Sal Glesser
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I'll share your concerns with Eric and Tom.
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I would never notice something like that but I can see what you are talking about. I'm most curious about the timeline you mention (in the last couple of years). I believe that in the last year or two, Golden has switched most (if not all) of the Golden models to a robotic sharpening process. Could be that the robot is a tad more aggressive than the humans it replaced? I don't know, just throwing a guess out there that came to mind based on the timeline.
I would never notice something like that but I can see what you are talking about. I'm most curious about the timeline you mention (in the last couple of years). I believe that in the last year or two, Golden has switched most (if not all) of the Golden models to a robotic sharpening process. Could be that the robot is a tad more aggressive than the humans it replaced? I don't know, just throwing a guess out there that came to mind based on the timeline.
Aggressive robots? Very unlikely.
That is excessive, in anyone's eyes I'd imagine. That is literally years worth of steel removed before the knife is even pulled from the box.
You would imagine wrong.
I'm fine with it. I checked some of my collection going back to late 80's and early 90's. I found that it's difficult to find unsharpened knives in my collection.
BTW, are you really standing by the possibility of a thousand or thousands of Spyderco knives?
So people expect Spyderco to put a bunch of monkeys on the floor with Wicked Edge Sharpeners to make sure the edges are picture perfect? It's what it seems like. Please, if anyone has used a single knife for 100 years and it's become unusable due to so many sharpenings, please raise your hands.
I get that a question is there but so far nothing seems worth getting Spyderco to raise prices over. Maybe there should be an option to order directly from Spyderco with a completely unsharpened edge? Sell the knives at full MSRP so the really, really anal people can get edges they want without having years and years of steel removed. After all, those powered grinders only save about several hours and a lot of money per knife. Just saying.
Maybe spyderco could have a separate division and hire a lot of really old school sword sharpeners from Japan move to the US and put edges on by hand and finishing with extremely fine stones the size of rice grains and have edges as good as $100,000 katanas? It'd only raise the prices by about $99,800 per knife.
Maybe Spyderco can check in with the Taichung Taiwan plant and inquire how they sharpen. I'm guessing it's not with Wicked Edge sharpeners.
At least 200 in the last 10 years.
Yes, because asking spyderco to sharpen the knives how they used to is EXACTLY the same as expecting them to give me picture perfect edges with a wicked edge.
Maybe I should have checked with you before posting the thread? The kind of post you made is exactly the reason I've never made an account here.
Sal said he'd address it with Eric. I accomplished what I set out to do, your opinions aside.