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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

Very Cool. Thanks for sharing

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!

- best wishes, Jazz.

Cheers Sal and Paul (and Doug)! :D

A knife article with rational voices? I guess mankind isn't doomed :p

Very enjoyable to read Spyderco's philosophy aired in the articles :) Agreed completely with Jazz, more would be better.

15,000 sq ft expansion of manufacturing space in Golden -

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.

Forgot to thank Doug, too!

- best wishes, Jazz.

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.

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.

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.

Now all we have to do is make tens of thousands of NKP's read those articles :D

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."

I wish the SF Chronicle would pick up on those articles. Interesting read.

Excellent articles, thanks for sharing!

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.

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:

great read thanks for posting these!

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 :) .

"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.