Rocklobster 2011

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Just me thinking here, but I love the rocklobster knife, but it is just too expensive for the blade steel and poor locking mech. Who else has a huge desire for a ti frame lock and s30v blade on the rocklobster 2? :jerk it: or a ball lock similar to the manix? hmmmm
 
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I liked the look of the rock lobster, but you are right. You get so much more with a spyderco military and it costs much less. If it was the same price as the mili then I might have bought it. But for what you got with the price, I would never purchase it. Look at the endura G10 with VG10. For a while those were selling for around $80.
 
I understand where the price came from. Totally new knife, all new tooling, engineering and prototyping, manufacturing process set-up, it all adds up to a huge investment. Jens Anso wanted nested liners, so that was an additional expense as well. Even at the high price, I doubt Sal recovered the cost of bringing it to market.

Personally, I doubt TiRIL and S30V would be enough to make the model a commercial success. I may be alone in this, but I find the Rocklobster to be about as ergonomic as a 1 X 2 wrapped with barbed wire, and the nested liners kept me from grinding off the offending points on mine. Adding the extra weight of titanium slabs isn't going to make the knife any more attractive to me.
 
Didn't he have to do the same with the Gayle Bradley? And it uses wayyyy... better materials and, from what I understand, is about the best knife, fit and finish, that spyderco has released. Yet the price is not anywhere near what the rock lobster is, why is this? Really just curious is all. If the rock lobster were around $100-$130 I would have definitely picked one up.


yablanowitz said:
I understand where the price came from. Totally new knife, all new tooling, engineering and prototyping, manufacturing process set-up, it all adds up to a huge investment. Jens Anso wanted nested liners, so that was an additional expense as well. Even at the high price, I doubt Sal recovered the cost of bringing it to market.

Personally, I doubt TiRIL and S30V would be enough to make the model a commercial success. I may be alone in this, but I find the Rocklobster to be about as ergonomic as a 1 X 2 wrapped with barbed wire, and the nested liners kept me from grinding off the offending points on mine. Adding the extra weight of titanium slabs isn't going to make the knife any more attractive to me.
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TyMathews said:
It is when he only has 23 posts under his belt. Makes him seem tough and edgy. :thumbup:

-Tye
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Indeed appears that way.

Incahiker said:
Didn't he have to do the same with the Gayle Bradley? And it uses wayyyy... better materials and, from what I understand, is about the best knife, fit and finish, that spyderco has released. Yet the price is not anywhere near what the rock lobster is, why is this? Really just curious is all. If the rock lobster were around $100-$130 I would have definitely picked one up.
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This would be my guess:

Rock Lobster - Japan has higher labor rates than Taiwan, VG-10 might cost more than CPM-M4 shipped to Taiwan, Nested Steel Liners are more expensive than solid steel liners. Export fees might be more from Japan than Taiwan.

Gayle Bradley - Taiwan has less expensive labor rates than Japan, American steel may be more cost effective depending on what the Yen is doing, Solid steel liners are easier to do than nested ones.
 
I thought I recall a comment from Sal at one time indicating that additional cost went into paying licensing fees to the designer, as well as the reasons Yablonowitz mentioned.

In my opinion, the Rock Lobster is great looking knife. You are paying for form as well as function with this model. Could someone get as much performance out of a less expensive model? Sure. Are there more ergonomic handles? Absolutely.

Could I ask a few more rhetorical questions and then subsequently answer them? Maybe.
 
RevDevil said:
Is the jerkit smily really necessary?
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I think most newbies think that the "jerkit" smily is guy shaking his hand in anger or frustration... lol

I think the Rock lobster would have been more popular if it was in a different color.

If it came out in FRN, for a $70.00 price tag I am sure it would have been a better seller, It just seems like one of those designs that just don't really catch on, like the Captain, and most likely the new Breeden Rescue model... The price sure isn't helping...
 
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