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Originally posted by Sergiusz Mitin
In fact so-called Americanized tanto was born as the crossbreeding of fantasy to make knife what was never made and marketing intentions to catch the buyer with unusual look what should state him about unusual properties of such blade.
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Lynn Thompson designed his tanto in the early 1980s after breaking two knives in one training session. We wanted to design a knife that would be "unbreakable" yet still be able to cut and pierce. IIRC it was designed as a weapon ( as were all of the older Cold Steel knives) but some people found utilitarian uses for it.