Monty wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2024 2:22 pm
I've been away for a while...haven't had much in the last few reveals to entice me.
Has this topic ever gotten an answer or maybe a hint that we will be getting one in the future?
Just me over here sticking to the SE salts I'm used to...
No, nothing on that front, at least from all I know...
I am sure Spyderco will of course have their perfect and valid reasons why there is no SE Manix 2 in the lineup, but from my outsider and layman point of view I still don´t really get it (hence I started this thread).
I may reiterate my points:
- Sure, SE Spydies seemingly did not sell as well as hoped, and some SE versions got disco´ed.
But: Still quite some Spydercos come both in PE and SE, even completely new models (Examples: Stretch XL LW, Chief LW, Millie 2, Bodacious, Endela, Para 3 LW,...) where it is unclear in the beginning how well the platform itself will sell, while the Manix 2 is known to be an already popular model. So there just has to be an intersection of customers who love both the Manix 2 platform AND serrated edges.
- Especially Salt knives in almost all cases offer an SE version - so my personal hopes where really high that a Manix 2 LW Salt would do that too (though I´d be perfectly happy with a BD1N Manix 2 LW SE), and I am sure it would have its buyers, just like all the other SE Salts.
- The Manix 2 LW is also most likely popular enough that there are more "collector" kind of folks, who just want to have every version of it, and thus would by an SE one even if they´d not use it much or at all.
- From all I know in comparison to doing other variations it just can´t be that hard to grind teeth in a run of BD1N or MC bladed Manix 2 LWs... I mean, Spyderco does that in Golden for example with the Para 3 LW (BD1N) or Native 5 Salt (MC (and LC of course))
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