Why Lynn Thompson Rules!

wannabemarine said:
to bad ill never get to meet the guy

Once a year he throws a sidewalk sale and people come from all over the country to buy knives and especially to meet him. He is very friendly and is out with the customers talking and selling knives. I try to go every year because you can pick up some good deals if you look hard enough.
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Cold Steel has a good selection of models for different tastes. Thats all the positive I have to say about the low life scumbbag of Cold Steel.
 
My opinion of Cold Steel is. Yes their marketing leaves a lot to be desired, and their products aren’t up to the standards of Spyderco and the like, but they are a huge step up from the stuff you can buy in the mall.

What I do appreciate about Cold Steel is the wide variety of knives and other neat things that no one else will offer. If you want a folder with a six inch blade, Cold Steel is the only company that makes (markets) them, and affordably too. If you want a decent sword that won’t cost an arm and a leg, Cold Steel does that. The number of non edge items they offer is impressive as well. The Sjambok and Wax wood staff being some examples. Oh and the 27 inch Latin machete, those are nice.
 
The mall has a knife store with Cold Steel, CRKT, Benchmade, Spyderco at least they do in the closest big city to me. I never buy nothing as its mostly full retail. :eek:
 
I dunno.

Using designs from various global cultures is one thing. Then using designs that another company developed but maybe not originated (SOG) is another.

But the "Canadian Belt Knife"? That's pretty much proprietary Grohmann. What did they ever do to anyone? What's next? Spyderco Holes? Buck 110s? Leathermans? (They did SAKs...remember the "Swiss Steels?)

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LT only rips off the most popular designs from his competitors.... At least he has good taste when it comes to that. :rolleyes:
 
SlamFire said:
As long as Cold Steel sells product and makes a profit, the howling clan of Cold Steel Haters will have as much influence on the market as a pack of howling wolves have on the orbit of the moon.
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I'm pretty sure that howling wolves have a greater effect.
 
SlamFire said:
The Clan of Cold Steel Haters just don’t understand that the purpose of a Corporation is to make a profit. So if the advertising seems wacko, but sells knives, well wacko it will be. If Lynn states a personnel opinion against something, but sells it later, hey, guess what, it must be making a profit. Business decisions are based on maximizing profits, not feeding the egos of a bunch of malcontents.
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Smith & Wesson tried to cut a deal with the Clinton Administration because they thought that it was in their best interests. The NRA and it's supporters made them pay dearly for that miscalculation of "business interests". It nearly put that storied firm in the ground.

Lynn tries the opposite approach of playing up the "tacticool" blood spray and deanimation aspect of cutlery. Sooner or later, one group or another will make him and his company pay for that absurd positioning.

You can do business clean (Spyderco, Kershaw, Benchmade(mostly), or you can do business dirty(Mad Dog, Cold Steel, Dark Ops).

Being an ass is no guarantee of being successful, it just gives you more to account/attone for down the road.

Have been a businessman for over 25 years, and a very successful salesman for 15 years of that time. I know the players, and I know the game. Lynn is not someone that I would drink, or have dinner, with, and I would not introduce him to my wife.

He makes/appropriates some very cool knife designs, including my all-time favorite production knife, the Imperial Tanto, but it does not change the fact that he plays dirty.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
SlamFire said:
The Clan of Cold Steel Haters just don’t understand that the purpose of a Corporation is to make a profit. So if the advertising seems wacko, but sells knives, well wacko it will be. If Lynn states a personnel opinion against something, but sells it later, hey, guess what, it must be making a profit. Business decisions are based on maximizing profits, not feeding the egos of a bunch of malcontents.

As for Cold Steel hiring designers or copying other people designs, well welcome to reality, every major company in the world hires people to create new products. These people may be marketers, architects, engineers, artists, chiefs, etc. Once a product sells, that product is imitated, copied. Those who do not keep with innovation go out of business. Lack of profits will do that. Remember the purpose of a corporation?

As to Cold Steel not making products in house, well welcome to reality. Has Kenmore ever made an appliance? There are lots of brand names that are stamped on someone else’s production. Always has been, always will be. In fact American manufacturers don’t seem to be lasting that long. Last I heard Schrade went out of business, United Cutlery too, and Camillus went bust. As mentioned on this forum, Camillus made Cold Steel products, may have been the manufacturer of all the Carbon V knives. Or at least a few. All companies perform “Make or Buy” analysis. Currently the buy decision has been winning. There are a lot fewer knives being made in the good ole USA, and they cost more. Next year there will be even less made in the USA. Shame.

As long as Cold Steel sells product and makes a profit, the howling clan of Cold Steel Haters will have as much influence on the market as a pack of howling wolves have on the orbit of the moon.
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LOL ..... Care for some cheese with that wine?

