Sal's Casual Bombshell Thread

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Re: Sal's Casual Bombshell Thread

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dj moonbat wrote:
Mon Jan 06, 2020 8:12 am
wrdwrght wrote:
Sun Jan 05, 2020 7:07 pm
Guy, this is NOT the place to converse with each other about what Sal has said. It has become tedious to find what’s new.
Weird title for the thread, then. You’d think “what Sal has said” is exactly what we’re supposed to be conversing about.
No. Go talk about it in the thread where he originally posted the bombshell. That's the place to post because that's where everyone else is discussing it. Everyone subscribed to this thread relies on it being full of signal and less of noise.
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carrot wrote:
Mon Jan 06, 2020 9:50 am
dj moonbat wrote:
Mon Jan 06, 2020 8:12 am
wrdwrght wrote:
Sun Jan 05, 2020 7:07 pm
Guy, this is NOT the place to converse with each other about what Sal has said. It has become tedious to find what’s new.
Weird title for the thread, then. You’d think “what Sal has said” is exactly what we’re supposed to be conversing about.
No. Go talk about it in the thread where he originally posted the bombshell. That's the place to post because that's where everyone else is discussing it. Everyone subscribed to this thread relies on it being full of signal and less of noise.
Ummm...I don't really care either way but if you are worried about 'noise' in a thread then you probably shouldn't contribute to the 'noise'.
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Re: Sal's Casual Bombshell Thread

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I'm more irritated with the bickering. Casual conversation does not bother me.
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Re: Sal's Casual Bombshell Thread

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ABX2011 wrote:
Mon Jan 06, 2020 9:20 am
dj moonbat wrote:
Mon Jan 06, 2020 8:12 am
wrdwrght wrote:
Sun Jan 05, 2020 7:07 pm
Guy, this is NOT the place to converse with each other about what Sal has said. It has become tedious to find what’s new.
Weird title for the thread, then. You’d think “what Sal has said” is exactly what we’re supposed to be conversing about.
Exactly. Lol.
Weird title, maybe.

Many here use this thread as an early warning system, and are set up to be alerted when the thread gets something new. Everyone else's commentary is just noise in the system.

What has happened in the past is that a particular bombshell will spark a separate thread for commentary, now valuable because pertinent to the bombshell called out for discussion.

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Re: Sal's Casual Bombshell Thread

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carrot wrote:
Mon Jan 06, 2020 9:50 am
dj moonbat wrote:
Mon Jan 06, 2020 8:12 am
wrdwrght wrote:
Sun Jan 05, 2020 7:07 pm
Guy, this is NOT the place to converse with each other about what Sal has said. It has become tedious to find what’s new.
Weird title for the thread, then. You’d think “what Sal has said” is exactly what we’re supposed to be conversing about.
No. Go talk about it in the thread where he originally posted the bombshell. That's the place to post because that's where everyone else is discussing it. Everyone subscribed to this thread relies on it being full of signal and less of noise.
Carrot is spot on, if perhaps a tad blunt. This thread has been used for years for compiling Sal's bombshells and seeing where to go chat about them. If you are talking about whatever in this thread, you are missing the main conversation thread and the people chatting in that thread may be missing your valuable input. There's little reason to add discussion about the bombshells here, except to make it harder to find Sal's bombshells, or to p**s off the people who just want to find the bombshells. Both of those go against the general spirit of this forum IMO.
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This thread is suddenly very confusing. Not sure what the "rules" are here. :confused:
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First three pages, 28 casual bombshells. Last three pages, 6 casual bombshells. Think about it.
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FYI for those who don’t know. If a quote is done properly it contains a link to the original comment within the original thread. Just click that little arrow and you will be directed to the most suitable thread to discuss said bombshell. :) This even works if the original comment was on a different forum like Bladeforums.
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yablanowitz wrote:
Tue Jan 07, 2020 8:27 am
First three pages, 28 casual bombshells. Last three pages, 6 casual bombshells. Think about it.

^^ nailed it
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Re: Sal's Casual Bombshell Thread

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"I just got a copy of the latest Reveal 4 and there are some really cool knives coming out."

Sal on the "reveal 4" (so the first of 2020), Jan 11th

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=85629&start=40#p1390695
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A bit of a Byrd bombshell:
sal wrote:
Tue Dec 31, 2019 5:27 pm
Hi Knivesandbooks,

The testing that we've done, which is minimal, but showed that the market doesn't seem to be interested in the better steels and higher costs. We'll continue to try to find what will work. A second maker in China has agreed to try the better steels.

sal
From the What would you like to see next from Byrd? thread - viewtopic.php?f=14&t=77258&start=100
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Re: Sal's Casual Bombshell Thread

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ugaarguy wrote:
Mon Jan 13, 2020 5:09 pm
A bit of a Byrd bombshell:
sal wrote:
Tue Dec 31, 2019 5:27 pm
Hi Knivesandbooks,

The testing that we've done, which is minimal, but showed that the market doesn't seem to be interested in the better steels and higher costs. We'll continue to try to find what will work. A second maker in China has agreed to try the better steels.

sal
From the What would you like to see next from Byrd? thread - viewtopic.php?f=14&t=77258&start=100
There are several makers, using Chinese factories, who make high end knives that seem to sell well. It's not my thing, but there seems to be an emerging market for high quality, high performance, Chinese made knives.
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Re: Sal's Casual Bombshell Thread

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Not sure if new news or not. From BF yesterday. This has my interest.
Sal Glesser, post: 19505085, member: 105187 wrote:We're working on a steel with 18% tungsten.

sal
Sal Glesser, post: 19505501, member: 105187 wrote:Probably a year or more out.

sal
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Re: Sal's Casual Bombshell Thread

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sal wrote:
Fri Jan 24, 2020 9:27 am
It was decided that the K390 Endura family series will NOT be a Sprint, but regular "In-the-line" models.

sal
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Re: Sal's Casual Bombshell Thread

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PStone wrote:
Sun Jan 19, 2020 2:08 pm
Not sure if new news or not. From BF yesterday. This has my interest.
Sal Glesser, post: 19505085, member: 105187 wrote:We're working on a steel with 18% tungsten.

sal
Sal Glesser, post: 19505501, member: 105187 wrote:Probably a year or more out.

sal
T1..T2..T3..T4..and T5 all have 18% tungsten... :)
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Dunno if this was discussed before, or if Sal mentioned it somewhere, but:

sal wrote:
Sat Jan 25, 2020 7:18 am
Hi Archangel,

We have a prototype for a 3.5" blade UKPK that we call the CPK (Canadian Pen Knife - in house name).

sal

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=85843&p=1395024#p1394995
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From the large UKPK thread regarding a 3.5 Canadian penknife.
sal wrote:
Sat Jan 25, 2020 7:43 pm
The prototype that I have is red G-10 and leaf shaped like the Heinnie Haines model . It's not been put in queue yet as the factory is very busy. The Alistair slippie is first going to be a locker due to the success of the larger version. Thew reason fr a larger slippie is Canada and Germany.

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Re: Sal's Casual Bombshell Thread

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sal wrote:
Fri Jan 24, 2020 9:27 am
It was decided that the K390 Endura family series will NOT be a Sprint, but regular "In-the-line" models.

sal
Huge news. Will probably solidify the K390 stretch as my go to hunting knife for the foreseeable future
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Re: Sal's Casual Bombshell Thread

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From EdgeMatters Forum

“Eric said he would do a run of the UK in a drop point LC when they finish the testing for Galvanic reaction.

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Re: Sal's Casual Bombshell Thread

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Galvanic reaction with the backspacer? I assume they already have the pivot (and washers?) worked out.
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