world knife shortage

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krazichinaman said:
As others have said, COVID-19 has really hurt manf. Stuff is still being produced, but there is more attention to the category. Just go to your local hardware store and look at the price of lumber. I can tell you for a fact from a manf side, that raw materials have sky rocketed in price. Demand has way past supply which has shifted the entire curve. Go to some of your local sports store / knife stores and you will see their inventory isn't as in stock as it use to be. Lets not even get started on firearms and ammo....
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You can't blame only COVID. We are printing too much cash (less than 10% of the last relief bill were for COVID), and while the Fed keeps the interest rates artificially low, consumer good prices are sky-rocketing. Buy a Big-Mac and see if it is more expensive than last year. It is here (in California).

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BTW, I don't think this post is too political, since the spending is basically bi-partisan.

Roland.
 
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Yo Mama said:
2020 was rough on manufacturers. No in person shows, factory shut downs, and limited workers all forced many companies to shelve designs till they could produce. I think it will take some more time to see an increase as designs can take months to years to make.
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This. Of course some of those manufacturers wre not deemed "essential businesses" by their state, so had to cease operations.
Buck Knives in Idaho was found by Gov. Little to be an essential business. However, a lot of their workers are not reporting to work due to the Covids. (Idaho still has many businesses besides restaurants and pubs shut down because of the Covids) Production of all models is down, for this reason, and materials supply issues.
 
I have bought 6 knives since 1/1/2021 as near as I can remember. This doesn’t seem like a slow down for me. Maybe that ship that got stuck in the Suez Canal put a kink in the supply chain. Looking at the pile, I would say that I am ready for a shortage, real or imagined.
 
paul brown said:
I've been browsing many knives. thanks guys
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So you are complaining about there being a knife shortage and then when many people say no, there isn't one for most knives, then ask you to provide examples, you just say you've been looking at many knives but decline to explain which knives are mysteriously out of stock? I'm assuming then that you found the knives you are looking for.
 
I don’t know about a worldwide knife shortage but came to the forum tonight to look for this very question. I’ve been looking to buy a specific Tops knife for a few months now but it’s sold out on every online retailer. I emailed Tops and asked if it was discontinued and received a reply that said it would be available in 8-12 weeks and that they were currently waiting on a metal shipment themselves.
 
I made a thread about this a while back and it just seems to be getting worse. Obviously, there are plenty of knives to buy out there. But for whatever reason, the ones I want (mostly higher end USA produced knives, in my case) are pretty much never available aside from the secondary market anymore.
 
Nonsense! I am trying to sell more than a dozen of my knives ATM, some used, some NIB mostly for about 15% below shop price and there are not many takers. The range is from Moras and Condors to Spydercos.
 
unwisefool said:
So you are complaining about there being a knife shortage and then when many people say no, there isn't one for most knives, then ask you to provide examples, you just say you've been looking at many knives but decline to explain which knives are mysteriously out of stock? I'm assuming then that you found the knives you are looking for.
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Paul doesn't want to say cuz everyone will scoop them up.
 
All kinds of supply chains got disrupted last year for months. On top of that, folks got scared and stopped buying stuff (economic turnover). Governments all over the world put restrictions on movements of people and goods and services. In my area, a large portion of the hospitality industry shut down and has since disappeared. That affected their suppliers, their suppliers’ suppliers, so on and so forth. I feel for these folks, I hope they were able to restructure their debt and avoid being totally financially obliterated. So, debt restructuring is a factor of what’s going on. Basically, right now we’re seeing second and third order economic effects of last year’s disruptions. Inflation... it’s easy to see. Look at lumber prices, copper prices, corn futures, and meat prices. Yea, $hit’s changed.


Any and all materials and distribution chains related to fabricating knives has been affected. World wide shortage? Why aren’t prices rising in the buy/sell forums? They should be if that’s the thesis.
 
Tomorrow I've been on the wagon and fighting my knife addiction successfully for 11 weeks. Based on my near falls by putting items in shopping carts, then emptying again, I'm not seeing a shortage!
 
I’ve got so much TP I bought pelican cases for it all. Sometimes I open them just to stick all the knives I’ve hoarded into the rolls.

Not a shortage from what I see. But I spend more time talking about knives than shopping for them.
 
I've noticed that too. Several popular knives from several different brands have been very scarce, for months now. So I can see why someone would scratch their head at it.
 
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