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There are definitely materials from nature that we haven’t (yet) been able to surpass with synthetic alternatives. Leather and wood, in particular. But mankind has Mother Nature beat at the abrasives game. Novaculite crystals in an Arkansas stone can vary a LOT in size, while a factory stone will ty...

It’s one of the few knives that have come out since I started collecting that I really regret missing. Generally I can console myself that something just as good is as close as the next reveal.

No purchases but SPY27.

It’s like when you order a milkshake and they bring you the extra portion in the metal shaker.

I have been using the RockJumper SE for a month or two, and I definitely haven’t had any problems from carrying a knife so biased toward pull cuts.

And yeah: bring back the Air. Or a similar Gayle Bradley gent’s design. I’m always agitating for a model with the bolster lock he’s used on some of his custom gents’ knives.

The Bradley Air is very close to perfection to me. The thing that keeps it from perfection is the thin liner-lock, which became worn out on my first one resulting in blade play. This was after a lot of fidgeting, because I loved the thing so much. I bought a new one and had burlap micarta scales ma...

SPY27, 4V, and of course CruWear all hold interest for me, but I’m unlikely to buy another Military until the one I have wears out.

kobold wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 28, 2020 8:57 am

The only correct answer is bacon.

This is true for so many questions.

Evil D wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 24, 2020 4:09 pm

I was just fiddling with my Rock Jumper, it has zero side play but does have a bit of up and down or lock rock whatever you'd call it.

Mine is dead steady.

What I ended up doing was a pinch grip with the blade and my left thumb in the hole and a sharp and short downward motion. The momentum snapped the handle into place. I'm sure there's a term for that type of opening that I'm unaware of. Oh yes, I see. I can't remember what it's called either but I'...

Pajama knife!

I just don’t get why you’d take one of the most corrosion resistant steels out there and then put a tan coating on it. If it were a black knife, I might buy that it blends in at night. But desert tan? That’s just a way to lose your knife in a sandbox.

To me, there is a definite change in the feel of FRN between two knives that I bought 5-10 years ago and the Rockjumper I got a few weeks back. The newer stuff feels less yielding, and as OP says, the nylon itself has some slight texture, aside from what gets injection molded into it. Basically, I’d...

Certainly for me, I find that an undulated edge works better than one that is genuinely serrated. I wonder if calculus can determine the ideal curvature. Should have stuck with math longer in high school.

There seems to be an error in the section discussing Spyderco’s historical obsession with blade steel: Spyderco’s obsession with blade steel goes back almost 40 years to our very first production knives. At that time, most knife companies were content with the stainless steels that were readily avai...

Go thin, young man. If Ankerson can stretch 4mm out to nearly 7 inches of blade (and tall blade, to boot), on a knife that’s plainly intended for serious tasks, you can go down to 2mm at 3.5, no problem at all. Unless you’re still using a steel that’s soft enough that edges will roll if the blade’s ...

Let’s get some other models first.

Depends on the rhythm of the sentence.

So for instance:

Spyderco CaRIBbean

Pirates of the CaribBEan

That smaller knife looks fantastic.