IQ Test for Dealers?

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numbersman

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Just wondering if there is some sort of IQ test that one needs to pass before becoming a dealer for Spyderco, or at least a test of knife knowledge. I was browsing Grand Prairie Knives website last night and noticed that the Tuff is described as having a "large blood groove" on the blade. For their information that groove is a fuller, and it is to reduce the weight of the blade. Good grief Charlie Brown!
 
Go out on the street tomorrow and ask 100 people what a fuller is. Then ask the next 100 what a blood groove is. Then remember your favorite dealer sells a lot more knives to average consumers than knife knuts.
 
I dunno. Maybe not all knife dealers who type out descriptions of knives are not well versed in all things sharp and pointy.
 
They can call it half pipe for lice for all I care, as long as I know what it is it's all good.
 
I just wonder how Spyderco feel about that. Its not going to be good publicity for them if someone gets stabbed with a Tuff and the DA quotes this website as having the knife with extra big blood grroves. I don't think too many manufacturers would appreciate that sort of publicity.
 
I stop in at Grand Prairie every time I take I-70 across country. They are a internet store with a brick and mortar front and they sell in the shop at the same price as the internet. Yes you can pick up and feel the knife and buy it at internet prices. You can have your pick between several for every spyderco model. They even have more than one sebenza, strider, etc. and a decent selection of customs, leaning toward the USN crowd. They are smart, relatively quiet, courteous people. They give you time to look and don't pressure. They know their knives, but they have many. Marketing is marketing, Yabalanowitz is right. My only complaint is they don't give a discount for cash :)

Spyderco doesn't give a tinker's dam about people using knives as weapons. They make knives that are weapons first, they make trainers to help you use your knife as a weapon and support seminars in "martial blade craft." They have "product placement" in many movies/TV shows.
 
We are not a very smart bunch! I am speaking for myself of course. Hehehe.... I agree not all folks looking to buy a knife will know what a fuller is. Blood groove sounds way more cool. My Gayle Bradley Air has scales that have a great grip even when covered in unicorn blood.
 
panch0 said:
We are not a very smart bunch! I am speaking for myself of course. Hehehe.... I agree not all folks looking to buy a knife will know what a fuller is. Blood groove sounds way more cool. My Gayle Bradley Air has scales that have a great grip even when covered in unicorn blood.
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;), with that kind of testimony I can't see why anyone wouldn't want to own 2.
 
I showed my friend the Tuff.
He mentioned the blood groove...
I told him it's actually called a fuller.
He said, "Who f-ing cares? You knew what I was talking about, didn't you?"

It's true, I did know what he was referring to.:o
 
stabman said:
I showed my friend the Tuff.
He mentioned the blood groove...
I told him it's actually called a fuller.
He said, "Who f-ing cares? You knew what I was talking about, didn't you?"

It's true, I did know what he was referring to.:o
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Hm, I actually got an informative answer about a fuller, he was comparing it to an I-beam (i think) and how it increases its strength and does not flex, but don't quote me on it though...my memory is a little sketchy....Oh and I think there is a thread on this issue as well :)
 
I've always heard what the tough has to be called a blood groove. Never heard it called anything else, maybe they should just say weight reducing cutout in the blade:rolleyes:
 
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