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The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details: https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is$300$250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
Matriarch for sale yet?
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Did I miss a thread? Where did you find the answer? Or is the answer that there's NO answer yet?
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Hi there. I thought that this was a good opportunity provide an update on delivery. The Matriarch is still approximately 60 days out. Keep in mind that due to the obvious nature of this item, it is limited in its production. The Forum Store will have a limited number available otherwise all others are going to South Africa.
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YAHOOO!! I am waiting impatiently in South Africa for MINE!!!!
Thanks for the update, Michelle!
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ChrisJohn & Kysa,
All of the Matriarch's, except those being made for the Forum, are going to South Africa and Isreal due to the design itself. Spyderco has worked hard to be seen in the good light by all and in doing so have steered away from producing knives such as the Civilian. This knife was the first of it's kind for Spyderco and we have been very careful to limit production and not to heavily advertise it. Due to the retail price that the Matriarch will sell for, it could very easily saturate the market and create enormous problems for us. Thus it is better for us to carefully select the markets it will be sold in.
For those of you who were curious about the retail, the MSRP will be approx. $74.95.
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All of the Matriarch's, except those being made for the Forum, are going to South Africa and Isreal due to the design itself. Spyderco has worked hard to be seen in the good light by all and in doing so have steered away from producing knives such as the Civilian. This knife was the first of it's kind for Spyderco and we have been very careful to limit production and not to heavily advertise it. Due to the retail price that the Matriarch will sell for, it could very easily saturate the market and create enormous problems for us. Thus it is better for us to carefully select the markets it will be sold in.
For those of you who were curious about the retail, the MSRP will be approx. $74.95.
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Michelle -- you're talking in "marketing speak" again.
I undertand from the previous posts on this topic that Ramrod ordered a special batch of an affordable and smaller version of the Civilian. This will be used primarily as a self-defense folder in the not-so-friendly areas of SA and Israel.
I undertand from the previous posts on this topic that Ramrod ordered a special batch of an affordable and smaller version of the Civilian. This will be used primarily as a self-defense folder in the not-so-friendly areas of SA and Israel.
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Titan - "Marketing Speak" means "telling the truth without putting our foot in our mouth?". We would enjoy as few restriction to design as possible? Some of us remember when it was legal to maufacture and sell autos & butterfly's. Wisdom is called for here. We must proceed slowly & cautiously that we may continue to proceed. We assume that taking care of the forumites (knowledgable collectors) is providing some eggs without killing the goose.
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Self-defense in the gravest extreme is a good and life-sustaining purpose. South Africa and Israel seem to be places where society and the legal system understand this. I wouldn't want to have experienced first hand the history that has reinforced this understanding.
There are, however, many people out there who will tell you they would actually prefer to die the death of an innocent victim than to slice and dice an aggressor's body parts with blood all over the place. In many places, such as the UK, that attitude, which some of us find incomprehensable, is the majority view and the law of the land.
The USA is in the middle of a hot debate on that issue, mostly about guns, with knives as a side issue. Note, however that many people consider knives, when used as weapons, more disreputable than guns. Too close! YUCK!
Unlike some other companies (i.e. Cold Steel), Spyderco has chosen not to shout about their products' capabilities as defensive weapons. There is, of course, no need to shout, since people on both sides of the divide will see a knife's capacity for doing damage without being told.
I think I understand why Spyderco would not want to make the mainstream network news for selling the "Black Talon" of pocket knives.
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There are, however, many people out there who will tell you they would actually prefer to die the death of an innocent victim than to slice and dice an aggressor's body parts with blood all over the place. In many places, such as the UK, that attitude, which some of us find incomprehensable, is the majority view and the law of the land.
The USA is in the middle of a hot debate on that issue, mostly about guns, with knives as a side issue. Note, however that many people consider knives, when used as weapons, more disreputable than guns. Too close! YUCK!
Unlike some other companies (i.e. Cold Steel), Spyderco has chosen not to shout about their products' capabilities as defensive weapons. There is, of course, no need to shout, since people on both sides of the divide will see a knife's capacity for doing damage without being told.
I think I understand why Spyderco would not want to make the mainstream network news for selling the "Black Talon" of pocket knives.
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PS: Folks find the Merlin scary enough. Never mind that two of them from my shop are now in the hands of ladies who use them for gardening. One of them, from the way she talks, could never imagine using that knife to make someone let go of her. The other lady would probably treat an assailant the way she treats overgrown weeds.
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