Brand Loyalty? Yup!

Lycosa

Lycosa

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At one time I did not think I could be loyal to a knife company---I was wrong, I am, to Spyderco. I say this because I've be around the block. I have had the best of the best folders in my possession and I've come full circle, back to Spyderco. The reasons are obvious. Thank you Sal and Spyderco.
Rolf
 
Rolf, you're converted! We must baptize you in Spydies now. Black Widows or Brown recluse? :p :D

Glad you found something you like, took me a bit to find them too. :thumbup:
 
Me too :thumbup: Spent a lot of money,trying other brands,finally settling on Spyderco. Anything else just doesn't satisfy
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I've kinda done the same with the full circle thing (with folders) Rolf.

I still have and use my Endura from the eighties, but hadn't bought another spyderco untill this year. I've bought 7 folders (and 3 mules) in the past few months.
Went to the large and small Benchmade AFCK in ats-34 for years, then sebbies. Still love my micarta sebbies, but they now have to share pocket time with a Caly3, PARA, and reg Millie.
I can't believe it took me this long to get back to some spydercos, esp since the first I bought has been such a great knife for over 20 years.
 
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I hear ya! On my current Wish List are a couple Benchmades, a few Striders, a few CRK, one Emerson, one Anso, one Burchtree, one Cucchiara, and about 15 Spydercos.
 
Thaks, All! ;)
KMN, you got the ball rolling again with your former Para.
Thank You!
 
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Para talk again. :barf::D
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Para is good

I also am in love with the Para.... Don't tell anybody but I have not been carrying my Striders CRKs XMs... and a crap load of "other" Spydercos. None do what the Para does for me!

Perfect blade shape and size, awesome steel (D2,) hell I even hate tip down carry... But I LOVE it on the Para and Mili. Perfect blade grind, perfect G-10 color. I LOVE the ergos (in the choil and out.) Also love the lock, nice and strong... while still being very lightweight. Smooth easy opening thanks to oversized hole, she's near "perfect," and every bit of Rolf claims she is and MORE :thumbup:
 
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So-Lo said:
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Para is good

I also am in love with the Para.... Don't tell anybody but I have not been carrying my Striders CRKs XMs... and a crap load of "other" Spydercos. None do what the Para does for me!

Perfect blade shape, awesome steel (D2,) hell I even hate tip down carry... But I LOVE it on the Para and Mili. Perfect blade grind, perfect G-10 color. I LOVE the ergos (in the choil and out.) Also love the lock, nice a strong... while being very very lightweight. Smooth opening, oversized hole...

She's every bit of Rolf claims she is and MORE :thumbup:
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That she is, but Rolf keeps on going! :D (I really don't mind, I'm just whining cause I don't have my D2 Para anymore).

If I was married to a model, and kept bringing it up in every single thread, wouldn't you complain?
 
I will never be "loyal" to any brand or company. That's illogical and doesn't make any sense.

That said, Spyderco keeps me coming to them. I've tried to buy other brands, but they just don't make the knives I want. Spyderco does.
 
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I will never be "loyal" to any brand or company. That's illogical and doesn't make any sense.

That said, Spyderco keeps me coming to them. I've tried to buy other brands, but they just don't make the knives I want. Spyderco does.
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I'm with you. Brand loyalty is one of the reasons the Big Three automakers were able to churn out complete crap for as long as they did before competition forced them to improve their quality. Blindly swearing allegiance to a manufacturing company makes no sense to me, because they certainly wouldn't return the favor. I mean that in the sense that they won't do something against their own interests just to please me...and I shouldn't expect them to.

I LOVED the Lawn Boy 2-cycle mowers. Lawn Boy was my brand. The darned things lasted forever, started on the first pull and could keep on cutting when a Briggs powered mower would choke and die. The damned EPA forced them to stop making 2 cycle mowers in 2003. I'm not a Lawn Boy guy anymore. Now they are just another of many makers bolting a Tecumseh or Honda engine onto a deck. The new product isn't even remotely the same thing that inspired me to be so loyal to them.

I would be the same with Spyderco. I love their knives, I think they are a company with class and integrity and I think it's awesome that Sal makes himself available to his customers on this forum. I own (and want to own) more Spydercos than any other brand of knife. It would make me very sad if Spyderco started churning out overpriced and poorly fitted crap. It would also make me stop buying them. When brand loyalty makes you stop acting in your own best interest then it just becomes clinging to a past that is no longer there.

My father in law continues to be loyal to an old and famous maker (you all know who I mean), somehow ignoring how poorly fitted some of their production is these days. I don't plan to ever be that loyal to a company that can't even bother to made a decent product for me.
 
THG said:
I will never be "loyal" to any brand or company. That's illogical and doesn't make any sense.

That said, Spyderco keeps me coming to them. I've tried to buy other brands, but they just don't make the knives I want. Spyderco does.
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Absolutely, both parts, especially the first. And I don't think this is the first time I've quoted you for truth, either.:thumbup:
 
Guys...what I mean is, when i carry a folder, it's going to be a Spyderco folder.
That's illogical??
Not to me.
 
Lycosa said:
Guys...what I mean is, when i carry a folder, it's going to be a Spyderco folder.
That's illogical??
Not to me.
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Nor me Rolf :D I've owned 7 Subaru vehicles over the years,dos that make me brand loyal? Yes, until the reliability and quality go's south.
Sooo, sure I am loyal to Spyderco, until....
 
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