I can understand people wanting a top end knife, especially one where they have had a hand in it's design. It does make it a bit special, but if its going to be a user instead of a drawer ornament i also think it's important to know how to use it properley, otherwise you may as well just buy a potato peeler.
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i've just googled helle sigmund and the first price i came across was £130, so you could get two or three helle's for the price of a woodlore, which makes the woodlore look expensive, but then again you could get 25 or so hultafors for the price of one helle, which makes the helle look really expensive. and all we've really talked about here are factory made utility knives, so we've not even got close to properly expensive, for that you need to look at full custom jobs with wonderfully exotic materials and made by someone in america or germany, then you start getting in to serious money (the first example that sprung to mind - http://www.jimmylile.com/knives.html). knives are subject to all the same rules of economics that every other consumer good is, and we live in a world where value and price ceased to have any direct correlation a long time ago, things are worth exactly what people are willing to pay for them, no more, no less.
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Nothing gives me more satisfaction than watching someone clonk a woodlore through some knotted wood.
'Tis a very rare site indeed
'Tis a very rare site indeed
Nothing gives me more satisfaction than watching someone clonk a woodlore through some knotted wood.
'Tis a very rare site indeed
Hopefully as the owner of any knife has more sense than to batten knotty wood
I have battoned with my woodlore and yes i chipped it but hey ho its a tool to be used. I have used many knives and a lot of them are way better than the woodlore. I found they didnt suit my needs but i still have two of them.
I was lucky enough to get one of the WS micarta ones when they first came on the market, i also have ( thanks to K9) one of the original Alan Wood woodlores.
Both of these get used but i much prefer the one i had made by FGYT and one by Hillbill, both of which are much easier to use and maintain and the build quality/fit and finish is superior.
I also had one of the SWC knives before he started making for woodlore, it was appauling quality and finish and when i tried to contact SWC there was no reply whatsoever after several emails and letters sent.
I was lucky enough to get one of the WS micarta ones when they first came on the market, i also have ( thanks to K9) one of the original Alan Wood woodlores.
Both of these get used but i much prefer the one i had made by FGYT and one by Hillbill, both of which are much easier to use and maintain and the build quality/fit and finish is superior.
I also had one of the SWC knives before he started making for woodlore, it was appauling quality and finish and when i tried to contact SWC there was no reply whatsoever after several emails and letters sent.
Nothing gives me more satisfaction than watching someone clonk a woodlore through some knotted wood.
'Tis a very rare site indeed
If you want to baton wood get an Esee 5 or a BK2
The new 30 year SWC Woodlore knife is on sale for £450, they have had to up the ante for an actual Woodlore to £485 to compensate, it is getting to the point where O1 Tool steel and stabilised wood or micarta is a better investment than gold or diamonds!
Stephen Wade Cox is a bit of an enigma, even King Raymond has bother tracking him down, and he can do the business.
I have several fancy knives, I will admit bar one, (My Japanese laminated; You can trust them to do a good job...Often at an affordable price.) I have traded for them all. I really cannot afford them.
with cars my worry is deprechiation. (I am funny, yes) so the Mondeo and Aston Martin would be pretty much equal in my eyes.
Aston Martin better for pulling blokes. (Yes, I am a shallow bird.)
with cars my worry is deprechiation. (I am funny, yes) so the Mondeo and Aston Martin would be pretty much equal in my eyes.
Aston Martin better for pulling blokes. (Yes, I am a shallow bird.)
I just googled the Woodlore. I can see paying extra for some knives; but $450 for a STEAK KNIFE!? For less than that (Far, Far less than that) I can get a German made Puma White Hunter.
$450? try $782 or £485 in real money
Just had another look at the website and you're right; it was in GBP rather than $. However I'm finding used ones (in good condition) on e-bay for under $400. Even that is way too much for that knife.
Nothing gives me more satisfaction than watching someone clonk a woodlore through some knotted wood.
'Tis a very rare site indeed
JP 25th:
WS:
SWC:
I now rest and let others prep my wood for me.
I can understand that, for me though i chose my knife maker carefully so i'm confident that if in the future i do have problems with the knife he will sort it out for me.
We are all different and it's a good job as the world would be a boring place.
"Expensive" is relative, i used to think parts for my old Elan were expensive till i bought a Porsche
I though nearly £600 for a knife was expensive till i joined some blade sites.
If people use and enjoy their purchases then i think there is no loose.
What gets me is when people buy things just to own them, then shut them away.
I realise it's different personality types but i do think it's a real shame when someone designs, produces and sells a knife and it's never used as one.
It's the same with cars.
You see guys buying old cars, shutting them up in the garage and polishing them.
Problem is when they do eventually use them and inevitably break them, there is no longer a support infrastructure in place to produce and sell spares and no one with experience on how to repair them.
I was helping a guy out a while ago and in his garage was a DB6 with a dented wing.
When i asked he said he'd been on the internet and ebay but couldn't find a new wing
I sat and explained to the guy that there is no pattern for a DB6 wing, they're ALL hand made from start to finish.
If people used their classic cars and crashed them, then there would be hundreds of panel beaters around the country with the skills to fabricate a wing out of a flat sheet of metal.
As it is, most cars are shut away so the few that still have this skill are dying out.
It's the same with custom knife manufacturing.
Unless we start supporting these custom knife makers instead of buying mass produced knives the vast majority will be gone within 2 generations.
I now rest and let others prep my wood for me.
Nice
I had a huge grin getting Dave54 to do the same!
Too true. UK knifemakers are a rare breed, despite the surge within the last 8 years or so.
The 30th anniversary knife made by SWC isn't a Woodlore remember, it's the Ray Mears Bushcraft Knife. The Woodlore is only made by Alan Wood.
I have a custom Bark River Bravo-1 being made for me now for that very purpose
P.s I'm just pulling a leg woodlore fans. Its good to see some out the draw.
Absolutely right, and clever advertising to use 'Woodlore' and 'Ray Mears Bushcraft Knife' in the sales blurb in the online shop.
I have a custom Bark River Bravo-1 being made for me now for that very purpose
That will be a proper thing
