VS. Facebook Readers: Click “Like” to vote for Cold Steel. Click “Love” to vote for Al Mar. If you are viewing this via a Facebook “share” – YOU MUST CLICK THIS FACEBOOK LINK to vote, not on the shared link. Remember you can vote twice: Once in the comments here on the blog, and once by […]
VS. Facebook users: Click “like” to vote for Cold Steel. Click “love” to vote for Kizer. Welcome back knife-fans for our penultimate Round 1 matchup in the Import- East division. Today’s contest pits #2 seed Cold Steel against #7 Kizer. This is going to be an interesting matchup. Cold Steel is a heavy favorite, but […]
Season 3 of History’s Alone is back, December 8th. Like before, the show disperses ten contestants in a wilderness environment, alone, with just camera gear to film themselves, ten items of their choosing to affect their survival, and a satellite phone they can use to “tap out” when they’ve had enough. Last one standing gets a […]
To be completely honest, this story fascinates me. I just don’t understand what Lynn Thompson is thinking, even if he did write an open letter explaining what he is thinking. I could almost understand a few targeted letters in extreme cases, but the blanket approach is creating a wave of ill-will towards Cold Steel. From […]
UPDATE: Lynn Thompson has released an open letter on the issue on Cold Steel’s website. Link below. Lynn Thompson and Cold Steel have been engaging in a pattern of “lawfare“. Last year, they sued CRKT over their claim that their locking systems turned their folders into “virtual fixed-blades”. While I think that CRKT’s claim was […]
Sorry to single out Cold Steel, but they are the most prominent practitioners of using visually rambunctious demos of their product. Type in “Cold Steel Proof” on YouTube and you’ll know what I’m talking about. Stabbing car hoods, cleaving pig carcasses in twain, throwing shovels like tomahawks, etc. Not to mention running a near-constant martial arts […]
My money is on the knives. I actually did this test on Saturday afternoon, to welcome the return of college football. I know that there are almost as many issues facing the NCAA as there are facing the real world, but for 12 hours or so every Saturday in the Fall I can suspend my […]
