Kershaw and Carbon Fiber

Snap on trucks? Is that a southern thang? I want to put this blade
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in a lime green handle!
 
I grew up in CT and saw the Snapon truck all the time. Have not seen one down here in GA. Maybe it a North thing.
 
Lived half my life in Long Island and the other half in New Jersey and I never saw one. Im taking a guess here but is it an ice cream truck of tools?

I just used some googlefu, that's pretty dam cool. I wish they did come around here.
 
Unless you work at a shop or hang around one, your probably not going to see the snap-on truck...They don't go door to door like the Schwans man. I will be keeping an eye out for ours now though!
 
ssblood said:
Sounds right. The regular blur is around 100 from SO.
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Yeah, that's what they said.

It just sucks because that's 3 times the price of a standard Blur.

I really just want the carbon fiber inserts for my S30V Blur. I already shelled out 40 bucks for a Anodized Blue Leek so I can FrankenLeek my G10/S30v leek. I would have gladly done the same if this wasn't twice the price of my S30v Blur.
 
Snap on guy that I have contact with is saying $94 for the red one, available now, but the green hasn't shown up in his system yet. It might be a better price, its through a buddy who works at a car dealership. Hopefully he isint seeing the wrong price :confused:
 
I'm going to guess they quoted you the price for the 1670RDSO as the original person I got an email from said that was the red one until I corrected them.
 
Thomas W said:
Unfortunately the CF inserts are not available as individual parts. Sorry about that.
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I know you won't be able to say for sure, but would removing the trac-tec destory the knife (i.e. Have someone like Tuffthumbz put CF in)?
 
Opticon said:
I know you won't be able to say for sure, but would removing the trac-tec destory the knife (i.e. Have someone like Tuffthumbz put CF in)?
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No, it will not hurt the knife if you remove them, although you would have to be careful to avoid scratching the knife.
 
Thomas W said:
Unfortunately the CF inserts are not available as individual parts. Sorry about that.
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Why doesn't Kershaw have a custom shop? I think it would be really neat to have a 'build you knife' feature on the website.

Pick the knife style, pick the color, pick the blade steel, pick other options. Have all the selections modify the price accordingly, just like building a computer on a manufacturer website.

I'm guessing you do runs of various types, why not do an over run of the specific parts and add them to the custom shop's stock. If you are doing 50k carbon fiber inserts for SO, do a run of 10k more for custom orders. I'm sure people would gladly pay a premium to order it just the way they wanted.

I know there are people out there (myself included if my g10 Leek ever gets back to me) who are willing to buy multiple knives just to franken them together to get the knife they want. I'd gladly pay MSRP or even over to have the options instead of cobbling them together myself. I paid $75 for my s30v Blur. I would have paid probably another 50-75 for the carbon fiber Blur just to get what I wanted.

Kershaw can't make money putting one together in the configuration (or any configuration) for $125-150?

Musicman guitars/basses are made in specific combinations (number/style of pickup, color, string count, pickguard style etc) for regular production to go to stores. You can still order any possible combination your little heart desires (usually for the same price, you just have to wait). They still do one off/limited run/special edition stuff but you can mix and match anything that is in regular production.

I'm sure I'm not the first person to suggest this, what's the argument against setting up something like this?
 
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