>>2797726>Cold steelKek, people still buy that shit? Out of all their blades that I've seen, the only one that could cut straight out of the box was unironically the plastic practice sword. That shit had burs sharp enough to cut my hand whn I unpacked it.
The others (two knives and one machete I bought, and ~30 knives from aquaintances that I've fixed over the years) all shipped half blunt, with terrible workmanship. Parts of the edge would be razor-sharp and rolled, while other parts would have more than 1mm of material left. Some would have dents ground into them, as if someone had hit the corner of a grinding wheel, and one even had around 5mm of steel on the tip ground doen to the thickness of aluminum foil and folded backwards for some reason.
Now, to be fair, the steel and tempering are alright. But the products cold steel makes aren't worth their price. And that's not even considering that the point of balance is always too far forward, as if they WANT to make their tools feel overly heavy.
If you want a good axe, buy a cheap hardwarestore axe and sharpen it properly. If you want a great axe, do the same, then once you know what a properly sharpened axe looks like, go to your closest flea market and look for one that was made before the wars and maintained well.
Don't wast your money on meme shit like Cold steel, Fiskars or Gransfors (which, while not as terrible as the other two, does advertise "carving axes" and "felling axes" that aren't anywhere near suitable for those tasks. Their axes are at least alright, if overpriced, for making kindling or driving wedges).
