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Dear Members,
We have gotten a number of inquiries regarding our HD Knives, the HD-7 and the HD-12 models in particular. I have also seen several posts speculating as to the reasons why or why not they are available.
The HD-7s and the HD-12s are not discontinued. I have several hundred blades for each model ready to go. They reason they are few and far between is simply this. We have a huge volume of orders for our other catalog models and that volume is growing every month. We are very lucky in these economic times to be in the position we are in. I thank you all for your continued support.
Anyway, we are set up and tooled up to produce our standard models and our machines are running every waking hour to fill our orders. I need to schedule machine time on Sundays just to build our gun grips and other firearms accessories. So, to build the HD models requires a different setup and tooling and requires 2-3 days of machine time to cut, mill, and finish both G-10 and Titanium handle slabs for the HD knives. We just dont have any extra days. I will be building more HD knives, both the 7s and 12s but it will be when I decide to break into our current schedule to do so. Which, I will do at some time.
Now, there are those who have said The ABDC + D Company has all kinds of different knife models and locks. Why cant Emerson just do that? If they can, he should be able to.
The reason is that we dont have our knives made in China. I dont just sit in an office and make a phone call to order a thousand models xs and a thousand model ys. I never will.
Our knives are made in right here in my factory, right beneath my office. I design the knives. I build the prototypes and I test the knives. Hell, I even build some of the production models when we are in a pinch.
So, yes I will be building more HD knives. I like them a lot. I carried an HD-12 for over 3 years. So, its not economics. Its not material. Its not difficult. Its certainly not popularity. Its all about time. We are building more knives this year than this company has ever built. The factory and the people are working like a well oiled machine, so Im not going to break our rhythm right now. But yes, I will be building both HD-7s and HD-12s sometime in the future. Dont despair, if you are an HD fan, just keep your eyes on our website and your fingers crossed. They will be back.
Thats my story and Im stickin to it.
Best Regards,
Ernest R. Emerson
We have gotten a number of inquiries regarding our HD Knives, the HD-7 and the HD-12 models in particular. I have also seen several posts speculating as to the reasons why or why not they are available.
The HD-7s and the HD-12s are not discontinued. I have several hundred blades for each model ready to go. They reason they are few and far between is simply this. We have a huge volume of orders for our other catalog models and that volume is growing every month. We are very lucky in these economic times to be in the position we are in. I thank you all for your continued support.
Anyway, we are set up and tooled up to produce our standard models and our machines are running every waking hour to fill our orders. I need to schedule machine time on Sundays just to build our gun grips and other firearms accessories. So, to build the HD models requires a different setup and tooling and requires 2-3 days of machine time to cut, mill, and finish both G-10 and Titanium handle slabs for the HD knives. We just dont have any extra days. I will be building more HD knives, both the 7s and 12s but it will be when I decide to break into our current schedule to do so. Which, I will do at some time.
Now, there are those who have said The ABDC + D Company has all kinds of different knife models and locks. Why cant Emerson just do that? If they can, he should be able to.
The reason is that we dont have our knives made in China. I dont just sit in an office and make a phone call to order a thousand models xs and a thousand model ys. I never will.
Our knives are made in right here in my factory, right beneath my office. I design the knives. I build the prototypes and I test the knives. Hell, I even build some of the production models when we are in a pinch.
So, yes I will be building more HD knives. I like them a lot. I carried an HD-12 for over 3 years. So, its not economics. Its not material. Its not difficult. Its certainly not popularity. Its all about time. We are building more knives this year than this company has ever built. The factory and the people are working like a well oiled machine, so Im not going to break our rhythm right now. But yes, I will be building both HD-7s and HD-12s sometime in the future. Dont despair, if you are an HD fan, just keep your eyes on our website and your fingers crossed. They will be back.
Thats my story and Im stickin to it.
Best Regards,
Ernest R. Emerson
