Ritchest knife company owner (Forbes Magazine of the knife world)

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loonybin said:
I wish you would collaborate with them again. Your 201 Activator was/is awesome. I can see a double bevel Boss-type knife with a $nody on one side and a butterfly on the other. Or a smidtech with a licensed Axis lock on it...

Oh, and you need a new knifemaker chronicles video with your Stetson.
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Thanks Friend
Dude, I really appreciate your post.
I am working with Ka-Bar now.
They have a dozen of my new designs in the pipeline
Huge Respect from Texas, if you ever need anything holler at me. 361 443 0161
 
Snody said:
Thanks Friend
Dude, I really appreciate your post.
I am working with Ka-Bar now.
They have a dozen of my new designs in the pipeline
Huge Respect from Texas, if you ever need anything holler at me. 361 443 0161
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Mmm this should be a knife to remember!

-niner
 
Error 404 said:
This will be EPIC! Mike, I have the 425 and 426 Gravitators, love them!
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Thanks for your support Dude.
Your helping me feed my family and I appreciate it.
Have a great week.
Much Respect.
 
Snody said:
Thanks Friend
Dude, I really appreciate your post.
I am working with Ka-Bar now.
They have a dozen of my new designs in the pipeline
Huge Respect from Texas, if you ever need anything holler at me. 361 443 0161
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I'm very glad you're working with a company like Ka-Bar, and that they're returning more manufacturing to the US. Unfortunately, they don't have the Axis lock, or any other ambidextrous lock. I've tried to use right-handed liner/frame locks, and it does not end well for my fingers. I don't mind seeing blood, but I would prefer that it not be my own. Unless Ka-Bar is going to make left-handed versions of any folders you come up with, I'll be limited to buying your fixed blade designs -- which makes me very sad since you come up with awesome folders. Hopefully in the future they'll license something like the Axis, BBL, or ARC lock and beg you to design a folder incorporating it.
 
I have four Gravitators (and 3 other of Snody's Benchmade colabs)and can attest that they are IMO (as well as many others:)) the best of Benchmade . Quite frankly, they're probably the closest a production knife ever came to custom quality. People, if you consider yourself even remotely into knives and don't own a Gravitator , or anything Snody for that matter, you're truly missing out. Most original designs. Ka-Bar just hit gold.
 
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jimmyhendrix87 said:
I have four Gravitators (and 3 other of Snody's Benchmade colabs)and can attest that they are IMO (as well as many others:)) the best of Benchmade . Quite frankly, they're probably the closest a production knife ever came to custom quality. People, if you consider yourself even remotely into knives and don't own a Gravitator , or anything Snody for that matter, you're truly missing out. Most original designs. Ka-Bar just hit gold.
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Thanks for your post and thanks for spending your money on my designs.
I really appreciate it. I am really passionate about the knives I build.
If it was not for the support of you and my other clients around the world this life would not be possible
Thanks for helping me live the American Dream.
Much Respect from Texas
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Bro i really hope that tv show goes the one with begg in it is not for me. You seem like you will be hella entertaining
 
Luis G. said:
How is it above standard production knives?
I've handled 4, all of them had issues. Uncentered, rough looking titanium/steel liners, poor finish all around.
It honestly looked like someone ran a water jet on stock thickness materials and assembled on the spot like a sweatshop.

It honestly reminded me on my Bee Enlan L-01.
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I own and have owned many Emerson's, so does my cousin. Ernest Emerson doesn't claim, nor try to make pretty, blingy knives. He makes knives that you can put your life on the line with. So if you think $300 is worth more than your life, buy some cheap, blinged out piece of junk that won't even open when you need it to. Or pay more than $300 for a fancy, jeweled up knife that is a piece of art, not a knife or self defense weapon. I know what knife I'll put my money on if my life depends on it, and I don't want it to look fancy an be all blinged out. I want it to work and do what it is supposed to without drawing attention to myself. I would pay $3,500 for a custom Emerson CQC - 6 anyday before I'd buy some fancy/flashy knife that will fail before I can even get it out of my pocket. So all of you OTF fans out there, they look cool, and I have a few in my collection, but when it comes to defending my life I'll have an Emerson in my pocket anyday of the week. And just to let you know I have handled way more than 4 Emerson knives. Hell I have way more than that in my collection. I have never, ever seen a single one that is uncentered. And if they're REAL they will all have titanium liners and an excellent finish for a combat knife. It sounds to me like you have got ahold of 4 Chinese knockoffs/forgeries of a true Emerson knife.
 
