Hey everyone - a huge shoutout to all the Snarf backers who were able to pop by the booth at the Texas Blade Show and handle our Snarf prototypes! It was so cool getting to meet some of you folks in person and we hope we'll be able to do the same at Blade Show Atlanta. If you've never been, I highly recommend attending Blade Show not only to see a gagillion amazing knives, but more importantly to meet the amazing folks behind the knives. Hands down, our favorite thing about the knife community is the people, and that's on full display at the Blade Show events.
We got this shot just before going to the ER - We totally forgot to get any photos at our booth during the event! 🤘😅
This was me at the ER after the metal tabs on our display lights sliced my finger wide open!
So in short, if you can make a Blade Show, we encourage you to do so. We'd love to meet you and we promise that most Blade Show evenings don't end with an ER trip!
Speaking of Snarf at Blade Show, I've been in talks with Laura at Scikio (our OEM) and we're still cooking on Snarf production. Currently Frank and his team at DreamTech (the factory Scikio is working with to make Snarf) are working on the Blade Grabblers (yes, that's the actual name of what holds the blades). Man that was a lot of parenthetical statements. Anyone else think primarily in footnotes? 🤘😅
So things are moving along, but Laura did mention to me today that there might be some value in taking the extra step to get some production samples since we have so many models this time around. In the past the most models we've ever done at one time was two, and now we have 12 Snarf variants. So I'm asking her to find out how much time that might add to production because I'm of the mind that we only get to make it right once and there's no going back, so if it's not going to slow things down too much it would probably be worth getting some production samples in hand. So I'll let you know more on that once I hear back from her.
If you've got any thoughts on the matter we're open for suggestions as well. We're also looking for a platform to allow us to get feedback on designs prior to us releasing them via preorders, so if you'd be interested in being part of the R&D team for AKT, we're all ears about that as well!
We'll keep you in the loop as we get closer to the finish line, but in the meantime thank you all so much for helping bring Snarf to life!
