MattTheGunslinger
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Famous last MDS post words. Applies to guns, vehicles, bourbon, hand held radios, holsters, spouses, lobster rolls, streaming media services, and bourbon, as well as bourbon.
You are absolutely right..... I could go for some good lobster rolls now.
Think Eric Glesser said one issue with blade replacement is that they have to be fitted when manufactured, and the factories spread throughout the world have their own sources for steels, and their own equipment setup for whatever models they produce. The owners are pretty active in the knife community, and have done a lot of cool collaborations.
They used to frown on users taking apart the knives, and were famous for gobs of red loc-tite on screws, but have gotten much easier to deal with, and are getting more in-line with the best makes in the industry. Ends up much easier to just replace a defective knife than to replace a blade. ZT and BM only produce from a single location in the US, and have custom shops to work on anything, so much easier. I would't neccesarily pass up Spyderco because of their warranty, it still covers defects and repairs, just not an inexpensive blade replacement whenever you choose. They do have a lot of good stuff, a ton of sprints and exclusives, and frequent discounted clearance models, I just stick to their $200 and less offerings, but that gives you most of the catalog, and a lot of great knives that are affordable enough to actually use, and some really great steels to play with.
You now have a respectable EDC rotation, i'll give it a month till you get the next one, you will be chasing sprint run drops in the next year.
I can understand not servicing all the knives from different countries. They should at least have a blade program for their Boulder, CO location. I didn't mean I would not buy any more Spydercos at all. I meant to say that if I accidentally broke the blade of my Para 3, I would not replace the entire knife. Now, I have never broken a blade that I can remember, so I dont think that will ever be an issue. But if I did, it would just be nice to know that I could have my knife fixed at a reasonable price instead of being forced to dish out another $165. I'm not one of those people who expect everything for free.
When ever they come back into stock and I have a bit of spare money, I do plan on getting one more Spyderco. I want a PM2. THEN Ill be done buying knives for a while..... honest.