New From Cold Steel: Honkin’ Huge Pole-Axe
There are some applications where a neck-knife or EDC folder just won’t cut it, and chopping through the plate-mail armor of a mounted enemy is one of them. If this is part of your job description, the...
View ArticleCold Steel Knife Porn: Oddly Disturbing (NSFW)
It weighs almost four pounds, and it sports 23″ of blade and 14″ of handle. Obviously it can chop the #$%@ out of things. So why does Cold Steel’s promotional video fill me with vague discomfort? Make...
View ArticleComing Soon: Cold Steel ‘Parking Lot Sale’
It’s not our editorial policy to get suckered in by breathless ‘press releases’ boasting of huge sales and deep discounts. Even though we run some banner ads, we’re careful to keep the advertising on...
View ArticleKnife Review: Cold Steel Code 4 Spear Point
I’ve always been a value (read: cheap) knife buyer. Not crappy knives, just good knives that don’t cost all that much. I don’t think I’ve ever spent more than about $35 or $40 for any blade in my...
View ArticleMicro Recon 1: Cold Steel AUS 8A For Just $25
I’ve got a pint-size Cold Steel knife in my toy drawer (a discontinued 2″ Ready Edge fixed blade) and it’s a little gem of simple and rugged utility. As tiny as it is, I still can’t legally carry it...
View ArticleJust Arrived From Cold Steel: Mackinac Hunter and Lone Star Hunter
The Knife Fairy (AKA FedEx) came to my house today and left me a pair of the beefiest folding hunters I’ve handled in a long time. Cold Steel’s Lone Star Hunter (top) and Mackinac Hunter (bottom) both...
View ArticleCold Steel Knives President Lynn Thompson: Knives Saved Lives On Flight 214
Lynn Thompson is the founder and president of Cold Steel Knives. He makes those knife videos that make me alternately laugh and squirm, and he also sent us two big folding hunters we’re still having...
View ArticleCulinary Shootout: Cold Steel Mackinac vs. Mora Bushcraft
I had some time today, a pile of produce from the garden and two shiny toys to play with. In one corner, I have a Cold Steel Mackinac Hunter which I have been testing, and in the other a new … Continue...
View ArticleCold Steel Warranty: Minor Fail, Or Just CYA?
We’ve all seen Lynn Thompson chop through mountain of pigs. It entertains us because we’re weird. Cold Steel subjects their knives to a crap-load of random tests that include rope cutting, bamboo...
View ArticleEDC For CCW? Cold Steel Peace Maker (Void Where Prohibited By Law)
A boot knife like the new Cold Steel Peace Maker doesn’t quite fit the description of a typical EDC knife: it doesn’t fold, it doesn’t carry discreetly in your pocket, and it will freak out your...
View ArticleTweet Of The Day: Cup Beats Knife, But Only In Hollywood.
I haven’t seen Vin Diesel’s new Riddick flick yet, but I’m with the Cold Steel guys on this one. I, too, would love to see Starbuck, er, Katee Sackhoff ice a bad guy with nothing more than a metal cup....
View ArticleCaption Contest: Cold Steel Knives And HALO
From their very own S&M dungeon video set to the ready room on the Pillar Of Autumn, the guys at Cold Steel Knives continue to have more fun than the law allows. What exactly is going on here?
View ArticleEDC For CCW: Cold Steel Hold Out III
Cold Steel’s Hold Out III is aptly-named: this EDC knife is incredibly slender and lightweight. It also brings the heat in the blade department (three inches of it,anyway) with a full flat ground blade...
View ArticleFirst Defensive Spear Use Of The Day. Ever.
When a British Columbia woman was attacked by a mountain lion while gardening in her remote cabin, her partner rushed to the rescue and gave the big cat a taste of cold steel. Literally. Short version?...
View ArticleKnife Review: Cold Steel ‘Kobun’ Tanto
The Cold Steel ‘Kobun’ is a lightweight, concealable combat knife with a nearly-indestructible blade and an almost-unbelievable price point. I won’t make you wait for the big reveal here: it’s not a...
View ArticleHunting Cape Buffalo With A Spear? Big Brass Ones.
You’ll never mistake me for Papa Hemingway: if I had to hunt Cape Buffalo (which I don’t, particularly) my weapon of choice would be something belt-fed, crew-served and vehicle-mounted. On a really big...
View ArticleCold Steel Finn Bear: Blade Win, Grip FAIL
I almost bought another knife at the gun show yesterday. The ‘Finn Bear’ is Cold Steel’s interpretation of the traditional Finnish Pukka knife, and for $14 I wasn’t sure I could pass up a chance to...
View ArticleAnother Knife I Missed At SHOT: Cold Steel’s New Eland Ring-Lock
Okay, maybe not completely new. Cold Steel’s new Eland ring-lock folder does bear a more-than-passing resemblance to their existing Kudu folder, but it is a whole inch longer. And it’s still only $13....
View ArticleComing Soon From Cold Steel: More Oddly-Disturbing Knife Porn. I Can’t Wait!
WTH are Lynn Thompson and Cold Steel up to with these ‘Apocalypse Proof’ teasers? Web searches for ‘cold steel apocalypse proof’ only yield a single jibberish catalog page from Cold Steel, which is so...
View ArticleNew From Cold Steel: 1917 Frontier Bowie
Cold Steel’s latest Really Big Knife is this footlong ’1917 Frontier Bowie.’ The overall length of nearly 18″ renders it a tad too big for discreet EDC, but it will give you a real Mick Dundee moment...
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