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People talk a lot about metallurgy when it comes to toughness and edge retention, but geometry is just as important. This new geometry ensures optimal toughness. For those that demand a hard use folder, that edge will be unlikely to chip while also maintaining sharpness exactly as it came from the ...

I'd love a shirt with that "All God's Critters Have Knives" line with the big owl on it.

Any other cool ads/posters/shirts you'd like to see again?

Absolutely wonderful looking knife. Gonna have to wait for a dealer/distributor variant that goes for less than the base model, though. That is a serious chunk of change. I know it was, like, 30 years ago, but the Bodacious costs as much as the Sebenza when it came out. And Enduras were, what, $35 ...

It's for thumb ramp haters, liner haters, thin blade stock haters, etc. Also, people that want US-made, or a finger choil.

Personally, none of those are deal breakers, and I prefer the compactness of a Delica... but it is good to have options.

I love the Delica, but the non-knife people I've shown ...

vivi wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 14, 2024 4:22 pm

this 8Cr knife is the only one I've used that performs as good as my 8Cr spydies

https://files.catbox.moe/5kan7b.jpg

Other companies seem to run it softer. Always feels more prone to burring outside of my Byrd/Spyderco/CS knives.

Never realized the SR1 Lite looks like a tactical Counter Puppy.

Synov wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 06, 2024 8:43 pm

It's smooth as silk.... Spyder Sylk!

nice

I think every steel ever should be offered in the Ladybug. More realistically, maybe the UKPK.

420HC? Ladybug.

ATS-34? Ladybug.

CPM-9000V UltraSuperMega? Ladybug.

Mithril? Ladybug.

Magnacut? Naturally, Ladybug.

I didn't realize BBB didn't have a metallurgy background. I really appreciate autodidactic folks carving out a niche. Makes me wonder why he brute-forced so much research on 15v in particular. Was it that 15v has unique properties in this regard, or was there a breakthrough in heat treatment more ...

I ask myself that same question every time I use a Seki back lock. Which is about 1-3 times a day. They're the vast majority of my Spydies.

I love the Seki lineup for being: affordable(ish), slim, ergonomic, grippy, colorful, lightweight, made of H2 and/or K390. I do not love the lock rock. But, it ...

Nice video. The new Tenacious almost buries the lede. That Rex121 Sage looks awesome. As does the 15V Manix LW, but I am disappointed it is another limited run.

I wonder if there is any way to know more about what maker they're using for the D2 Tenacious. I've been wanting to try out TwoSun for ...

I’d like to see Spyderco use Black 4.0 - if it’s really as fragile as vantablack is, perhaps it could be used as a base color with a clear polycarbonate or resin coating…or gorilla glass or whatever Apple put in their older flagship iPhones that was durable enough to be the entire back side of the ...

It'd be a good chance to try that Magnacut everyone's talking about. Especially in UKP form. Sub-$100 for the current Big Thing would be pretty tempting

If I'm going to carry a tank of a knife I want a full sized handle and blade.



Wonder if Spyderco would ever consider "Bodacious-ize-ing" the Manixes, deleting the choil, and bringing the edge right up to the handle...


Good idea. The Modacious? The Bonix? "Bodanix" sounds like medication ...

Also, I'll be heterodox and say "other". What about a kris pattern? Maximize edge length for a tiny knife. It'd more or less be for the sake of novelty, but it would be cool.

Also also, I've never really understood the harpoon thing. Maybe if the shelf/ ramp thing was way closer to the tip as a ...

I might just be lacking imagination here, but a "big belly skinner" seems like it would be difficult to fit into the handle. Now that I think about it, really any shape with a more upward tip seems difficult.

The Vosteed Mayhem is evidently using a button actuated compression lock. It appears similar to a Smock.



Not a terrible looking knife. They claim that their new "patent-pending" lock is a hybrid of "insert-liner lock" and Compression Lock. I've never heard of the company, so I read up on ...

Interesting how modern the knife looks. Then again, 300 BCE is practically yesterday when you think about how some species of ancient human were using edged tools 3 million years ago.

5,000 years from now someone with a shovel will find the remnants of a modern folding knife. A corroded chunk of ...

Cat was my wife's first Spyderco. She carries a Dragonfly or a Delica mostly now, but still takes the Cat out occasionally.

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Their Spyderco prices are a little inflated and selection is limited, but with this, prices are decent on higher end ...

Something to consider is what steels the factory will work with. If it is the same factory that makes the Chinese value folders. the options are 8Cr, M4, S35VN, and BD1N.

I've never owned S35VN (somehow!), but I like all the other steels just fine. I'd like a BD1N variant if it could keep the ...