a lot of great options on the table it's always nice to see what Cold Steel has
going and we are going to be looking at some new fixed blades from Cold Steel
finally a spontoon hawk that's actually drop-forged
they try to copy it but they can't really copy it
how's it going guys and welcome to Knife Banter today we are in Lynn Thompson's
personal library and we're with the man himself Lynn Thompson how's it going? Glad
you're here yeah hi everyone and we are going to be looking at some new fixed
blades from Cold Steel starting off with kind of an interesting replacement blade
system you guys have going on. right this is a Andrew demco design I wanted to
work on a replaceable knife that had a super-strong lock I don't have an
objection in fact I like the replaceable blade idea but I don't like the weak
super weak dangerous locking mechanisms that these knives have so we came up
with this click-n-cut and the retaining or locking mechanism is based on the
triad lock and it's super fast and easy to change a blade you see it like this
there's no struggle there's nothing you press this down stick it right now
that's great because especially in hunting applications we see there there
are a lot of companies that do a kind of a replaceable scalpel blade or
replaceable knife blade and a lot of times you I'm always worried that I'm
gonna cut my fingers it's it's nice to see such a such a simple version. it's a
super reasonable fear and you know we've tested so many of these knives and we
know how weak their locks are and the last thing you want to be is in the way
out out back and cut the crap out of yourself -okay I've cut my thumb
mom- and that's hard enough to deal with when you're near medical aid but when
you don't have it it's very challenging yeah so this comes with a drop-point
blade and it comes with two utility blades and the way we designed this
sheath is you can carry your your utility blades right in the sheath and they snap
right in there now what I want the camera to see and
what everyone at home to see these blades are twice as thick is what
everybody else is offering these are 1.5 millimeter thick blades so that very
sturdy blades they're replaceable you can buy extras or you can easily re-
sharpen these at home and keep using them. I took this to Africa this year and
we field dressed and skinned a kudu with this knife. The whole thing and we didn't
sharpen it and we went on to do another big animal so this little blade holds
its edge really well I would dare say you could do three white-tailed deer and
roll with it and you won't have to sharpen it. -wow- that's awesome and it's
got a nice sheath the handle just snaps into there like that it's going to be
coming with a secondary retaining strap some of my customers work in unusual
environments or they're getting up and down jumping here jumping they're
jumping off a platform so I want this knife to stay with you and not pop out
and so we're also adding a retaining strap here. The next knife that's pretty
cool this yours are forged drop forged wasp dagger. It's entirely drop forged
and nothing to break and what I really like about it is the integral guards you
know the guard is so important and when you have a separate guard on your handle
how you attach it you know you have to be really careful and studious to do it
right otherwise it's gonna loosen up and rattle and twist and I hate that I can't
stand a loose guard so this one gives you lots of protection from your hand
going forward I dare say it's very difficult and either grip for you to go
over that guard and slide down on the blade and it's got a stippled dished
handle here and underneath this it's all skeletonized so we got to get the weight
out of it this one weighs 8 ounces but yeah because because yeah looking at it
it looks just like a chunk of steel right. May I? yeah it's it's surprising how
light it actually is knowing that it skeletonize underneath because I
wouldn't have thought that just looking at it right yeah and it's got a real
sturdy but acute point yeah so the points very acute but very strong for a
double-edged knife yeah that's pretty surprising and and
talking about the point you guys should be able to see there just how thick
that is coming right up to the edge and then all the way up to that point there
so yeah really neat. Is that really need to drop for the long suitor this is
obviously thrusting you know it kind of rough shapes I've got a few hairs off
yeah but with such a thick blade you know you're not it's its primary use is
not slashing but people can't grab it either right that's why it's it's very
sharp there no one could just grab that thing you get a slight tug in there
there cut so it's not and also allows very easy effortless penetration and the
sheath I think came out really good you know it's always a challenge to get
a sheath that has the right balance between retention and being able to draw
it and I think we did that here we have a good balance of them of course we have
