Mushroom wrote: ↑Fri Mar 10, 2023 10:48 amI’ve never understood where this mentality that knife collectors don’t use their knives comes from?
There is genuinely a sense of elitism that’s so often conflated with being strictly a “knife user.” It’s almost like that collection of a dozen plus knives that stays at home on a daily basis is actually just a figment of imagination.
Most people posting on this forum are collectors… I don’t care how often you use the knives, you also collect them. (This isn’t being said to anyone specific, just the collectors who are in denial)
If the strictly knife users who don’t collect knives want in on this knife, buy it before the collectors. It really is that simple. No need for nepotism programs. If the collectors beat them to it, they should be thanking the collectors for constantly helping drive up sales.
Once this Delica is released, I anticipate the flood gates will open and we’ll see requests for every model Spyderco produces being made to similar specs. I also see potential for it to start an industry wide revelation about focusing on cutting geometry opposed to just steel type all the time.
I think I was pretty precise in my wording:
"Collectors who don't use their knives" -
so a clearly defined subgroup of collectors.
Of course folks like me are "collectors" too. That's why I mostly say "my collection/array of users" when talking about, well, my collection of Spydercos.
All I am saying is that if there is a run of let's say 1200 hp Delicas also Sals Intention will probably be that people mostly judge them by their performance, not so much by their "uniqueness" without using them.