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On our USA production here at the Spyderco Factory, there are many steps involved in the knife manufacturing process from the initial concept to full production.
A Pilot Run is the final step before full production, a small run of knives (typically 50) are manufactured to prove all of the manufacturing processes from start to finish and allow our teams to make any necessary tweaks and changes before a large run is produced.
Beginning with the Leafstorm in 2009, we began differentiating the Pilot Run with engraving on the blade in order to help identify them as we occasionally make changes and do additional research and development with the knife and/or manufacturing processes after the initial Pilot Run, sometimes we may even have more than one Pilot Run on a product if something doesn't flow properly. Typically, there are 50 or less and because there are so few, we will not be offering them through our collector program and there will be no waiting lists, holds, call aheads, etc.
All pilot runs will be announced on the Spyderco Forums, Facebook, My Space and Twitter and sold at full MSRP through the spyderco.com website on a first come, first served basis until they are gone. Please keep in mind, this is only on products produced in our USA factory in Golden, Colorado.
The first Pilot Run offered will be the Leafstorm. MSRP for the Leafstorm is $249.95. Please be aware the Pilot Runs will ONLY be offered on our site. If you are local or visiting us, you CANNOT get a Pilot Run model in person in SFO. Please DO NOT ask the SFO Crew for an exception.
The C128 PILOT will go live tomorrow, 29-Apr-09 at Noon (1200 MDT).
As many of you know, we did release some of these through Kevin Wilkins during IWA in Germany. So we have less than 20 of these available for tomorrow's release.
As mentioned, this information will also be announced through our Twitter, Facebook and MySpace pages. Facebook and MySpace will be an announcement sent to Fans of our pages on each site.
Kristi
A Pilot Run is the final step before full production, a small run of knives (typically 50) are manufactured to prove all of the manufacturing processes from start to finish and allow our teams to make any necessary tweaks and changes before a large run is produced.
Beginning with the Leafstorm in 2009, we began differentiating the Pilot Run with engraving on the blade in order to help identify them as we occasionally make changes and do additional research and development with the knife and/or manufacturing processes after the initial Pilot Run, sometimes we may even have more than one Pilot Run on a product if something doesn't flow properly. Typically, there are 50 or less and because there are so few, we will not be offering them through our collector program and there will be no waiting lists, holds, call aheads, etc.
All pilot runs will be announced on the Spyderco Forums, Facebook, My Space and Twitter and sold at full MSRP through the spyderco.com website on a first come, first served basis until they are gone. Please keep in mind, this is only on products produced in our USA factory in Golden, Colorado.
The first Pilot Run offered will be the Leafstorm. MSRP for the Leafstorm is $249.95. Please be aware the Pilot Runs will ONLY be offered on our site. If you are local or visiting us, you CANNOT get a Pilot Run model in person in SFO. Please DO NOT ask the SFO Crew for an exception.
The C128 PILOT will go live tomorrow, 29-Apr-09 at Noon (1200 MDT).
As many of you know, we did release some of these through Kevin Wilkins during IWA in Germany. So we have less than 20 of these available for tomorrow's release.
As mentioned, this information will also be announced through our Twitter, Facebook and MySpace pages. Facebook and MySpace will be an announcement sent to Fans of our pages on each site.
Kristi
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