Would a Cold Steel American Lawman be good for.....

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Anyone think that an America Lawman would be good for a woods folder? What I mean is, do you think it would be an ok folder to take into the woods that could be heavily used without having to worry about it? I'm almost convinced to try one.
 
Yes. Anything with a tri-ad lock really. I have a Mini AK-47 and its great. Very solid with the Tri-AD lock.
 
Yes but with the caveat that a fixed blade would do you better.

If you insist on going with a folder for legal reasons or whatever, the american lawman would be a great choice
 
res1cue said:
Yes but with the caveat that a fixed blade would do you better.

If you insist on going with a folder for legal reasons or whatever, the american lawman would be a great choice
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I have a bravo-1 and an Izula that I've used. Just wanting to try something different
 
My vote would be no. The thin blade grind would not necessarily be the best choice. Should blade break, you would have the strongest locking handle with a steel nub on the end in the whole wilderness. ;)
 
It's my woods folder and I love it. I aiways carry fixed blades as main woods knives though. The AL is for small jobs and to eat with .
 
So is the recon 1 spear point essentially the same knife, just a longer blade? They look similar.
 
I'd go with a slightly less expensive knife since folders really aren't designed for the task. i recommend an ontario rat 1, it's a little less money and will probably hold up similarly. american lawman isn't a bad choice though.
 
fatherhudson said:
I'd go with a slightly less expensive knife since folders really aren't designed for the task. i recommend an ontario rat 1, it's a little less money and will probably hold up similarly. american lawman isn't a bad choice though.
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I actually have two Ontario Rat-1's. I guess I'm just trying to give myself a reason to try the American Lawman. It's one I've always been on the fence about, wanted to try, but just haven't pulled the trigger on.
 
RevDevil said:
My vote would be no. The thin blade grind would not necessarily be the best choice. Should blade break, you would have the strongest locking handle with a steel nub on the end in the whole wilderness. ;)
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+ 1 ! My cousin uses a benchmade Bob Lum M4 tanto. It holds up well against his abuse (he abuses a knife so bad he shouldnt be allowed to own one)
 
Chipped Karambit said:
+ 1 ! My cousin uses a benchmade Bob Lum M4 tanto. It holds up well against his abuse (he abuses a knife so bad he shouldnt be allowed to own one)
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Hey man, just yesterday I remember you saying that you have never tried CS's AUS8. I take that to mean you don't own the CS American Lawman or any other CS. How can you recommend or not recommend a knife that you never owned?

To the OP, I have a recon 1 in CLIP point (so even weaker tip than the spear point recon 1 or the lawman) and I made it my backyard work knife for a few months. I went into it with the idea that this knife was up for sacrifice and I wouldn't care if it broke or not. I just wanted to see how much it would take.

I did light batonning with it, scraped crap with it, some other random chores, I even threw it a few times into some scrap wood (yep that's right). It scratched a lot of the black coating, but the blade is pretty much flawless but there is a chunk of G10 missing from the handle right where it meets the blade (you can see it in the pics). AND this is the same knife I talked about on the other thread as just having been used to carve out a bow.

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Here is some kleenex it just push cut through. Not as clean of a cut I would like, but I haven't sharpened it in a week.
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res1cue said:
Hey man, just yesterday I remember you saying that you have never tried CS's AUS8. I take that to mean you don't own the CS American Lawman or any other CS. How can you recommend or not recommend a knife that you never owned?

To the OP, I have a recon 1 in CLIP point (so even weaker tip than the spear point recon 1 or the lawman) and I made it my backyard work knife for a few months. I went into it with the idea that this knife was up for sacrifice and I wouldn't care if it broke or not. I just wanted to see how much it would take.

I did light batonning with it, scraped crap with it, some other random chores, I even threw it a few times into some scrap wood (yep that's right). It scratched a lot of the black coating, but the blade is pretty much flawless but there is a chunk of G10 missing from the handle right where it meets the blade (you can see it in the pics). AND this is the same knife I talked about on the other thread as just having been used to carve out a bow.

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Here is some kleenex it just push cut through. Not as clean of a cut I would like, but I haven't sharpened it in a week.
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Thats pretty cool. Does that one have the triad lock as well?
 
newknife said:
Thats pretty cool. Does that one have the triad lock as well?
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Same lock, same G10 handles, same thickness (IIRC), same blade thickness, same blade steel. All of the 2010 models (recon 1, AK, AL) are all pretty much the same except for blade/handle shape

That recon 1 has been through more abuse than any folder I have put through, and it locks up 100%, no play in any direction. And I own and have owned folders that went into the 400 dollar range (but I'm not going to go out and abuse those!)
 
res1cue said:
Same lock, same G10 handles, same thickness (IIRC), same blade thickness, same blade steel. All of the 2010 models (recon 1, AK, AL) are all pretty much the same except for blade/handle shape

That recon 1 has been through more abuse than any folder I have put through, and it locks up 100%, no play in any direction. And I own and have owned folders that went into the 400 dollar range (but I'm not going to go out and abuse those!)
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Ok. Now I have to just decided between the American Lawman and the Spear Point Recon 1.
 
crom said:
The new Voyager may be a better bet with its full flat grind blade.
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newknife said:
Ok. Now I have to just decided between the American Lawman and the Spear Point Recon 1.
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All three of these are great options. I am partial to the G10 series, because I like the grip better, and because they are thinner overall. It may be hollow ground, but they use a really shallow 14" wheel, so it slices like a monster.

Between the Recon 1 spear point and the American lawman, they are both so similar, it is really just 4" blade vs 3.5" blade, whatever you prefer. Everything else is pretty much identical.


BTW I believe Fred Perrin said something along the lines of how he wished he came up with the triad lock. Here is him "testing" the American lawman
[video=youtube;_1JyaTXdA1I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1JyaTXdA1I[/video]

Here is the translation of what he said, courtesy of Doc Holiday:
"He said that he's been using these knives for about a year and has thrown them over a 1000 times in the last six months and never seen the lock fail and still has absolutely no blade play. He basically said that he was really impressed. "
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http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...-Perrin-abusing-a-Cold-Steel-triad-lock-knife
 
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I probably would have enjoyed that video a whole lot more if I had understood what they were saying.
 
I used to throw older generation Enduras and Voyager a lot into pallets (sometimes sand bags and other things) but not even half the force of those throws, current Tri-AD folders are much better knives. Would like to see the condition of one of the well respected linerlock models, maybe ZT 0200 or Spydie Millie, after just 50 or 100 of those throws :)
 
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