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Playing with texture again...
- Thread starter NickWheeler
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I like it Nick.
It's a great utility blade, but you're also really close to a very nice, very discreet IWB self defense blade. It's already super thin, and the texture is there for purchase on the draw... Just add a hint more of a guard and you have a SD variant
It's a great utility blade, but you're also really close to a very nice, very discreet IWB self defense blade. It's already super thin, and the texture is there for purchase on the draw... Just add a hint more of a guard and you have a SD variant
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The only thing that would make this knife better IMHO is if the handle was flattened like the blade. You have some texturing on the blade which is a flat surface and then the handle as was described looks like volcanic rock; I was going to say blobby (if thats a word). If the handle texture was left but flattened and the edges nicely rounded like you have it would be fantastic; my $.02.
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Nick, I remember one time in Atlanta we were talking about the forums. You said something that I remember to this day. You said "If somebody posts a butter knife on there people will love it" Do you remember saying that? Well after looking at this knife again today I think you're messing with us.
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Bruce, we are just trying to encourage him a little. It's not like he gets that many compliments on his knives.
Kohai999
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Isn't a butter knife, and I don't hate it....but it isn't......real impressive?
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STeven Garsson
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Isn't a butter knife, and I don't hate it....but it isn't......real impressive?
Best Regards,
STeven Garsson
I dont hate it either but I'm trying to see what everybody is raving about. We all know Nick is capable of anything. Even the damascus isnt anything special.
Kohai999
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Cult of personality, Bruce....that's what drives the Tactical Market right now....we just are not used to seeing it much in the rest of Customs.
Best Regards,
STeven Garsson
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Not really impressive, but kinda cool...like I said before. I like the combination of texture and damascus. Sure,I would like more uniformity in the texture and a more aggressive/ergonomic handle design, but it's still kinda cool. So let Nick take a brake from those emmaculate knives and have some fun...even at our expense. Bruce, he did come close to a butter knife with his paring knife...maybe a Wheeler butter knife is upcoming, lol!
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I hate it.
:barf:
Maybe that will help you imagine it.
Thanks guys
Lorien- thanks my friend, but I know there are at least 3 people that looked at this and said, "OMFG, are you kidding me with this Wheeler?!?!?" Probably out loud and everything.
I know there is at least one.
they need to get over themselves thenYou're doing EXACTLY what you should be doing. Haters gonna hate, yo!
I certainly do not hate Nick personally or as a knifemaker, and indeed I like a large number of his knives very much. In fact, I bought a Bowie from Nick and still own it. Not sure why hating this particular knive makes me a "hater" or means that I need to get over myself. I am not sure that I have ever met anyone who doesn't hate SOMETHING.
Isn't a butter knife, and I don't hate it....but it isn't......real impressive?
Best Regards,
STeven Garsson
No - not impressive at all to me. But I will admit that I am not always the sharpest knife in the drawer (pun, noted), so maybe it is just over my head.
I appreciate your honesty, Bruce, more than you could know. We could use a lot more of that around here. And a lot less of the "cult of personality" that STeven mentioned. All, IMO of course.
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wrt my previous statements, I look at a knife like this in the larger context and that context also involves pricing. A hundred and fifty bucks for a damascus knife, forged by the maker, including a nice little sheath makes an impact here. For another $xxx I'd have bigger expectations, but the fact that Nick can put an excellent knife into someone's hand for $150 is the overriding thing for me. And the fact that this is experimental territory adds another element, where you can forgive the guy for trying out something new, and working to develop his approach to the craft in different ways.
I simply cannot see why anyone would have such a negative emotional response, (HATE of all things!) to it. It's a little, affordable damascus knife by a very fine knife maker, not liking it is one thing, but hating it?...that, I don't understand. But, whatever floats yer boat, you wanna hate a thing then go for it, personally I got no time to 'hate' much of anything, especially knives. Life's too friggin short for that.
I simply cannot see why anyone would have such a negative emotional response, (HATE of all things!) to it. It's a little, affordable damascus knife by a very fine knife maker, not liking it is one thing, but hating it?...that, I don't understand. But, whatever floats yer boat, you wanna hate a thing then go for it, personally I got no time to 'hate' much of anything, especially knives. Life's too friggin short for that.
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$155. was WAY too much money.
I thought that $200.00 would be closer to the right price...seriously. Maybe not super-duper damascus, but still damascus, nice sheath.....
