Production Knife Quotes

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Famous Production Knife Quotes

In our lightweights we’ll bring a very high performance steel like a 110V for example, and put it into a lightweight handle. This is going to give you a less expensive knife that’s going to perform very well, at a lower cost. Sometimes around the office we joke about, you know, we’re putting a Ferrari engine in a little inexpensive car, but that’s what you’re getting.
Eric Glesser

We work for the consumer. So I have to be involved and listening and knowing what’s going on, because ultimately the customer is the boss. We have to be there to perform for them.
Eric Glesser

Usually the different factories and the different locations around the world have different skills and abilities. Some may be good at this, some may be good at something else, some may work with a material that others don’t. There’s no two factories that are created equal.
Eric Glesser

In Japan they’re very good at back locks. We consider ourselves as making some of the best back locks in the world. For China they bring a tremendous value to the market if you can do it correctly. For Italy you can get materials, European materials, and they’re great at slip joints. And for America we have our capabilities. So there’s a lot of diversity in there.
Eric Glesser

We’re not just making pretty pictures and coming out with them. We’re still making reliable high performance with great quality and materials, good designs, good designers.
Eric Glesser

We’re working on hundreds of different knives at any given time. The knife market is huge. It goes from little knives to big knives and all purposes in between.
Eric Glesser

Performance is our primary focus. We’re not making pretty knives. We’re making knives that cut well for a long time. Reliable, high-performance is our marketing pitch. A lot of our market is military, law enforcement, firemen and other people who actually depend upon a knife.
Sal Glesser

We don’t plan to pin our knives or make it impossible for you to take them apart. We will continually try to make them stronger so if you do take them apart, it will be more difficult to damage them.
Sal Glesser

We had these aspirations of being a global company and Golden, Colorado, USA had a nice ring. Now it’s Golden, Colorado, USA, Earth because we’ve got even bigger aspirations.
Sal Glesser

Though I have been a devout knife collector since childhood, collecting mostly production knives and anything else I could find, I was unaware of the custom knife industry until 1989 when I saw an issue of Knives Illustrated at a local drug store.
Ken Onion

I started the mid-tech trend to create a category of knives in between custom and production, and hopefully have created some clarity in the marketplace.
Ken Onion

Fashions change, technology changes, materials change. All of that has an impact on what I do. Remember, my main focus is mass-production knives for an international audience. My knives are unashamedly tactical in nature; I find that what I do attracts a certain type of customer.
Lynn Thompson

I was the first one, Cold Steel, to break the $100 price barrier and start selling commercially made knives for over $100 and it was a huge struggle. Like the tanto point that everybody recognizes today, I introduced that to the American public.
Lynn Thompson

I love my customers and I tolerate my competitors. I work with my competitors just enough to achieve our common goals. Other than that, they are on the other side of the board. I’m on this side of the board. I don’t really care whether they like me or not.
Lynn Thompson

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