I own 2 of Mike Snody’s (I hoe I got the name right) collabs by Kabar, and they are very cool. I modded the big boss with a brass guard(lots of hand filing to get the fit perfect) because I couldn’t keep my stubby finger from the edge. And then a hardwood flooring plank cut down and sanded, then dipped and stained to replace the plastic handles The snake charmers are perfect for me as is.
$12million in revenue was quoted somewhere for spyderco last year, and if 10% was profit that’s not half bad for 2 families to share, but it doesn’t make them millionaires unless past investments paid off as well as what they have given to the knife community.
 
ukknifer said:
Hi

Sorry for the juvenile question :) but are the owners of knife companies like Sal Glasser, Chris Reeve, Les de Asis, Lynn Thompson Millionaires?

Is there something like Forbes Magazine of the knife world?

I know that Snody is pretending to be Rich and famous with his bling bling Ghetto style but what about company owners?
Does Sal Glasser secretly have a bling life style?
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Most all of those dudes are pretty old (near retirement), you need a million dollars to retire. I hope that they are all millionaires.
 
Crypto Outlaw said:
I own and have owned many Emerson's, so does my cousin. Ernest Emerson doesn't claim, nor try to make pretty, blingy knives. He makes knives that you can put your life on the line with. So if you think $300 is worth more than your life, buy some cheap, blinged out piece of junk that won't even open when you need it to. Or pay more than $300 for a fancy, jeweled up knife that is a piece of art, not a knife or self defense weapon. I know what knife I'll put my money on if my life depends on it, and I don't want it to look fancy an be all blinged out. I want it to work and do what it is supposed to without drawing attention to myself. I would pay $3,500 for a custom Emerson CQC - 6 anyday before I'd buy some fancy/flashy knife that will fail before I can even get it out of my pocket. So all of you OTF fans out there, they look cool, and I have a few in my collection, but when it comes to defending my life I'll have an Emerson in my pocket anyday of the week. And just to let you know I have handled way more than 4 Emerson knives. Hell I have way more than that in my collection. I have never, ever seen a single one that is uncentered. And if they're REAL they will all have titanium liners and an excellent finish for a combat knife. It sounds to me like you have got ahold of 4 Chinese knockoffs/forgeries of a true Emerson knife.
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Dude. Did you really just necro a 5yr old dead thread so you could fanboy for Ernie Emerson?

Weak.
 
Crypto Outlaw said:
I own and have owned many Emerson's, so does my cousin. Ernest Emerson doesn't claim, nor try to make pretty, blingy knives. He makes knives that you can put your life on the line with. So if you think $300 is worth more than your life, buy some cheap, blinged out piece of junk that won't even open when you need it to. Or pay more than $300 for a fancy, jeweled up knife that is a piece of art, not a knife or self defense weapon. I know what knife I'll put my money on if my life depends on it, and I don't want it to look fancy an be all blinged out. I want it to work and do what it is supposed to without drawing attention to myself. I would pay $3,500 for a custom Emerson CQC - 6 anyday before I'd buy some fancy/flashy knife that will fail before I can even get it out of my pocket. So all of you OTF fans out there, they look cool, and I have a few in my collection, but when it comes to defending my life I'll have an Emerson in my pocket anyday of the week. And just to let you know I have handled way more than 4 Emerson knives. Hell I have way more than that in my collection. I have never, ever seen a single one that is uncentered. And if they're REAL they will all have titanium liners and an excellent finish for a combat knife. It sounds to me like you have got ahold of 4 Chinese knockoffs/forgeries of a true Emerson knife.
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When I am fighting for my life (ex. food court, multiple tangos), I only trust a pair of WE Knives Eschatons that I dual-wield reverse-grip, edge in.

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