I know. I like her too. I posted this on the other forum so I am just copying it here:
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You also have to remember that these knives are being offered as leftover materials that Busse was experimenting with. Once they are gone, they are gone. Now, I kow they probably have a lot of SR77 and who knows what else. But SR101 ad INFI will be around and as long as their resiprene supplies last, scrapyard is bound to do well.
Also, the main point here is handle material, if you like them rubberized, then these are it. If not then you go with Busse or Swamp Rat at a higher cost.
I can't wait till the scrapper 4 comes out in SR77 for well under the Scrapper 6 price. Imagine a small utility blade that will be cheaper and tougher than just about anything on the market, at what will probably be about 50 bucks.
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For the Record, I do not know how Scrapyards Business is run. So I do not know how items or materials will last.
Anyway, The very meaning of Scrapyard knives is that they are using the leftovers from both Busse and SwampRats. So let's look at this. Busse originally used Resiprene in their Basics. Swamp rat used it in their original line. How much Resiprene is left? Enough to make 10,000 maybe 20,000 knives? I doubt more than that?
Steels. Ok, Jerry has experiemented with countless steels including vascowear, ATS34, A-2, 5160 and Damascus. His stock of SR77 can't be more than say several thousand pounds? Maybe 20,000 to 30,000 pounds since a mill run ot a specially formulated steel would have to be at least that large to make it worth buying.
My guess is that all the fairly large knives will be made out of the SR77 since there is complete sheet stock. Maybe they will switch to A2 and 5160 at some point.
My guess is also that the smaller knives will be made of the cut out portions of INFI and SR101 that are left after Busse and SRKW are made. These scraps are probably not big enough to make anything bigger than a 4 inch blade, so I would bet that all the small stuff will be a combo of INFI scraps, SR101 scraps and even SR77 scraps that are left over from the larger blades made of SR77.
But, we know that the swamp has also used D2 and S30V. So is there a backstock of that stuff and might we see a scrapyard folder in both of those steels? Might we see knives made of vascowear and damascus. Could bone handles be in the works. Might there be micarta left overs for small batches?
What happens when the resiprene runs out? Will they get the stuff reordered, thereby, not being a scrapyard anymore. Will we have to call them "The Company Formerly know as Scrapyard Knives"?
