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The Tomahawk from Artisan Cutlery makes quick work of slicing tasks with little effort. This limited-edition version comes armed with a combination handle made of copper and G-10 Read More
Don’t buy anything from artisan. My last tomahawk was defective. I sent it back for repair / replacement and never saw it again. That was four months ago.
rfrancolineNo idea what their business agreement is concerning repairs/replacements, but assuming this is out of their contractual obligations, you should file a charge-back with your bank. Let them know the situation and what happened, and be persistent about getting your money back. That's one of the few ways an individual consumer can get a company flagged(if others do the same, of course).
This is somebody’s idea of what a cool design is supposed to look like but I can’t get past the grind on it. None of these Artisan knives are doing it for me. I see no purpose or craft to their designs.
Psj78They spent all their money and time rebranding from "MASSDROP" to "DROP" when those resources and effort should have been spent offering better deals or creating exclusive products for customers. Makes me kind of sad to see the current state of things.
Yup, they are on Smokey Mountain Knife Works and some of the models are much less than here with no upcharge. I just don't see where Drop is going to make it with this kind of thinking? They clearly have no kind of strategy as in the past, in fact they couldn't be doing anything more to hurt themselves. Why should anyone look here for a deal on a knife? There are some people out there when I have brought this kind of criticism have defended Drop, to me it is indefensible and I am sure there are not enough of them to keep Drop in business. A business model cannot depend on the market being ignorant because markets are not ignorant, they are very efficient at seeking the best deal. I find myself getting less and less here as a result.
Yep give Lamnia a shot located in Finland and you have to meet a $115.00 purchase limit for free delivery (charges are pretty high if you don't hit that limit ) but merchandise prices are competitive and they have decent sales they just don't seem to get mentioned very often . https://www.lamnia.com/en
Spokes30This might be some combo of fever-dream/3-day desert rave flashback/head injury hallucination, but I seem to recall some communiqué from (Mass)Drop in which they said their focus for the future with the "Blades" section would be their own collaborations. Unsaid but tacitly implied (according to my highly fallible memory) was that they wouldn't be worried too much about trying to offer good deals on knives from other OEMs.
If this announcement didn't actually occur and I'm just making it up, then I imagine I'm doing so based upon what I've observed with the offerings they've had lately. I've only been involved with (M)D for a bit less than two years, so I missed out on the olden days of really cheap stuff, but I've heard the tales. Even in my limited time though, they've gone from one collaboration being offered to...what? A dozen, or something pretty close, with the Mordax hopefully on its way and then indefinitely available like the others; and that Persian-bladed, micarta-scaled piece in the works too, which I've no doubt will be retained as an ongoing offering. The only collaboration Ive seen that didn't become a permanent product--excepting the SG2 Spydercos, which weren't true collaborations but rather Spyderco exclusives--has been the Perpetua, produced by Millit. And I'm certain that was intended to be an ongoing, or at least repeatedly offered product; when it first was announced there was language being used like, " we're excited to have an American-made knife being added to our product line-up."
So (M)D's strategy for selling knives is clearly to push their own products and not worry too much about the other stuff. Occasionally they'll have good deals, like the Kizer Roach offered right now, but that's very, very much the exception. However, I think this strategy makes sense: I'm sure the profit margin is higher for a collab product than for a comparably priced non-collab; the exclusivity builds brand loyalty and is a good way to generate word-of-mouth buzz for the company; having all their blade products connected to well-known custom makers reinforces that sense of exclusivity and builds prestige; and lastly but not least I'm sure, selling their own collab knives means not having to negotiate terms of sale with intransigent companies who won't budge on MSRP and have a million rules for which of their products can be sold by whom, and it what amount (coughcoughSpydercocough).
Without commenting on how good or bad this might be for customers and simply looking at it from the perspective of the business, this seems like a sound strategy to me. Even if the overall volume of sales decreases, profit per unit is much better (again, just a guess but one that I'd bet a lot on), and the whole process is probably streamlined and cheaper. At the very least, I'm sure some headaches are saved by having to involve another business (save for We, or another manufacturer, but they're not part of the customer sales end of things).
bdpfJust came to say the exact same thing...
Was excited to see this one, very interested in copper accents...but i can get every model here way cheaper and shipped in days instead of weeks.
There's no point joining this drop, for US buyers at least
Edit : Artisan deals have never been spectacular here, but yeah, this seems even worse than previous ones