what about TOPS?

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Personally I like the Simonich Spork. Reckon Rob will get a couple of these out for Cliff and I to test. Cliff can use his to hammer through the Pork and Bean cans while I eat with mine.

Jump on it quick boys, at $ 896.00 they won't last long. :D

Rob, can I get one of these in 1095 with Micarta slabs and a symterical flat grind. I'm just thinking I might have to chop some jungle down and would rather have it built for such a chore.
 
Ummm...A flat ground spork? That's called a fork, Jeff. I know you jungle guys don't get to see kitchen utensils very often, but come on!!! :p Hehehehehe. :)
 
Originally posted by Buzzbait
Ummm...A flat ground spork? That's called a fork
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Damn! A new idea...we'll make millions with his one Buzz. Let's keep it to ourselves until we get them in production :D
 
This could be the beginning of something big!!! Every household will have one. Scratch that. Every household will have a whole set of them!!!
 
you mean y'all actually have radios up there? after crashing your truck over a cell phone ringing...I'm not so sure about you.
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Yep, and we just got color TV's too! I leave the cell phone home now, no more wrecks for me!



Jeff, stop picking on Rob!
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Its OK Jerry, he made me "Fearless Leader" for a night of partying in Atlanta. Its just payback for his hangover! :D

Dang Buzzbait, that was supposed to be a Super Secret Simonich Spork, cats out of the bag now! :eek: :eek:





Reckon Rob will get a couple of these out for Cliff and I to test. Cliff can use his to hammer through the Pork and Bean cans while I eat with mine.
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Jeff, didnt you know Jerry Busse and Cliff Stamp are the same person? Its true you know. So any Spork I make I got to make from INFI so Cliff Busse, I mean Jerry Stamp, I mean Clerry Stusse, no I mean Jerliff Stumpy, well crap. I would make it in S30-V but Cliff isnt interested in trying the steel cause of the spec sheet.
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Hobo knife! I love them things! :)
 
Anf for your viewing enjoyment, a lightly retouched picture! :D Spork not included!
 

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Gasp!!!! That girl just wasn't careful enough with your knife. She lopped her nipple off by accident!!! :eek:
 
Hey! when did you get that picture of my sister. Damn you Rob. Can't trust you or that woman with anything.
 
And it's time to shut this thread down - it's drifted enough off topic. If anyone wants to have a discussion on any of the myriad of topics in this thread (TOPS, warranties, sporks, etc) feel free to start a new thread.

BTW, Rob, yer taste in models, as always, is great.

Kevin
 
The purpose of the hobo example is that it would naturally have to follow the KISS (keep it simple s...). And it would have to affordable for poor man. Not a poor yuppie. The idea is a rich man can afford a poor mans knife, but the poor can't and won't afford the wealtherior mans knive. This is not an insult to those whose knives might be considered expensive. Just picture yourselves as a hobo and with your vast knowledge of knives make one. Remember your pocket book is thin, but the American jungle is there and you have to live. Note this not a survival thing, just the knive. Hope I didn't make this more confusing.
 
Well, if we could post beer, we'd have it all.

Pissing match, ti**ies and beer.

From a consumer standpoint, I would want to look at a manufacturers warranty first. If I didn't know from going to guns/knife shows that the makers were actually approachable, I would have to rely solely on the written warranty.

If the wording in that warranty seemed to me, a non-lawyer, dumb-ass hick from Ahia, to limit my potential to have a blade replaced after "hard" use, intential or out of necessity (a survival situation let's say), I think I would tend to look elsewhere for my steel.

If I would come here to ask a simple question about why someone would "appear" to limit my replacement options, and then I was to get f**king CRUCIFIED, I would tell all of you to go pound sand up your a$$es.

I could understand some the the comments being said if people were face to face, but there is plenty of time to edit in some maturity to the responses before that response is sent.

This thread has really been an eye opener.

A sad state of affairs IMHO.
 
