There Are Pandas, and Then There Are Pandas.
And this isn't either of them! The Pandas we're talking about here, are watches, not bears. And what got me thinking about them (again) was a link posted this morning by @cm.rook who pointed a few of us to the very attractive (and not terribly priced) Yema "Rallygraph" Panda which, in it's most traditional arrangement, looks like the one on the left, but can also be had in the version on the right: The model on the left is a true Panda, while the model on the right is called a reverse Panda. The reason for that distinction is clear--Panda bears, only come in the first arrangement. Now at this point, everyone should be thinking about the most well-know Panda, The Rolex Panda, which is actually a Daytona, and among Rolex Daytonas, the most famous of which is the Paul Newman Daytona, which was famous first, because it was Paul's, and second because it sold at auction for $17.8 million (US Dollars). The story of that auction is well-known so I'll only...
Nov 8, 2019
Observation four: There isn't a lot of decent products on the market. Spyderco obviously. Benchmade has a few different options but they're the same thing that BladeHQ sells with their own logo for under $20. Boker has a couple knife carriers. Real Steel cobrands some with Antiwave that are pricy but actually my favorite of the lot. But the choices gets pretty slim after that. Observation five: First World Problems: when your knife collection grows, after a while you start wanting different options available for storage to help you keep your collection easily sortable, which is harder to do if you own a dozen Spyderpacs as they all look the same. Observation six: Drop has a design shop and at least on occasion has interns and they make things for storage. My question, which is probably obvious at this point: Why doesn't Drop offer a Drop logoed knife roll? Or am I the only one who'd buy a couple if they did?