haha i remember when i though Cold steal were the best knives....
I have some cold steel stuff, and I like it just fine - but it's nothing special.
I'm a huge kukri fan, and few companies make a decent kukri in modern materials that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. I like my cold steel kukri quite a lot. But any of a hundred companies could produce the exact same thing without blinking an eye. Cold steal just has the built-in audience that's more likely to buy stuff like kukris, so it's worth their time to make them.