Cold Steel Spartan Designed by celebrated custom knife maker Andrew Demko, our Spartan is one of our most popular folding knives. The Spartans super-sharp stonewashed blade is made from American BD1 Alloy Steel, and was designed to echo the aesthetics and cutting performance of the world famous Kukri. Its distinctive Kopis-inspired handle is precision injection molded out of Griv-Ex with heat treated steel liners, and this, in addition to our famous Tri-Ad lock, makes for a knife that is incredibly safe and secure. The Spartan also features the patented Demko thumb plate, which can be used to open the knife like a conventional "one handed opener" or be snagged on the edge of a pocket during the draw stroke and opened at lightning speed! Specifications - Part: # 21sc - Weight: 9 Oz. - Thickness: 4mm - Blade Length: 4 1/2" - Handle: 6" Long Griv-Ex With Steel Fittings - Steel/Material: Carpenter Cts Bd1 Alloy - Overall: 10 1/2" Cold Steel is credited with popularizing the American tant? in 1980.[4][5] Cold Steel marketed knives made for them in the U.S. by Camillus using a carbon steel given the trademarked name "Carbon V", read Carbon five. Their imported knives were nearly

made in Seki Japan using Aus8 which Cold Steel labelled"400 Series Stainless". They also had two models made in Taiwan, both of which switched to Japan in 2000. In 2007 Camillus York went bankrupt and Cold Steel was forced to find a manufacturer for their carbon steel fixed blades. Cold Steel first went to China (People's Republic of China) but allegedly due to quality issues they switched to Taiwan (Republic of China) production. At the same time Cold Steel moved all of their folding knife manufacturing from Seki Japan to Taiwan. The carbon steel was SK5 and stainless was Aus8 both imported to Taiwan from Japan. However the Sanmai III models remained strictly Seki Japan production. What's in the box 1 x Knife