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Originally Posted by Cathar
I guess it's like people with expensive watches. A gold wrist-band doesn't make it tell the time any better, but hey, it looks nice.
A gain is a gain, no matter how small. I always believe myself that it's a waste to use silver on any design where there was significantly more left to gain through better design. Using silver on a poorly performing design to get more performance is truly a tragic waste of the precious metal. That's like having that solid gold wrist-band on a $5 made-in-china watch mechanism that loses 5 minutes a day.
Sure it's "wank appeal", but people will do what they want, and obtain what they want, whether any of us approve or not.
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My reply is pretty much summed up in my last post. I am probably more practical than most but I do not see spending an extra $100+ for 0C to 1C gain even in my most liberal state. If I were to be so inclined it certainly would not be a sterling block based on a poor (extremely outdated) design to start with such as the one in question here. Why doesn't Danger Den bring back the Maze 1 in silver and add an extra $100 bill to the tag?
Agreed though, If your going to buy a silver block then at least get a GOOD designed silver block made of pure silver. Common sense should prevail even over impracticality but to many these days take the advertizers word has the holy grail.