New Cooper Cutlery knives?

Old Engineer said:
If the Owner is one of the guys making the knives and setting the Standards , the company is in trouble .

Harry
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Well, lets do some math....
According to the previously linked article, Cooper & co has made some 5,000 knives in the 18 month period between June 2020 and December 2021. That works out to some 278 per month. Assuming a 5 day work week, thats about 14 a day, or 12 if you work Saturdays, made by the handful of employees mentioned in the piece. How long does it take to make a knife from scratch, as in you are using the original Queen machines to make parts, sending out blades for heat treating, cutting and finishing handle material etc? There was a reference to making 500 in one week.....with just the four guys mentioned? Sounds like they are just hammering together pre-made parts acquired from who-knows-where as fast as they can, quality be damned.
 
Arathol said:
Well, lets do some math....
According to the previously linked article, Cooper & co has made some 5,000 knives in the 18 month period between June 2020 and December 2021. That works out to some 278 per month. Assuming a 5 day work week, thats about 14 a day, or 12 if you work Saturdays, made by the handful of employees mentioned in the piece. How long does it take to make a knife from scratch, as in you are using the original Queen machines to make parts, sending out blades for heat treating, cutting and finishing handle material etc? There was a reference to making 500 in one week.....with just the four guys mentioned? Sounds like they are just hammering together pre-made parts acquired from who-knows-where as fast as they can, quality be damned.
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They are claiming to of only made 875 Weed and Co knives according to the insert in the tube. Wonder what brand the other 4,125 knives were and where they were sold? 🤔

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Will Power said:
Sometimes I feel it's a pity the Barf emoticon has been discontinued.
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It's there, you just have to scroll down for it.🤢🤮
I use the "unamused side eye" quite a bit: 😒


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Will Power said:
Sometimes I feel it's a pity the Barf emoticon has been discontinued.
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It still works. Is it appropriate for the porch? Maybe not, but it is appropriate for these knives....

I keep reading about this big blue place that sells knives, I'm not sure what it is and I don't actually care, but can someone tell me how much these are going for without mentioning a dealer?

I recently got a few RR knives. The Reserve EZ open Swayback blows these weed knives out of the water and at $40.
 
craytab said:
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It still works. Is it appropriate for the porch? Maybe not, but it is appropriate for these knives....

I keep reading about this big blue place that sells knives, I'm not sure what it is and I don't actually care, but can someone tell me how much these are going for without mentioning a dealer?

I recently got a few RR knives. The Reserve EZ open Swayback blows these weed knives out of the water and at $40.
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Without naming names, I see either Case prices or GEC prices.
Even if the fit & finish were on point, there's something awkward and blocky about the design that I just don't like. At least it doesn't have matchstrike nail nicks...😏
 
r8shell said:
Without naming names, I see either Case prices or GEC prices.
Even if the fit & finish were on point, there's something awkward and blocky about the design that I just don't like. At least it doesn't have matchstrike nail nicks...😏
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While I don't like the matchstrike nail nicks, only tolerate them, I'd rather have those than a goofy pot leaf 🌴🇯🇲 😁
 
I get the appeal of “the original queen tooling.” I really do. People would like to think of their knives being made by real craftsmen on old school, old, manual machine tools, not stamped out identically from the latest CNC gizmo by a robot or some factory in China.

The problem is… worn out is worn out, and to use those tools appropriately requires a lot of practice. (That’s an understatement, by the way). It’s never a cost effective way to start a business. A hobby? Sure. But hardly a business.
 
mnblade said:
I'd like to know what marketing genius decided there's a significant Venn diagram overlap between

A. folks who like to show off their affinity for pot, and
B. folks who purchase traditional pocketknives.

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Strangely there is an overlap here. I don't know how large it is, but I've been surprised by how quickly these knives are selling 🤷🏻‍♂️
 
L.H.S said:
Queen wasn't making great knives in their last years, at least not consistently. The truth is that the machines were worn out. I don't think the machines are a contributor to quality in this case, likely rather a detractor, and the reverence put on them is unwarranted.
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The point is that those knives were not made using any sort of Queen tooling, worn or not. Queen never made knives that looked like that. The low quality work is just that, low quality work.
 
Arathol said:
The point is that those knives were not made using any sort of Queen tooling, worn or not. Queen never made knives that looked like that. The low quality work is just that, low quality work.
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Do you mean literally "tooling" like as in Queen never made the exact patterns that these Weed & Co knives are, this particular (though pretty common) Trapper and Coke Bottle Hunter?
 
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