Cold Steel Republic

The Cold Steel Republic sure looks as if it is intended to compete directly with the stainless ESEE 4:

Cold Steel Republic

ESEE 4

The Republic:
- costs significantly more (rough numbers: $270 vs. $213 MSRP, and $220 vs. $150 on BladeHQ)
- presumably comes with a Cold-Steel-type warranty rather than an ESEE-type warranty, with all that entails.

It will be interesting to see whether it develops a following.

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If I were to acquire a knife of this general description (which I occasionally consider doing), I would not want it to be made of a high carbide volume fraction steel, no matter who made the knife.

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Still - if Cold Steel is going to try new things, I would much rather they try things like the Republic than things like the Axis.

alkali,
Yeah, looks like Cold Steel is chasing trends.

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jasonstone20
Yeah, looks like Cold Steel is chasing trends.

That may be so.

From a thread on T0.1M:

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Cliff Stamp
I can appreciate someone who sees a market and exploits it, it is a basic tenant [sic] of sales, you make what people will buy.

However I can appreciate even more someone who creates a market by making a product which shows people something which is better than they even knew it could be and educates them in the process.

Hey GSM! Which is it going to be?

alkali,
Yeah, i agree with Cliff.