The handle contours are very close and most importantly the aluminum heads are exactly the same profiles. The new Quark is certainly built in the Nomic's image. Many will have a the option of even more/better choices for their own use by having the new all around Quark and the even more technical (than the Nomic) new Ergo available. The Nomic may be worth the wait for some but easy to over look the more durable and likely a better all around tool, the Quark. More than a few waiting for the new Nomic. (I don't know of anything new coming along for 2011-2012) Hard to justify new tools at full price at the tail end of your season not knowing what will be available next year. But wasn't able to get my own pair until the week before I left for Chamonix in late March. For may folks in the warmer parts of the US the ice season was winding down by that time.the tools were available again. I played with a pair at the Bozeman Icefest. The issues with the new Nomic and Ergo appeared and for one reason or another even the unaffected Quarks weren't available in large numbers again until mid Feb. Hardly new now as the first tools showed up here in the States back in Oct/Nov.
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