The Armour Archive

Yakety Sax + Cold Steel

http://delaflamme.org/swordofbenny

no view need password.... *me sad*

Many apologies!

The link is now fixed.

Painful.

Had to watch that doof and his cronies chop up cardboard tubes several times at a recent conference. The sad part is they are beginning to convince themselves that the rest of the sword community doesn't understand the reality of medieval weapons. They think they are educators bringing truth to historical research.

"...get me that damn sword!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofMnvrMRpjM

Wow!
Thanks, I needed the laughs so gratuitously provided.

That also so further reaffirms by reluctance to ever buy a cold steel blade for historic use. (got to admit some of their smaller items and modern things are nice.) Though except for the garbage can (cause of width) and the cinder block (because it is stupid), a decent machete does all of that at much less bulk.

I like the throwing test at the end.

I mean, who doesn't throw their sword like a javelin?

Ow, my head.

I came away from that video feeling one thing ... HUNGER. Fire up the barbie, we got us some meat to grill!

The poses the guy in the beginning (tie and glasses) takes after each swing crack me up.

Conan the Librarian.

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Gotta get me a tie like that......(already have a sword).... .

Cool! Now I know that if I am ever accosted by a bunch of hogs wearing mail and hiding in a fort of cinder blocks and garbage cans full of water strung together with big ass nylon ropes, Coldsteel has just the product I need!

Dude. The sword is so good even he can cut with it.

The guy is an idiot but Cold Steel swords are pretty decent weapons.

audax wrote:The guy is an idiot but Cold Steel swords are pretty decent weapons.

Most of the cold steel sword offerings are way too heavy.

Look at the fat man around 1:30, showing off the bamboo he cut. HE'S NOT SHOWING THE PART HE ACTUALLY CUT! THAT'S THE VERY TOP OF THE FUCKING BAMBOO!
So sharp, it can pop a fucking balloon.
Now is it me, but when they're chopping up the pigs, doesn't it look like there's no bones in the carcass?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhknaG9i ... re=related
Oooh... You crushed some cardboard boxes. I'm terrified. I wonder if he could do that damage without a giant windup and five steps worth of momentum.

That fat guy always makes me laugh, thank you.

audax wrote:The guy is an idiot but Cold Steel swords are pretty decent weapons.

For the most part their "swords" are sharpened clubs. They are as elegant as a pregnant yak. When you get a chance to handle better designed replicas or historical artifacts you will see the difference. IMHO, that company's products are a waste of perfectly good steel.

Personally, I would love to have a job where I get to use assorted swords to cut up various things.
I bet I could pull off a dorky pose just as well as any of their "experts" too!

Oh and in perusing their sites, I found that their spears are particularly deadly against car doors mounted on frames!

Is that Odell?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dHwukEtNZw

That was pretty awsome! A running start to pop a baloon . Really? Anticlimactic.
Cold Steel makes some decent knives- I have several. None of thier swords though. I do have to admit that the marketing is pretty silly and it is funny to watch Lynn Thompson flail around with his stubby little T Rex arms!
John/Drefan

The shamshir is a good piece, and definitely NOT a club. Sharp as F*CK, and well-balanced.

Isn't that the same beast s.l.o that shows up in Tosh.0 segment

http://tosh.comedycentral.com/video-cli ... teel-blade


btw: A thrown sword is something Fiore show you how to defend against. Throwing a sword sounds weird to us but it appears to be something people in late 14th early 15th C north Italy did.

Sasha_Khan wrote:The shamshir is a good piece, and definitely NOT a club. Sharp as F*CK, and well-balanced.

My experience of the grosse messer.

Malek wrote:Personally, I would love to have a job where I get to use assorted swords to cut up various things.
I bet I could pull off a dorky pose just as well as any of their "experts" too!

Oh and in perusing their sites, I found that their spears are particularly deadly against car doors mounted on frames!

Their boar spear could fuck someone up. It's a nice thing to have in the house if you prefer not deafen everyone with a shotgun.

Kel Rekuta wrote:

audax wrote:The guy is an idiot but Cold Steel swords are pretty decent weapons.

For the most part their "swords" are sharpened clubs. They are as elegant as a pregnant yak. When you get a chance to handle better designed replicas or historical artifacts you will see the difference. IMHO, that company's products are a waste of perfectly good steel.

I handled and cut with a couple of Arms and Armour pieces and some Albions. Beautiful things they were. But it was the Cold Steel grosse messer that went through the dead frozen feral pig like butter.

audax wrote:

Kel Rekuta wrote:

audax wrote:The guy is an idiot but Cold Steel swords are pretty decent weapons.

For the most part their "swords" are sharpened clubs. They are as elegant as a pregnant yak. When you get a chance to handle better designed replicas or historical artifacts you will see the difference. IMHO, that company's products are a waste of perfectly good steel.

I handled and cut with a couple of Arms and Armour pieces and some Albions. Beautiful things they were. But it was the Cold Steel grosse messer that went through the dead frozen feral pig like butter.

A useful quality in an abattoir or perhaps an executioner's sword. Could you cut, cover and cut again with it without some gigantic effort? Could you practice with it for half an hour and not have aching wrists and elbows? I think not - and I have handled that thing - we have one in our salle. True, its more like a period sword than many of their fantasy offerings but still its a clunker. Shiny and sharp is not enough for me.