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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2007 22:25:50 GMT
Hey guys, I've been wandering around here for quite some time now, i'm sure most of ya know me - and my silly questions.... Although I have come a LONG way since I joined here * carbon alloys used to make swords from the 10$ price point to the 3,000$ price point] but I still do not understand the definition of cold steel, mainly because there is so little info about it spreaded out in the net......
perhaps paul could write a small paragraph about it sometime, but for now, i'd really like to understand what difference are there between a 'high carbon steel' and a 'cold steel', i know both has a high amount of carbon in them [cold steel are said to have around the 0.5%, HC goes from 0.45% up to (as far as I have seen) 1.2%].
so if anyone knows and don't mind sharing it with me, i'll be glad to finally understand it, it bugged me ever since I saw those 200-400$ swords at trueswords.com which all haves tags like "88BOK" and others, and they were all under the crude category of Cold Steel......
Thanks in advance,
-Silly W.H.
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Post by ShooterMike on Mar 21, 2007 22:34:00 GMT
Sorry, I probably am the one who started this with the saber review. Cold Steel is the name of a knife and sword making company in the U.S. Here's their website. www.coldsteel.com/Like any hobby site, sometimes we use slang and other terms just assuming everyone understands them. And like I always heard [best hillbilly voice] "Boy! You know what happens when you make an assumption? Uh...You make a ass outa you and umption!" Sorry if some don't get the reference and joke. It's from a movie about dumb hillbillies. (kinda like me)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2007 4:26:30 GMT
Cold Steel is not a type of steel but as stated above it is a USA sword company. Cold Steel uses mostly 1055 steel. Decent swords but too over priced for what they are. They do cut well and are very strong. But quality control is lacking for the high price. I've owned them.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2007 4:59:04 GMT
[ Or when you assume something you make an "ass" outa "u" and "me". djg Hehe. The first time I heard that was on the Benny Hill Show when I was a kid (totally irrelevant, but it just happened to trigger that memory in me). ;D Cold steel is a term used in the English language to describe any sort of steel item, usually a weapon. For example, in an English book, you might read a sentence that says, "He felt the cold steel of his attacker's blade against his throat." It's just a dramatic way of describing a knife, sword, whatever. THis is where the company Cold Steel got its name.
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Post by ShooterMike on Mar 22, 2007 19:57:06 GMT
The hillbilly reference was assuming you guys had seen the stupid movie bit about the redneck who was trying to use the "ass of u and me" bit but was too dumb to say it right. Sorry. Heh, heh,heh.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2007 21:09:03 GMT
It should be noted that you can find better prices for all of Cold Steel's wares at other sites, for example, at www.kultofathena.com you can get coldsteel stuff for much less(on average 30%+ less) than Cold Steel's MSRP. Even at cold steel's sister site: www.ltspecpro.com you can get big discounts on their stuff. KultofAthena also hand inspects each piece before shipping them out, so you know you're not getting a crappy piece. However, it has been said that dealers that sell products from Hanwei, Coldsteel, and others for much under the MSRP are selling either seconds or pieces picked up from the ColdSteel promo sales which are usually those that don't fit together or handle as well as ColdSteel would like.
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