Vg-1????

[Imprezed]

Hey guys, Just browsing knives at work today and I noticed Cold steel Finally upped their line by offering G-10 Handles and VG-1 steel. Like always, Cold steel never Offers any hardness levels or the contents of any of the steels they use so I was wondering if you guys have heard any news on this steel?

[JD Spydo]

Hey guys, Just browsing knives at work today and I noticed Cold steel Finally upped their line by offering G-10 Handles and VG-1 steel. Like always, Cold steel never Offers any hardness levels or the contents of any of the steels they use so I was wondering if you guys have heard any news on this steel?

VG-1 has been out for a while now. As far as CS not giving any detail about their steel is just the way they do things. Cold Steel is strictly a marketing company from what I can tell. Carbon V which is their flagship steel is supposed to be an old Carbon steel that has been around for ages. I have heard from a very reliable source that the CS Carbon V knives are made by Camillus. CS makes a fairly good "hard use" knife but none of their stuff that I have encountered is of collectible quality. I like some of their obscure type stuff like their Gurkha Kukris and big bowies but I no longer own any of their folders at all. Trust me Spyderco and at least 3 other companies I could name make much, much better knives than CS does>> That's my opinion to which I am entitled

[yablanowitz]

I don't know if their steel has changed over the years or not. I do remember when they came out with Carbon V steel, claiming it was "made specially for them". I also remember someone did a steel analysis and found it was identical to the chome vanadium steel used by Western Cutlery back in the 60's and 70's. Good stuff, but hardly "made specially for them". :rolleyes: But since my newest CS knife is older than my oldest :spyder: that is about all I can say on the subject. :D

[thombrogan]

Gin-1, VG-1, VG-10, and SGPS (Super Gold Powder Steel ) are all made by Takefu (http://www.e-tokko.com/eng_index.htm) Special Steel Co. Spyderco uses their steels for many of their knives manufactured in Japan.

Shiro2 might make a nice addition for some kitchen knives. :D Deba deba doo!

Cold Steel's practice of designing knives and letting other companies manufacture the designs is consistant with the practices of other companies, including Spyderco. Spyderco now manufactures many in-house knives (including the upcoming and much-craved Lil' Temp2 and Schempp Tuff), but didn't always do so. Excerpts of "The Spyderco Story" suggest that Sal chose the name Spyder for its association with excellence in items such as high-performace sports coupes.