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The Shaman has a great design and I'm happy to see them release more knives with different handles than their bread-and-butter flat panels of (peel ply?) super grippy G10, but why with the price and still S30V?
If they had released the Shaman as some kind of weirdo steel testbed in the way that the Mule is and the Sage is a lock showcasing platform it would be way cooler. Imagine if you could choose between S110V, M390, CruWear, and M4 as the regular production options for the Shaman, now that would be a more compelling $200 knife.
You an get into better steel at half this cost. You can get much more intricately milled g10 for a quarter this price.
$200 for g10 and s30v is freaking insulting. But as long as the die hard spyderco fans keep buying them........ 🙄
I understand that the grip is probably overpriced too, but the hypocrisy is fairly thick. Both American made, similar length, full steel liners, machined g10 but the grip has far better steel and warranty.
Spyderco takes a bath on design costs for some of their weird knives, so I think I understand why they priced this the way they did. That said, if they'd put a bit more trust in this design (the way they do with the PM2 and Native, basically keeping the price as low as possible to move inventory) I think it could take over the place of the Military.
Massdrop, at the same time, has missed a chance to push Spyderco with an exclusive sprint run. I don't know if it'd sell out 600 pieces at $250 in super steel/CF, but surely it'd sell better than this is going to. If they did the Massdrop thing we're actually here for and got an exclusive super steel sprint down to $195 (that's what the blurple military goes for), is there any enthusiast who would really pass it up? Now imagine if they could get half a run with micarta scales...
Bring on the collabs, sprints, mid-year updates and exclusives. Seriously, it would have made perfect sense for me to have ordered my Paysan from MD...