Random Thought Thread

Daverous said:
I wonder how the polls would all be impacted if they were opened one at a time? Or even had a winning pattern removed once the vote was over. I keep flipping my votes to try and move things I like into the top 4 spots. Leaves me with multiple votes for the same pattern across several polls 😂
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It would be more helpful if folks simply vote their choice. I'm trying to get an assessment of interest in patterns, so I know what will have the broadest appeal.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
It would be more helpful if folks simply vote their choice. I'm trying to get an assessment of interest in patterns, so I know what will have the broadest appeal.
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Be judicious like Solomon and put your thumb (heavily) on the scale. After all, can you really trust CoCKs specially the youngins?

Another interesting tidbit: for the last however long that I can remember, every OG and old CoCK in here has been howling about the Skinner yet to my big surprise, it's getting its arse handed to it by the EDC 1.2! SMDH!
 
Many decades from now...someone, I'm not saying who, might end up with a headstone like one of these...

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Casinostocks said:
Be judicious like Solomon and put your thumb (heavily) on the scale. After all, can you really trust CoCKs specially the youngins?

Another interesting tidbit: for the last however long that I can remember, every OG and old CoCK in here has been howling about the Skinner yet to my big surprise, it's getting its arse handed to it by the EDC 1.2! SMDH!
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I know. The Skinner was my top choice and the EDC is probably the only one on the list I don't really care about. Gonna be real bummed if the skinner doesn't make the cut!! 😭
 
I went ahead and closed the votes before things got weird.

Based on current numbers (and numbers from yesterday before folks started gaming the vote) it looks like:

The Shiv 2.0 is the clear winner. We will be having an open pre-order for the Shiv. Soon. Carothers Performance Knives has never done a pre-order for the Shiv so this will be a first for this remarkable pattern in its first run in Delta 3V. I'm very pleased to see a return of this pattern, I absolutely adore it.

I need to keep the numbers sane so we can do the other patterns too so this might be a brisk pre-order, we will see.

The EDC1.2 is a clear runner up with a lot of interest in all the polls. I will order material for the EDC1.2 in both CPM 3V and Magnacut. This is a very useful pattern, and we will run enough to achieve inventory for shelf stock, dealers and our website.

3rd is murky and went back and forth a bit but it's the boot daggers. *

Number 4 brings us the return of the 10" Chopper. Which I was going to do regardless because CPK classics needs a chopper. Duh. I'll order enough steel for a small run. It will be the MC (my personal favorite 10") run in a thinner gauge and run at about 17-18 ounces (similar to the SDFK but with way more power). This will be a high performance light weight chopper with a thin edge and narrow grinds that disappears on your belt and cuts like a lightsaber. Not for knuckleheads.



I'm surprised we didn't see a return of the kitchen knives or D2 skinner or HDFK in there but there it is. The HDFK is a fantastic pattern, it is not retired, we will revisit it again in the future.



* I'm going to make a deeply unpopular executive decision here. I'm not going to run the boot daggers. This was a valuable data point for me and for the direction I need to take my business but (hear me out) I need to order steel to replace the steel that I ordered wrong when I got the material to make the Kukri. And I want to run the material that I have here as a semi integral dagger. This is a perversion of the intent of the "year of the classics", but I think a dagger of this nature still aligns with a classic CPK knife, even if it's new. I'm running a business. The material is here. I need to use it. And I don't want to release two different daggers (and a Shiv) next year. Stabbing is good, but that's too much stabbing. So I will substitute a new 8" dagger instead which will go on a different machine (with long program capabilities for all that surface milling) and run it in parallel with the K20 once the 3 DEK patterns are off all the mills. (that damn folder keeps getting pushed back, ugh)

Thank you everyone for voting. I wasn't sure about re-releasing the Shiv and I thought we'd be doing a kitchen knife and perhaps a skinner. Your votes helped me move forward to produce what it is that you folks actually want the most and I thank you for your input.
 
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