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Just got an alert from eBay that a seller with 99.9% positive feedback will have more than 10 Chaparrals available 12-13 September at $174.95. Any fire in this smoke?

Not contradict, compliment. Yeah, they are both used to open, but a lot of knives have studs and a hole of a flipper and studs. Some with the flipper and a hole. Granted, most of the ones with studs use them as the stop pin, but the flipper also protects your fingers the same way a choil would, so ...

Not to be a killjoy, but doesn't a flipper contradict the Spyderhole's purpose?

I used to disdain non-locking folders, too. Then I bought my Urban (later stolen from me, causing me significant heartburn). The great thing about no lock is how easy it is to close the thing. As long as the knife is set up in a way where such closure won't happen accidentally (and Spyderco is pret...

The Deacon wrote:Just to keep the record straight, Spydiewiki is a wonderful resource, but I'm only one of the many contributors there, and a relatively minor one at that.

Important clarification. Thanks.

Have a look at The Deacon's Spydiewiki (http://www.spydiewiki.com/index.php?title=SKU).

You've doubtless made your choice by now. For the next person to work in a garden center where NKP anxiety and rust are concerns, consider the C118 Saver Salt. Sizable but not pointy (although cuts that start with stabs may be an issue) in a happy yellow handle holding Spyderedged H1. It can be had ...

County Comm's tiny AAA Maratac hangs off the TEC clip in my left pocket (a Spydie hangs in the right one) along with some other EDC items. Being a flashaholic, I also carry/pack other LED lights in my Nitecore, Fenix, 4Sevens, LiteFlux and MagLite collection, as needed, but the Maratac, which can gi...

They're terrible at keeping confidences. No sooner are you in public than they call you to hear and feel their satisfying clicks, thus revealing to all your pathetic addiction...

A month ago, I got a titanium UKPK for travel in Italy. Until then, I thought I only wanted blades that truly locked. But the ingenious safety features of the UKPK have changed my mind. When I saw an orange G10 UKPK on eBay, I had to have it. I have been wanting this surprising color in my collectio...

I strongly prefer knives with a usable 50/50 choil and have reached the point where I hardly ever carry a knife which lacks one. Can't say I recall ever experiencing the "parachute" effect you mention. Definitely never had it happen with a Stretch, and I rarely use forward grip on them. O...

Pete2s wrote:I like optional choils but not mandatory choils.

By "mandatory", do you mean having your finger forced into the choil by a too-short handle (the Dragonfly does this to my hand), or do you mean having a choiled and non-choiled version of the same model?

I have enjoyed the bigness of my small foliage-green Dragonfly so much that I, too, am looking at a Salt version. I want more H1 than my Ladybug3 offers.

I, too, am a fan of choils. However, the pronounced stop of the jimped choil (where it meets the cutting edge on my Sages, Manix2s, Para2 and UKPK) sometimes catches line I want to cut. But better that, I say, than slicing my finger for want of a choil...

I have both, but prefer the Manix2. But I EDC a Sage (less a pocket hog) and wonder what will be when the Chaparral (even less a pocket hog) appears.

Have and admire both. Prefer the Manix2, but EDC a Sage and wonder what will be when the Chaparral comes out.

This horse is overmuch dead, no?

My BD30P is similarly "flawed", but so is my M4 and my XHP, that is, they are each a little rough at the pivot end. The spines and bellies are fine, except the spine past the lanyard hole on the BD30P may be a tad less smooth. For me, these imperfections hardly matter. The blades and their...

Michael Cook wrote: :spyder: Whoah! Obama did away with the fourth amendment? :spyder:

Is this a troll?

Your manix must be the M4 and not xhp. I usually buy for steels, funtionality and aesthetics. I love when all three criteria are met but sometimes I settle for just one of those. There is no logic only madness and madness knows no bounds. I have no way of justifying my purchases other than want. Qu...