As Sal has said more than once, Spyderco will always be biased more strongly toward function than toward esthetics. I approve. I would never want to buy a knife that looked good but didn't work well. OTOH, nothing prevents a knife from both working well and looking good (except price
). Seriously, though, I think a matched set of the knives described by Sal above (plus, of course, the famous Spyderco Santoku) would be a fabulous kitchen set. It would be even better if you could get the knives either as a set or individually and in either the plastic handles or something nicer looking. Remember, though, that this would involve quite a bit of inventory expense for Spyderco. Sal has pointed out numerous times that they are trying to reduce the number of different items produced and stocked.
I'd like to see the set. I'd even like to own the set. However, I already have a perfectly serviceable set of kitchen knives collected over the years and for the most part following the function over esthetics philosophy quite closely.
Some year, I might be tempted to replace them all in one fell swoop with a set, especially if the set were as functional as a Spyderco set would be. I am not in a big hurry to do that though. Our dealer forumites (e.g., JKM) are certainly more qualified than I am to have opinions on how well such a set would sell, but if I were in Sal's position, I would be pretty careful too.
Jeff comments:
I prefer an in the drawer holder. Something that looks like butcher-block material is good. I like the knife to rest edge-down in a slotted block in a drawer. With those MBS-26 blades I'm nervous about loose blades in the drawer (after all I've got about 25 kitchen knives in there).
Loose knives in a drawer is a recipe for trouble. Either the knives get dull (if they were ever sharp at all) or they will cut something you don't want them to cut (like your hand). I co-opted one of the drawers in our kitchen and made a knife holder to fit it. I made it to fit all the knives I use on a regular basis (about 15 or 16 plus a couple of steels). Any knives I don't use often enough to rate a place in the holder are kept elsewhere and have cardboard sleeves for their blades. The knife drawer is not the most space-efficient storage, since it leaves a lot of empty space in the drawer, but it is comparatively safe storage. You can use one of the childproof latches if you have small children and at least your good knives are out of the way of well-meaning but klutzy guests.
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Paul Neubauer
prn@bsu.edu
