Was not quite what particular part you disagreed with, you sort of re-enforced some of my points I think?! I think you make great points in distinguishing Ferrari between bigger car companies. I work at a company that supplies auto parts so I understand the huge operations required to make one particular part. But, CR is not the Ferrari of knife making. His operation is not much different than other knife companies. It may be on a smaller scale compared to say Spyderco, but compare CR knives to Bradley, and there is not truly $200/knife difference between an Alias and a Sebenza. I do not care what almost indistinguishable differences in tolerances there are, you cannot say CR truly puts $200 more per knife in each Sebenza vs. an Alias. Anyone tying to make that argument is not thinking critically. I am sure he has similar mills and tooling as any other manufacture machining Ti. They heat treat just like any other production knife company. I doubt (anyone correct me if I am wrong of course) he is manufacturing mills and his own special tooling in house, or his own heat treat eqp. There are not really big discrepancies in machinist. If you higher one you will pay a decent salary, assuming US made. A Quality Tech cost about the same across the board. Like I hit on CR is not on the leading edge of knife technology. Quite the opposite, he created a technology 25 years ago, and has basically not changed it since then. You could not get a wider gap between Ferrari and CR on this point. Ferrari is always on the leading edge. His initial startup cost has been spread out over so many knives he has produced there cannot be more than a few dollars of initial R&D in each knife. Of course he has to pay for the change in tooling and minor tweaks, but so does everyone else. The Ti lock knife was an exception, but how many companies develop all kinds of different lock styles, and if that was going to be an arguing point than why is it only app. $15 more? I say if you want one go for it, if you have the money go for it, but be real about what is going on.
Sorry for the jumping around, but CR in the knife industry is just not comparable to Ferrari in the auto industry. Too many differences in the businesses. I will say you are paying for the name when considering both. I think you pay proportionally more for the CR name than you do for the Ferrari name. Ferrari has more real reasons why it costs so much, CR has one argument tighter tolerances, sorry not that much more. Plus, I would guess that if a guy who can afford a $250,000 Ferrari wanted a special knife, he would not spend less than $2000 on a knife.
