hi I'm Lynn Thompson I'm the president of Cold Steel incorporated the chief
instructor of our training division and this morning I'd like to talk to you
about our new products the first knife I want to show you is our bushranger this
knife was designed by Andy demco and it's based on the Bush Ranger fixed blade
I made in the early 90s and one of the things we loved about that knife was the
handle the handle of that fixed blade was awesome and what we try to do is to
capture that feeling and this folder your hand loves this knife when you put
it in your hand it just feels like it belongs all the contouring this is all
CNC machined g10 and we buy here in America and it has a really really good
ergonomic grip it works really well and sabre grip it's easy to reverse it to
reverse grip works good in reverse grip you can use it in push dagger grip so
it's a really versatile knife now we made this to be M I caught what I call a
medium duty feel knife it's not quite as heavy duty as an SR1 it's hard to
beat an SR1, but not everybody wants to carry that weight and that bulk this
is a really pocket friendly knife it's got a three and a half inch Sheffield
clip point and it's got a lot of belly here at the top really useful knife you
can use it for anything in the field and in a pinch for self-defense we're also
gonna make a Bush Ranger Lite this will have a glass filled nylon handle and
it's got a rocker lock with a backup safety did Andrew dim co-designed so now
for the first time we can make a knife that's really safe that passed our tests
inexpensively and the key was this secondary lock that
keeps the rocker lock from disengaging under impacts justice so that's gonna be
big news and this is only gonna be fifty dollars with the eight CRV blade at 5758
it's gonna be a tremendous value for the money you get a lot of use out of this
for fifty bucks retail hey guys sorry interrupt the video but we want to hear
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then we have our clip-point Mini TAC or Bowie point if you will we have a lot of
customers ask us to make a Bowie point or a clip point so we I love my
customers you guys I do listen to you I really do I love my customers so they
asked me for this and so I made it the next knife we have new for this year is
our Double Safe Hunter again this is gonna have a glass filled nylon handle
it's gonna have a rocker lock with the backup safety and this one's gonna be
$39.99 a lot of performance a lot of knife for the money and especially a
knife that's gonna keep your fingers safe compared to everything else that
you could buy in that price point in my opinion your fingers are very very
vulnerable with those models but with this knife we're very confident your
fingers will be safe when you're handling and even you use this knife or
even abusing it so that's gonna be exciting when that comes out next thing
I did was I put a counter point on the sr1
so now we have an S or one tanto point and I really kind of fall in love with
this knife it's not wouldn't be my everyday carry but if you're gonna drop
me off in the jungle or the desert or the mountains somewhere in the world and
I can have one for my knife this would be the one
it's got a five millimeter thick blade it's got very strong but acute can't to
a tip and it's ground fairly thin at the edge and we could do this because we're
using premium s35vn steel so we can ride that edge pretty thin and still really
rugged it doesn't chip out easily and doesn't bend over so this would be the
knife it's it's built like a tank this and I feel 575 pounds four inches
from the pivot point and it passed all of our impact tests even with 50-pound
weights instead of thirty pounds which is standard so this is an absolute beast
knowing that everybody doesn't like carry a knife that weighs this much but
wants a lot of performance I came out with the storm cloud
it's got out g10 carbon-fiber hybrid handle and it 20s 20 blade powdered
steel blade and a thumb plate and a very cute modified counterpoint so the point
is really strong but it's also very sharp and it has a pretty high bevel and
it's very thin at the edge and it's really sharp and they all do that you
see it's just shaving easily in fact I was careful about cutting my skin right
there the grip is really versatile you can transfer the clip either side and
it's really lightweight looks good in slacks
I like knives that I could wear in light weight slacks and also that you could
put in a shirt pocket doesn't wear your shirt pocket down and like I've knit as
the demco phone plate opener that's going to be pretty cool
this is our Luzon folder I want to make something that you can't carry a Balisong
lots of places we're grateful of Texas change their mind and they allowed
balisong since witchblade's now but in lots of states you can't carry them like
in California unfortunately so I wanted to do a knife
that's kind of reminiscent of the fuel you get with a ballet song that has a
big Filipino flavor and since I'm a lifelong almost lifelong martial artist
a Filipino martial artist this is near and dear to my heart so I came up with
Luzon folder the songs of province in the Philippines and this blade like
you'll find this blade and lots of ballast logs or something that looks
like that it's a flipper it's got this segment and we call it segmented bamboo
handle which gives a tremendous grip it's flat and it feels good in your hand
and you feel like what I have that I'm not going to lose that handle I'm going
to be able to hang out of that handle it's not coming out of my hand it's got
a replaceable plastic pocket clip so this is all glass filled nylon we're
using with steel liners so if you break the clip which is unlikely if you break
it it's easy to replace it and it goes on either side so you get clips through
either side and it's got a liner lock and a backup safety so this will also
pass our tests so we're pretty happy with that and then I've got the four
inch version as well it has all the same features and this thing only weights by
three and a half ounces or so really lightweight and I'm trying to you know
our four inch tie light was a huge success and continues to be one of our
bestsellers and it's been copied by so many companies some of those cheap
import companies have has minis eighteen copies of my tie light different
variations and I made this knife in the same spirit so it's again it has a
strong Filipino influence it's a smaller version of its Big Brother but it's
really cool and I think a lot of people gonna like it
next we come to our Drop Forge Push Knife there's nothing really to go wrong with
this knife it's almost impossible to break it the handle and blade and the
shaft that goes between your fingers are all one piece forging it's got a trough
here so when you grab the knife it lightens the weight of the knife but
also your fingers get in there and they lock in and this shaft is wide and thin
and rounded over so that when you cut with a push knife if this isn't super
comfortable it's very irritating and I dare say almost look painful when you
impact against that shaft when you hit something but this is designed to make
that as comfortable as possible so you can slash with it and you can you punch
with it and the sheath is pretty cool because it has the ulti clip on the back
which you can tighten down and hold the knife very very securely to your boot or
to your waistband or wherever you want to put it and it has adjustable tension
here with these two screws so you can adjust the tension that's holding knife
in the sheath yourself which is an interesting take this year we're also
bringing back our tanto line in san mai so this the knife making areas in
Japan are shrinking seiki and Gifu Prefecture that's a major place that
knives have been made for centuries and the amount of people that want to work
in that industry is shrinking shrinking shrinking it's really hot in the summer
and seiki and very humid and people they can only work sometimes 4 to 6 hours a
day and that heat and humidity so lots of young people are opting out of going
into the knife industry and they're going into lots of other industries
there's lots of car manufacturing and ancillary jobs that have to do with cars
that they could sit in an air-conditioned office and work so it's
hard and harder to get workers to work in the knife industry there so we're
moving a lot of our stuff to Taiwan and we're making this with the same Japanese
samurai steel that we've been making forever this year we've upgraded it with
a vg10 core though so these are coming back in the four sizes
there's a really popular 12-inch blade so these would be available soon this is
the new lineup from Cold Steel for 2018 I hope you buy it and enjoy it as much
as I did designing it and making it