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pmbspyder wrote:Nice! Though now that you've posted these here, there's little to no chance spyderco will ever make them (as per Sal's other thread) .

Excellent designs though!

ATV1116 wrote: :spyder: What program did you use for that? AutoCAD? I like the second one. BTW, how did you do that seperate link where it says" My Spyderco"? I never knew that could be done. :spyder:

Gofannon wrote:I use a Inkskape for that, like autocad but free and easier. But I don't find the English version and I think it doesn't exist.

For the link in your signature, go to your "user CP", "edit signature" and copy this:
[***url=http://your link]the name of your link(for me "my collection")[/url***]
(without the 3 *)

pmbspyder wrote:Nice! Though now that you've posted these here, there's little to no chance spyderco will ever make them (as per Sal's other thread) .

Excellent designs though!

Spyderbro wrote:What other thread? :eek:

Gofannon wrote:I don't understand why Spyderco can't use this design? I don't put a copyright for those designs :D

If Sal want to use a drawing for make a Spyderco, and if they don't have copyright on this, he can.

sal wrote:Interesting thread. The concept of submitting ideas for knives is varied. We usually get 2 -3 submissions per week.

I guess there are 4 types of submissions;

#1 is where the person posts drawings of their idea on a public forum. this is the least effective. Once the idea is shown in the public domain, it limits what can be done. Patentability is limited. The design is now public so any "newness" is gone. Our competitors now can see the design. Also copycats can get a good look at the idea. We usually avoid designs in category #1.

#2 is where someone sends an "idea" to us. Usually done with words or a sketch. eg: "Put a tanto blade on an Endura", or a sketch of their idea. Unless the idea is exceptional, or patentable, we usually don't do much with those because we have to do all of the design, model-making prototyping engineering, etc. There are only a few of us in R&D/design and time is limited. If we're going to do all of the work on a design, we might as well work with one of our own.

#3 is where the person has done a lot of work on refining and developing the design., they've made cardboard or plastic models and they know the knife will actually fold and the blade will fit into the handle. They know the ergos are at least close. They've fitted locks so they know it will fit into the model and they submitted farily accurate drawings to size and shape, thickness, sizes, etc. Examples of this type of submission would be from Dialex and Jason Breeden. They obviously put a lot of thought and work into the design before we see it.

#4 is a working knife model that is made by a custom knife maker or the designer has hired a custom knife maker to make the actual model. This is best as we can show the piece at shows and meets and get feedback from customers. This is generally how we determine if there is a market for a collaboration design (or even one of our own). We usually show these at SHOT Show, IWA show, Blade Magazine show, the Eugene knife show, The USN show and the meets tht we do.

Often we will work with the maker to refine some area of the design that we feel needs more attention. the makers will usually cooperate and make those changes. Most of our collaborations designs come from category #4.

Hope that helps.,

sal

Gofannon wrote:Piet.S, Thanks for your commentary, that's why I expect. It's just a quick draw about some design idea that I have. I know nothing about knives designing. The next time, I'll try to do something functional but it's hard.