As I recall a wide chamfer on the spine was also Ed Schempp's theory on his Blade Sports Cutting Competition knife. It would be interesting to create an experiment to tests the merits.
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- Fri Dec 05, 2025 12:10 pm
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: Mule Team XL?
- Replies: 211
- Views: 18609
- Sat Nov 22, 2025 11:49 am
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: Need some input
- Replies: 49
- Views: 3232
Re: Need some input
Here's what the fashion industry thinks:
https://www.polagoclothing.com/blogs/news/trending-colors-in-fashion-what-to-wear-this-season?srsltid=AfmBOoriVKJxyr5ZzwVDiEVSidVk8vVXcL2-J0PE6hkEuetLnDU2R-DI
https://www.polagoclothing.com/blogs/news/trending-colors-in-fashion-what-to-wear-this-season ...
https://www.polagoclothing.com/blogs/news/trending-colors-in-fashion-what-to-wear-this-season?srsltid=AfmBOoriVKJxyr5ZzwVDiEVSidVk8vVXcL2-J0PE6hkEuetLnDU2R-DI
https://www.polagoclothing.com/blogs/news/trending-colors-in-fashion-what-to-wear-this-season ...
- Sat Oct 25, 2025 11:08 am
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: Numbers and letters on blade
- Replies: 6
- Views: 484
Re: Numbers and letters on blade
113 is one of our collector's club numbers and the 'V' is for variant. We originally had six collector number when the club started, but were persuaded to give up two. Our numbers are 60, 72, 112, and 113. We received four of every knife that Spyderco makes.
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- Sat Oct 11, 2025 8:45 am
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: 8Cr Alternative
- Replies: 40
- Views: 2395
Re: 8Cr Alternative
To the best of my knowledge, Takefu has an agreement (many years ago) with Japanese cutlery makers not to ship VG-10 to China. That does not stop China steel foundries and Chinese makers from using Chinese made counterfeit VG-10 (or just lying entirely about the steel). This practice has been going ...
- Thu Oct 09, 2025 8:49 am
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: Old Leafstorm Stripped Scale Screw - Spyderco Repair an option?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 369
Re: Old Leafstorm Stripped Scale Screw - Spyderco Repair an option?
Perhaps a competent gunsmith or machine shop would be able to repair.
- Thu Oct 09, 2025 8:25 am
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: Native 5 - Back Lock Quality Issues
- Replies: 37
- Views: 3310
Re: Native 5 - Back Lock Quality Issues
Ever think to contact and return to the "reputable seller"? Perhaps they should have inspected it prior to sending it to you. You could ask the dealer for a return label as they apparently never looked at the knife. Just picked, packed, and shipped.
- Tue Oct 07, 2025 7:46 am
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: Spyderco kitchen knife block
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1699
- Fri Oct 03, 2025 11:55 am
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: The Pocket Hobbit
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2613
Re: The Pocket Hobbit
Here is the patent:
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/48/f9/c2/9bfbc612444580/US5685079.pdf
The patent was sold to Benchmade in the early 2000s. They renamed it the InDraft system. As I recall they only used it in two Mel Pardue design knives, the Ambush and Mini Ambush. They were made in ...
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/48/f9/c2/9bfbc612444580/US5685079.pdf
The patent was sold to Benchmade in the early 2000s. They renamed it the InDraft system. As I recall they only used it in two Mel Pardue design knives, the Ambush and Mini Ambush. They were made in ...
- Thu Oct 02, 2025 9:53 am
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: Temperance 2... in 15v?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 10329
Re: Temperance 2... in 15v?
Here is a photo from Spyderco Source:
https://spydercosource.com/2010/10/spyderco-challif-kosher-butching-knife-k10/
Obviously, some of the information needs to be corrected, but at least we can see what it looked like. I remember selling them, but not to Kosher rabbis.
I did make six challifs ...
https://spydercosource.com/2010/10/spyderco-challif-kosher-butching-knife-k10/
Obviously, some of the information needs to be corrected, but at least we can see what it looked like. I remember selling them, but not to Kosher rabbis.
I did make six challifs ...
- Wed Oct 01, 2025 1:27 pm
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: Temperance 2... in 15v?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 10329
Re: Temperance 2... in 15v?
