Why is "custom"...?

LorenzoL said:
We need one of those smilies, don't we, Suz?
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unit said:
MAN!! That was a fun read!

Your post helps me remember that there are a lot of different "users" out there and it points to the concept of "intended" use.

I can envision a 13 year old boy picking up your custom skinner and flinging it at a tree only to have it stick briefly then the tip snaps off and the rest of the knife falls to the ground. Immediately, the boy proclaims that his mild steel production (truck stop) knife significantly out performs it.

(true story BTW, only the knife was not your skinner, but was my Ti handled Buck back in the 80s...MAN I was mad).
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Precisely, but if my intent was to take that pattern and make it a thrower, I can tell Phillip, "Change in plans---make it out of S7 and run it in the high fifties" and then I'll spank that truck stop knife. :D

My problem with production knives---and I'll say right now that it only makes business sense for them to do it this way so I'm not saying they're wrong--is that so often steels and geometries are chosen across the board with no thought given to the design of the knife...

First up is our pocket slipjoint, with a blade of super sharp ATS-34 and a 30 degree included edge angle. Next is our medium hunter in all around great ATS-34, 30 degrees included angle. Last, our MAGNUM CAMP BOWIE in bone shattering, tree lopping ATS-34, and we chose an edge angle of 15 degrees per side.

The fact that profit maximization leads them to choose the same HT, material, and edge geometry for all their knives no matter if they're a 2" blade mini folder or a "tactical" fixed blade is what leads the people who use them to come on these boards and whine about "abuse" when they see a knife batoned through wood or, my favorite, say "knives are for cutting!" and then follow it up with a rolling eyes or jerkit smiley---as if a sharp piece of steel separating one piece of wood into two pieces is doing anything other than cutting it. But, I suppose their experiences have taught them that 1/4" thick bowies and SAKs are suitable for exactly the same range of tasks (primarily fondling, letter opening and trimming cuticles), and are different sizes purely by accident.
 
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