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Titanium, leather, and hollow point ammo
Smoke laden whisky and fine aged tobacco
CPK D3V dressed up in black
These are a few of my favorite things…


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unwisefool said:
Ah I can answer that: because my wife doesn't use my folders.
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True story.

I'll always remember a post about chef's knives on another forum:
A newbie apprentice bought their first quality/expensive chef's knife and asked, "So, what's the best way to keep it sharp?", and someone replied, "Never let someone else use it" 🤣

Back when I was in college, I had various female roommates. One was downright dangerous with just about ANYTHING she got her hands on (eg. waving a loaded CO2 BB gun around and using it to point at people. She'd laugh when they ducked and yelled). She actually cut one of my buddies by tapping him on the shoulder with my kitchen knife while a bunch of us were cooking for a get together 🙄.

His response, "WTF?!!! Don't you know by now that he keeps ALL his knives razor sharp?!!!". When she had me over at her parents, I realized she grew up without a single sharp knife in the house. ALL her mom's kitchen knives were nearly butter knife dull.

I sharpened all her mom's kitchen knives as a courtesy, but in retrospect, based on how often she cut her own fingers using my kitchen knives, I'm wondering if it was a bad idea, and how many times her mom cut herself after I sharpened her knives for her.

A different female roommate was using the same knife to mince garlic. Uses the blade to scoop the garlic off the board, and then walks over to the steel pot on the stove and SMACKS the knife, edge first, onto the steel rim of the pot to knock the garlic off into the pot 🤬 "WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING?!!!" SEE THE BIG DING YOU JUST PUT IN THE EDGE?!!!". "Huh? Oh... how else am I supposed to get the garlic in the pot?"
Cue Charlie Brown "Oh, good grief..."
 
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unwisefool said:
Well then, please do the honors!
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Fine... Twist my arm, why don't ya 😁.

bluemax_1 said:
True story.

I'll always remember a post about chef's knives on another forum:
A newbie apprentice bought their first quality/expensive chef's knife and asked, "So, what's the best way to keep it sharp?", and someone replied, "Never let someone else use it" 🤣

Back when I was in college, I had various female roommates. One was downright dangerous with just about ANYTHING she got her hands on (eg. waving a loaded CO2 BB gun around and using it to point at people. She'd laugh when they ducked and yelled). She actually cut one of my buddies by tapping him on the shoulder with my kitchen knife while a bunch of us were cooking for a get together 🙄.

His response, "WTF?!!! Don't you know by now that he keeps ALL his knives razor sharp?!!!". When she had me over at her parents, I realized she grew up without a single sharp knife in the house. ALL her mom's kitchen knives were nearly butter knife dull.

I sharpened all her mom's kitchen knives as a courtesy, but in retrospect, based on how often she cut her own fingers using my kitchen knives, I'm wondering if it was a bad idea, and how many times her mom cut herself after I sharpened her knives for her.

A different female roommate was using the same knife to mince garlic. Uses the blade to scoop the garlic off the board, and then walks over to the steel pot on the stove and SMACKS the knife, edge first, onto the steel rim of the pot to knock the garlic off into the pot 🤬 "WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING?!!!" SEE THE BIG DING YOU JUST PUT IN THE EDGE?!!!". "Huh? Oh... how else am I supposed to get the garlic in the pot?"
Cue Charlie Brown "Oh, good grief..."
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I have had to have some pretty serious talks with members of my household, especially since I invested in some very nice kitchen cutlery.

"No, you can't put those in the dishwasher"

"No, you can't pry open lids or other things with them"

"No, the tips do not double as screwdrivers"

"No, you can't cut directly on the countertops (quartz) - use a cutting board"

Years ago, I bought a set of screwdrivers to keep in a kitchen drawer - I got fed up with seeing bent, blunted, or broken tips on our kitchen knives. Now that we have nice ones, I am extra paranoid...
 
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The new Basic 5 inch Field Knife. I intended for this to be distributed on Amazon as a gateway drug, but Jo is not having it...


10 3/8" total length. 3/16" stock thickness. .040 BTE, 20 DPS. HRC 60.5 Delta 3V. 10 ounces.

The handles are a little thinner, there's no thumb ramp jimping, it isn't skeletonized, and the chamfers are minimal. It was designed as an experiment to make an affordable knife to introduce on Amazon, although I'm been talked out of distributing there so I guess we'll sell them here and on our website.

I don't expect this pattern to be popular with people accustomed to our signature products but it will be a hell of a good value for just a simple basic knife.
 
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Nathan the Machinist said:
I don't expect this pattern to be popular with people accustomed to our signature products but it will be a hell of a good value for just a simple basic knife.
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Most of your signature line patterns, particularly those which offered some top shelf customization options via preorders, are just too friggin nice and fancy to beat up on. Friggin BIGDORK laughed at me and my post just above but you know, he's got a valid point!

Some of us, before we knew of you and your knives, had gotten into knives from that other Co which shall remain nameless on here. Quite a few guys (no pun), some of them very good guys (again, no pun) over there got afflicted with some version of Stockholm syndrome and never came over. This was perplexing at the time to me, but later on I figured it out that despite blind loyalties and the aforementioned hostage-hostagetaker bond, the price point is really really important to a segment of this market! I mean, there are genuinely people out there who are apparently willing to sell themselves on the notion that it's OK to wait out 3-4-5 years for a basic friggin knife, just because it is a so-called "well made" knife at a "great" price in the low-mid 2's!

I have no idea what the price point of your Basic no-signature Carothers 5" knife is, but I know that you are a serious and committed business owner & operator who delivers. I think that your Basic Line will act as a gateway knife to such market segment and I also commend Jo's persuasive powers to shift the sales & marketing to own website, BF.com and social media and also for vetoing you on that FBA plan.
 
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