Skull or no Skull?

Leftytwogunz said:
@Paka You attempted to troll my post where I listed four random examples of gun gear with skulls on it, out of the probably thousands, and latched onto one of the two military units that I listed use the emblem as well. That post contributed nothing to this thread but a bit of failed sarcasm. And I read your last post twice and you still aren't making much of a point, but I will continue..

As far as skull lovers being the minority, you have to remember most of the knife buying public aren't "knife nuts" who are on blade forums. Lots of people would still buy the knife, even if we knife nuts reading this forum don't particularly love it as a whole. As far as skull popularity on gear, let me get more specific for the point of this thread.
Skulls on knife gear:

Busse Combat. Most everyone on this forum is somewhere on the spectrum of at least familiar to fanatic about this company.
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Emerson knives.
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Strider.
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Aftermarket skull accessories for knives.

Steel flame Emerson clips.
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Hinderer accessories.
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Starlingear.
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Uparmored. A company who almost bases it's whole existence off of painting skulls on your knives, for a price.
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I suppose I could find many more examples of skulls on knives or related gear but I believe that skulls on the logo of industry giants such as Busse and Emerson says a lot. Add into the mix that the stand up gentlemen at Steel Flame have found a huge market for skull related knife accessories, people put them on their Emerson's and Hinderers, then there are other industry giants coming into play with the Starlingear and Strider collaborations. As I mentioned Protech has a line of knives with skulls on them that I assume to be successful, as they are still in production, and if a company like up armored can exist because people ship knives to them to have skulls painted on I would have to say that the skull-on-knife industry has quite a following.

I am not trying to argue with anyone who doesn't particularly like skulls. I am saying that whether everyone may realize it or not there is actually a big market for people buying knives with skulls on them, or putting skulls on their knives, one way or another, after the fact.

I think this project from the OP is going to sell like hot cakes...shaped like skulls :)
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Those many items you pointed out are a big part of why we though a knife with the skull made good sense. However at this point I am thinking some of both may be the best bet.

My understanding is that Pro-Tech has enough parts ready for this effort so that we could have about 40 knives done up pretty darn fast. I think those are set up for the skull though.
 
We were also planning on going with the lanyard and a skull. One of things we are thinking about is going with a Red, White, and Blue on the lanyard for a patriotic theme. It could come off as looking a bit tacky so we are not sure.
 
GronK said:
When I see skull decor on knife or fob I imagine a scene like this:
LEO: "Is that a weapon in your pocket?"
Me: "No sir, it's a tool!"
LEO: "If you show me a hammer, saw, screwdriver or wrench with a skull on it you're free to go. If not, you are carrying a weapon!"
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You mean, like Dead On Tools, Gronk?
 
GronK said:
Without skull, $210 list. With skull, $300 list. Will they like it $90-$120 more per knife?
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I musta got a helluva good deal cuz i paid WAY less than that.... it IS a Bruce Shaw sterling silver LE.
 
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sechip said:
I musta got a helluva good deal cuz i paid WAY less than that.... it IS a Bruce Shaw sterling silver LE.
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Just giving the suggested retail from the PT site. Like most others, the street value is way less.
 
Thomas Carey said:
We were also planning on going with the lanyard and a skull. One of things we are thinking about is going with a Red, White, and Blue on the lanyard for a patriotic theme. It could come off as looking a bit tacky so we are not sure.
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Red White and Blue lanyard. . . .not tacky. Death's head skull. . . .WAY tacky. My opinion.
 
We touched base with Dave at Pro-Tech today. Turns out we would only be able to offer these with the skull in 2015 due to parts availability. As the skull seems to be somewhat of a sticking point for folks we may produce just 40 of these.

Price wise I think we will be offering them for about $300 each. Which will be a bit more than dealers seem to be selling the regular all black version for. We hope to have some pro photo's of the first finished knife to share shortly. For those that don't know 25% of the profit will go to charity.

Speaking of charity currently we are considering donating funds raised from this effort to one of these three charities. Do any of you have experience with any of them?

Special Operations Warrior Foundation

http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=7584#.VS77oPnF83k


Homes for Our Troops

http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=11553#.VS778vnF83k


Fisher House Foundation

http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=7585#.VS779fnF83k
 
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Just wanted to thank all of you for taking the time to view this thread and post your comments. =)
 
I just wanted to share this video of the first completed knife which aired on The Blaze TV 5/14/2015 of note is the fact that the presenter did not quite get the name of the charity correct.

[video=youtube;_0qFASbTisI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0qFASbTisI[/video]
 
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