If given the chance, what knife company would you work for and what changes would you make....>

Hinderer. I'd make the pivot keyed on the lockside, and standardize the rest of the hardware to T8. Then, perfect.
 
Honestly, I was gonna say this as soon as I read the thread title...

But now it's just dog-piling/broken record.

ZT: get back to your roots and quit with all the futuristic crap and putting useless holes in the frame...

Love the 0707 and 0308, hate the hole in the frame...

Love the 0223, hate the holes in the blade...

It's almost like the heard the feedback on the 0223 and said "Oh! People don't like useless holes in the blade... Guess we should put them in the frame instead? Yeah! That's a great idea!"
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p.s. Good job on the 0357... only knife they've produced in quite a while that I plan on picking up.




Another I'd work for is GEC...

Wouldn't change much...

More numbers of each pattern, less patterns per year.

Simple as that.
 
I like my CRK too (I have 3) but if I worked for them I would lower the price. Too much $$ for what you get imo...I would lower price by $100 .
 
I’d like to give it a shot a EKI, but I’m sure I’d be fired. lol

Off the top of my head...
Beef up the titanium side liner, offer a standard grind, less aggressive G10, either up the hardness on the 154 or use a different steel, produce more waveless knives, torx screws, more minis, and better QC.
 
Interesting thread.

I would have to say Gerber. I would start a “Professional” line of products catering to law enforcement, fire and EMS, with better materials and heat treatment.

The Pro line would also extend over to guides and other professional outdoorsmen.

Most overseas production would get phased out and I would bring back some of their older designs.

Their current logo would become a thing of the past in favor of the classic sword and stone emblem.

Oh, and I would personally take a sledgehammer to the Paraframe tooling.
 
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Sabre cat; can you also get rid of that bear grille crap,too? And bring back the MK1 dagger, and an updated version of the bolt action folder along w some other of their blackie collins designs....
 
kylemiller said:
CRK. I'd slam dunk all the Seb 31 CAD files into the recycling bin and reformat the hard drive 12 times before incinerating it.
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^This^
I’d also bring back the One Piece Line and offer a variety of steel options.
 
MarkN86 said:
KAI: I agree with making ZT less pocket jewelry and more usable, functional tools. ZT's marketing doesn't even make sense anymore. Get rid of Speedsafe entirely, there is absolutely no need for that when KVT works better and autos becoming legal in more places. They are planning on releasing a KVT and Speedsafe Kershaw.. a waste of a good set of bearings if you ask me. Move more production back to the US, and how about coming out with a few domestically produced manual folders? I don't always want a flipper, sometimes I just want a good quality manual. They are capable of making a very solid knife, unfortunately all these gimmicky mechanisms are really annoying.

Buck: Slow down and tighten up the quality on some of the rougher modern knives. Stop using flimsy plastic on the lightweight folders (Bantam) and go with something like FRN. Also, you can't solve all of your problems with riveted assembly. Optimize the clips on some, put less obnoxiously wide clips on the 110 slim series, and skip the hollow ground blade on the bigger outdoors knives in favor of something stronger. Lots of potential there, but if Buck doesn't get with the times they will be left behind. Thankfully it seems like they are really trying.

I'd work for Case, Ontario, Ka-Bar, and maybe CRKT (maybe..), but I'm not so sure I'd have much good input. I'd probably try to upgrade steels or tighten up QC as much as possible where needed. I'd work for Spyderco just to be around the people, but they wouldn't want or need my help.

CRK seems like they'd be hard to work for, there would be a lot of pressure and if you messed up I don't know if they would be very forgiving about it.
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Seriously. I mean, look what happened to Chris! LOL
 
Spyderco PM2, PM3, Shaman. Offer them with button locks. There was a PM2 run but good luck finding one.

Koenig Arius. Get rid of the 2 backspacer rods and use barrel screws like CRK. Add jimping to the spine of the blade.

Grimsmo. M390.
 
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In answer to your questions: None and None.

I received a letter from the Department of Labor and Social Security, shortly after my 65th birthday last year, informing me that my work permit was cancelled/voided/nullified. As a "natural born" citizen, I was unaware I had (or needed) a work permit ....

If it were legally possible for me to work at a cutlery company, I would not be in the engineering, research and development, or marketing departments, nor an officer of the company authorized to make production changes.

I figure the cutlery companies all have a business plan that they follow, are selling everything they make, presumably at a sufficient profit to remain in business. They know their target consumer a lot better than we do.
 
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