![]() Ĭold Steel "Lucky" Gentleman's pen knife made in Italy of S35VN Steel, with 2 + 5⁄ 8" blades.Ĭold Steel is known for their graphic marketing videos and DVDs (entitled "PROOF") which demonstrate their products' strength, sharpness, edge retention and durability. Many of Cold Steel's products are designed by company President Lynn C Thompson and based upon traditional knife designs from all over the world, but Cold Steel has also collaborated with custom knifemakers such as Andrew Demko, Phil Boguszewski, Zach Whitson, Steven Likarich, Keith Dehart, Rich McDonald, Bob Koga, Fred Perrin and Lloyd Pendleton on certain designs. Ĭold Steel's swords are primarily made from 1055 high-carbon steel and Damascus steel. Current and past models have used: German 4116 stainless steel, D2, 1055 high carbon steel, O-1 high carbon, SK-5 carbon steel, AUS 8A & 10A, CTS XHP, CPM S35VN, and CPM 3V tool steel.Ĭold Steel's folding knives are renowned for their lock strength, due to the TRI-AD Lock, designed by custom knifemaker Andrew Demko. Seki City production knives are made using VG1 stainless steel and VG1 core Sanmai III. ![]() The largest Sanmai III fixed blades are made by Hattori. However the Sanmai III models remained strictly Seki production. The carbon steel was SK5 and stainless was AUS-8A & 10A both imported to Taiwan from Japan. At the same time Cold Steel moved all folding-knife manufacturing from Seki Japan to Taiwan. Cold Steel first went to China ( People's Republic of China), but allegedly due to quality issues switched to Taiwan for production. In 2007 Camillus New York went bankrupt and Cold Steel was forced to find a new manufacturer for their carbon-steel fixed blades. They also had two models made in Taiwan, both of which switched to Japan in 2000. Their imported knives were nearly all made in Seki, Japan, using AUS-8 which Cold Steel labelled "400 Series Stainless". by Camillus using a carbon steel given the trademarked name "Carbon V" (read "carbon five"). Cold Steel marketed knives made in the U.S. ![]() Ĭold Steel is credited with popularizing the American tantō in 1980. The knives are used by military and law-enforcement personnel worldwide. The company's products include fixed-blade knives, folding knives, swords, machetes, tomahawks, kukris, blowguns, walking sticks, Tantōs and other martial arts items and training equipment. Cold Steel products are manufactured worldwide, including in the United States, Japan, Taiwan, India, Italy, China, and South Africa. Founded in Ventura, California, the company is currently based in Irving, Texas, after an acquisition by GSM Outdoors in 2020. Knives, swords, tomahawks, pepper spray, machetes, spears, blowguns, axes, martial arts & self defense-related products and training toolsĬold Steel, Inc., is an American retailer of knives/ bladed tools, training weapons, swords and other martial arts edged and blunt weapons. Andrew Demko, Robert Vaughn, Ron Balicki, Luke LaFontaine, Anthony DeLongis ![]()
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