Oh no I didn't open a can a worms did I? I never gave that a thought when I typed in my question.
Bill
You threw a barrel of gasoline on a ragging inferno!
Topics about C.S. knives often turn very ugly on BladeForums.
Lynn Thompson over-hypes much of his product line. Carbon V, for example, is not some Super Steel exclusive to C.S.
Someone once bought a Carbon V blade, and sent it to a lab for testing. Turns out, it's nothing more than a fairly common carbon steel with a very good heat treat. Hell, Camillus was the company that made Carbon V blades
for C.S. (Until the day Camillus went out of business)!
The other problem? Lynn Thompson is considered by many to be little more than an @$$. He over-hypes his products by blatantly insulting his competitors. And, he likes to blatantly rip-off popular designs from his competitors, makes them cheaper, and then actually refers to
them, as rip-off artists. (Like he recently did with Mick Strider and his fixed-blade Tanto design. Strider is far from squeaky clean. Far from it. But many folks consider Thompson to be lower than him. And that's saying alot).
A lot of us who are into knives, refuse to buy C.S. products because we don't want Thompson getting our hard-earned money. There are folks on CPF who'll buy lights from Communist China, but not knives from C.S. (And I'm one of them).
That says alot when folks would prefer to buy from China, than from one particular America company.
Truth is, C.S. knives are generally good quality. I owned a few of them years ago. Can't say if the quality has gotten better or worse in recent years. I also like some of the company's designs..... Well, the ones that weren't blatantly ripped off from others.
