I own quite a few of their products in the early days CS was pretty good. There really was nothing close to the Trail master and the Tanto in performance for the price. I bought the then new first generation Trail master for $140 and the Tanto for I think $110. But like I said that was in the early days.

I've met LT several times and must say he is a bit of an arrogant REO who doesn't listen to the market. While the rest of the industry moved forward CS became stagnet in the eighties.

While his low end knives are not bad the high end stuff (like the bowies)are poorly designed and way over priced.