>>525288> > they are needless additional operations that cost money and provide no profit.>> Providing no function isn't the same as providing no profit, sadly.There is no denying that putting holes in the blade (via EDM or water-jet) are additional operations and as an employee is going to have to do that, it costs Buck Knives X amount of money to do so per blade.
Now I suppose it's possible that someone, somewhere based their decision to buy that blade because of the holes, but that one-in-a-million (retarded) buyer nowhere near makes up for the cost of including the holes.
They could sell just as many (if not more) of those blades by not including the holes.
The only justification I can think of, is if the holes were done as a copyright measure, as some third-world manufacturer looking to scam Buck Knives with a cheeper knoclk-off, (Buck wants +/- $100 for one) probably wouldn't bother including the completely useless holes.
