Kershaw and Carbon Fiber

Scurvy092 said:
Why doesn't have a custom shop?
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I can't officially speak for Kershaw, but I assume since they're having a hard time keeping up with the current demand already, this would just add to that stress.

I do think it would be a cool thing in the future though if either the demand falls or supply raises (hopefully the later and not former).
 
Scurvy092 said:
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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The idea of a custom shop is awesome but I wouldn't want to risk the production of their knives. I would much rather have them make good knives that all kinds of people can afford and doing small production runs than lots of custom stuff. That being said if they eventually find a way to increase production and make it work, I'll be the first to step up and buy some custom stuff.
 
Originally Posted by oregonknifenerd
If I drop a bottle of Jameson by your office could your chair sprout a rare Blur or two for me?

Thomas W said:
Prolly...:D
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Dang....i knew i should have thrown something else in with the package i sent....LOL
Hope everything arrived OK.
 
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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Easiest way I found to remove the Trac-Tec inlay is to soak the handles in lacquer thinner overnight. Almost popped out by themselves after that. Trying to find the easiest way to make a template for CF inlays myself. ;)
 
OvalmanPA said:
Easiest way I found to remove the Trac-Tec inlay is to soak the handles in lacquer thinner overnight. Almost popped out by themselves after that. Trying to find the easiest way to make a template for CF inlays myself. ;)
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I've been meaning to find some time to do this myself. My plan was to take the inlays out, scan them with a flatbed scanner, clean up the edges in Photoshop, trace it in my plotter software, and then run a sheet of thin adhesive backed CF through my cutter.
 
oregonknifenerd said:
I've been meaning to find some time to do this myself. My plan was to take the inlays out, scan them with a flatbed scanner, clean up the edges in Photoshop, trace it in my plotter software, and then run a sheet of thin adhesive backed CF through my cutter.
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If you hadn't seen it this might give you some idea as to the scale
Blur2-1-1.jpg
 
Opticon said:
If you hadn't seen it this might give you some idea as to the scale
Blur2-1-1.jpg
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I won't be able to get them as nice as these I don't think. These stick up and have a nice bevel.
If I use the right blade I can maybe get the bevel but these are much thicker than the silver texalium
in the sg10 and actual carbon fiber. The texalium is fiber glass with aluminum coating the fibers. I think
real thick CF would be to difficult to cut with my cutter. The neat thing about texalium is that the aluminum
can be reacted with various chemicals to color it and texalium comes in blue, yellow, and purple in addition
to plain silver. Since it isn't used for strenght and is just decorative as an inset I think it's a good alternative.
I wouldn't beat the heck out of a rare production Blur with either material but would carry an s30v I'd thrown
some of my own stuff in to.
 
So are these ready to go? I checked, my snap on guy was indeed wrong. He didn't have these show up when he looked, so wondering if theyre "out" yet
 
jhyde7585 said:
So are these ready to go? I checked, my snap on guy was indeed wrong. He didn't have these show up when he looked, so wondering if theyre "out" yet
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The CS rep I talked to said the P/N (KER1670CFGRN) I gave her was just listed as a new product and there wasn't any more info on it. But it should be in their system
 
Just got this email from Snap-On Today:

Hi Jon
These part numbers KER1670CFGRN and KER1670CFRD are being set up in our system but we can't pleace orders as of yet they are still at New product Satus and it could be 2-4 weeks before an order could be placed, You can check back via E-maial at nccc.support@snapon.com or by calling Customer Service at PH# 877-762-7664 in a couple of weeks and we can check status again.
Thanks.
Dan
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I never really liked Tilt till now. No wonder everyone wanted one. That carbon fiber is nice, BUT I must have that 0300 in CF. That's beautiful. I like these Blurs too. I havn't owned a Blur yet, but I'd definately buy one of these.
 
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