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Mushroom wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 21, 2022 8:20 am

Jim Malone wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 21, 2022 1:48 am

I won't participate. I have seen this question pop up every year and everyone wanted a different version. It was a very difficult excercise to choose a forum knife in the past. So i guess choosing the ultimate knife everyone loves is extremely difficult.
But who am i to curb your enthousiasm. Go for it

For as long as I’ve been a forum user, this idea has never been presented. Did you read the original post or just the title?

JRinFL wrote: I still say no, but you all want to do it as a thought experiment, go for it. All of the participants should publicly promise to not get your nose out of shape when others in the group disagree or discount your ideas.

I think a large number of people took this thread way too seriously. (Like wayyyyyy too seriously)
I’m almost 100% positive that the original intention of this thread was supposed to be all in good fun.

Danke wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 21, 2022 8:52 am

Can it be a silent opening version? Because I feel like I could really get into that.

Cl1ff wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 20, 2022 11:00 pm

Silly rant warning for this first part…

I get the idea behind that camel saying, but my biology nerd self doesn’t jive with it.
Camel’s are perfectly adapted to their environment, an incredibly successful group of animals both today and throughout their evolutionary history, and are just as efficient and widespread domesticated livestock as horses.
The saying just makes no sense except possibly from entirely subjective aesthetic preference for the form of a horse over a camel’s.
Anyway, don’t mind me! I just had to let that out because I’m a nerd, sorry for the off/topic rant.
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Back on topic, I suggest that the way this becomes a worthwhile project is to not take it so seriously (as hypocritical as that may seem after my above rant ). Just discuss and share ideas about what YOU want in a Spyderco knife as well as what you’re willing to compromise on.

It’s unlikely/impossible to result in a finished product we can claim the forum, in its entirety, agrees upon. However, such an experiment should at least be fun, potentially enlightening, and maybe even useful for designers watching the thread. Knowing where people say they’ll give an inch or draw the line can be invaluable knowledge.

Mushroom wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 21, 2022 8:20 am

Jim Malone wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 21, 2022 1:48 am

I won't participate. I have seen this question pop up every year and everyone wanted a different version. It was a very difficult excercise to choose a forum knife in the past. So i guess choosing the ultimate knife everyone loves is extremely difficult.
But who am i to curb your enthousiasm. Go for it

For as long as I’ve been a forum user, this idea has never been presented. Did you read the original post or just the title?

JRinFL wrote: I still say no, but you all want to do it as a thought experiment, go for it. All of the participants should publicly promise to not get your nose out of shape when others in the group disagree or discount your ideas.

I think a large number of people took this thread way too seriously. (Like wayyyyyy too seriously)
I’m almost 100% positive that the original intention of this thread was supposed to be all in good fun.

Paraguy wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 21, 2022 8:58 am

Cl1ff wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 20, 2022 11:00 pm

Silly rant warning for this first part…

I get the idea behind that camel saying, but my biology nerd self doesn’t jive with it.
Camel’s are perfectly adapted to their environment, an incredibly successful group of animals both today and throughout their evolutionary history, and are just as efficient and widespread domesticated livestock as horses.
The saying just makes no sense except possibly from entirely subjective aesthetic preference for the form of a horse over a camel’s.
Anyway, don’t mind me! I just had to let that out because I’m a nerd, sorry for the off/topic rant.
—————-

Back on topic, I suggest that the way this becomes a worthwhile project is to not take it so seriously (as hypocritical as that may seem after my above rant ). Just discuss and share ideas about what YOU want in a Spyderco knife as well as what you’re willing to compromise on.

It’s unlikely/impossible to result in a finished product we can claim the forum, in its entirety, agrees upon. However, such an experiment should at least be fun, potentially enlightening, and maybe even useful for designers watching the thread. Knowing where people say they’ll give an inch or draw the line can be invaluable knowledge.

Yeah. I'm hoping that this could be helpful to Sal and Eric and give them a better idea of what the consumer wants.

Kevinim82 wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:01 am

I like this idea a lot. I saw 3 posts that actually talked constructively on making/designing a knife on this forum.

One post asked for a dodo-fly (a very cool idea.)

