Tufram Question

recoil

recoil

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I read in "The Spyderco Story" (page 81) that the aluminum Police model with Tufram coating was discontinued due to cosmetic blemishes. After seeing and owning numerous Spydies with this coating, I have yet to see one with a problem and in fact it seems to do a good job preventing scratches.
Question #1 Does anyone have any experience with a bad Tufram coating?
Question #2 Approximately how many Tufram Police models were produced before being dropped?

Thanks

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[This message has been edited by recoil (edited 08-07-2000).]
 
I have noticed the same. I have had several and one that was quite abused, but the coating was still almost like new. I don't know why they quit making them. They are so light and easy to carry.
 
Guys I would imagine that it all boiled down to one thing, SALES. If they were not selling then they are not going to make Spyderco money . If i remember the Tufram coating was quite expensive and sent several knives over the $100.00 mark. i was fortunate enough to find several of the tufram knives on closeout and expanded my Spyderco collection and made a profit off of what I had left over ....No i don't have any more to sell sorry

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Is Tufram the coating that was on the original aluminum Cricket (it's kind of line an annodized finish on the aluminum)? If that's the case, I too have found that it's pretty scratch resistant. It might also be the finish included on the aluminum handled "R" knife which I just purchased.

This finish seems to be far better that some of the annodized aluminum finishes I've seen elsewhere (e.g., on Palm Computing's Palm V handheld computer, which scratches easily).

 
I have an "R" and that finish is ALMITE, a very classy looking charcoal grey finish and I believe the Cricket was black anodized.
I understand that the 6061-T6 handled Civilian and Co-Pilot were Tufram coated also and I have not heard any complaints from owners of those excellent designs either.
If the Tufram coat had problems, as the book implies, maybe the Spyderco Quality control people caught the blemished ones before they went out.
 
The Tufram coating was very expensive to produce. The aluminum had to be polished perfectly and kept clean. This drove the price up. As Royo mentioned, high prices usually mean lower volume. When volume dropped too low, it goes. Beautiful knife though. One of the best we've ever produced.

Most of the blemished pieces were stopped by QC and sold as 2nds through the store, but the count was too high.

sal
 
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