SpyderStupid

[Gerard Breuker]

Dear forumites,

As of today it is official. I am SpyderStupid. My brain cells are in desperate need of sharpening but probably beyond repair.
I thought the handle of the Assist 1 I received had a crack but as any moron but me can see it is a design feature for carbide tip replacement :o .
I looked at it for a long time but I obviously couldn't figure it out and then I couldn't see it on the pictures in the catalogues and made a complete ass of myself by posting about it.
Carbide tip replacement. Carbide tip replacement you moron. You moron.
I would like to apologize to you all for my obvious SpyderStupidity and hope you will forgive me as I made an honest mistake due to a lack of functional brain cells. I never meant to harm the owner or the company and I never will I am just SpyderStupid and anything I write should be judged accordingly.

[Fisher of Men]

It's all good bro. I don't think you're the only one who didn't know that about the Assist. I sure didn't.

I think Sal is just right on. If people want to find problems they will and they will be nit pickey about it. Unless something is "really" wrong with one of my knives I'm just going to let it go :)

Cheers all,
David

[Zoic]

My friend, if that is the dumbest thing you ever do publicly on this forum, you are blessed beyond all reason. Any number of us can attest that we have done much worse.

Do yourself a favor and forget it, just let it go. Mistakes happen.

I know this better than most. :(
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Kurt

[sal]

Hi Gerard.

No prob on my end. As it turns out, some of our own staff didn't realize that there was a special piece made for that replacement. My error for not making it clear.

I did the testing on the Assist myself. I broke a lot of windows in Wrecking yards before I was satisfied. I did realize that carbide does have its limits and can chip. I didn't want one of our ELUs to have to replace the whole knife if this happened, so we went back, changed the tooling and added the replacement feature.

I'm sure it is the first mistake you ever made and you probably won't ever make another one. I made a mistake once. ;)

sal

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[Joyce Laituri]

Hi Gerard,

No apology needed. If you are "SpyderStupid" that makes me a certain candidate for SpyderBlitheringIdiot LOL :D . : D

No knife question(s) here are stupid. I know I learn everyday from the questions posted and have a strong suspicion most others do too.

Welcome aboard!

Joyce @ Spyderco

[Yojimbo]

Sorry for calling you a "Moron" Gerard. I noticed the fine line when i ,as an engineer, tried to find out how they would change the carbide tip. I knew the handle had to be able to be taken apart, to exchange the tip. Then i noticed the two screws and the seperate handlepiece. I never dare to take it appart, although my brain burns from wanting to know how the extending of the glassbreaker works by clinching the hand.

My sincere appologies

[Fisher of Men]

See......this is such a nice place to be :)

It's a virtual knife lounge.

Pepsi anyone :D

[vampyrewolf]

FOM: 12yr glen livet please... tripple on the rocks.

Gerard Breuker: We've all made stupid mistakes, that's how we, as a race, learn. I have overreacted a few times myself... a few times :rolleyes:...

The safest way to learn anything with spydies is to put a question on here and give it a day. I didn't even know you could replace the carbide tip, never mind open the knife until this issue came up.

[sal]

It's visitors like Vampyrewolf that make it a fun place to visit.

In fact, I would like to personally thank all of the regular posters that are the reason this forum is generally a comfortable place to "take off your shoes" and hang out. Smart, knowledgable, friendly knife people willing and interested to share information.

Our products seem to appeal to a smaller group of aficianados, those with an interest in looking deeper into a "marque". Beyond the "it looks cool".

Just about everything we do in our models has a purpose that has been give a fair amount of thought. Then we re-think the design until the models is discontinued. Like the replaceable glass breaker that retracts into the handle.

We are honored that you would find interest in our models and why we do what we do.

sal

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"We are all teachers and we are all students"

[dialex]

Thanks for the infos. Now I won't have to work a few hours with the pliers and the screwdriver in order to pull out that $@#%*&\#! carbide tip. ;)

[Gerard Breuker]

Thanks to all of you for your kind words.
This is indeed a very nice place to be.
No apology needed for calling me a moron Yojimbo as it is a good description of my mental abilities while looking at the Assist I and it compares favourably to what I have been calling myself afterwards (although in Dutch).
Please remind me of carbide tip replacement the next time I convince myself I know something.

[Yojimbo]

No, no not at all, Gerard, i will not , not everyone has the same knowledge, and all knowledge we have, we got from someone else! So i see this more as me receiving the information before you, not as ignorance.
I KNOW you will have tons of information about Spyderco i have totally no knowledge of.

The funny thing is that when i read some post,i realise how little i actually know!

In my immediate surroundings at work i am known as a Spyderco collector, and sometimes people ask me simple questions that i can mostly answer correctly.

But when you come in here you walk in the cave of Ali Baba of knowledge.

That is the reason why this forum is such a great place to stay and learn. There are people who are into metallurgy, design, some seem to know every model ever made, Sia makes :spyder: art. There is always something new to learn inhere, and the ambiance is always friendly. No one judges you if you have 1 or 500 :spyder: knives, or wether your collection has a total value of 50$ or 50000$.

There are very basic guidelines to get accepted inhere . Like the :spyder: brand ( you don't even have to own one yet), and threat everyone with respect.

This is one of the few multicultural forums that doesn't divides up i little groups.

Greetz to everyone and i'll burn some smoke this evening for the whole Spyderco community.

Pacem

[greencobra]

Gerard, there's more of us SpyderStupid members out here than we'll ever know. I certainly learned something as did a lot of people.

Plus I put two new words in my spell check I found on the forum,

SpyderStupid (is this a Dutch word?) and

Spyderbation (obviously has Latin roots)