Gollnick
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and it coincides with the release of DarkOps IPO stock?
As I say, "Global Crossings Knives."
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and it coincides with the release of DarkOps IPO stock?
nelsonmc said:I'm confused... Whats the deal with all this talk of some Dark Ops knives? I went to their website, doesn't have much really. I also heard the book they send out doesn't even have an order form? Ok I'm really confused? If this is a knife company then why don't they sell their knives? Further more I'm even more confused about well... nevermind.. Maybe I've been under a rock for too long but what the hell is the history of said company? They real, fake, what?![]()
Gollnick said:What brand of beer were they pouring?
Or was the DO booth so well hidden that you couldn't find it?
TheBadGuy said:I am really sad with the lack of photos from SHOT all together.
From a knifemakers point of view, I think whoever's in charge of design and spent that much must hav sh** for brains. It doesn't cost me a dime to change my handle designs.Watchful said:Either this is catastrophically run business or his claim is complete nonsense.
I'd expect that Ford didn't spend that much for the redesign of the Mustang!
Factoring in R&D, consulting time, machine re-tooling, legal/patent fees (although I'm starting to feel they didn't spend a lot on this!), etc., etc., he'd have to sell about 2,000 units of this particular knife at $500 each to make a profit after costs. This is guesswork based on some quick math and gut business formulas, but even with a big margin of error on my part, only a fool would spend more than $50K on a minor redesign of a knife handle! At least, before your investors and partners said "screw the changes and get that thing made."
I'd be interested to hear from the knife makers on this forum on this claim.
injection mold marks ( seams that were not trimmed off)
It doesn't cost me a dime to change my handle designs.
I was just kidding Gollnick. I understand in manufacturing there is alot of cost in tooling for production. That amount seems a bit high but with all the unanswered questions about this company, who really knows?Gollnick said:FYI, technically these are called "witness lines."
injection-molded plastic is a different game. Depending on the tool and what your change is, it can cost tens- or even hundreds-of-thousands-of-dollars and take months to make a change. Of course, once you have the tool, you can make tens of thousands to millions of pieces from it. So, it's definitely a mass-production technology. You pay up-front in tooling fees but make it up in volume down the road.