Atwood Prybaby - should I get S30V or titanium?

This is not a vendetta, I'm simply researching this topic for my own edification. Don't be such girls! You try to turn everything into little playground spat.
 
Cliff Stamp said:
It is hardly a troll to point out inexpensive alternatives, especially when they offer superior performance in various aspects. This is supposed to be a forum about discussion of blades not promotion of blades.

-Cliff
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Cliff-he is not pointing out alternatives. It is like saying that a cheap chinese copy is an alternative to a Sebenza. YOU might not like the Sebenza, but even YOU have to admit that a cheap chinese copy made of pot metal, and mystery blade steel is not an alternative.

The whistle "alternative" was a favorite. If you put one of those in your pocket it looks like you have a testicular tumor.:eek:

Mumbles-

I don't know why you have an issue with Peter's work, but if you have an alternative to make yourself, than do so, and start a new thread.

Otherwise, at some point, the Mods are going to move this thread, or part of it, to Whine & Cheese, and then.....I will own you!:grumpy:

STeven Garsson
 
Kohai99, you're on my ignore list, so I hope you aren't addressing me, because I'll never read it. You really do seem to follow me around though, don't you? What a loser.
 
Kohai999 said:
...he is not pointing out alternatives. It is like saying that a cheap chinese copy is an alternative to a Sebenza. YOU might not like the Sebenza, but even YOU have to admit that a cheap chinese copy made of pot metal, and mystery blade steel is not an alternative.
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Those small metal prybars are hardly inferior tools and the above difference doesn't hold. The non-stainless tool steels are in fact directly superior to stainless steels for such applications which is why they are used in the actual working tools. The plastic ones are generally for different tasks and this may be an alternative depending on what the user wants. In regard to whistles, metal ones have several problems for cold weather use as Ritter has described and for which the plastic ones are far superior.

Quite simply an alternative doesn't always mean a direct replacement as in one tool has the exact same performance as another. There is a large group of individuals who will argue that a $5 Mora is an alternative to knives like the Battle Mistress for survival/wood craft. This does not mean that one knife has the exact capabilities of the other. Nor are those people accused of trolling when they point out the low cost alternatives which is often the case, to an extreme degree when individuals argue for the worth of the larger fixed blades.

-Cliff
 
Cliff Stamp said:
Nor are those people accused of trolling when they point out the low cost alternatives which is often the case, to an extreme degree when individuals argue for the worth of the larger fixed blades.

-Cliff
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Mamba-man said:
]Question: Did Atwood steal the name "Prybaby" from this company, or vice versa?
http://contebikes.com/itemdetails.cf...3&catalogId=39
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mamba-man said:
More PRYBABIES, non-Atwood, this time TRADEMARKED!!
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This is not merely pointing out low cost alternatives. Mr Atwood is being blatantly accused of trademark theft and plagarism. The innuendos are inflammatory and directly in line with character assasination. Unsubstantiated comments of this nature are unwelcome in the manner presented on any logical forum discussion. With comments as this, when does the term trolling kick in? :thumbdn:


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mamba-man said:
Kohai99, you're on my ignore list, so I hope you aren't addressing me, because I'll never read it. You really do seem to follow me around though, don't you? What a loser.
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Thats funny that you do a remark right after he posts....:jerkit:
 
How long is it going to take for this guy to get banned? He's not pointing out useful alternatives he's making personal attacks.
 
mamba-man said:
I run a forum just like this one on the net, and I. . . . .
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Ohhhhhhh really. That's very interesting.

Indulge me. Please provide a link to your forum.
 
Cliff, it is obvious that mamba -man is not trying to point out cheaper alternatives as much as he is attacking Peter. If it was just cheaper alternatives he was pointing out he could do so in a much more civil way. He would also not have gone after him on the trademark issue. There is no doubt that he has an agenda.
 
Keith Montgomery said:
There is no doubt that he has an agenda.
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I don't know that he has an agenda, but he sure does have a bad attitude. :D

What forum was that he moderates?
 
java said:
Mr Atwood is being blatantly accused of trademark theft and plagarism.
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Not so. I'm simply pointing out that someone else is claiming "prybaby" as a trademark. Mr Atwood may wish to thank me for pointing this out to him, so that he may now take action, since he is the US holder of that trademark
http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=b4214s.2.1


To the others who want to know what forum I OWN and RUN and have done so for years, I point them to the stated intention of some here to disrupt that forum. Now, I'd be silly to disclose the address after that, wouldn't I? :rolleyes:
 
This is not a keychain prybar alternative, but I did come across it while searching and I must say, it's a lovely tool. For less than the cost of a Prybaby you get a robust, multi-angle prying tool that I think is a great, wonderful replacement to the typical household crowbar, prybar / jimmy. I'll add one to my tools, and one for the car.

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http://www.etoolcart.com/browseproducts/Adjustable-Pry-Bar-IPA787.html
 
Or you could carry a SAK Bantam. Large blade, screwdriver, bottle opener, tweezers, toothpick - all for roughly 8$.
 
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