Funny how other companies manage to turn a profit, while not throwing integrity into the dumpster.
 
SlamFire said:
The Clan of Cold Steel Haters just don’t understand that the purpose of a Corporation is to make a profit. So if the advertising seems wacko, but sells knives, well wacko it will be. If Lynn states a personnel opinion against something, but sells it later, hey, guess what, it must be making a profit. Business decisions are based on maximizing profits, not feeding the egos of a bunch of malcontents.

As for Cold Steel hiring designers or copying other people designs, well welcome to reality, every major company in the world hires people to create new products. These people may be marketers, architects, engineers, artists, chiefs, etc. Once a product sells, that product is imitated, copied. Those who do not keep with innovation go out of business. Lack of profits will do that. Remember the purpose of a corporation?

As to Cold Steel not making products in house, well welcome to reality. Has Kenmore ever made an appliance? There are lots of brand names that are stamped on someone else’s production. Always has been, always will be. In fact American manufacturers don’t seem to be lasting that long. Last I heard Schrade went out of business, United Cutlery too, and Camillus went bust. As mentioned on this forum, Camillus made Cold Steel products, may have been the manufacturer of all the Carbon V knives. Or at least a few. All companies perform “Make or Buy” analysis. Currently the buy decision has been winning. There are a lot fewer knives being made in the good ole USA, and they cost more. Next year there will be even less made in the USA. Shame.

As long as Cold Steel sells product and makes a profit, the howling clan of Cold Steel Haters will have as much influence on the market as a pack of howling wolves have on the orbit of the moon.
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Monocrom said:
LOL ..... Care for some cheese with that wine?

Funny how other companies manage to turn a profit, while not throwing integrity into the dumpster.
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Couldn't have said it better myself! A lot of SlamFire's posts, not unlike DngrRuss1's, are spent defending CS. The parts of his post I've underlined are reason enough for me to stick with companies like Spyderco, Emerson, & Kershaw. I'm sure they (Spyderco, Emerson, & Kershaw) turn a darn good profit, and I don't see them resorting to the types of things I've seen CS do!

It's really funny that SlamFire chooses to NOW (he didn't in a couple of previous threads) accept the fact that Camillus made knives for CS. Also, I was intrigued by SlamFire's statement about "those who do not keep up with innovation." If this year's CS catalog is any indication of that theory, well........I'll leave it at that.;)


Boats said:
Sifu Lynn Thompson is part of the Axis of A-holes, the Troika of Turkeys, and the Iron Pyrite Triangle of Tossers, along with his soulmates Electric Rifle McClung and Mogadishu Mick.

If I keep hearing more out of Dork Ops, there's gonna have to be a Cube of the Cutsey Fartsy, Quartet of Queefs, or the Square of Stupidity to accommodate the addition.

As I have said elsewhere, I wouldn't accept a free knife from any of them when there are much better makers and companies in this industry deserving of support.
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Boat's, your posts are absolutely priceless (and spot on)!!:D

Regards,
3G
 
Anything that can be copied is generally copied, if there's no way the copier can be sued for patent infringement. It all comes down to making a dollar. This goes on worldwide in every area of manufacturing. Even medicine has patents that expire. Knives, some people feel should be held to a higher moral standard than medicine? Somebody somewhere is going to copy and sale whatever they think will sale, if there's no patent infringement involved. Don't like it? Don't buy it. That's about the only choice you have in the matter. Next time you go to fill a prescription tell the druggist that you won't accept the generic pills because they wasn't developed by the company that made them. Say I want the name brand stuff that costs 5x as much! Makes as much sense to me as the reason not to like a entire brand of knives. I don't like a lot of Cold Steels knives, but the ones I do I will buy. Just as I'll buy a SOG with "Arch lock" that's just enough unlike axis lock to slide by the patent.
 
Did anyone see the new CS "GI Tanto" ?
I love that bit of marketing jazz about "not throwing away hundreds of dollars on knives sold by convicted felons posing as elite “military operators”.
The man has once again proven that he's always ready to declare open war on industry greats.
 
Funny how other companies manage to turn a profit, while not throwing integrity into the dumpster.
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And those companies are?
 
GIRLYmann said:
Did anyone see the new CS "GI Tanto" ?
I love that bit of marketing jazz about "not throwing away hundreds of dollars on knives sold by convicted felons posing as elite “military operators”.
The man has once again proven that he's always ready to declare open war on industry greats.
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yea who would would go after special ops posers and criminals. what is this world coming to!:jerkit:
 
threads like this are great, because the ethically challenged members of Bladeforums come out of the closet. (And get added to my ignore list)
 
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