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Thanks for your input RR. S!K does provide a good value on their product. You do get a dependable solid knife when you take delivery. In my mind, the performance increase of the CPK products, and the relatively quick delivery times most have found are well worth the small increase in price.
I understand Guy and Ellie are trying to hit an even lower price point than Nathan and Jo, and have a huge amount of orders to show how well that has worked for them. But there is also a huge amount of discontent with the wait times. CPK does not have wait times like that. Almost everyone takes delivery within a couple weeks of paying. Nathan IMO has a better model from the delivery perspective, though not everyone has fit into it yet. I'm not even sure they are fairly compared as Nathan and Jo are a small 2 person shop doing almost everything in house, while also running a machine shop and doing work unrelated to CPK. S!K is a small craft style company that does a small fraction of their work in house, no offense intended but I think the differences are important to recognize.
I say this as the goal of this thread was to discuss if there was something that would help the discontents going away from the sales empty handed and feeling like CPK is not a good product for them, when in reality it probably is. Going cheaper certainly wouldn't help any party, thus I wondered if going more expensive would. And the future of the model. Which now for the most part has been answered.
I will be the first to say that I am not in any place to tell Nathan how to run his business, and every time I make a post like this I do ponder his calm demeanor. I wonder if my post will be the one to cross the line and when my phone will ring with Nathan telling me to knock it off. But I am always trying to be helpful even if I am on occasion critical. And of course I want to generate positive conversation on relevant topics, like the speed at which the FK is continuing to sell out and how or if I can help grow the community in the sub-forum.
At the end of the day that is why I proxy for people. It's one more person with a knife in their hand that wouldn't have had it otherwise, and those people are always ones that have read and posted on the forums, or participated positively in the community here.
Nathan wouldn't be the success he is without supporters, and I think the potential supporters who want more info, help getting a knife, sharing experiences or asking about suitability should find help here.
