Espada or one of the other giant folders. Just for fun.
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That's how I see it also. If not buying a medium Voyager or that Delica for practical utilitarian purposes, get a fun blade. My Rajah 2 really is just a toy to me.
 
spareparts said:
Yeah, it was something like what IV described. It somehow got hung up on the serrations or thumb stud (it's been a while so I don't recall exactly), a little jerky upward shove, lock failed, blade closed on the back of the fingers, then that wierd moment where you think you might be able to see bone or cartlidge before the blood gushes. Needless to say, I've never been able to trust the company since.
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Sorry to say it, but that's called user error. No knife lock should EVER be treated as fail-safe.
I only have one CS knife left, at this point, and it's the titanium Ti-Lite. It's neat, but I really don't use it much.
 
Last year, well Dec 2010 anyway, i bought a CS American Lawman. I've since stripped off the black epoxy paint from the blade and lock-bar so it looks better (i don't like 'tacticool' - been there, done that and have the DD214 to prove it).

It's been the best pocket knife i've had. Maybe that illustrates my lack of desire to drop >$100 for a pocket blade, but it does everything i need it to. I've whittled, batoned (yes, batonned with it to make kindling), cut all sorts of plastic, etc and it's been great. It's easy to sharpen and only needs touch-ups ocassionally.

Yep, you can find better pocket knives (i'd argue that it's gotta be one of strongest lock-ups available), but you're gonna spend more to get it.

I'm not a 'knuckle-dragger' or some tac-freak/mall-ninja, just an ordinary guy to needs to cut stuff and not spend loads of $ for something to do it.
 
All Aus8a steels are not created equally, not even all cold steel aus8. The recon, lawmans and ak-47s are cryo or sub-zero and treated with nitrogen. It is much harder and tougher than un treated. I call tell a big difference in my recon 1 and my voyagers. Blade wear is on par with my s30v crk sebbie and my vg10 and ats34 sogs. I will always recommend the recon 1 because of my experience.
 
I don't want to stir up crap, so DO NOT DO THAT IN RESPONCE.

I love quite a few of my blades. I have some very nice ones, and some dependable economy blades that really appeal to my needs.

So I guess the last few comments beg the question, What is a fun blade? I ask because FUN never crosses my mind when purchasing a blade. I look at place of origin, hand or process made, warranty, the people behind the knife, I take alot of what the good folks here at Bladeforums say about them into concideration. I have never looked at a blade and said that looks fun, I want to play with it.

Thanks in advance for sharing your reasoning.
 
ron_m80 said:
So I guess the last few comments beg the question, What is a fun blade? I ask because FUN never crosses my mind when purchasing a blade. I look at place of origin, hand or process made, warranty, the people behind the knife, I take alot of what the good folks here at Bladeforums say about them into concideration. I have never looked at a blade and said that looks fun, I want to play with it.
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I'm not the OP, but allow me to jump in and say that I don't think "fun" and "knife" are contradictory. Sure, knives are big pointy, stabby, sharp things that only mentally stable adults should handle. And they are tools. And used without care they can harm the owner or others.

But that said, there's nothing wrong with buying and carrying a knife just because it's "cool" or comes in colors that you like, etc. I've bought a few knives because they came in a color that I considered "fun." I own a few SAKs that are fairly impractical for EDC but I just wanted to "play" with the features. I think some uber-tactial design elements are pretty intriguing even though I'm not trained in tactical use of blades.

I'm not alone in buying knives that are not ideally suited for my real life EDC demands just because they are "fun." Maybe you might say "cool" instead of "fun," and, if so, that's fine too.



EDIT: One obvious example is hobbiests who buy multiples of the same knife in different colors. Why do they do that? Do they really "need" six or seven (or more) versions of the same knife? Probably not. But collecting is "fun."
 
I'm in the "fun" camp too. I like the variety of my knives just for the sake of the variety. That said, my knife philosophy (so to speak) is "buy what you like, but carry what you buy". And a number of Cold Steel offerings I know I just wouldn't carry (e.g., the Spartan). But I still like my Lawman, Mini Lawman, Recon 1 clip point, my couple of Voyagers, Ti-Lite, Counterpoint and Mini Tuff. They're knife-like knives I can carry, unlike a Rajah II, which is more of a sword-like knife that looks fun -- but I know I'd never put it in my pocket (if it would even fit).
 
Not to troll this up, but the only two I've had much consideration in as a small/medium EDC blade are the mini lawman and mini AK. I did see something Nutnfancy does to his where he spreads epoxy around where the clip comes in contact with the G10 to fill in the texture and smooth it out to where it doesn't wreck your pants' pocket.

The issue I'm having is that I don't want to buy a knife that I personally have to fix as a self-created problem and it's almost turning into a situation to where I'd just end up wanting a smaller CS knife just to say I do because I own zero Cold Steel knives... in that case it wouldn't matter what I bought, but I'd still like whatever I get to work well as an EDC knife.
 
stabman said:
If fun never enters your mind, why have more than one or two knives?
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Actually I can answer that.

I don't really own more than one or two of any one kind of blade. EXCEPT the RMK knives, who doesn't like them? I have been buying more of the handmade American production knives lately, but I still try to keep it within my use, need, and respect for the craftsmenship. That may very well change in the future, it may not. I tend to give away or sell or pass on the blades that I do not use, won't keep because I found another that performs better, or just didn't like. Most of my knives are posted in my profile. There are not that many in all, and some pretty notable differences between them. Before someone tries to prove me wrong, please keep in mind my son posseses a few of them, but they got posted as mine anyway.

I will admit I have two knives I bought I thought were COOL, and they just sit in the closet collecting dust. Sometimes I look at the one and wonder "WTF was I thinking when I paid for that thing?"

Whatever your reason for buying knives, enjoy them one and all. I just didn't quite wrap my head around the fun aspect that was mentioned.
 
ron_m80 said:
Actually I can answer that.

I don't really own more than one or two of any one kind of blade. EXCEPT the RMK knives, who doesn't like them? I have been buying more of the handmade American production knives lately, but I still try to keep it within my use, need, and respect for the craftsmenship. That may very well change in the future, it may not. I tend to give away or sell or pass on the blades that I do not use, won't keep because I found another that performs better, or just didn't like. Most of my knives are posted in my profile. There are not that many in all, and some pretty notable differences between them. Before someone tries to prove me wrong, please keep in mind my son posseses a few of them, but they got posted as mine anyway.

I will admit I have two knives I bought I thought were COOL, and they just sit in the closet collecting dust. Sometimes I look at the one and wonder "WTF was I thinking when I paid for that thing?"

Whatever your reason for buying knives, enjoy them one and all. I just didn't quite wrap my head around the fun aspect that was mentioned.
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Reading your post, it sounds like fun IS one of the reasons for the purchases, just fun from craftsmanship and other attributes.:)
 
stabman said:
Reading your post, it sounds like fun IS one of the reasons for the purchases, just fun from craftsmanship and other attributes.:)
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Or Respect and Admiration, a study of the skill if you will.

I will admit that making knives seems FUN.

Fun is what you have among friends with that bottle of good Whiskey during the holidays.
Fun is what you and your lady get down to, when the kids are sleeping.
Fun is what you do with your knives not what they look like, and I think that is where I got lost, because I cannot see a purpose for a ......
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I couldn't find a picture of the Talwar.

So I was curious as to what was fun. Not a big deal, personal taste is not in question.
 
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