Cold Steel ads, the very worst.

lorise

lorise

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Their ads, videos are ridiculous! Stabbing a car door and a piece of meet hanging from the ceiling on a hook.

This is what kids would do with knives. These videos give knifenuts a bad name.

Cold Steel dadada.. so sharp it cuts meat and cardboard that looks like a half man bad guy.

What do you guys think? Are they cool or ridiculous?



By the way, I have nothing against their knives.
 
You order 20 quadzillion of a product from makers in Pakistan or wherever and a recession hits. Your supply of quasi middle class buyers dries up, but your third party vendors still want to be paid. The solution? Expand your market with ads to appeal to the lunatic fringe and drugged out teenagers. Look for late night TV ads with discount purchases and in the back of SOF/SWAT type magazines next.
 
It's just silly advertising and imagery to appeal to the sheeple mall ninja types.

That said, I have 2 of their knives and they're actually pretty good - a Trailmaster and an SRK. They're good users.
 
lorise said:
Their ads, videos are ridiculous! Stabbing a car door and a piece of meet hanging from the ceiling on a hook.
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I suppose they could have opened letters instead.

lorise said:
This is what kids would do with knives. These videos give knifenuts a bad name.
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No. Knifenuts give knifenuts a bad name.

lorise said:
Cold Steel dadada.. so sharp it cuts meat and cardboard that looks like a half man bad guy.
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Okayy... :confused:

lorise said:
What do you guys think? Are they cool or ridiculous?
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I think this is a really tired rant. They're just commercials, fer chrissakes.
 
With the complete trash that kids see on TV, A CS commercial is a non issue. IMO If they were strapping people down and forcing them to watch, I could see a point to object to. It don't bother me.
 
lorise said:
Their ads, videos are ridiculous! Stabbing a car door and a piece of meet hanging from the ceiling on a hook.

This is what kids would do with knives. These videos give knifenuts a bad name.

Cold Steel dadada.. so sharp it cuts meat and cardboard that looks like a half man bad guy.

What do you guys think? Are they cool or ridiculous?



By the way, I have nothing against their knives.
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Here we go again

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Their dvds are much more impressive before you join a forum like this and learn more about steels, blade types, etc., and what knives in general are capable of. Having said that, I still enjoy watching them. Nothing wrong with watching folks cut stuff up with knives and swords. Just enjoy them from that perspective and don't take them too seriously, and they can be quite entertaining. Ultimately, I tend to agree with shecky's responses all around. :thumbup:

Hey, Bors, care to share some of that popcorn? THis could be a long night...:D
 
superc said:
You order 20 quadzillion of a product from makers in Pakistan or wherever and a recession hits. Your supply of quasi middle class buyers dries up, but your third party vendors still want to be paid.
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This is absurd. It's extremely rare that anyone has a problem with the quality of CS's steel. Their knives are not premium knives and their steel isn't premium steels like 154CM and S30V, but their 440A, AUS8A and VG-1 are about as good as you can get those steels. Their knives also are tough and strong. In short, you get, for the most part, a good bang for your buck. The only place where pure hype reigns is in the company's San Mai steel. Far from being a premium steel, San Mai is a core of either AUS8A or VG-1 steel with slabs of 420 thrown on to provide superior properties in "battle." This is sheer crap. Neither AUS8A nor VG-1 require slabs of softer steel to maintain their integrity. You can put either of these steels in a vice and bend them back and forth and not only will they not break, they'll return to their original configurations.

If I'm going to spend several hundred dollars for a knife, it's going to have a premium steel in it, not a medium grade steel sandwiched by lower grade steels. But, having said that, Cold Steel knives are decent, solid performers. They're not junkie Pakistan products or poorly heat treated Chinese pieces, and it's unfair to characterize them as such.
 
My friends and I love to sit down and watch the DVD. We laugh our asses off at the stuff on that thing. Too good!
 
Lorise, as a gold member you have the ability to search. Surely you know this subject has been gone over in detail ad infinitum ad nauseum.
 
Wonder where they get the music? Drives me insane.

Seeing Lynn Thompson trying to strike a fierce posture is almost too much, though.
 
I like that part where Lyn C. makes a "tasty snack" with the Master Hunter. Best use of a knife on the DVD and makes me hungry every time....

MMMMMMMMM Pears, apples, cheese, salami, baguetee, summer sausage...

:drool:
 
I love the smell of a cold steel thread in the morning...
I smells like... Dead horse!!
 
Granted that the majority of knife users will probably never slam a steel door on their precious knives.
I salute Mr Thompson for showing the world that abusing knives can be a cool acomplishment!
("When I grow up I just want to blow up knives for a living" - If it pays, it's goin' to be simply the best job in the world).
The closest thing that even came close to this must have been the earlier pioneering Buck Knives gimmick. Which spoke of it's blades being tempered hard enough to be able to "cut straight thru a bolt"; a fine and lasting marketing reputation that has even to this day requires Buck Knives to remind it's loyal buyers and first time owners that those days are forever gone...
So let's give Mr Thompson the credit of exploiting an otherwise old idea, that CS blades can take abuse better than all those other pretty wall hanging non-abusive-capable knives.
So what's wrong if CS was to make huge claims as a matter of advertising its corporate image of producing knives being fully idiot-proof?
When no one, except Busse Knives, had taken the competition in a straight head-on advertising blitz some years back?
But do we still see the need for Busse to make reverse-claims adverts like this any longer? Certainly not, because that is not Busse's or any other company's corporate image for now except Cold Steel's.
 
are people still just discovering cold steel or what ? ? ?

i like watching knives being used.i dont love the videos.i cant watch it more than once nor
can i watch the whole video.i dont think its ultra cool or impressive but i watch it for the same reasons i watch knifetests.com....to watch knives being used,because i am a knife nut which is why i am here just like everyone else.

some cold steel knives are descent for the money,some are crap.do i care or let it bother me ??...NO.has this issue been beaten to death....YES.will it continue to arise every month for the rest of our lives for some reason or another,like people have just discovered cold steel.....YES.is this the 10,000 cold steel controversy thread i have posted on....YES.

i could care less about them.if you dont like them,dont but them.nothing you can say or think about cold steel hasnt already been debated to death 1,000 times before.this is all old,very old news.
 
superc said:
You order 20 quadzillion of a product from makers in Pakistan or wherever and a recession hits. Your supply of quasi middle class buyers dries up, but your third party vendors still want to be paid. The solution? Expand your market with ads to appeal to the lunatic fringe and drugged out teenagers. Look for late night TV ads with discount purchases and in the back of SOF/SWAT type magazines next.
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Wrong. CS was making these videos long before any talk of recession.
 
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