the secondary safety strap for really rugged environments or when you're doing
extraneous activities. The next knife that is a new knife for us brand
new knife is this SRK compact the SRK is enormously popular knife a lot of people
have copied it but it's not been emulated they try to copy it but they
can't really copy it and people asked us for a smaller one and so I came up with
a smaller one to Apes the look of the SRK it looks
very very very similar but in a smaller lighter package. When I say that a
challenge a lot of times when you're taking a bigger knife and bringing it
down to a smaller knife the challenge is getting all of those elements from the
bigger knife into the smaller knife right the design elements the fit the
finish a lot of times when people take a bigger knife and make it smaller ends up
looking a little weird if you don't get it just balanced and this you can see
there was obvious consideration given here because it does it looks do that
Zac and you'll find that very comfortable it looks like an SR k1 right
but obviously smaller yeah and again I mean surprisingly light for how much
knife you're getting out of it yeah and for people that want to do wood craft
stuff this is an ideal knife I mean it's the size that people want and very very
strong light weight and again that full forefinger handle I mean grip you can
really get a tremendous grip on it and a lot of control and when it's in the
sheath and you're wearing it and this is on your belt it doesn't look like you're
carrying a giant knife but you're carrying a lot of knife mm-hmm could do
a lot of stuff speaking of a lot of knife this one this next one caught my
eye the so fully fully serrated bowie or what would you call this? This is our
Marauder bowie yeah and it's a new departure for us that I tried this this
year to put a full session on because serrations really increase your cutting
power yeah so this is knife is now not for chopping don't go down and chop
saplings and limbs and stuff like this this knife is for cutting and thrusting.
but it's ideally suited for cutting it will cut like a chainsaw yeah yeah I
mean those those serrations through there and it and they're almost you've
got like this kind of variated micro serration pattern right yeah correct
yeah so we did that some people use bigger serrations but they tend to snag
and grab they're stronger maybe but they don't cut us efficiently we don't think
yeah so we use the smaller ones because we're interested in the depth of the cut
cool yeah interesting design there. and then
what do we have here? This is a single-edged version of our OS
s a single-edged version and it's got that tapir ground flat ground if you
will blade and a pretty sturdy but acute point and this is for people that
like the blade shape but don't want to carry a double edge or they want the
extra ruggedness and you still have the reach and the piercing power and all
those good things but you don't have the double edge that draw sometimes unwanted
attention. Yeah well and this takes it it keeps it
still in the same family of knives right but makes it also into little maybe a
more of a utility blade as well right? That's right, lets put that one down and then this
is our super popular Kobun but we brought it back with the serrated edge
this year we've offered it with the serrated edge in the past and customers keep
asking me for the serrated edge so again I love you guys and I listen to what you
say and you asked me and I'll try to do it if it's in my power
now something I think it's really interesting with this is you have that
full serration here and then up here you have that the plain edge right right you
still have a little bit of that you know again you know if you're opening boxes
or you're doing whatever are you're doing some fine some fine work where you
need a detail work out on that that point you have that ability with the
serrations along there also out of it when you're using this for piercing we
don't want the serrated edge when they're hitting hard stuff to break off so we
have that chisel tip here so this this edge is very strong and can take impact
even with bone and not break off so that was the idea behind that. Cool, now we have
a lot of really neat fixed blades here but when we when we came and we were
kind of looking at the offerings you also have some interesting thing
tomahawks and axes and stuff so we actually just happened down here guys
because we know how much you guys love the secrets so so here's some stuff with
the tomahawks yep going let's take a look at these first then we'll pull
these axes up as long as you know I would love tomahawks I've done a whole
video on how to fight with a tomahawk and I chain with a tomahawk he used a
tomahawk all the time and I'm a big fan but no one's made commercially in any
quantity or in any semblance of quality a spontoon tomahawk a blade that's
designed for piercing more than cutting and so these are what we call our
diamond blade and our knife blade spawn tunes and you'll see historical examples
