"Don't believe the hype!"--Public Enemy

[tom mayo]

NOT ABOUT KNIVES!!!!but remember when bill gates was launching windows 98 in front of the world at some computer expo and the whole thing crashed.....even a gazillioraire is full of hot air.....that canine guy sure is too....lynn is just short...thats all... whoa...im going off...i better get off this thing before i get into trouble....loja

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[Sal Glesser]

Adam - It is my understanding that Kershaw recently discontinued that model.

sal

 

[Uncle Bill]

Sal:

My reference to 440V and hype was purely hypothetical. I pulled both ATS-34 and 440V out of a hat, so to speak. I probably should have refered to Carbon V instead. I didn't mean in any way to implicate Spyderco. Sorry if it came out that way. Spyderco's marketing seems very matter of fact and down to earth. Not hyped at all.

My main point (after all the specific steels are out of the way, and after the definition of quantum leap is worked through) is that knife-marketing hype does indeed exist and that it is without warrant.

Whether it took two minutes or two millennia, the discovery of the tempering process (for example) was a bigger deal than the difference between two good, modern cutlery steels. That's all I was stumbling around trying to say.

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I don't want my children fed or clothed by the state, but I would prefer THAT to their being educated by the state.

[This message has been edited by Uncle Bill (edited 30 September 1999).]