I don't like the knife, but the price was a bargain for someone who does.
Best Regards,
STeven Garsson
Geez !
At least to me, it seems alot of folks are going a little overboard....
Title is "Playing with texture again" - ie trying something a little different for a lark
obviously, this is nothing fancy, "special" or made to appeal to "fanboys"
It's a neat, little, VERY nicely priced knife - the kinda thing that maybe makes a new collector - who's not ready to spend bigger $ on a knife - a little more interested in the custom market!
I didn't see anyone treating this like the second coming, nor do I see a reason to go all negative either
not everyone's cup of tea for sure, and that's totally fine
Bill Flynn
full disclosure: I own a couple of Burt Foster Dark Side knives ( similar idea) and actually USE them all the time
At least to me, it seems alot of folks are going a little overboard....
Title is "Playing with texture again" - ie trying something a little different for a lark
obviously, this is nothing fancy, "special" or made to appeal to "fanboys"
It's a neat, little, VERY nicely priced knife - the kinda thing that maybe makes a new collector - who's not ready to spend bigger $ on a knife - a little more interested in the custom market!
I didn't see anyone treating this like the second coming, nor do I see a reason to go all negative either
not everyone's cup of tea for sure, and that's totally fine
Bill Flynn
full disclosure: I own a couple of Burt Foster Dark Side knives ( similar idea) and actually USE them all the time
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I can hardly remember too many discussions here in the C&H subforum were we went into details on the price that a particular knife which was posted here sold for. Good reasons for that, IMO. I could care less if it sold for $5 or $5000. And FWIW, I would pay neither of those amounts if it meant I had to keep the knife forever and could not flip it. I am offering my opinion on it as a C&H knife, not as an investment.
For what would anyone have to forgive Nick? He made a knife that I think is butt-ugly. He did not insult my wife.
you wanna hate a thing then go for it, personally I got no time to 'hate' much of anything, especially knives. Life's too friggin short for that.
Ya know, it took surprisingly little of my time to decide that I hated this knife. Almost exactly the same amount of my time, I suppose, that it would have taken for me to have decided I loved it. And a lot less time than it took either of us to post here. But maybe you are the one guy I have now met who never hated anything. DSFDF, I guess! Have a great day.
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I want it on record that I,m not a "hater" of this knife. I not a lover of it either.
I understand that as a knife maker we need to bring in a cash flow. That's what I see with Nicks knife. It didn't take him long to make and he didn't sell it for very much money. I would think Nicks name alone on a chunk of steel would bring $155 but this one is a bargain as it possesses his award winning heat treatment.
Between big jobs sometimes it's necessary to take in quick fast money jobs to buy groceries. I,ve been there, am there.
My problem is why does everybody love this knife?
Edited: OK not everyone loves it.
I understand that as a knife maker we need to bring in a cash flow. That's what I see with Nicks knife. It didn't take him long to make and he didn't sell it for very much money. I would think Nicks name alone on a chunk of steel would bring $155 but this one is a bargain as it possesses his award winning heat treatment.
Between big jobs sometimes it's necessary to take in quick fast money jobs to buy groceries. I,ve been there, am there.
My problem is why does everybody love this knife?
Edited: OK not everyone loves it.
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Bruce,
everyone knows you are a fantastic maker and an equally nice guy, so I'm sure no one is thinking you are a "hater"
FWIW, I really didn't see anyone going gaga and saying they "LOVED!!!!!" the knife ........ lots of "like it", "kinda cool", that sorta stuff, but no proclamations of undying, Holy Grail kinda love like you see in the tactical market...
IMHO, these type of knives engender black and white opinions, without much in between...and again, that's fine. Personally, I think it's "cool" and it would be a "user" for me, but I'm not saying I "love it".
Again, if this kinda knife is an "gateway" to a new collector, then I think everyone wins
Bill
everyone knows you are a fantastic maker and an equally nice guy, so I'm sure no one is thinking you are a "hater"
FWIW, I really didn't see anyone going gaga and saying they "LOVED!!!!!" the knife ........ lots of "like it", "kinda cool", that sorta stuff, but no proclamations of undying, Holy Grail kinda love like you see in the tactical market...
IMHO, these type of knives engender black and white opinions, without much in between...and again, that's fine. Personally, I think it's "cool" and it would be a "user" for me, but I'm not saying I "love it".
Again, if this kinda knife is an "gateway" to a new collector, then I think everyone wins
Bill