RM Alan Wood Knives on Ebay
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I was going to comment on that. Fallknivens have indeed risen quite considerably in price. I bought my H1 in 3G quite cheap close to 2 years ago. Does it make me a better man in the bush? No. Does it have status attached to it? Yes. I didn't buy it at that time because I wanted to look better or become a better bushcrafter, I just needed a good knife.
Those who can sell the knife for 700 quid are smart, those who buy it for 700 are stupid. those who buy it for 700 then use and abuse it are the dumbest of the lot.... IMO.
Paul.
do we buy a knife for its usefulness or cachet. my clipper and leuku does what I need it to do.
often we get caught up in one upmanship and chasing the next best thing.
a knife is just a knife really i am a ray fan but have no desire for one of his knives.
a knife is just a tool nothing more or less.......................
often we get caught up in one upmanship and chasing the next best thing.
a knife is just a knife really i am a ray fan but have no desire for one of his knives.
a knife is just a tool nothing more or less.......................
This is a none-thread. Yet again, more divisive comments. We get worked up about things we can't afford and then 'do them down', and criticise those who can afford to buy them. For example, 'It's not fair - Woodlores are too expensive, but I wouldn't want one anyway because my [insert other maker's name here] is better and it's cheaper'.
We then bang on for a while until someone says 'My Mora only cost ten quid and it's better than all your knives'. This is inverse snobbery, is it not? We're starting to get towards Monty Python territory ('My knife is made from tin foil with a mud handle and cost me 5p', '5p?!? Luxury, etc, etc').
Replace the phrase 'Woodlore knife' with 'Picasso painting', 'Harry Potter 1st Edition', 'Faberge Egg', etc, and lots of people are prepared to pay more than the original RRP for a rare item. It's called 'collecting'.
There are thousands of other things we could be discussing on here but there is always a thread on how expensive Woodlores are.
Frankly, if I bought a Woodlore, I wouldn't advertise the fact on here because of:
a. The amount of flaming that I'd get
b. The number of people who feel they had to tell me how good their Mora is and that it cost less than a tenner.
Gaaarrgghhh!
..... very astute observation and a good humoured way of looking at this...If you own one of these and other knives to compare it with....
They are a good knife but so are others...you need to use them though to figure this out...and if the greater love is "using" them than "collecting" them...then maybe selling them on to help fund a trip to Canada or Scandanavia or wherever your dreams take you in terms of "bushcrafting"....well that's no bad thing...but maybe you prefer to keep it and derive as much pleasure using it locally and enjoy the pleasure of owning it...again no bad thing....it's all a matter of idividual choice...with no real "right" answer...save for what "works best for you"....
Anyone waiting to buy a Woodlore is waiting to buy a badge, simple as that. You can get an Alan Wood knife, every bit the equal of a woodlore, direct from the man himself at a lower price and a fraction of the waiting time. You can buy a woodlore clone from a bazillion different sources, so why the 10 year wait?
Because they absolutely have to have that knife with that logo.
It has nothing to do with function or performance and everything to do with marketing.
So is buying & selling them at a huge profit unfair to those waiting? Of course not, they are all badge-traders and are all playing the same game.
If you need a good knife that will do everything, buy yourself a Mora for £20, everything else is about want, not need.
On that point, I'm delighted to see that the vast majority of people who voted in the poll, chose the "free market economy" option, rather than the communist model of economics outlined by option 1.
If you want a BMW, then you have to pay BMW money. Lots of people cant afford them (including me), that's life. But if you force everyone to sell their cars at a fixed, low rate, then BMW's wouldn't exist at all and we'd be driving in a sea of fiat punto's. If there is a flaw in this analogy, it's that a BMW is actually a better car in almost every respect than a fiat punto, whereas I think you would be hard pressed to show in any meaningful way how a Woodlore is actually better than a Mora.
But you pay your money, you take your choice, that's what makes this a varied and wonderful world.
If you are on a Woodlore waiting list, the first sensible thing to do when you get your knife, would be to sell it for a vast profit, pocket your initial investment, buy a clone or similar and take the wife out for a meal with the change ...and why not?
Because they absolutely have to have that knife with that logo.
It has nothing to do with function or performance and everything to do with marketing.
So is buying & selling them at a huge profit unfair to those waiting? Of course not, they are all badge-traders and are all playing the same game.
If you need a good knife that will do everything, buy yourself a Mora for £20, everything else is about want, not need.
On that point, I'm delighted to see that the vast majority of people who voted in the poll, chose the "free market economy" option, rather than the communist model of economics outlined by option 1.
If you want a BMW, then you have to pay BMW money. Lots of people cant afford them (including me), that's life. But if you force everyone to sell their cars at a fixed, low rate, then BMW's wouldn't exist at all and we'd be driving in a sea of fiat punto's. If there is a flaw in this analogy, it's that a BMW is actually a better car in almost every respect than a fiat punto, whereas I think you would be hard pressed to show in any meaningful way how a Woodlore is actually better than a Mora.
But you pay your money, you take your choice, that's what makes this a varied and wonderful world.
If you are on a Woodlore waiting list, the first sensible thing to do when you get your knife, would be to sell it for a vast profit, pocket your initial investment, buy a clone or similar and take the wife out for a meal with the change ...and why not?
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G'day Mortalmerlin
To be honest, I'm not holding my breath whilst I wait
Kind regards
Mick
I'll give you an answer, just as soon as I get a respose to the questions I have posted about the Woodlore in a new thread here: http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=65188
To be honest, I'm not holding my breath whilst I wait
Kind regards
Mick
At the risk of being unpopular i would say that the RM woodlore is a commodity the same as any other, and if i could find someone to pay me £10 for my belly button fluff they could have it lol. What I'm saying is they aren't doing anything wrong at offering the blade it just makes me think Who would pay that amount for one??
Dave
Dave
As ebay dont allow the sale of knives any more and that voting on this poll has bumped a 12 month old thread, mebbe it's time the poll was closed?
ebay.com does just not .co.uk and if your gonna pay that much for a knife then shipping isnt goinng to play that big a part is it?
Dave
Dave
Are you alowed to buy from ebay dot com if regsterd in the uk? if so cool!, for my two peneths worth, who am i to slate some one for the knife they buy\want or dream of owning, personal choice is just that.
Have fun guys, and take care of each other,
Southey(25th anny woody owner\user)
Have fun guys, and take care of each other,
Southey(25th anny woody owner\user
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Nope, or any other Ebay site. Ebay block bids on anything even remotely knife related.
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