Cold Steel 'Double Safe'?

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Cold Steel has shown a couple new knives with a new 'Double Safe' mechanism. It's a secondary lock which slides on or off.

"Cold Steel had your fingers in mind when designing the Double Safe. Its state-of-the-art rocker lock features a secondary safety mechanism, that when engaged is enormously resistant to shock and impact. "

My question is, why bother designing this when they have the Tri-Ad lock?

The Double Safe mechanism is used on the Double Safe Hunter and the Bush Ranger Lite. Product images do not show the Tri-Ad lock's signature stop pin...

The more expensive Bush Ranger (non-lite) looks almost identical, but uses the Tri-Ad lock instead.

Why use 'Double Safe' on the $49.99 Bush Ranger Lite, and Tri-Ad on the $224.99 Bush Ranger?

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Two guesses, one is the Triad may add additional expense and the Bush Ranger Lite is obviously a price point type knife. The second is that they don't want to show a Chinese OEM how to make a proper Triad lock for fear of counterfeiting or even just Triad lock knives being produced once the patent expires.
 
Insipid Moniker said:
Two guesses, one is the Triad may add additional expense and the Bush Ranger Lite is obviously a price point type knife. The second is that they don't want to show a Chinese OEM how to make a proper Triad lock for fear of counterfeiting or even just Triad lock knives being produced once the patent expires.
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I'd go with your first "guess " . I've already seen photos of the innards of an XL Voyager clone that had what sure looked like a Triad lock . So , I believe them horses have already fled the barn ! ;)
 
https://www.knifecenter.com/item/CS...-folding-knife-blade-od-green-griv-ex-handles
However , the "Finn Wolf" has the Tri-ad lock and is less than $40 ? There may be cheaper yet models with the Tri-ad for all I know ?

I generally love Cold Steel products , but I've never liked the idea of a folder that NEEDS more than one lock to be safe . Stinks of CRKT design logic .:mad::thumbsdown::thumbsdown:

Edit: Miro Recon 1 , the "Pro Lite" and "Tuff Lite" series all are fairly cheap despite have the Tri-ad lock .
 
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Concession to manufacturing I'm sure. Something about the process made the addition of the stop pin for the tri-ad too difficult or too costly to pull off.
 
DocJD said:
https://www.knifecenter.com/item/CS...-folding-knife-blade-od-green-griv-ex-handles
However , the "Finn Wolf" has the Tri-ad lock and is less than $40 ? There may be cheaper yet models with the Tri-ad for all I know ?

I generally love Cold Steel products , but I've never liked the idea of a folder that NEEDS more than one lock to be safe . Stinks of CRKT design logic .:mad::thumbsdown::thumbsdown:

Edit: Miro Recon 1 , the "Pro Lite" and "Tuff Lite" series all are fairly cheap despite have the Tri-ad lock .
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Look at MSRP, though. Finn Wolf is $65, the Double safe models all seem to be $40-$50 MSRP. I'm guessing they're aiming at the under $30 street price point with these. I think they first tried to do it by dropping the steel to 1446 and now they're going a different route to cut the price.
 
I really wish they'd just go back to a standard lock back on the lesser models. I really like the older Japanese voyagers. The tri-ad ruined them for me(though they're still great knives.)
 
T.L.E. Sharp said:
I really wish they'd just go back to a standard lock back on the lesser models. I really like the older Japanese voyagers. The tri-ad ruined them for me(though they're still great knives.)
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I like the Triad fine, but the omission of it on these knives certainly doesn't bother me. It looks like the Double Safe Hunter model may come in at under $25 and at that price I may very well pick one up just to keep in the car.
 
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I was looking at the Bush Ranger Lite. I will be at CS parking lot sale on the 19th. Might just pick one up and report back here if I can get a real good deal on it.
 
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