Wasn't MRS-30 the steel Al Mar used in 1979 in his inaugural line and that he called RS-30? Isn't (wasn't) MRS-30 made exclusively for Masahiro by Daido like MBS-26? I just sharpened a vintage RS-30 Al Mar for a customer last week ... great steel! To the best of my knowledge, Al Mar was the second ...
- Fri Sep 26, 2025 1:03 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Masters of Defense CQD: a knife of its time
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3964
Re: Masters of Defense CQD: a knife of its time
Hi Mike:
Thank you for filling in the gaps of Masters of Defence's history and for your integrity for this legacy brand and all you do.
Best,
brian
Thank you for filling in the gaps of Masters of Defence's history and for your integrity for this legacy brand and all you do.
Best,
brian
- Wed Sep 17, 2025 7:49 am
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: Wooden spyderco
- Replies: 5
- Views: 873
Re: Wooden spyderco
To the best of my knowledge, these are the only two that have been produced:
https://spyderco.com/products/spyderco-wooden-knife-kit
https://spyderco.com/products/spyderco- ... 3124028460
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https://spyderco.com/products/spyderco-wooden-knife-kit
https://spyderco.com/products/spyderco- ... 3124028460
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- Sat Sep 13, 2025 8:20 am
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: Just got a new old one: Lum Tanto, circa 2001.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2237
Re: Just got a new old one: Lum Tanto, circa 2001.
As a matter of history, Bob Lum created an entirely new cutlery genre and blade pattern. He took certain design elements of Japanese long swords (katana and wakizashi, principally their unique chisel-like point (kissaki) and put them on a fighting knife. He then curved the blade upwards to give it ...
- Wed Aug 27, 2025 7:31 am
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: Sterile ATS-34 Police Model
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1467
Re: Sterile ATS-34 Police Model
As I recall, Jeff Loffer of Cutlery Shoppe was the one who ordered the full SpyderEdge Titanium version.
https://forum.spyderco.com/viewtopic.php?t=18660
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/c07ti-police-model-titanium.515973/
https://forum.spyderco.com/viewtopic.php?t=356
https://www.spydiewiki ...
https://forum.spyderco.com/viewtopic.php?t=18660
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/c07ti-police-model-titanium.515973/
https://forum.spyderco.com/viewtopic.php?t=356
https://www.spydiewiki ...
- Tue Aug 26, 2025 7:29 am
- Forum: Mule Team Discussion
- Topic: Tungsten Carbide Mule
- Replies: 31
- Views: 22297
- Tue Aug 19, 2025 2:18 pm
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: foil paper wrapping on old C02
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2177
Re: foil paper wrapping on old C02
Always reminded me of the foil wrapper that Wrigley's used for their chewing gum.
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- Tue Aug 19, 2025 2:11 pm
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: Did Spyderco introduce "Super Steel"?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 5653
Re: Did Spyderco introduce "Super Steel"?
I remember a line called Rugged that was made in Japan in the late 1980s for the Remington (Shavers) Cutlery store chain that had "ATS-36" steel on the blade tang! Just advertizing foolery. https://www.ebay.com/itm/177179318457
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- Tue Aug 19, 2025 10:53 am
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: FRN strength testament(s)
- Replies: 37
- Views: 4284
Re: FRN strength testament(s)
FYI, based upon my research and written up in the January 2025's Spyder byte, "In 1981, Pete Gerber of Gerber knives commissioned legendary knife designer Blackie Collins to create the LST (Light, Smooth, Tough). Based on Gerber’s best-selling Folding Sportsman I design, the LST was first produced ...
- Mon Jul 28, 2025 8:01 am
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: 154CM - 64HRC - Any Experience?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1868
Re: 154CM - 64HRC - Any Experience?
Many cutlery manufacturers under hardened their steels as a matter of economy more so than ignorance. I have been told that if one lowers the hardness by a point or two from the optimum, grinding wheel wear (and other abrasives and tooling) is dramatically reduced which decreases the cost (increases ...
- Thu Jul 24, 2025 10:09 am
- Forum: Spyderco General Discussion
- Topic: SE performance is more than simply teeth vs no teeth.
- Replies: 1134
- Views: 402455
Re: SE performance is more than simply teeth vs no teeth.
Here's my current favorite from Jarlink that I use when sharpening straight razors:
https://www.amazon.com/stores/JARLINK/p ... BF4272D1EF
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https://www.amazon.com/stores/JARLINK/p ... BF4272D1EF
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