Spyderco and the knife industry in the news (featuring Sal and The Deacon)

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Spyderco and the knife industry in the news (featuring Sal and The Deacon)

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I haven't posted in a while, so I figure posting two great articles featured in this morning's online version of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch is enough to get the ball rolling again. :D The first article includes an interview with The Deacon, and the second one is an interview with Sal.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crim ... 634db.html

http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/ ... 8aa96.html
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Very Cool. Thanks for sharing
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That was like a huge breath of fresh air to an honest knife owner such as myself! We need to see that in a LOT more newspapers. Nice going, Sal and Paul. :cool: Thanks for sharing this!

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Cheers Sal and Paul (and Doug)! :D

A knife article with rational voices? I guess mankind isn't doomed :p
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Very enjoyable to read Spyderco's philosophy aired in the articles :) Agreed completely with Jazz, more would be better.
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15,000 sq ft expansion of manufacturing space in Golden -
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Great quote from Paul:

"Those who claim their collections are investments are “either deluding themselves,” he says, “or just trying to placate their wife.”

Couldn't agree more.
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Forgot to thank Doug, too!

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Thank you for posting that it was a very interesting read. It is nice to draw peoples attention to what knives are typically used for and why they are collected.
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I enjoyed reading those articles. Thanks for posting. It's nice reading articles that offer a fresh perspective and not demonizing knives. Thanks Sal, Paul, and everyone else.
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Thank you for posting links. I enjoyed the articles.
Sequimite wrote:15,000 sq ft expansion of manufacturing space in Golden -
very nice.
Hopefully we will see more golden sprints. I certainly need more FFG Natives. May be some custom collaborations will be made in Golden as well.
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Now all we have to do is make tens of thousands of NKP's read those articles :D
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Sequimite wrote:Great quote from Paul:

"Those who claim their collections are investments are “either deluding themselves,” he says, “or just trying to placate their wife.”

Couldn't agree more.
I found it kind of funny that the next line had to be "Beretta is single."
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I wish the SF Chronicle would pick up on those articles. Interesting read.
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Excellent articles, thanks for sharing!
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Not to sound like a party pooper, but that first article (interviewing The Deacon and Sal and A.G. Russel) was probably the poorest piece of journalism I've read in a long time, and I'm used to reading small-town newspapers. I'm not sure if St. Louis Today is a weekly or another site that just aggregates news for the advertising, or if it was perhaps a junior reporter, but there really was no point to the article, just a bunch of notes shuffled into a loose order.

The second article with just Sal was pretty good. I would agree with all of you that it's refreshing to see knives talked about in a rational light.
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kennethsime wrote:Not to sound like a party pooper, but that first article (interviewing The Deacon and Sal and A.G. Russel) was probably the poorest piece of journalism I've read in a long time, and I'm used to reading small-town newspapers
Talking about poor journalism, I don't think you've read the SF Chronicle lately :rolleyes:
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great read thanks for posting these!
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kennethsime wrote:Not to sound like a party pooper, but that first article (interviewing The Deacon and Sal and A.G. Russel) was probably the poorest piece of journalism I've read in a long time, and I'm used to reading small-town newspapers. I'm not sure if St. Louis Today is a weekly or another site that just aggregates news for the advertising, or if it was perhaps a junior reporter, but there really was no point to the article, just a bunch of notes shuffled into a loose order.

The second article with just Sal was pretty good. I would agree with all of you that it's refreshing to see knives talked about in a rational light.
If I was done by a major media source I would agree. Content over delivery I guess :) .
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"Buck reacted to customer criticism a few years ago by bringing back some manufacturing it had outsourced to China. Now, “Ninety to 95 percent of our new products every year are USA-made,” CJ Buck says."
This is very impressive, at least for me.
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