question about strider knives

You might want to do a search. You will find endless, and sometimes flaming treads about Strider, their quality, and their prices. They are hard to beat as a strong, robust, nearly indestructable line of knives.
 
i could say the same about busse, mad dog, chris reeve... who did i miss?

strider has a damn good product, damn good design, and a damn good warranty.

-j
 
Few reasons....

1. The are truely next to indestructable.... My buddy Allen (DumboRAT) says he thinks his crowbar would break before his Strider fixed blade. Also read in a knife magazine, something like "As a typical Strider fixed blade, it probably be able to survive a nuclear war." -- oh yeah, their folders are tuff too! ;)

2. Paul Bos heat treatment... Highly considered the best in the biz

3. The best warrenty in the biz.... Only knife company that I know, that covers abuse. You break it - they replace it. All you pay is shipping. Direct quote from Mick Strider ""........there is only 2 things that you need to know about my warranty. first, if you break it......i'll be impressed!

second....if i can't fix it......i'll replace it "NO" questions asked.""


Their knives are truely Bad Ass... As their nick name suggests.... They are SO awesome to look at and hold - and of course use. Plus the the fact, they will cover anything that happens to knife, except losing it or having it stolen!

There isn't anything else, nearly as strong as a Strider... As there print ads say: "Often imitated - Never duplicated."
 
knifelover4ever said:
why are they so much?
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Classsic economics. They are "so much" because customers are willing to pay that amount. Customers make their buying decisions based upon rational AND irrational considerations.
 
The Strider Knife is more than what most people will ever need in a knife... However, for those who need that much knife, it's worth the stretch, and for those whom the knife is worth the stretch, it's a lotta knife!

But seriously, even though I own a few, I'll never need to use it at its full potential. What I do own, gives me great pleasure to have. For that, it's worth the money...
I can say that about a few other makers as well.
On top of that, the used market is more forgiving on your wallet.
 
I don't think Striders are very expensive at all, I recently seen a Ken Onion sell for $5,100.00. :D

Drive a Chevette, a Corvette, or a Ferrari and you'll still get from point A to point B. How much fun do you want to have on the way? :p
 
By the way,

Has someone here ever broken a strider knife ?

Has somebody here ever used strider's warranty ?

Just for curiosity....

Regards,

Andre Tiba - Brazil
 
Kind of makes sense, doesn't it?

You still get your replacement either way. You just better not do it a second time. I'm reminded of our most venerable President... "Fool me once, shame ... shame on ... you. Fool me — can't get fooled again."

I dunno how Busse or Mad Dog reacts to doing real stupid stuff not in the line of necessity... I think there's a fairly wide line between doing something out of necessity and doing something out of stupidity or curiosity.

I don't know how many makers or manufactuers will look kindly on constantly replacing a knife that you intentionally broke. Can you name some/one?

Andre,
I've used it... but only to have mine refurbed and some nicks sharpened out.

-j
 
almtiba said:
By the way,

Has someone here ever broken a strider knife ?

Has somebody here ever used strider's warranty ?

Just for curiosity....

Regards,

Andre Tiba - Brazil
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I was there when someone smacked the strider edge first against a steel reinforced concrete block, repeatedly... needless to say, it broke...
 
ajnova said:
1. The are truely next to indestructable.... My buddy Allen (DumboRAT) says he thinks his crowbar would break before his Strider fixed blade.

2. Paul Bos heat treatment... Highly considered the best in the biz

3. The best warrenty in the biz....
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1. You need a better prybar.

2. Solid yes, best is pushing ridiculus, this is Buck heat treatment. You need to spend some time talking to custom and small shop makers who spend a lot of time working on heat treatment. Call R.J. Martin, Kevin Cashen, Phil Wilson, Jerry Busse, etc. .

3) Not even close.

Yes, I have broken one, doing the kind of work they promote for thier knives, the responce was hardly what I would consider representative of having the best warrenty, insults, personal attacks, etc., ref :

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=296313

There are lots of makers/manufacturers who have a much better responce to extreme use, in similar conditions (they ask you to the review - and it contains a duplication of work they used to promote the knives) or even such work in general.

In particular to the Strider case it wasn't even as far as they went, as Strider has promoted far heavier work in the past as noted in the above thread. This of course would be why such work was done in the review.

If the blade was promoted as a highly focused cutting tool, then such heavy work in general would not be performed and the review centered on other more relevant tasks, except of course if the maker (or person who donated it) specifically asked for it to be done, or I had the blade wrote off as a user and thus broke it with no warrenty issue pending (I have actually only asked for a warrenty claim once in any case and no it wasn't for the Strider).

As a really extreme responce, I was just as heavy, or heavier with the A.G. Russell Deerhunters as I was with the Strider WB, check out this thread and see if you can find A.G. pitching a fit at me for damaging the knives, throwing insults, warning all future blades would be marked, etc., no such comments from his "bad ass" fans either, though there are lots of them around and some of them in the thread :

http://www.physics.mun.ca/~sstamp/knives/deerhunters.html

Striders are expensive because they have a named following, just like the vast majority of higher cost knives, and most things in general.

-Cliff
 
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