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Originally Posted by Claemore
I read an article a couple of months ago about a new Brend knife that's coming out. In the article he was quoted to the effect that he was making a knife for the common soldier to carry. That due to the bad economy he wanted to produce a knife that the soldier could afford to carry. Well, his "economy" knife was $700 - 800!  |
People pay crazy money for anything Walt touched.
I remember telling him back in the '80s that no soldier in his right mind was going to pay $600 for a stock removal knife like his 10" D2 Fighter. Now look at what those knives are worth. I have seen them sell for very close to $3000.
They are worth more as collector pieces than the value of the blade as a working blade. If you could sell four times as many pieces as you can make of a certain knife, why lower the price? He could sell knives for $400 all day long, and they would be trading on eBay by the end of the day for fair market value of probably $800 or more each. Like anything else in short supply, why should he pass big profits on to the middle man or speculator?
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De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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