Don't you hate when...

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RH

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You buy a knife. You like the knife. It's almost perfect. Almost. If you owned the shop, you'd make some slight improvements, but still and all, you are happy with it.

Until...one day you come to learn that the guy who owns the shop went ahead and made the improvements you would have, so now your knife is the flawed "old model", and you have no choice but to buy the new and improved model so you can be at peace with your inner knife self.

Case in point...KaBar has taken the Dozier Folding Hunter one step closer to the perfect $20 knife by replacing the thumb stud with an oval hole and putting a nice slightly upswept clip point on it, very Griptilian-like.

ahhh well, Father's day is coming, and it's only $20 anyway. I can feed my jones with a fraction of the guilt of the Sebenza guys evry time CR comes out with a new handle decoration!
 
RH said:
You buy a knife. You like the knife. It's almost perfect. Almost. If you owned the shop, you'd make some slight improvements, but still and all, you are happy with it.

Until...one day you come to learn that the guy who owns the shop went ahead and made the improvements you would have, so now your knife is the flawed "old model", and you have no choice but to buy the new and improved model so you can be at peace with your inner knife self.
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Oh...Like the Spyderco Chinook II...:).
 
I'm with Garageboy on this one, give me a thumb stud every time. The hole opening method is what keeps me from buying more Spydercos it just seems to me that it takes twice as much afford to open a knife with a hole. I almost have to change my grip on the knife to get one open,I have to push down and out and then twist up and out with my thumb, as opposed to a stud were i can just flick it open with the tip of my thumb.

Of course this could just be the way my hand works, either way given the choice i'll go with the thumb stud!
 
Software companies and music CD makers have been using these tactics for years. If we assume that the people who run these companies aren't dummies, doesn't it seem silly that they would have thought of the improvements or combinations before? I mean they spend their days working with the stuff, right? We'll maybe they have. It shows up in the next rev. or edition, which has probably been on the books since before the release of the first version.
A software magazine writer called it AI Artificial Ignorance.

But that's OK. It's an excuse to buy more things. ;)
 
RH, you're getting off easy with the new zytel folder. I love my Ka-Bar Dozier Thorn, and now they've come out with that dagger blade in an aluminum handle shaped like the folding hunter.

And I'm sure that all the Ka-Bar Dozier lines were designed and worked out for production right from the start! What else do they have in the wings???
 
buy many DVDs? special edition, limited edition, director's cut, anniversary box set, extended version, digitally remastered, yadda, yadda.

Any excuse to buy more knives :D
 
yea, talk about it.

like the dual-thumbstuds on the newer buck-striders.

if they made it not a linerlock, i wouldn't be too upset though. i'd buy a new one and never look back.
 
I've got one of the original single thumbstud large spearpoints. That liner lock is as reliable as they come. But I would jump at a Buck Strider lockback.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
I've got one of the original single thumbstud large spearpoints. That liner lock is as reliable as they come. But I would jump at a Buck Strider lockback.
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Why?
Isn't that E.R.s are there for?
Mr. "I love my Nemesis until I poop myself"
 
The Nemesis is great, but I still carry my tanto Sebenza more often. :D What are all these other knives doing here??
 
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