Thread: Boning with a Skinner?

@Tahr, that knife is one of the very few Cold Steels with a full flat grind. Still sold in XHP too ,when a lot of the other CS designs are being migrated over to S35VN. Miles of straight edge before the belly, available in orange & blue rather than just handle colours that mean it is gone forever when dropped or inadvisedly put down in some situations. A lot to like there. I think if I ordered one in I might take to the spine with a grinder though, and use it as a test case for attempting to sandblast off the dlc coating along with the writing!

Originally Posted by Puffin

@Tahr, that knife is one of the very few Cold Steels with a full flat grind. Still sold in XHP too ,when a lot of the other CS designs are being migrated over to S35VN. Miles of straight edge before the belly, available in orange & blue rather than just handle colours that mean it is gone forever when dropped or inadvisedly put down in some situations. A lot to like there. I think if I ordered one in I might take to the spine with a grinder though, and use it as a test case for attempting to sandblast off the dlc coating along with the writing!

I took the V grind off mine and convexed it with water stones, and a lot of the coating came off while I was doing that. Yes, they are great. Lots to like and way better than the Mercator.

Mike Stewart (the owner of Bark River) told me that he would have used XHP but Carpenter couldn't supply enough of it or guarantee continuity. Cold Steal were in the same boat it seems.