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Great collection of knives and steels 🤩 i see you like modding, are most of the scales from AWT?


Most, yes - but i dislike the change he made to ergonomics on the Manix and Native. A few of them are ...

All of the ones i have right now

Is it realistic to hope for a DLC-coated blackout G10 Native 5 Salt in the foreseeable future now that the lineup has the Manix 2 and XL slated for release? i sure wouldn't mind adding one to my daily driver collection.

If the colour doesn't matter to you, i have 15V brown, GPK Rex 45 white, Salt yellow and BHQ M4 mint you may take your pick from

PM2 G10 Salt just back in stock and currently on its way.
i've been waiting on this one since June

My absolute favourite in a vacuum is Vanax, but in the real world it's CruWear or MagnaCut. i use knives very unkindly and these two are very capable of tolerating it and then easily stropping back. Favourite high edge retention S90V.

Grade 1 would be good best bet due to its softer, more malleable nature
Avoid 6Al4V (grade 5)

i was quite bitter about this when i saw the video on YT as i bought mine when it first dropped for the full $300

Red Leader wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 26, 2025 9:39 pm

Native 5
Manix 2
PM2
Para 3

Same list for me

i hated Spyderco design, how they all looked the same... Then i got a Native in CruWear and loved it. Then i got another Native in MagnaCut. Then a few Manixes. Then a Shaman. Then a Para 3. Then a PM2. Then another Shaman. Then a Dragonfly. Needless to say, i have twenty-some Spyderco knives at ...

i am late to the party here, but after getting a Shaman in S90V, i am hopeful there will be another distributor run of S90V, particularly a PM 2 and a Para 3. It's up there with 10V in my halo steel echelon.
Edit typo

With a PM2, Para 3 and hopefully soon a Manix 2 Salt in black G10, i hope Spyderco gives us a DLC Native, too

Where's the Native 5 Salt DLC? i'm hurt

i'd buy a Manix 2 or a Native 5 in Elmax - i'd buy them both

@matthewkuhl Just to be clear you mean on the cage itself, not on the backspacer?


The cage is the plastic part the ball sits in. The backspacer is the lanyard barrel. The ball guide is what you have to modify. There is a groove in it the ball bearing rides in - this is what youy have to grind ...

So many exciting variants on the horizon!

Ruudr wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 28, 2024 2:30 pm

Can you elaborate on this? Curious of what you mean exactly.

Remove material from the spring/bearing guide along its top (where the ball groove is). It doesn't take very much to do the trick.

i'm hoping to get a Shaman and a Manix 2 in DLC CruWear if anyone does a dealer exclusive of these again

My solution was actually grinding the cage to allow the bearing to engage more fully. Takes about 15 seconds on the belt sander and i do it to all my Manixes, LW or liner

During the week, a Native on my left and a Manix on my right
Steels vary