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I have been saying this for awhile and it is either unread or easily forgotten. https://forum.spyderco.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=87792&p=1459586&hilit=Moran+lc200n#p1459586 Considering LC200n is better than one of the most popular steels for hunting knives, A2 steel, it seems to be a no brainer to me....

Please Sal and Eric, hoping (and praying) that it will be put into queue for production. We can be patient as long as there is a confirmation that it will be back. :D In 2023 the hip new thing will be folders with solid carbide TiAlN-coated blades and graphene-impregnated scales. Cutting anything w...

There are plenty of craftsmen who take apart, repair, and rebuild traditional slip joint knives. I'm fairly certain a stainless handled Spyderco could be taken apart and put back together by a skilled person.

My natural distrust makes me lean towards a proto that made it out the doors somehow.

Just a quick phone snap at a famous amusement park.

Sounds like it might have been a custom blade swap? Who knows, maybe it was some prototype lifted from the factory? I remember Sal saying there was a not so good person who used to work there in the past.

Great rundown by Zrow, thanks for that.

By adding the Gritomatic universal stone holder to the KME, you can greatly expand the stones available to you. It supports longer stones, but there is going to be limit based on the geometry of the clamp to rod guide distance.

Rivian Pickup truck, solar array for free charging, and a biodiesel generation plant for the generator needed for the really long journeys. Biodiesel could be done away with once small scale hydrogen storage cells arrive.

Bleach and UV from sunlight will damage the handle material. To what degree I do not know, but color change indicated damage.

Does it still have that ridiculously thick blade? If so, then it is far from perfect. It could have been perfect, but no.

Yes, I did and color me surprised.

I'm leaning towards a custom or a custom re-handled knife. The only Spyderco with a stainless handle and a reverse S blade is the Cricket. Looking a Cold Steel's Talon & Talon II, neither came in a stainless handle. We are left with few options if it was not a custom of some sort, OP misremembered t...

Material defect in the screw, it happens. If it were me, I'd source a screw elsewhere after extracting the broken piece.

Look up Landi. Hand made in (IIRC) PA, micarta / wood / g10 scale options, kydex or leather sheaths, with the steels heat treated to 61rc for great edge holding. Commonly uses A2, 1095 and 154CM. I've never paid over $100 for one of his knives. https://www.collectorknives.net/product-category/landi...

This is a targeted purchased based on Vivi's thread about the CS SRK in SK5. I was about to order one, then I thought to myself "I wonder if there are US made knives in that price range?" And here we are. I already have higher prices fixed blades, but I want to see what I'm missing in the much more ...

There were exclusives in Cruwear for the Para 2, Para3, Manix 2, and Native 5. Any of these are the most likely "nexts" in the line, if Spyderco decides to expand it. That said, even though I have little interest in one and still vote for the Native, maybe the Military would make the most impact?

I understand Case uses 1095CV, same as Kabar and several other manufacturers. It is probably the most used steel for affordable fixed blade knives, even in the 21 century.

Scaled up to a full sized knife keeping the same proportions? That would be no from me. It would have a 1/2" think blade and be too heavy. Now, a larger knife in the same family as the Techno, sharing the same design language could be interesting. Doesn't the designer already have a design?

I have one Military and do not need another in any flavor. I have many Natives, and can always use another.

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For me it was a close thing between the Native family and the Manix family. I voted Native 5, FWIW.