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the Will of Cold Steel

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Ashenden

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I like handsome knives, and I also love to collect unique posters of knives. The poster below I found at a dealer's office in Tokyo, Japan, with the tag line 'the Will of Cold Steel'.

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A bad photochop of a Napoleonic painting with the addition of a Japanese made American bastardization of a Japanese knife?

I don't get it...:confused:
 
You know, i'm usually one of the first to get on cold steel hate bandwagon. But that is one of the few decent knives cold steel has made for them. As much as they are now IMHO just one short & curly away from a full fledged fantasy knife company that knife is really the only truly respectable product they have left. While some still debate whether or not cold steel truly invented the modern american tanto their should be no confusion that they are very much responsible for its popularity. Its one of the rare cases where companies actually copied cold steel design cues and not the other way around. And while the poster is really a "poster child" or poor advertizing, I dont feel the knife is a bad design nor a poorly made product. Rather a decent child with really bad parents.
 
They've always catered to the mall ninja crowd, but it's hard to sneer at the Tuff Lite, Code 4, American Lawman, and AK47 (coating quality aside) - all of those are immensely useful and extremely reliable knives.

And, hey, AUS8 is what got me started on learning how to sharpen. I certainly got a lot of practice with my Voyager.
 
FWIW, I enjoy 2/3 of his icecream. I like chocolate well enough on its own, but never cared for chocolate icecream. I usually use a spoon though, and not an overpiced, overmarketed knife to eat it. And frankly, cookies & cream or vanilla with Heath bars is usually my preferred variety.
 
Per wikipedia:

Napoleon complex, or "short man syndrome", is a pejorative slang term describing a type of psychological phenomenon which is said to exist in people, usually men, of short stature.[1] It is characterized by overly-aggressive or domineering social behaviour, and carries the implication that such behaviour is compensatory for the subjects' stature. The term is also used more generally to describe people who are driven by a perceived handicap to overcompensate in other aspects of their lives. Other names for the term include Napoleon syndrome[2] and Short Man syndrome.[3]

The Napoleon complex is named after Emperor Napoleon I of France. The conventional wisdom is that Napoleon compensated for his lack of height by seeking power, war and conquest. However, Napoleon's height was actually average for his time period; the average 18th-century Frenchman stood at 5 ft 2 in (1.57 m).[4] Historians have now suggested Napoleon was 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) tall. Napoleon was often seen with his Imperial Guard, which contributed to the perception of his being short because the Imperial Guards were above average height.[5] In psychology, the Napoleon complex is regarded as a derogatory social stereotype.[6]
 
if you look past the ridiculous ads and some of the fantasy like designs, Cold Steel has some really good stuff.
 
Anyone have that painting of Lynn standing with he sword and babes on the giant pileof meat?:D
 
Nixelplix said:
Looks like the same "artist" that did the "artwork" in this thread. Hmmm. What seems to be the connection?

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1148324-A-beautiful-painting-of-Kabar
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Well, I guess the 'connection' you've been looking for could be that I like to collect knife artworks(as I have explained at the beginning of this thread), and that I happen to have found and collected all the artworks I've displayed at this forum....
Hope my explanation is enough to satisfy your keen impulses of sleuthing?
 
Ashenden said:
Well, I guess the 'connection' you've been looking for could be that I like to collect knife artworks(as I have explained at the beginning of this thread), and that I happen to have found and collected all the artworks I've displayed at this forum....
Hope my explanation is enough to satisfy your keen impulses of sleuthing?
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I think they are trying to say that it's a bit weird -- an original artwork with a knife copy+pasted on top of it might appear weird to some.
 
What I'm saying is the OP did it. He didn't "find" it somewhere, but, whatever. I'm out.
 
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