Another Spyderco Bladeforums Knife ( #3 and #4)

We hard-core knife knuts come up with a gazillion combinations of blade and handle styles.

Sensible knife manufacturers and retailers want to keep SKU's down to a finite number.

Is anybody out there is mechanically clever enough to come up with a really good modular locking folder system? One where a pivot/lock module could be matched, by the end user, to a choice of blades and handle assemblies? Maybe a couple of lock sizes (small-medium, medium-large), each accomodating a dozen or two available blades and several handles? A few dozen SKU's with thousands of possible combinations?

The trick would be getting consistency, so tangs and locks fit right every time, and an assembly method with little risk of the customer screwing it up.

This is well beyond the original topic of this thread, but "Your mission, if you choose to accept it . . ."


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- JKM
www.chaicutlery.com
 
James - Sounds like an interesting project. I'll bring it up at the next R&D meeting. Our R&D crew is a little demented, but they love a challenge.

Our current project is both fun and exciting. Can't tell you much more. Frankly James, I didn't think anyone would notice the comment. Initial patent search showed no prior art in the field. Hope to have a "Concept Model" finished by Blade Show. As with most new concepts, it may be a "bomb" (like dog poop) or it may be well received. Always hard to tell. The Clipit was very slow to become accepted. If the concept is sound, we're persistant.
sal
 
Sal - Yup! We have plane & hotel reservations for the Blade Show. I'll try not to leave saliva all over your concept models!
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- JKM
www.chaicutlery.com
 
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