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Cold Steel Recon 1 Series Tactical Folding Knife with Tri-Ad Lock and Pocket Clip - Made with...

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Pros & Cons

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Pros

S35vn is a high grade steel that is durable, strong, and fairly easy to sharpen. The serrated tanto has a lefty chisel grind (flat on the right side of the blade) for its secondary bezel. Clip point glides through edc tasks due to it's grind but for a... Read More

I'm not too savvy when it comes to knives so i popped into a few forums and noticed cold steel was mentioned pretty regularly.

Love the ergonomics of the knife. Is it the best? It functions well. This knife is perfect for the right operator. It is a beast.

Cons

Sometimes it looks like the blade may be warped. It is a chisel grind so it is only a one sided edge. The grind is so uneven that even with precision angle sharpening and literally weeks of work, one bevel is a full millimeter wider than the other.

The tanto logo doesn't match the logo on amazon or the official cold steel website. The steel is fantastic and extremely hard, so this has taken ages, and i still end up with a very unsightly and noticeably uneven set of bevels.

Handles are smooth and textured but feel unsubstantial. If you wear size xl gloves the finger groves seem to be sized for a child. The thumb stud is smaller on that side making it more difficult to open one handed. The screw is not comfortable at all ... Read More

A lot of these knives have defective locks and exchanging those for another may get you a good one. Worst part is since the company is going down hill faster then a jet powered skier there's no point in trying to get it fixed.

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Quality

The quality of the knife is extremely good.

It’s a great quality knife all the way around.

With regular maintenance they both retain scary sharp edges, can handle alot of cutting tasks, and after abt a week you hardly ... Read More

Knife doesn't close properly and has wobble at the tip, will be returning and purchasing a sog pentagon series like i should ha... Read More

Price

You are getting an outstanding product for a very reasonable price.

Ounce for ounce, dollar for dollar, this is true bargain.

Unless i'm opening a $500 sabenza, i prefer to be able to snap open the blade with a flick of the thumb, and if i do have to pu... Read More

You get a lot for you money with this steel.

Shipping

Decided to order this one and it was immediately delivered and omg am i glad that i orderded this one.

Competitiveness

I like this clip better than the sr1 as it's more manageable off and on the belt.

Note: there are other knives with this same steel selling in the $300+ range.

It's hard to find a knife that gets talked about more than the recon, so i won't say much.

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This product had a total of 2,510 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jan 19 2024.