Anyone who has gotten into buying and collecting knives, even beginners soon realizes all the knife companies make the same old boring knife patterns and when they do bring out something new and useful it is always limited run and usually available only to a collector club. Sure it makes knife companies money in the short run but they lose millions in the long run by not making these patters standard production items. Here is just a few patterns I wish were made standard.
1. Quick change scales enabling you to buy one knife and change out scales from say plastic to bone, to stag to mammoth ivory or abalone etc. etc. Even a 3 or 4 pattern scale kit that would come with the knife.
2. More low cost leather sheaths designed to specifically fit various 5 1/4" inch hunter knives that come in various depths to fit coke pattern single and double blade and ditto for standard hunter folding patterns.
3. Hunter folder 5 1/4" pattern with one blade fully serrated as well as at least one blade locking and also both blades locking.
4. More Hunter 5 1/4" pattern with one blade a clip point and one blade a skinner or spey pattern and one blade locking or both blades locking.
5. More 4 1/2" and 4 3/4" pattern slim line folding knives.
I often wonder if companies that went out of business like the original Shrade and Camillus would still be in business today if they had used some of these ideas as well as reorganizing as cooperatives whereby each employee would have been an owner thereby firing the deadwood of overpaid CEO's and that today we would still be enjoying buying their knives.
1. Quick change scales enabling you to buy one knife and change out scales from say plastic to bone, to stag to mammoth ivory or abalone etc. etc. Even a 3 or 4 pattern scale kit that would come with the knife.
2. More low cost leather sheaths designed to specifically fit various 5 1/4" inch hunter knives that come in various depths to fit coke pattern single and double blade and ditto for standard hunter folding patterns.
3. Hunter folder 5 1/4" pattern with one blade fully serrated as well as at least one blade locking and also both blades locking.
4. More Hunter 5 1/4" pattern with one blade a clip point and one blade a skinner or spey pattern and one blade locking or both blades locking.
5. More 4 1/2" and 4 3/4" pattern slim line folding knives.
I often wonder if companies that went out of business like the original Shrade and Camillus would still be in business today if they had used some of these ideas as well as reorganizing as cooperatives whereby each employee would have been an owner thereby firing the deadwood of overpaid CEO's and that today we would still be enjoying buying their knives.
