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At one point in life, I believed that all it took to convince someone of something, whether it was to go from low-cost, low quality knives, to good quality knives, or other things, was to show them the basic raw data, logic, evidence, etc, and that would be that. But then in actual discussions and c...

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What do you all think of the serration patterns on the various Victorinox knives that come with serrated blade options?

The Deacon wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 21, 2019 9:19 am

This Sentinel is the only Victorinox knife I own. It's an "old school" back spring liner lock was a gift from a friend.

That is a very good model, actually.

Jd and others: Very sad what happened to Mitch Petrus:

https://sports.yahoo.com/former-giants- ... 17323.html

He was a great player and died of heat stroke

All across the United States of America and also in other places such as Europe, there have been increasing heatwaves. When it comes to practical methods of to avoid injury, illness, or even death, what are some pieces of advice and good wisdom from you all on this? I know the basics: Drink plenty o...

soc_monki, thank you for mentioning this! Can you please advise me on some of the other good tool brands? Until you came along I have never heard of Knipex and now I just looked them up and I am pleasantly surprised. Thank you, friend. I would gladly welcome any other good insights into quality tool...

bearrowland wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 20, 2019 10:43 am

I'd love to have one for my collection, but it's a bit salty price wise for me.

Yes good point.

Do you think Spyderco could make something along those lines with very good materials?

+1 on the footwear! I’ve had a huge heel spur ground off, and I spend way more time and money on my footwear now. I use store-bought orthotic insoles, gel insoles, and will swap these around, as temperature and time on my feet can change things. Some shoes break-in “wrong” from new though, which is...

Thanks. Some more comments: Doc, that is a good point about the counterfeiters. Here is a scary hypothetical example for you: How would you all react if suddenly we began to see the market get flooded with circa 1990s-era Enduras and Delica Spyderco counterfeits? Spyderco probably had those melted d...

I think this may have been discussed on the forum before, but here is a good article on someone using it and showing some history: https://gizmodo.com/this-moon-machete-didnt-turn-me-into-an-astronaut-but-1836055424 I read that this has now been remade for resale: Here you go: https://www.bladehq.co...

Tims wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 19, 2019 8:25 pm

SpyderEdgeForever wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 19, 2019 7:26 pm

Then can I have confident assurance that the saber grind is and will remain with us in knives, for a good long time to come, and especially with Spyderco?

Mate, I can only speak for the entire knife industry and say yes.

Thank you!

This is an excellent post, commercial diving kits and knives intrigue me. I have wondered and looked up some of the knives they prefer over the years. I know some companies make commercial diving knives for both military hard-hat divers and deep sea commercial divers. Alot of times they are fixed bl...

I think the cold harsh truth here is most businesses don't stay in the past very long. Regardless of what they're making, they're creating new updated versions and moving forward with designs, out with the old and in with the new. At some point the decision is made to change something and update it...

The answers I received here seem to cover all of the possibilities. It is very sad: I wish there were some way for knife makers to somehow store good designs somewhere that will be perpetually-available for future producers and knife collectors to have access to.

... They proceeded to then tell me that the original factory tooling was gone, destroyed. Why does this happen? ... Why didn't you ask them? When I did, said person wanted to be very brief and not get into the details and said it had to do with market issues and no more demand for the particular mo...

Bloke wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 19, 2019 11:52 pm

SpyderEdgeForever wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 19, 2019 7:53 pm

They proceeded to then tell me

Bloke, I am so glad to know you on here :) You have such a funny sense of humor my friend :)

Thank you very much! This is very helpful shoe info.

I read and have been told that at some point with Spyderco and other knife-making companies, the actual tooling gets destroyed after a certain amount of time, when a knife or knives is discontinued. I once contacted an unnamed knife company and explained to the owner/originator that I really enjoyed...

Then can I have confident assurance that the saber grind is and will remain with us in knives, for a good long time to come, and especially with Spyderco?