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The excellent Cold Steel "Broken Skull" is no more. This was a very strong, thin, easy to carry, full sized blade with good steel. You shoulda' bought at least one. https://youtu.be/YZTO1jXWsb8 

But it now lives on in a more affordable version. It's a good looking, timeless knife design. The steel is not nearly as good BUT the rest of the elements are there in the Range Boss. Cardboard cutting tests shown, oh rejoice!

Cold Steel Range Boss  https://shrsl.com/3mt6i

Deep Blue's amazing watches, they're all xlnt: https://tinyurl.com/yahzkm8u   (a white "Alpha Marine" watch is on the table)

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Cold Steel Range Boss: Just Won't Die

The excellent Cold Steel "Broken Skull" is no more. This was a very strong, thin, easy to carry, full sized blade with good steel. You shoulda' bought at least one. https://youtu.be/YZTO1jXWsb8 But it now lives on in a more affordable version. It's a good looking, timeless knife design. The steel is not nearly as good BUT the rest of the elements are there in the Range Boss. Cardboard cutting tests shown, oh rejoice! Cold Steel Range Boss https://shrsl.com/3mt6i Deep Blue's amazing watches, they're all xlnt: https://tinyurl.com/yahzkm8u ( a white "Alpha Marine" watch is on the table)

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Mr J

One of my favorite hard use folders. Had a broken skull that got lost a few years back sad day. But the range boss is definitely a work horse.

Not SAWC

Bought a Broken Skull in orange back in the day. Love it, still got it. One of my favorites. Glad to see they are keeping that design around

Bravo

So many cold steel knives I was crazy about when I was a kid and couldn’t afford are now discontinued 😢

Bravo

Some other brands too but this review just made me think of some older cold steel models

Patrick Brichta

Cool value option, I love my original Broken Horn, a regular in my rotation.

Ryan Reese

Always loved the Range Boss & Broken Skull! I was always under the impression that they both excised at the same time. The Range Boss was just the value version.

hoplite ⚔️

Nice! Excited for this review. Have one destined for BOK but feel like I need a couple more for other systems. Appreciate the vids to start the weekend off right!

Pedro

Love mine. Broken skull is one of my top 3. CTS XHP stele I’m that rad blue.

Ryan Reese

😏I tried to buy it from you a couple years ago.

Pedro

That you did, 100% can’t blame you for trying. It’s one hell of a knife.

Moe Mansour

The design of the Broken Skull came from the Lone Star Hunter (which was around long before Steve Austin was involved with Cold Steel). Cold Steel just put his name on the Broken Skull for marketing (although, he may have had some input). Having said all that, the Broken Skull was an awesome knife. And I was stoopid to trade it. Knife regrets.

Moe Mansour

The Spyderco Stretch XL would be an interesting competitive option to this. Albeit, a different price bracket (would be pretty hard to beat the Range Boss as a BOK knife for the price). But so happy to see Spyderco going back to no liners on some of their bigger blades.

DuginIN

Bought the Broken Skull in June 2016 after your WRV in May 2016. On sale $68.00 with black DLC coated blade. Part of my knife addiction collection. New in box.

hoplite ⚔️

Loving the drop point version of the voyager they put out recently too.

Daniel Martinez

Ya I love my broken skull. Great hiking knife where I need something lightweight yet with a long blade. Have the CTS-XHP version :)

Moe Mansour

How do you know my real name? 🤨

Andrettski

Kinda in the same ballpark, I have a CS 'Working Man' Steve Austin in 4116, it's just a great beater knife.

Matt W Plank

We don’t use our knives, Nutn, because YOU encourage us to use cool utility blades like the Sheffield, the Cold Steel Recon micro etc Come on now!😊 Love da knives, got 80% of your special editions, can’t wait for the XXL, and yeah, you have me hooked! I got so many friggin knives, that I could rotate them and use them for the next 10 years and they would still be sharp! Love ya, Bro!

Curran Carini

I don’t have this one but I just bought an AD-10…what a beast of a knife

hoplite ⚔️

Me too. Had to recently add an Air Lite to the EDC rotation.

Logan Holmberg

still have my broken skull. my fav knife.