of these there's a lot of them quite often they had a pipe in the back and
you can sharpen both edges this is the primary bevel and the secondary bevel
there it comes to a acute but sturdy point you can sharpen these yourself if
you want to because these come unsharpened from Cold Steel? right deal yeah but but
we they've been they've been ground and forged thin enough that you can sharpen
them without you couldn't even put them on any kind of a belt grinder or a bench
grinder and even put an edge on them yeah and then the pipe is faux but this
is heat treated so you can use it as a hammer and we have the diamond blade
over here too so these are all drop
forged and all of this detail is forged in all that details forged in so I'm
pretty happy with how our tooling in our forging came out and the blades are
straight and I got all that detail so they're good-looking and they're
historically relevant as far as their looks go there's many examples of this
out here so if you're a reenactor or you want a
tomahawk like this finally a spontoon hawk that's actually dropped forged and
made in real quality so you can really go out and use it and then these axes
caught my my eye that you had up on the table there
these have kind of a different style of replaceable head on them yeah this is
our art we call our clamp lock mechanism we're still working on a final name for
it but it allows you to unbolt the head and change handles in like a couple
minutes cool I mean with practice you could probably do it in three or four
minutes or less and you don't need any special tools or anything you just
unbolt it stick on and you handle bolt it back together again so when you're
throwing this is a fast change handle and it's also very strong because we can
use a straight untape 'red piece of wood that doesn't have a step down or
anything like that that will give you a stress riser so we can actually make the
handle stronger and we're using Hickory for these handles all these handles are
Hickory and we've made this for primarily for the axe throwing clubs and
stuff like that yeah and for people that throw a lot because when you're throwing
your your hatchets again and again especially in lanes people are gonna
break them and this is a fast change handle system it costs a little bit more
but it's very very convenient you already come to appreciate this and also
this mechanism gives us twice the pull off strength there's standard industry
tests that they immobilize this and they pull the handle off to see how much
force it does this takes twice as much as our industry standards can we also
have it in the Hudson Bay axé version so andrew dimke and i are
both big fans of this max pattern it it's very forgiving and that it'll do a
lot of different things you can fell trees with it you can use it as a
survival or camp axe it's just a great all-around axe style and it's been
proven for 100-200 years in the vast hudson bay this has been used by
indigenous people and trappers and settlers there as their primary tool and
it's really proved it's worth so it's a very good style axe comes with a
beautiful hickory handle in this clap mechanism so if you break your handle no
matter where you're at you can quickly change it out or improvise a new handle
you can you can take a board off a pallet and make a new handle for this
then right if you've got a pocket knife you could you could do it in just a few
minutes and get something good enough to complete your task. To get the job done.
there's nowhere that there's that you can't find wood most places you can find
it's some kind piece of wood that you can improvise a handle yeah well now
something that caught my attention is I've worked I've worked with axes here
there and you know sometimes that head gets loose and you take a nail or you
take a whatever and you kind of wedge it in there we're always worried about that
head coming off while you're working so it's cool to see something that in the
field you could change out fairly quickly. Yeah and the Bible that had
those cities of refuge that people could run to you if you accidentally killed
your neighbor when your axe head came off and smashed him in the head and
killed them and this relatives think that that you
did him in on purpose you could run there and hide know one of the things
they mentioned was if your axe head came off right now it's been an age old
problem and I think about it too that accent coming off and also I've been in
a lot of places where you there's not a store to go buy a new handle and I know
that I can cut a sapling down and make an improvised handle very shortly and be
back in business. Yeah cool well a lot of great options on
the table it's always nice to see what Cold Steel has going with fixed blades
it was fun to throw in a couple axes and these these new tomahawks you guys are
doing thanks so much for having us on glad you're here yeah thanks everyone
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