This is really taking the mickey!!!!!!

[rik_uk3]

People sometimes buy things just to own and look at. Some stove collectors (especially Japanese collectors) will happily pay hundreds of pounds for a rare mint condition stove but would never dream of lighting them

 

[sharp88]

Hello Fella's

I do tend to agree with some of the statements posted here, but lets face it once one has a name like RM and its a name that a lot of military personell like myself will be glad to of heard of, within the great help that Ray has done for some of our very survival over the years.
Ray is a swell guy, he is only doing his job to remind us all of what has been done before, some of his techniques were done by us whilst on many exercices when he was a small boy, but he is right none the less, you will of watched most of his programs and learned many of the things he has shown for free.

Someone said a boycott, what a stupid statement, that won't bother Ray maybe Allan so why the nastyness, its Allan's living you will be hurting, there are those who are jealous for sure, RM uses whatever knife whenever he likes, lost sales of the Woodlore won't make any diference to him, things must be working though because he is always out of stock.

Why not instead of banging on about this knife, don't you try making your own, there are many instructional videos out there of how to do it, here is one to have a look at below, if you have either a coal fire and or a wood burning stove you don't need the outdoor furness
that Pete uses,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ysKd1cswlo



Davy Stephenson.

If you took notice of my later post you'd have seen I articulated, thought and amended my previous posts. I have no jealousy for Ray, nor do I oppose him. I just beleive that selling knives at that price goes beyond the spirit and meaning of bushcraft and is purely for capital greed and profit - we're not talking about 100 quids worth of knife here...

Im not trying to influence people or tell them what to do, Im just saying my piece as everyone else can.

 

[Toddy]

I think the biggest problem to get my head around is the difference between the knife as one of the best tools mankind has ever developed, and the knife as made by and promoted by and recommended by and sold by ??? for £££???? .

It's like coin collectors; they want the mint issue, unused, pristine and perfect piece whereas most of us would rather they were more readily available in our pockets and aren't that bothered by a bit of wear and tear and use.

Personally I think the money being spent on these knives is silly, but if folks think they'll make it back, with interest, then they'll speculate.....wish they'd picked something else though.

cheers,
Toddy

 

[Tiley]

Personally I think the money being spent on these knives is silly, but if folks think they'll make it back, with interest, then they'll speculate.....wish they'd picked something else though.

cheers,
Toddy

I think that this is the nub of the matter. Well said, Toddy.