page_title: Cold Steel
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caption_attribution_description: English: Cold Steel Tanto design knife with Black Hills Ammunition Company cartouche. Made from carbon steel with high chromium content +vanadium. Blade Length: 7 1/2" Length overall: 12 3/4" Steel: U.S. CPM 3-V High Carbon Weight: 13 oz Blade Thickness: .2-inch Handle: 4 3/4" Long G-10 Sheath:Secure-Ex® Sheath
context_page_description: Cold Steel, Inc. is an American retailer of knives/bladed tools, training weapons, swords and other martial arts edged and blunt weapons, based in Ventura, California. Cold Steel products are manufactured worldwide, including in the United States, Japan, mainland China, Taiwan, India, Italy and South Africa.
context_section_description: The company's products include fixed blade knives, folding knives, swords, machetes, tomahawks, kukris, blowguns, walking sticks, and other martial arts items and training equipment. Their knives are used by military and law-enforcement personnel worldwide.
  Cold Steel is credited with popularizing the American tantō in 1980.  Cold Steel marketed knives made for them in the U.S. by Camillus using a carbon steel given the trademarked name "Carbon V" (read "carbon five").  Their imported knives were nearly all made in Seki, Japan using AUS-8 which Cold Steel labelled "400 Series Stainless".  They also had two models made in Taiwan, both of which switched to Japan in 2000.  In 2007 Camillus New York went bankrupt and Cold Steel was forced to find a new manufacturer for their carbon steel fixed blades.  Cold steel first went to Mainland China (People's Republic of China) but allegedly due to quality issues they switched to Taiwan for production.  At the same time Cold Steel moved all of their folding knife manufacturing from Seki Japan to Taiwan.  The carbon steel was SK5 and stainless was AUS-8 both imported to Taiwan from Japan.  However the Sanmai III models remained strictly Seki production. 
  Today, the knives made in Japan use VG-1 stainless steel and VG1 core Sanmai III, the Taiwan models use German 4116 stainless steel, D2 steel, 1055 high carbon steel, O-1 high carbon, SK-5 high carbon steel, Japanese AUS 8A stainless steel, American CTS XHP and CPM S35VN powder steels and American CPM 3V tool steel. The largest Sanmai III fixed blades are made by Hattori. Cold Steel's folding knives are renowned for their lock strength, due primarily to the introduction of the TRI-AD locking mechanism, designed by custom knife maker Andrew Demko.
  Cold Steel's swords are primarily made from 1055 high carbon steel and Damascus steel.
  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 knife makers such as Andrew Demko, Phil Boguszewski, Zach Whitson, Steven Likarich, Keith Dehart, Rich McDonald, Bob Koga, Fred Perrin and Lloyd Pendleton on certain designs.
caption: Cold Steel Tanto design knife with Black Hills Ammunition Company cartouche. Carbon steel with high chromium content +vanadium.  Blade Length: 7 1/2" Length overall: 12 3/4" Steel: U.S. CPM 3-V High Carbon Weight: 13 oz Blade Thickness: .2-inch Handle: 4 3/4" Long G-10 Sheath:Secure-Ex®
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