This is the best reason to post! We don’t need to be an echo chamber. Spyderco makes a tremendous variety of knives because customers are as different as can be (avoiding the snowflake analogy).
Jump in the fray and post away!
This is the best reason to post! We don’t need to be an echo chamber. Spyderco makes a tremendous variety of knives because customers are as different as can be (avoiding the snowflake analogy).
Maybe there are other advantages, but the only positive I can see for limited editions is if you value something more because someone else can't have one. Not my thing. Seems a silly thing to place value on to me.PStone wrote: ↑Tue Jul 21, 2020 11:15 amHard to argue that statement, same as SharpGuy said. You also said, “aritificial scarcity” is the problem. So limited editions are the problem? And further, by using that same semantical argument, and logic, even regular production models become limited editions (“artificially scarce”), because they only make so many at a time. In batches. So are all knives are the problem?Notsurewhy wrote: ↑Tue Jul 21, 2020 10:34 amUnless it is limited because of a rare/unobtainable material used in it's construction, a limited run is the very definition of artificial scarcity.
Maybe I just misinterpreted what you meant and am just being a wise ***. But to me, the term “artificial scarcity” seems like it was meant to be used negatively. A dastardly scheme of some sort. That’s what I disagree with. I don’t see that from Spyderco at all. Or anyone really. They all make limited editions. I happen to really like the way Spyderco does it. Apparently so many other people do too, that it’s a “problem”.
Well now, I did mistake what you were saying. Apologies. Understood this time round. Although it may not be that unpopular when you put it like that. I’m inclined to totally agree with you except for one thing. I don’t go for limiteds for exclusivity. I go for them because it’s usually the only way to get a certain configuration of options.Notsurewhy wrote: ↑Fri Jul 24, 2020 12:49 pm
Maybe there are other advantages, but the only positive I can see for limited editions is if you value something more because someone else can't have one. Not my thing. Seems a silly thing to place value on to me.
I agree and have said similar in the past. It is a strongly unpopular opinion.Notsurewhy wrote: ↑Mon Jul 20, 2020 3:47 pmHere's one: neither flippers nor their customers are the problem. The problem is artificial scarcity. Make more knives and there is no problem.
100% agree. I'd love to get a Shaman in Rex 45 or Cruwear but I don't want to pay what they go for on the secondary market. If the Shaman is supposed to be a "heavy use" folder, it should come in a tool steel instead of S30V. The only knife I'll pay close to $200 on that's S30V is the Kapara because I can't get it in anything else.Karl_H wrote: ↑Fri Jul 24, 2020 6:56 pmI think most people who aren’t buying knives for the primary purpose of collecting or flipping would agree that creating artificial scarcity is counterproductive.
There is really no way that Spyderco can accurately predict demand. Making small incremental batches of lower demand configurations makes sense. Making a small batch and then promising never to sell another batch in the “exact” same configuration is just a short-term money grab, which might ultimately hurt long-term sales of popular sprint configurations. Either that or they start playing games like switching the recent Cru-wear name for Z-wear.
The Shaman is an interesting case because I suspect there a lot more demand for z-wear and Micarta than the standard configuration.
IMO the tool steels have way more going for them aside from wear resistance but I understand how someone values one attribute higher than the other ones. S90V and S110 are certainly no slouches when it comes to wear resistance in any event and take a backseat to only a few tool steels for that.I’m way more likely to sweat on a blade than to dull it in a single use where I need it sharpened but don’t have the opportunity. So while I see the allure of some of these extreme edge retaining tool stools I really don’t seriously consider them.
:D Good point!The title is unpopular opinions, not educated ones.
I couldn’t agree more on on the small blades. (Most of my other preferences are unpopular, so I’ll just stick with this one for now. )Browncoat wrote: ↑Tue Jul 28, 2020 6:19 pmI think my controversial blade opinions are:
BBL lock is probably the best out there, but I'm not really a fan of the CBBL lock.
Spyderedge is where it's at
Small blades are perfectly adequate more often than not
Same goes for VG-10
Also, Reverse-S is the best small blade shape
Not trying to be disrespectful, but I thought I've read you said your a collector and not a user? I admire your collection, it's amazing! But if you don't actually use your knives, it's difficult to form an opinion I would think?SpyderNut wrote: ↑Tue Jul 28, 2020 7:57 pmI couldn’t agree more on on the small blades. (Most of my other preferences are unpopular, so I’ll just stick with this one for now. )Browncoat wrote: ↑Tue Jul 28, 2020 6:19 pmI think my controversial blade opinions are:
BBL lock is probably the best out there, but I'm not really a fan of the CBBL lock.
Spyderedge is where it's at
Small blades are perfectly adequate more often than not
Same goes for VG-10
Also, Reverse-S is the best small blade shape