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Today I tried to sign up for OpFocus Program and I didn’t finish the application because at some point ID.me asked to provide my social security number. I thought this is ridiculous, why do I have to give my ssn in order to complete my application? Members of OpFocus please let me know if you had t...

MetalsHead wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 25, 2024 8:19 pm

This happens when you don't allow internet devices into the conference room!

Now there’s an idea.

Attention Spyderco Marketing! I would buy any Spydie, especially a Salt, that you named Boaty McBoatface. I don’t think that name was actually taken.

My interest has waned not one bit.

… so an enlarged lightweight keychain knife vs a miniature field knife. I have both but prefer the miniature field knife. Grip is more comfortable to me, especially when I need to deliver real force to its thicker blade. EDIT TO ADD: Moreover, I like having a slipjoint-alternative for restricted pl...

Unsettling to me is the idea that Ken Onion’s “custom” (photo above) might be the Ferrari that Keating wanted Spyderco to make. I now have the “Ford F150” Chinook, Chinook2, and Chinook4. I like them all but favor the 2, perhaps because it just arrived. Compared to them, the “custom” is an eyesore t...

Don’t forget the C160 Foundry, which is sort of an homage to CTS. It has XHP blade-steel. Of the four Taichung-produced Slysz-designs, only the SpydieChef does not have XHP. I have Slysz’s Techno and SwayBack. I also have a sprint-run Manix2 in XHP, as well as a number of Chaparrals in XHP. I bother...

I’m thinking particularly of the Sage2, which, IMO, needs a steel insert on the titanium lockbar so the knife can be a user without worry about wear on the lockbar. The wear on mine is almost 100%. I wouldn't disagree about bringing back the Sage 2 with a steel insert. My daily carry is a Sage 2 bu...

Still grateful.

I’m happy with the prospect of further steel offerings beyond REX121 in the Sage5, but would prefer the Sage6 and after to return to S30V and new locks. Which locks they should be I am content to be surprised. Any repeat of earlier Sages would have CQI, I hope. I’m thinking particularly of the Sage2...

A quintessential Spydie? I’d say the one with a hole in the blade. You’re welcome. Now you can’t make the wrong choice. Sal’s designs, Eric’s, MJ’s, Ed’s and other Glesserized collaborators, all of them, are fair game. All you need to do is match a Spydie model to your particular need and price-tole...

THG wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 26, 2024 3:41 pm

wrdwrght wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 26, 2024 3:32 pm

It remains a mystery to me why neither 3V nor 4V has been offered in a Manix.

There is the St. Nick's sprint in 4V

I’d forgotten that. I have been disregarding coated blades forever. That may change now that Eric is teasing us with an in-house concoction.

One thing that always feels a little off with regard to the comp lock is the somewhat unnatural way I have to pinch the knife with basically just my fingertipps when disengaging the lock. When disengaging a liner lock the contact area is much greater since the knife kind of rests on the phalanxes o...

It remains a mystery to me why neither 3V nor 4V has been offered in a Manix.

Manixguy@1994 wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:31 am

I enjoy mine as much as the day I opened the box , changed clip and put in my pocket . Feel the same with my original C95 . MG2

Same here, regarding both.

Ultralighters and miniaturists, avert your eyes!

Matt, glad you fleshed-in all the predictive AI I vaguely meant in my reference to “algorithms”. Very scary.

Scarier still is that far too many of us are moths to a flame.

raygixxer89 wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 24, 2024 8:50 pm

I have two coming in: Jumpmaster2 SE in H1, and an Enuff2 in VG10 w/SE. Both from REC. Are they a reputable company? Posting in a thread that's 10 years running!

REC is as good as the models you’ve ordered.

Each is a winner, I think you will agree.

Thanks, Sal, for shedding some light on some decisions that Spyderco has taken. Reasonable and reassuring, as usual.

No interest here.

It seems like Spyderco has given up on introducing new handle materials which was one of the original missions of the Chaparral line. The last Chaparral with a new handle material was Birdseye Maple which was at dealers in January 2021. Perhaps like the Sage line, we’ll soon end up with just FRN sc...