Brands.

[Mike Micklea]

Or attempting to cleave a pig in half with a sword.

You know... if I ever was attacked by a pig, I'd want to make sure the blade I used to defend myself would handle the job...  So it's Cold Steel for me

[Sea Monster]

nomad ya got to put away the Lynn Thompson marketing. Look at some of the stuff they got from a diff angle. I will never be doing a pullup with a lockblade, Or attempting to cleave a pig in half with a sword. However the company does have some neat stuff that can and does work, But they also have junk.

I have no idea who Lynn Thompson is.

Oh, I'm sure they have some good stuff, with that many options, at least one has to work! - I just don't want to spend a fortune trialling and erroring my way through their product line.

[TWBryan]

           Just can't take that "combat-Sarong" seriously.

[CQC-7]

Ok, I like some of the cold steel knives.  Now, having said that I dont like a lot of their stuff.  I like my TI Lite.  I hate my Recon 1.  It is a poorly made knockoff of the benchmade axis lock and it does not perform nearly as smoothly as the real deal.

[hawkchucker]

Not to mention stay away from anything serrated from them. The pattern really sucks. You will really break teeth off of them.

[Leatherman123]

I personally love the Cold Steel serrations. I like them a lot better than on my Spyderco's. I bought the Rescue knife from them for work and it is a fantastic performer!

[CQC-7]

I have not used any of their serrated knives.  So, I cannot really comment on their performance.  I have heard that they break teeth a lot.  Then again, the guy that breaks teeth might have tried some of the experiments on the cold steel videos.  From what I have read, the teeth will break on the pop can stabbing experiment.

[hawkchucker]

CQC7 the teeth will break if you sneeze with the knife in your pocket. I really think that the serr. pattern on them is ment only for rope or fabric. I cannot cut anything harder than that. I used to keep a Voyager on hte boat in case of need. However after beaching it on a nice little spot on sebago We decided to start a little fire and just hang. Well just cutting pine branches for kindling broke about 8 teeth off the blade. Other than that they do have some cool stuff but just stray away from the serrations.