excited about production knives again

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shootist16

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For quite awhile now I have had little interest in production knives. Customs were my priority. Seems like production knives just weren't turning me on. This year looks like I will have a renewed interest in production knives. Knives like the Mayo/Buck, Spyderco ATR, Outdoor Edge Blackwood hybrid, and Blade-Techs Wegner design all have me excited.
 
I'm pretty pumped about Spyderco's new Ballbearing lock, and move towards 30v steel, hopefully these will find their way onto most of their regular offerings.
 
Jsun -- I second that! I searched Google looking for the knife, but couldn't find it.
 
I usually do most of my mooning over customs, too, but these factories are really getting it together. Whether I'll buy any or not remains to be seen, since I've got plenty of knives to tide me over for awhile, but that Buck/Mayo looks great, and though I haven't been keeping up with Benchmade lately, I clicked on their New Releases link yesterday, and it blew me away (esp. the second page!).
Awesome stuff coming out these days:cool:
 
I agree with your feelings, Dennis. But--they have also gotten more expensive--especially these newer "semi-customs". But--what the heck--bring 'em on.:D
 
After dropping a load on customs, getting a production knife is almost a quaint experience. It's made better by discovering strides the production makers and designer are putting into these production knives!
 
Some really interesting knives in the works. I am still opening the Spydie forum everyday hoping for news that the Ronin has shipped...

Andrew Lim
 
Guys,

I spoke to Dave last week before I took off to Vegas. He's been very busy but should have the factory prototypes in time for the SHOT Show next month. I will be at the Outdoor Edge booth, if you can make it, stop by and say hi!!

Neil
 
Hi Neil, I'm really glad to see your collab is coming together, I jope OE does you at least some justice :)

I was really heavy into customs for quite a while and when we bought a house plus I spent about 10k on putting in my shop, I used my custom folder collection to finance the shop. (along with some fixed blades..)

Of course I still have the knife bug and have really enjoyed buying production pieces again.

I find that I have no hesitation to beat the crap out of them and cut things I never would have thought to cut with a Mayo/Blackwood/Obenauf et al.

I still like to pick up small custom fixed blades in the $100 range because they are competitive with productions and come in unlimted varieties but I'm not sure if I will ever go back to custom folders, especially now the CRKT is not the only company making nice collaborations.
 
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