Spydie models: Too much of a good thing?

I'm bummed that the Endura's blade shape took a left turn at the 4th Generation. I'm glad you can still get the old handle on the Pacific Salt. I'd like to see a sprint run of Pacific Salts with the old Endura3 pointy blade. Not all of us have inflatable rubber boats or whatever the blunt tip issue was. ;)
 
I love Spyderco, starting with the hole and the new models every year. I pretty much buy any Endura with a plain edge and whatever new knife happens to look too good to pass up. Right now an FRN Stretch is calling for me.
 
I'm just waitin' for a Titanium Native to come out ... then I'm stopping ... that's it ... no more ... well .... maybe a green G-10 Rookie ... but that's it!!!! :D
 
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I think the constant stream of new models is really great, even if very few of them appeal to me. In a way, that's really the point. No knife appeals to everyone, each will only appeal to a segment of the knife buying public. Same, but to a lesser degree, with the constant stream, almost a flood in some cases, of variants. I can understand that some prefer one color, steel, handle material, or grind, while others prefer another, but I have to admit there are some models where the variants seem to pop up like weeds. Heck, one could open an online shop called "Just Delicas", or "Just Enduras", for that matter. May not have quite reached the point for a "Just Milies" yet, but it's getting close. ;) :D

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I'm not sure there's a problem. The people carrying older knives like those you mentioned, the G2 workers and ATS-34 Militaries, obviously aren't in the market for a new knife, so why would they mind the rate new models come out?

The people who want to keep buying new knives are afis and collectors, and they will be around when knives come out they want. Even if something comes up in life and someone misses a year or two, there are plenty of discontinued models for sale in second hand places, like this forum and ebay. The dodo was brought up as an example, but they're regularly posted for sale. Also, most of Spyderco's knives don't appreciate a lot, so you aren't going to pay a lot more for missing it. To use the dodo again, I keep seeing them for $120 or less, which I believe is under the original msrp of $140.

It seems to me the choice is between Spyderco coming out with a lot of models such that there are so many desirable ones that one might not be able to afford them all, which seems to be your (the OP's) case, or they stick to their main lines such that there is no chance of buying some models you would otherwise buy but can't because they are never produced. IMHO, it is always a good situation when the only complaint is of too much choice.
 
kreole said:
I'm not sure there's a problem. The people carrying older knives like those you mentioned, the G2 workers and ATS-34 Militaries, obviously aren't in the market for a new knife, so why would they mind the rate new models come out?

The people who want to keep buying new knives are afis and collectors, and they will be around when knives come out they want. Even if something comes up in life and someone misses a year or two, there are plenty of discontinued models for sale in second hand places, like this forum and ebay. The dodo was brought up as an example, but they're regularly posted for sale. Also, most of Spyderco's knives don't appreciate a lot, so you aren't going to pay a lot more for missing it. To use the dodo again, I keep seeing them for $120 or less, which I believe is under the original msrp of $140.

It seems to me the choice is between Spyderco coming out with a lot of models such that there are so many desirable ones that one might not be able to afford them all, which seems to be your (the OP's) case, or they stick to their main lines such that there is no chance of buying some models you would otherwise buy but can't because they are never produced. IMHO, it is always a good situation when the only complaint is of too much choice.
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Aptly put.

To comment on the Dodo, with an MSRP of $140 the street price would have been around or under a hundred at a guess. I never was really interested in that model, but it was a neat BBL.
 
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