Cold Steel Cutlery is one of the most unique and innovative knife and tool manufacturers on the market today. This company has perfected product development and uses some the highest grade steel and polymers available. If nothing the abuse which they subject their products too, merits a look into their product line. Just check the youtube videos produced by Cold Steel Cutlery, and you see exactly what i'm talking about.
For me the Cold Steel 4 in. TI-LITE folding knife has a lot of great features, but the best is its look. I looks like something a rough and tumble biker might carry. This knife has a zytel handle. Zytel being a composite material, with an extremely durable nature, and a very nice metal like finish. Fully extended this folding knife seems like it could be a switch blade, but it’s not. I’m just trying to give you all a visual of it.
It is considered a tactical knife however it isn’t exactly what I would be looking for in a tactical knife. Mainly I am put off by the small width of the blade. In tactical knives I like a really meaty blade because you never know what you’ll need to cut or slice or stab. Now if you are looking for a sleek knife this may be exactly what you need.
It has a plain edged blade with a chrome, or stainless steel finish. The metal used in the blade is a high quality Japanese AUS 8A Stainless Steel. Now taking in to account that most of you don’t know the metal coding scheme rest assured that this steel is incredibly hard and stand up to any task you give it. If you check out the cold steel website you will notice them cutting various contractor grade materials, as well as stabbing them and this series of TI-LITE knives didn’t falter.
A really great feature of the Cold Steel TI-LITE 26SP knife is the integrated linear lock. This allows for easy closing with one hand. But my favorite feature, which is demonstrated on the Cold Steel Website, is the use of the thumbstuds for what is called a “pocket snag” opening. This is really easy to do with this knife and a neat trick to show your friends. All in all I say this knife is really nice, not my first choice, but really nice; and really useful in the right setting and application.