1whobuys....you're a very "brave" anonymous keyboard kommando ...when you come out from hiding and want to contribute some substance, let us know. Until then you are taking up bandwidth on a thread that, although combative and nasty, is actually damn good hardcore discussion. Let us know if you ever become "one who actually uses..."

Brian,
I am known not to type some thing I wouldn't be willing to say to your face.
If you would like I can post links to "Real" operators to back up my post.
And I'm sure they will back up what they say also.

I didn't think so.....

Now back to the warranty issue.
It certainly seems that Topps can prove time after time that they must have a warranty.
It sounds like they fail on a regular basis?!
What's up with that?

I know of two companies that have total confidence in their knifes, Strider and Busse.
And there will soon be a third...SwampRat.
Since you are all so good at writing and interpreting warranties, maybe you would like to help write SwampRat's.
They trust their customers to the point of letting them write the warranty for them.
They are having a contest.....that's right You can write the warranty.
Here's the link.....
http://www.swampratknifeworks.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=10;t=000032
Hummm.....Maybe Eric really wanted a "real" answer about your warranty, not some bullshit used car salesman's pitch about "Oh, that's just the written warranty, don't worry about that, You have my word"
Put it in writing or shut up.
And by the way, if a great warranty adds $100.00 to the price of the knife, does that mean that the big knife in the line up at $148.95 only cost $48.95 to make?
Wow.....I bet you do variable vectors calculus too.

I haven't entered the contest, but if I did it might sound some thing like this:
I guaranty the SwampRat will spank a Topps hands down under all conditions.
Now why don't you go give it a try....go on, no one will call you names or say your an as*hole.
It'll be OK...go on now......

and Clark...."Bite Me?" lol..lol....
Boy, did that hurt.

And I might not be able to tell all of the steels apart either, but if I put them in a situation where they are bent 17*-25*
I can tell you what they aren't :)
 
Originally posted by 1whobuys

Now back to the warranty issue.
It certainly seems that Topps can prove time after time that they must have a warranty.
It sounds like they fail on a regular basis?!
What's up with that?

I know of two companies that have total confidence in their knifes, Strider and Busse.
And there will soon be a third...SwampRat.
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Gee I submitted the reply before I wrote anything- thats why there is an edit... Anyhow that still only leaves two companies really -unless I am mistaken swamprat is still BUSSE... Oh Wait MAD DOG makes three :D There are the two busse that are known to have failed- the owen and the stamp and we have heard of only one anaconda that failed ? I imagine there may be more but those are the only "known" ones mentioned around here ? It is also odd that the majority of the Busse booth present at blade has been here on this thread trouncing on TOPS when Tops did not do so to them. Mostly based on the warranty issue.... I will now ask a question... If it is a "no bullpoop" warranty why will my basically handmade Busse's with the straight handles not be replaced with the SAME thing if the warranty is needed ? It has been stated on the forum and to me in person that they would not be replaced with the same thing but an "equivelent" current offering, which do not have as much hand work and are not the same style. Now one would still get a knife but how is that "no bullpoop"- seems like the warranty looses something with application at that point... And why is that so much better than what anybody else has- there again a warranty can say whatever and will be worth only what the application turns out to be...

Now I like my Busse's and I think they perform really well- just ask my "beater basic nine" I just don't see the need to beat up another manufacturer on the difference in the warranty when the knives do speak for themselves. If the main benefit worthy of a fight is the perfect warranty - it is not perfect, at least not at this point...
 
Originally posted by 1whobuys
And by the way, if a great warranty adds $100.00 to the price of the knife, does that mean that the big knife in the line up at $148.95 only cost $48.95 to make?
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If this is referring to my post, I just want to clarify -- I meant that, given two knives of similar materials and quality (which my examples may or may not have been, depends on who you ask), but one with an unconditional warranty and one with a weasel-clause in the warranty, I am willing to pay the extra $100 for the one with the better warranty.

If not, sorry for the interruption in the flow.
 
Whoops, forgot to lock this down when I made the post.
 
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