Sal, How about a Civilian Trainer ?

TODD,

Regarding trying to open the LIVE Gunting on your leg, I beg you to buy Bram Frank excellent 3 Volumes Video trainung on the Gunting.

You can get all 3 for 99$ and if you had seen them before handling the beast you would have saved yourself that nasty leg cut.

Bram SPECIFICALLY warns people of trying to open a gunting on their legs - The leg is too stationary and the blade cannot clear it and a cut is almost always caused. Bram says that he saw at least 8 different Gunting users do that to themselves - so I guess you are in a good company.

Anyways - I highly recommand those tapes as they will give you all the options of using the Gunting - and beyond - A must have for any gunting owner.

I must say that a Gunting Kit looks like a must have item for Spyderco: They should bundle the Gunting + Trainer + Bram Training tapes in one orderable package. each one of the components is almost mandatory to the use of the Gunting. Maybe even save money as you buy 3 of them and maybe , just maybe - and I am aware I am really pushing it - Bram or Spyderco will throw in a T-Shirt (only for those who order in the next 15 minutes ;-)
 
Personally I think a bundled package would be the way to go.. A clamshell package is how I first envisioned it..Intro tape, Drone & Gunting in one package with a written basic user guide..
Id still like to see it..
Of course I do not sell the Gunting knife without the Drone..I do sell the Drone seperately..

The reason people don't buy Drones is they are not a priority item pushed by those that make knives..
no one is saying that knife safety begins by owning and using drones..
It used to be that way many years ago.
all people training in edged tools used drones,,sharp tools were not allowed till one understood what a knife or sword really was..
Safety costs..all training equpiment costs..
your life costs..

Functional Drones are the same time, effort, tooling and materials as real knives..I have Drones that cost MORE than the knives they represent..and thats OK.. I use them more than the real ones!

SPYDERCO has done something that many companies refuse to look at.. Making Drones to safely practice the use of the knives..
Thats a major step!
Congrats Spydie!!!!
Boy Scouts and Girl scouts should learn safe handling of knives by using the Drones..
LEO's should learn how to deal with edged tools by using Drones..\
Military & martial arts should learn about kives with Drones...

As to having Drones for all knives? I would.. The tooling in the case of existing knives is a different blade shape. blunt not ground...
Stick in red material not black, there's the handle scales...same liners and locks asa real knife..
But the catch is the cost of the product is the same as the real one..
So get used to it..Open your eyes and pockets and start buying the existing drones..
Encourage Spyderco by getting all of your friends to buy Drones and use them..Show Spyderco that making drones is OK by getting the word out so that people actually buy and use Drones..

Then I'm sure that Sal & company will be glad to make DRones of any knife that exists in the Spyderco line-up.
 
maybe on some of the knives that you are able to take apart, they could provide one live blade and one training one. Extra cost of course, but much less than two. wouldn't work with all knives though.
 
The red handled is a Spyderco requirement for a drone. We really don't want to confuse that issue. Now you would have to change blades and handles. Cheaper and less chance for error to buy a drone.

sal
 
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