Awwww, poor Roger. Breaks my heart....
The Guy has dealt poorly and in a childish manner with one of our members in the past, here he is doing it again trying to start rumours Just sour grapes! (We need an emoticon just for him)
Regarding Swissbianco, does anyone know who some Jan S. is?
Okay, I have a question.I may be too old to grasp it, or set in my ways to understand, but just what does this Swiss Bianco do besides sell custom color SAK's at an greatly inflated price?I've visited his web site and tried to fathom it, but I really can't. It's just like buying a new car and paying lots of money for a custom color paint job on something that is going to be used up in 10 or 15 years. Maybe I'm way too pragmatic for my own good, but I've never understood the Swiss Bianco thing. Bu then I shoot standard firearms, and the truck I bought new in 2001 still has the same wheels and paint job it came with with, and runs great. A little dinged up and 147,000 on the clock, but it's always done the job. Kind of like my Old Wenger SI in plain old silver alox. What made folks spent three and four times the money on a alox pointer or farmer just for a different color alox? Swiss Bianco seems like a version of Peter Atwood with greatly inflated prices on trendy toys for adults.I've been using SAK's since 1969, and in 47 years of use, on four different continents and one war in Vietnam, I've never had a SAK fail me. So what is this Swiss Bianco selling that makes a SAK better, or as he puts it, the perfect SAK? I'd love to be enlightened!
The different colored alox ones are just a personal taste preference. Same reason they offer cars in different colors and paint schemes and different interior option packages. The plain jane base model vehicle will get you where your going just the same as a model with all the bells and whistles will, but some like having the extras.But a different color of scales won't make the knife cut any better that just a plain silver one. It's just nice to have an option should you care to pay for it. No biggee. And if you have a stock of different colors, it is easier to properly accessorize when getting dressed to make sure your knife color matches your socks that day. Lol.
I totally relate to colors effecting mood and gravitate towards blues. But I don't have the need to collect the same knife in every color. I prefer to collect all the different models in one color, so it's a matching set with all the variations. Just how my brain likes to organise things. But I do like to be able to choose a cool color that resonates with me. It's usually blue of some type. I'm like a bower bird with blue.Blue pioneer x posted on another thread was beckoning me earlier.
Quote from: Grass on August 26, 2016, 01:03:32 PMReads like a passive aggressive swipe at Victorinox... and I cannot gauge whether it is bitterness, legitimate or somewhere in between. What it means?That's what I thought. They should be grateful to stand in the heavy shadow of Victorinox. Victorinox will still be here when SB will long have been gone. I don't respect whoever doesn't respect the Elsener legacy.Aἰδώς Ἀργεῖοι. Shame Argives!
Reads like a passive aggressive swipe at Victorinox... and I cannot gauge whether it is bitterness, legitimate or somewhere in between. What it means?
I've purchased of few of his alox electrician runs in the earth tone colors since electrician is my favorite model, and it was kinda nice to have a couple in something besides silver or red. They were at a higher price than a one, but it was basically the only way I could get a brown electrician for instance. And now, if I'm being honest, I still carry a silver or red one most of the time anyway. Lol.But other than those couple, most my alox has been to and came back from the modders and the guys we have here do a great job. I did not notice any quality issues in the SB ones I purchased either though.Having been a member here for quite awhile, I recall Roger getting pretty worked up over modders, citing the quality control issue, costs, yadayada. To me, that was a non-issue, since a modder not doing decent work, or not running his shop properly, will soon be shut down due to poor reviews. He seemed to view knife variations other than factory offering as his private domain. That didn't work out too well for him in the long run it seems.I guess if Vic would have offered deals like this with some of our other well known modders, his exclusive deal wouldn't have been so irritating.Truthfully, what I find more irritating currently is what Vic is doing with all these slight shading alox variations, limited release colors to different parts of the world, all that stuff. All at higher prices as well. Just like Roger was doing. Aimed right at the collectors.But, as others have said, nobody is forcing you to buy them. And Vic wouldn't be cranking them out if they were not selling I would imagine.It'll be interesting to see, say in a year, if there are still these rumors concerning Victorinox floating around. I don't see them going anywhere.
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