Poor Louis Glesser ! (Sal for the friends)

Yeah! A SC Custom shop would be COOL!

I want a PE Harpy with a 3.5" D2 blade and a checkered titanium framelock flame-colored handle with a tip-up carry clip and a glass breaker in the butt. :D
 
I wanna wharncliffe-blade version of the CII/Manix made from ZDP-189, and one built to 70% scale with Mastodon scales and a damascus blade. ;)

Hey, the custom shop could make your trainers, too...
 
We Spydie fans are crazy and demand a lot, but Sal's crazier to listen and try to please. :)
 
This custom shop idea has been thrown out many times. I think each time it has been said to be not cost effective for Spyderco. I probably will never happen.

I personally love the idea of a custom shop, but I do not know much about business and how to run a company and I'm pretty sure there is a reason why there is no Spyderco custom shop.
 
A custom shop is no more than a custom maker. Prices would be the same as cusom knives. Why not have your "custom" Spyderco made by a "custom maker" licensed to use our trademark?

sal
 
I don't know ... I've seen Bob Lum's versions of the Lum Chinese. :D (Which came first, the egg or the chicken?)
 
Esav Benyamin said:
(Which came first, the egg or the chicken?)
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Undoubtedly it was the rooster... :-)

Sorry, folks, I just couldn't help it. I'll stop now...


In actuality, there have been some very valid points made in this thread. While I agree that a Spyderco custom shop is a great idea in concept, the practicality of such a thing leaves something to be desired. To be completely honest, it is probably best that the entire Spyderco crew spend their valuable time in development of new, exciting designs even more wonderful than even I can dream up.

My thanks to the crew in Golden, CO for all of their hard work and dedication to their customers.

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Dr. Hannibal Lecter said:
To be completely honest, it is probably best that the entire Spyderco crew spend their valuable time in development of new, exciting designs even more wonderful than even I can dream up.
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You may have something here. Spyderco DOES come out with more of a variety of very different and sometimes unique designs on a much more fewquent basis than any other company I've seen.

Kershaw comes out with new stuff often, but it all looks like different versions of their old stuff. CRKT is all different shapes of bead-blast AUS-6 and Zytel. Emerson does the same knife over and over - they just use a different shape cookie cutter and market the result differently. BM does OK, but nothing as earth-shatteringly different as, say, the Dodo.
 
yes there are some valid and invalid points in all the threads..i agree w.sal and mongo man..it would be ver COOOOL if they had some kind of custom shop or "lego" knife..i think that the "lego" idea is brilliant but also the practicality of it all not so practical..the bottom line is that all companies are in it for the money and to try to please their customers in making the money so they keep coming back, and spyderco and Sal do a hell of a business..i like sals idea that if you want a custom to use the outside sources and have the manufacure concentrate on new materials new concepts and design..
 
yeesh, a custom shop would be a huge mistake in my opinion, you could never charge enough to cover the labor and it would give incentive to the nitpicky nutso's to come out of the woodwork.

yah want a custom, buy a custom from a custom maker.
 
Sal wrote:

"Why not have your "custom" Spyderco made by a "custom maker" licensed to use our trademark?"

I have considered sending a Spyderco knife to a custom maker to have a custom handle put on it.
That sounds like the most cost-effective way to get what I want.
The custom maker wouldn't have to do that much reenginering, and could probably use the existing lock mechanism.
 
Ken Cox said:
Sal wrote:

"Why not have your "custom" Spyderco made by a "custom maker" licensed to use our trademark?"

I have considered sending a Spyderco knife to a custom maker to have a custom handle put on it.
That sounds like the most cost-effective way to get what I want.
The custom maker wouldn't have to do that much reenginering, and could probably use the existing lock mechanism.
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Like Santa Fe Stone Works? Maybe. I do want one of those. It would have to be an existing Spyderco, though. I think the point of the thread was the literal use of the word "custom". I like Sal's idea, but I wouldn't know how to find those makers with the proper liscense.
 
fulloflead said:
I want a PE Harpy with a 3.5" D2 blade and a checkered titanium framelock flame-colored handle with a tip-up carry clip and a glass breaker in the butt. :D
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Just send a Harpy to Matt Cucchiara and he will hook you up :D
 
The Deacon said:
Is he licensed to use the Spyderco round hole opener?
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No but he would actually be using the actual Spyderco Harpy blade and only converting it to a framelock, so he wouldn't need to be licensed in this case.
 
TheBadGuy said:
No but he would actually be using the actual Spyderco Harpy blade and only converting it to a framelock, so he wouldn't need to be licensed in this case.
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Oh, sorry, did not know Spyderco had ever made a Harpy with a 3.5" D-2 blade. That one must have slipped under my radar.
 
Sal Glesser said:
Why not have your "custom" Spyderco made by a "custom maker" licensed to use our trademark?
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Sal, you've raised an interesting issue, regarding custom knives that I would like to pursue a bit further. Your thoughts concerning this would be greatly appreciated.

I know it's perfectly ok if, for example, I order a left hand Chinese Folder from Bob Lum. It's his design, even though a "production version" was made by Spyderco, and he's licensed to use the hole on his customs, so this would be 100% ethical. I have in fact done exactly this.

I would also be completely comfortable commissioning, for example Kevin Wilkens to make a Rybak Chef's Knife or Wharncliffe for me. The designs are both originals of his, and he's licensed to use the hole. I have yet to do this, mostly due to indecision as to which model to go with, but would have no ethical qualms about doing so.

Going one step further, (although it will never happen because I don't have that much faith in my engineering abliity) I'd feel comfortable, assuming one of them would be willing, commissioning a maker licensed by you to use the hole, such as Bob Lum, Kevin Wilkens, or Jens Anso, to make a knife of my design that incorporated the hole.

I also have no qualms about having any maker customize an existing Spyderco, and have done this a couple times. I would not expect you to warranty them, and, while I doubt I'd ever sell any of them, would never try to pass one off as anything but my private wet dream. Beyond that, my feeling is I bought them and can do what I please with them.

That said, your response, in the context it was given, seems to take this one giant step further. A step I would, up to now, frankly not have ever considered taking, as it seems to me to violate your intellectual property even if the maker doing the work is licensed to use the hole. That would be the commissioning of a full custom based on an existing Spyderco "in house" design. Example - you've listened to me whine for the last year or more for a larger version of the Kiwi with some added "refinements". If, I could talk Bob, Kevin, Jens, or some other Spyderco licensee into making me a 120% normal size bolster and scales Kiwi with a flat ground damascus blade and mamoth bark ivory scales, like the one below, would that be ok? Seems to me that, although it would cost a heck of a lot more, it would be no different in principle from the Paki and Chinese knock offs sold in gas stations from coast to coast.

Which is, of course, my excuse for pestering you about such things in the past and for continuing to do so in the future. It is also at least a factor in the logic used by me, and perhaps by others when we suggest a Spyderco custom shop. Not to say it would be reasonable to expect you to, but you are, at least to me, the only one who could legitimately make and oversize, undersize, left hand, or alternate lock version of the in house designed Spydercos.
 

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