The construction, locking mechanisms and pocket clips are the main reasons why I buy cold steel. No longer will I ever have to suffer with my knife, falling off of my pocket because the clip isn’t secure enough. Or getting a seatbelt hooked under it and losing my knife, entering an exiting a vehicle. Nor will the sheer weight of the knife ever cause it to fall from my pocket when I happen to be hanging upside down or climbing, which is a regular thing in my profession. I don’t understand, swapping the clips.
The Recon1 and Code 4 are my most carried knives period. I made my own deep carry pocket clips for both of them, styled after the Spyderco pocket clips but longer and with three useable holes that fit in the original position. I made them from some type of scrap spring steel at a buddy of mine's machine shop and heat colored them, the one for the Recon 1 a deep purplish-blue and the one for the Code 4 to a deep straw color. I also milled in some lines on the Code 4 scales for traction and readonized then to a dark brown, using Rit Chocolate colored dye. Also changed out the Recon one scales to an OD burlap micarta and replaced the nylon pivot washer on them both with a phosphor bronze one and added another to the opposite side that only had one washer. I had to take them down about .005" to get the proper fit but they along with some polishing at the lock and pivot points on the blade with .5 micron diamond paste smoothed out the action quite a bit. I also rebent the lock spring just a tad on the Code 4 and now the action is slick as snot on a doorknob and doesn't take near the pressure to unlock it and the lockup is still just as strong as it ever was
Stassa, please do at least a short on the new AD-10 pocket clip you’re waiting to receive. I keep coming so close to buying that knife, but the pocket clip turns me off every time. I know it’s not meant to be a pretty knife, but a nice looking clip that still works well along with some Original Goat scales will make it a pretty knife!
Do an entire video on modding pocket clips to fit these knives.. I have every CS model you showed.. Whats available and which Spyderco clips to modify for which models.
Probably been asked already… but where in the world are you getting the clip from for the AD10?! I’ve searched for years and only found really really bad ones.
I bought it off an Etsy shop here is the link not sure if it will work since this is a short www.etsy.com/listing/1330384335/ If it doesn’t work search “blade4sell” that’s the shop then search Cold Steel ad10 clip
I had a Fin Wolf and it was my go to woods knife but a buddy of mine was going on a hiking trip and asked for some good suggestions of a strong and decently lightweight pocket knife to help him with making fires and also process game. So right away I thought about the Fin Wolf and I gifted it to him, he said it worked extremely well for him so mission accomplished 👍 now I just need to buy myself another one lol
Everyone knows cold steel pocket clips are way too tight from the factory, especially when combined with their grivex/frn/g10 rough scales. Rips your pants to shreds. Swapping them out is a must for an EDC.
I've always liked how secure CS's pocket clips made the knives I bought from them. Never fell out of my pocket or caught on something else in my pocket and was pulled off
I own the 3.5” in S35 and the 2.5” but they’re so wide in the pocket and mine have that clip point blade and I prefer a drop point so it gets carried less than the rest
