Question for Sal

[Guntaholic]

First off my compliments to you on the Gunting, it is an incredible knife. It's also the first Spyderco I have owned. I was mislead lead in the past about the quality of your products by my local knife shop. They were and are as wrong as can be, and I refuse to shop there again. My question is, I have noticed when talking about the prototypes for the MBC line, you say you must take into account how well this knife will sell before it goes in to production. I can easily understand this, but am curious just how many units would you have to estimate you would sell before going ahead with production? Thanks

[sal]

Hi Guntaholic. Welcome to the Spyderco forum. Sorry you were mislead about our product quality...we generally try to undersell and overdeliver.

Tooling up for a new model could cost from $12,000 to $80,000 depending on the model and materials. We really don't like to even try a new model unless we know that we can sell 2,000 or more pieces from the tooling.

sal

[AncientSUL]

Sal,

Does that mean u will make more Carbon Fiber Civilians, I already have three plainedged ones on order. Now could u make some plainedged with G-10 too. Also the green g-10 and blue g-10 too. Those would be real collectable. I would buy at least 5.

Liong

[sal]

Hi Liong. Probably not. We normally don't make models for collection, mostly for hard use. We will occassionally make a collector piece because the collectors request it, but making many is difficult.

sal