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AR-Trvlr

AR-Trvlr

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D dericdesmond sent me the great suggestion of adding the one-off tanto DEK-0 (https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/open-fun-friday-sale-dek-0-open.1832252/) to the encyclopedia which let me to wonder what should get a listing?

I've added entries for the Butter Knife and Bowie but those seemed to me to be fairly unique, but I'm not sure they're more unique than the DEK-0?

Where should the line be drawn? Should I add an entry for the DEK-0 to the DEK1 listing? Remove the individual listings for the Butter Knife and Bowie, and add links for each to their parent knife discussion?

If I add an individual entry for the DEK-0, what else should get an individual entry? (Here I'm asking for suggestions/links, please...)

Philosophically I'm trying to balance the quantity of information with ease of access. Realistically that's not a huge issue, but if we focused on absolute practicality we probably wouldn't be hanging out in this forum....

Thoughts?
 
AR-Trvlr said:
D dericdesmond sent me the great suggestion of adding the one-off tanto DEK-0 (https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/open-fun-friday-sale-dek-0-open.1832252/) to the encyclopedia which let me to wonder what should get a listing?

I've added entries for the Butter Knife and Bowie but those seemed to me to be fairly unique, but I'm not sure they're more unique than the DEK-0?

Where should the line be drawn? Should I add an entry for the DEK-0 to the DEK1 listing? Remove the individual listings for the Butter Knife and Bowie, and add links for each to their parent knife discussion?

If I add an individual entry for the DEK-0, what else should get an individual entry? (Here I'm asking for suggestions/links, please...)

Philosophically I'm trying to balance the quantity of information with ease of access. Realistically that's not a huge issue, but if we focused on absolute practicality we probably wouldn't be hanging out in this forum....

Thoughts?
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On where to draw the line, you might consider putting the unique offerings in a different section called "1 Off Unique Offerings", as new people come in like myself and get confused with 1 offs, Which results in Nathan getting hit up for the uniques.

...Feel free to decline all these ideas, I'm heavily caffeinated and rattling things off, the execution is the hard part!
 
Mark4444 said:
On where to draw the line, you might consider putting the unique offerings in a different section called "1 Off Unique Offerings", as new people come in like myself and get confused with 1 offs, Which results in Nathan getting hit up for the uniques.
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I think this is a very good idea!
 
I agree with a “custom creations” or a “one-off” header or something of the sort with links to the posts or threads highlighting those types of knives. Including all the special variant names along with the standard offerings may confuse newcomers as if those knives were more widely available at their inception.
 
Thanks for the feedback all. I’m leaning towards adding an entry to the parent knife pattern.

Since I’m lazy, though, I’d appreciate anyone who has an interest to start looking up the unique knives and posting the thread or post here.
 
The encyclopedia is a great resource here on this forum, I thank you for doing it.

If adding these one-offs to it is something you want to do, I say go for it. If not, the search function works fine.
It would certainly make it easier to track down and harass the winners of those sales.
 
AR-Trvlr AR-Trvlr

First, thank you for starting the resource so long ago and even more, for keeping up with it and updating it as well as you have. It is a monumental task to archive all this information and you have done so in a manner that is easily searchable so that even dumbasses like Casinostocks Casinostocks can find what they are looking for.

I hesitate to suggest how you should do things, and what does or doesn't get included. For one, you have been doing great, two, what makes my idea any better than yours? However, you have asked, so I will throw out my thought on it with no judgement on whether you listen or not.

I think the individual patterns should have a heading of there own, just like they currently do. These should be for the production patterns as would be or have been available in a normal sale or pre-order. How you have been doing it is perfect in my opinion.

Everything else, should go in a heading of its own as it was not a production piece or was not for sale via the normal channels. It could be titled, one offs, customs, unique or all three. It would be a catch all for those Fun Friday and other sales of knives that are or were not production pieces. For instance, the DEK-0 was never a model, it is just what Nate and Mark came up with as a name for a one off Fun Friday piece. A perspective buyer cant order one and there is no plan to produce any like it. Timmy's "table knife" is the same. It was never a production model, you can't order one unless Nathan decides to start making them, it is a one off piece, in this case, not even for sale to anyone but Timmy. The current semi-tanto pictured in BLADE, was never a model that was for order, it was a Fun Friday piece. There have been one off EDCs, FK2s UF variants and so on that are unique and one of a kind.

TLDR: I think unique and one off pieces should be grouped together under one header as they were never production pieces and may not have ever been for sale to the general public and as such, are somewhat unobtainable.
 
Grenock said:
AR-Trvlr AR-Trvlr

First, thank you for starting the resource so long ago and even more, for keeping up with it and updating it as well as you have. It is a monumental task to archive all this information and you have done so in a manner that is easily searchable so that even dumbasses like Casinostocks Casinostocks can find what they are looking for.

I hesitate to suggest how you should do things, and what does or doesn't get included. For one, you have been doing great, two, what makes my idea any better than yours? However, you have asked, so I will throw out my thought on it with no judgement on whether you listen or not.

I think the individual patterns should have a heading of there own, just like they currently do. These should be for the production patterns as would be or have been available in a normal sale or pre-order. How you have been doing it is perfect in my opinion.

Everything else, should go in a heading of its own as it was not a production piece or was not for sale via the normal channels. It could be titled, one offs, customs, unique or all three. It would be a catch all for those Fun Friday and other sales of knives that are or were not production pieces. For instance, the DEK-0 was never a model, it is just what Nate and Mark came up with as a name for a one off Fun Friday piece. A perspective buyer cant order one and there is no plan to produce any like it. Timmy's "table knife" is the same. It was never a production model, you can't order one unless Nathan decides to start making them, it is a one off piece, in this case, not even for sale to anyone but Timmy. The current semi-tanto pictured in BLADE, was never a model that was for order, it was a Fun Friday piece. There have been one off EDCs, FK2s UF variants and so on that are unique and one of a kind.

TLDR: I think unique and one off pieces should be grouped together under one header as they were never production pieces and may not have ever been for sale to the general public and as such, are somewhat unobtainable.
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^ Yup
 
I'd like to see scale compatibility listed for each model, as well as what scale options were offered during the production run(s). So for example, on the Medium Chopper, list what other models scales will fit the Medium Chopper. I know that some choppers are compatible with other choppers, but not all choppers, or something along those lines.
 
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