Keep it Alive in 2025

Quiet said:
Candidly: because SAKs are A. generally available and B. not likely to increase significantly in secondary market value. Both elements are things that are opposite to what folks seem to want the GECBF knife to be. It's proposed by several folks every year that we move away from being YAGEC (Yet Another...), but because there are so many folks every year who were unable to get their hands on any GECs at all due to their lightning round drops, that it always ends up being a GEC. Now, it seems like the heat is starting to wear off of those, several recent drops took more than approximately four business seconds to sell, so maybe it's time to start looking at other options. A less expensive knife would be a net positive in multiple ways:

- Porch members could easily afford them, even those with limited knife funds
- The person/persons running the effort wouldn't have to be super financially extended/invested
- For some models (and depending on where it was purchased), there wouldn't need to be a showrunner at all, just everyone orders X knife with Y engraving on it from Z vendor, and they get them when they're ready, no waiting for a large batch to be done all at once
- The knife would definitely invite more use, as it would in theory be more replaceable
- Some options would be less expensive/more available for our friends across the Pond

So ultimately, what's more important to PorchenBerg? Rarity and resale value, or having a memento of being part of something that is a real joy for folks?
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Quoted for truth, clarity, and sanity!
 
mbkr said:
What? A quick duck duck search reveals this is actually a thing. Kabar makes them right here in the good ol' USA, and they're cheap. I don't know if its a traditional tactical spork or not. It doesn't have a pocket clip and its not OHO, so I think its good to go. A porch spork!
I'm in 😜

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I have a couple of these and that blade will absolutely cut you, I had no problem cutting steaks and food packaging while on a motorcycle camping trip, my only gripe is once you separate the two, each half is a bit small but I made it work for the week.
 
I've been taking a break from the forum lately, but I'm very interested in a 'Porchenburg' spork or knife idea! Not gonna lie, I've sat out the last few years' forum knives, but a spork..... I eat my lunch with a spork almost every day.

Today:



This offering from TOPS Knives is pretty sweet and can be had with custom laser engraving for just slightly over $100. USA made as well



I'd be down for a SAK with laser engraving and even an Opinel! Heck, even fine with ordering it directly myself if enough of us were on board for it!
 
Quiet said:
Candidly: because SAKs are A. generally available and B. not likely to increase significantly in secondary market value. Both elements are things that are opposite to what folks seem to want the GECBF knife to be. It's proposed by several folks every year that we move away from being YAGEC (Yet Another...), but because there are so many folks every year who were unable to get their hands on any GECs at all due to their lightning round drops, that it always ends up being a GEC. Now, it seems like the heat is starting to wear off of those, several recent drops took more than approximately four business seconds to sell, so maybe it's time to start looking at other options. A less expensive knife would be a net positive in multiple ways:

- Porch members could easily afford them, even those with limited knife funds
- The person/persons running the effort wouldn't have to be super financially extended/invested
- For some models (and depending on where it was purchased), there wouldn't need to be a showrunner at all, just everyone orders X knife with Y engraving on it from Z vendor, and they get them when they're ready, no waiting for a large batch to be done all at once
- The knife would definitely invite more use, as it would in theory be more replaceable
- Some options would be less expensive/more available for our friends across the Pond

So ultimately, what's more important to PorchenBerg? Rarity and resale value, or having a memento of being part of something that is a real joy for folks?
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Your last paragraph sums it up perfectly, I’ve always viewed club knives as a momento of the great people I get to be around. It’s counter intuitive to have something that both deters regulars who can’t afford it and encourages the worst types to join in. I enjoy knife collecting but I’m not a Pokémon collector - I don’t have to catch them all at any cost.

I agree with everything you’ve said really, I think we as a collective have lost our way with what the club knife should mean.

No disrespect to them but the “I won’t buy a forum knife that isn’t a GEC” group of porch folk are straight up missing the point.
 
I got 2 2024s ...I think they are a great trad looking knife.I' get another but I need to be on povvo mode for a while....Due to a medical episode on my school bus yesterday....lightheadedness like I was blacking out for ed me to stop...while i breathed slowly and my heart was going like pedalling a bike and the chain comes off...I felt that I was not properly in control of the bus...i recovered and completed the mission...Then went straight to the Docs....ecg etc. Not a heart attack....high blood pressure...On the brightside I don't have to drive the bus anymore and can focus my attention on a new job at Big Niles Brewing....every cloud and all that.
Cheers
 
No ill intent by what I'm about to say, and yes, I know what road is paved with good intentions. I probably missed 5 threads about this but..... Why are there so many left overs? Did the people who signed up decide not to buy one? In years past, I thought they were pre-paid for and then a handful of extras (20 or so) were made for the few members who missed it.

160 knives is a heck of a lot of leftovers! Maybe they could be re-cycled and come with a 2025 stencil, a small bottle of PCB etching fluid and a small bottle of dye.
 
draggat said:
No ill intent by what I'm about to say, and yes, I know what road is paved with good intentions. I probably missed 5 threads about this but..... Why are there so many left overs? Did the people who signed up decide not to buy one? In years past, I thought they were pre-paid for and then a handful of extras (20 or so) were made for the few members who missed it.

160 knives is a heck of a lot of leftovers! Maybe they could be re-cycled and come with a 2025 stencil, a small bottle of PCB etching fluid and a small bottle of dye.
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even at the ipo, it was a bit cost prohibitive for some probably, another one is, that knife is rather large at its specs.
 
draggat said:
No ill intent by what I'm about to say, and yes, I know what road is paved with good intentions. I probably missed 5 threads about this but..... Why are there so many left overs? Did the people who signed up decide not to buy one? In years past, I thought they were pre-paid for and then a handful of extras (20 or so) were made for the few members who missed it.

160 knives is a heck of a lot of leftovers! Maybe they could be re-cycled and come with a 2025 stencil, a small bottle of PCB etching fluid and a small bottle of dye.
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I'm not sure how things used to run, but I never heard anything about a pre-order sign up. The first I heard about it was the thread announcing what they were and that the pre order was soon opening (except for us international scum).
 
meako said:
I got 2 2024s ...I think they are a great trad looking knife.I' get another but I need to be on povvo mode for a while....Due to a medical episode on my school bus yesterday....lightheadedness like I was blacking out for ed me to stop...while i breathed slowly and my heart was going like pedalling a bike and the chain comes off...I felt that I was not properly in control of the bus...i recovered and completed the mission...Then went straight to the Docs....ecg etc. Not a heart attack....high blood pressure...On the brightside I don't have to drive the bus anymore and can focus my attention on a new job at Big Niles Brewing....every cloud and all that.
Cheers
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When the chain came off did you land on the crossbar? :eek:
 
How about a 2025 Opinel handle etch/burn Porch extravaganza? Doesn't need to be a competition..... Maybe we all just buy our favorite Opinel and dedicate it to the Porch 2025 with our own decoration? Folks could even have the embellishments done professionally if they wished. I think that would be pretty awesome.
 
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