All About Pocket Knives

Talking to PAKNIVES and i told him i picked up a new COLD STEEL LARGE
VOYAGER knife. It has the best COLD STEEL KNIFE prices that i have found. It's http://www.wholesalehunter.com They have alot of different
brands there. Check it out.

I think it important to note that the Cold Steel "Special Projects" are NOT first quality, retail quality knives. You are taking your chances buying them. This fact comes from my experience dealing with the largest distributor of Cold Steel first run knives, and Cold Steel's acknowledgement as well. Sorry if I am the bearer of bad news, but I have seen others make this mistake and wind up very unhappy. I certainly welcome any correspondence regarding this subject. -Glenn

I carried a Cold Steel Vaquero Grande for some time, and liked it very much. It is really too large for EDC (slightly over 6" closed), but no one ever talked back to me while I was carrying it. I do have to give them credit though for their DVD's: no other company out there come close to showing the strength of their knives like Lynn Thompson. If you have never seen them, ordering "Special Projects" is worth it for the video alone. I used to play it in my shop, and sold more CS than any other tactical.

Definitely correct on the Video, and CS makes some real nice stuff. I even own a few, but ordering "special" has turned out to be a venture of "hair-pulling" and teeth clenching. Just wanted to clear up the SP knives, I love the Video.

I love cold steel knives......

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Cold steel knife - is the world strongest and sharpest knives.
Also you can use it in a combat as your self defense.

bulldog,
their Trailmaster is $160. Are you familiar with that knife? I'm pretty impressd with it. Carbon steel and leather sheath.
Is that a good price? Maybe I'll check e-bay........ but I don't know where a used one has been.

I think the Carbon V version retail is around $240 new,San Mai version will go over $400 retail new.

I've carried a Carbon V since the mid 80's at my deer lease and I love it,soon as I get out of the truck it goes on my hip. Never was good at sharpening it by hand so it goes on the Loray M190 when needed.

Earl, the knife on bulldogs link is, SK-5 high carbon. How is that different from Carbon V?

Thanks

Joe,copied and pasted from another board,from Mike Stewart posted in 2006...


CV--Chorme Vanadium Steel and Carbon V are all the very same steel.

This is not a mistery steel. It is not a new steel. It had been made by the hundreds of tons For many many ywears and used by ALL the major Knife Companies for Decades.

It is 0170-6 cutlery Steel...It was developed in the 1950's by sharon Steel specifically for Knives.

It is an enhanced 1095. They added Nickel--Chromium and a trace of Vanadium. it was a patented steel of Sharon.

Everybody used it. it was called by cute names by some companies --Chrome-Vanadium by others.

This was the original Steel chosen by both Lynn Thomson for his Trailmaster and me for the Old Mamba. We all used it until 1988.

sharon Steel went Bankrupt in 1988. None of us could get it and no other mill would duplicate it because the patent was still in effect.

We all switched to other steels.

A couple of years ago Case and Camillus Found a mill that would duplicate the Chemistry and they ordered a heat lot--+/_ 100,000 lbs.

Case had thier portion of the heat lot rolled to pocket knife sizes and Camillius had thier portion rolled to use for Lynn on his U.S. made knives and the Becker line.

This was an excellent steel and will out perform 1095. I have used it in a lot of the early Blackjacks. I still have some and made our goloks and Northwind Swords from it.

I have no idea why this question keeps comming up. All of this is common knowledge in the industry.

I suspect that nobody will be using it except for Case, Cammilius, Becker, Westerm and Cold Steel.

As I'm sure you know that Case makes thier knives and Camillius makes all of the other brands that I just mentioned.

I doubt that you will have any better luck relaying this info either. It dosen't seem that folks want the truth.

It's more fun for folks to speculate..


from what I've read SK-5 is comparable to American 1080,and CS stopped using any version of Carbon V when Camillus closed.

Thanks, Earl.