Another post asked for a large blade.

I conceded both ideas and then made it my own. I have for a while wanted a folding knife with front serrations. If I do another draft of this knife, I would thicken the handles. The edge length alone is +4 inches

Tomorrow I will draw/share the marlin spike/Amalgum blade with Native Chief handle.

Kevinim82 wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:01 am

I like this idea a lot. I saw 3 posts that actually talked constructively on making/designing a knife on this forum.

One post asked for a dodo-fly (a very cool idea.)

Another post asked for a large blade.

I conceded both ideas and then made it my own. I have for a while wanted a folding knife with front serrations. If I do another draft of this knife, I would thicken the handles. The edge length alone is +4 inches

Tomorrow I will draw/share the marlin spike/Amalgum blade with Native Chief handle.

Paraguy wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 23, 2022 4:47 pm

Kevinim82 wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:01 am

I like this idea a lot. I saw 3 posts that actually talked constructively on making/designing a knife on this forum.

One post asked for a dodo-fly (a very cool idea.)

Another post asked for a large blade.

I conceded both ideas and then made it my own. I have for a while wanted a folding knife with front serrations. If I do another draft of this knife, I would thicken the handles. The edge length alone is +4 inches

Tomorrow I will draw/share the marlin spike/Amalgum blade with Native Chief handle.

Great! Do you know of anyone who could do the coordinating? Cus I cant be on here 24/7

Kevinim82 wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 23, 2022 5:01 pm

Paraguy wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 23, 2022 4:47 pm

Kevinim82 wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:01 am

I like this idea a lot. I saw 3 posts that actually talked constructively on making/designing a knife on this forum.

One post asked for a dodo-fly (a very cool idea.)

Another post asked for a large blade.

I conceded both ideas and then made it my own. I have for a while wanted a folding knife with front serrations. If I do another draft of this knife, I would thicken the handles. The edge length alone is +4 inches

Tomorrow I will draw/share the marlin spike/Amalgum blade with Native Chief handle.

Great! Do you know of anyone who could do the coordinating? Cus I cant be on here 24/7

I am snowed in this weekend, and rather happy to draft what people come up with using words, or other drawings. It’s this or watch a movie.

Please explain the coordinating aspects, I am lost to this request?

Kevinim82 wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 23, 2022 7:12 pm

Tim, there are a little more than 85 post on this thread saying;
1. This is a good idea
2. This is a bad idea

I read all the post on this thread and I must say 3 people spoke productively about a knife idea they liked.

1st person asked for a dodo fly
2nd person asked for a knife as large or larger than an endura
So wanting a challenge I combined them.
3rd person wanted a marlin spike/amalgam/native chief

I like the idea of a knife designed by the forum. I just started drawing the ideas that were given.

You’ve got good start to dialogue here.

I am going to give you a little constructive statement. Polls haven’t gotten us a forum knife in more than 5 years.

Tim, what do you want in an edc that Spyderco isn’t offering now?

Paraguy wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 23, 2022 7:38 pm

Kevinim82 wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 23, 2022 7:12 pm

Tim, there are a little more than 85 post on this thread saying;
1. This is a good idea
2. This is a bad idea

I read all the post on this thread and I must say 3 people spoke productively about a knife idea they liked.

1st person asked for a dodo fly
2nd person asked for a knife as large or larger than an endura
So wanting a challenge I combined them.
3rd person wanted a marlin spike/amalgam/native chief

I like the idea of a knife designed by the forum. I just started drawing the ideas that were given.

You’ve got good start to dialogue here.

I am going to give you a little constructive statement. Polls haven’t gotten us a forum knife in more than 5 years.

Tim, what do you want in an edc that Spyderco isn’t offering now?

My main interest in doing this would be to just see what the whole forum comes up with collectively. We cant start drawing until we figure out what the whole forum wants. Or at least the majority wants. Spyderco already fits all my EDC needs.

Airlsee wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 23, 2022 8:06 pm

What's going on here? Did you just pawn this off on the new nurse? It's okay to just walk away from the idea...as Mr. O'Leary would say, "Take it behind the barn and shoot it.".