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@Sal, Thank you for supporting, monitoring, and participating in discussion (throughout the years and throughout the community). Thank you for supporting our troops and first responders. @bearfacedkiller, Very concisely stated. Maybe it is only us, the people, that can fix this but I don’t think tha...

Spyderco's got to keep up with inflation, just like the rest of us! I reckon these price increases are mostly painful when you don't get a raise at your job. May you all get a nice raise and keep up with MAP in 2021 :cool: Since getting into knives (around 2016), my average annual pay increase as b...

I would love to see a new colaboration with Ed Schempp.

Fantastic knife. I’ve used mine in the kitchen a bit—mostly before I got some decent dedicated kitchen knives. It’s a little too broad for a parring knife and too short for a chef’s knife. I see mine as a great EDC that’ll work for kitchen duties in a pinch, and I won’t have to stress over clean up ...

All of Spyderco’s scales are really well done.
I would have to say they are the quintessential masters of FRN and polished G10.

I wouldn’t have guessed bearings.

I have a Lionsteel M4 and M5 fixed blade, and only the M5 has the smallest of gaps at the front of the right side scale, which I never even noticed until now as it does not affect function. The tang of both is prowed with respect to the scales, so I don't know if this is the gap you are referring t...

I am very impressed with the quality of the the Spyderco fixed blades I own or have fondled. They are very, very good. The street price is still hard for me to handle. The ones I own, I’ve picked up at a discount (but that’s true with the majority of my knives). It’s just an assumption, but I imagin...

I kick myself almost daily for not grabbing a Southfork while they were readily available.
CPM154 seems like it would be a great steel for a reissue.

I’ve had similar experiences with my Southard. Call me crazy, but something also caused the plastic bearing retainers to swell to the point they would not rotate freely in their pockets. I had to sand down the outer margin of the retainers so they would spin freely, and the action went back to normal.

It’s the only PM2 I own.
I found the factory edge chipped real easy.
I reprofiled it with a 17°convex (and later with an 18° KME). Never any problems after the first sharpening.

It’s my go-to work knife and I use it hard. Holds a great edge.

Too late to put in my 3? #1. The Southard. It was my first grail knife. I love the blade shape & grind. The edges are perfectly melted. The stonewash on the blade and lock side scale is impeccable. I even find the asymmetry endearing. Mine is still flipping great, in spite of the wonky washers. #2. ...

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Sat Jul 04, 2020 10:48 am

That looks really well done.

I’ve done some mockups of widening the access hole the way did. Screwing up the finish has held me back from moving forward.

Did you leave the cutout bare Ti, or did you refinish it somehow?

I just found out about OpsFocus two years ago, after most of my Spyderco collection had already been collected. Nevertheless, I’m super honored & humbled that Sal & Co. offer the program. As you probably already know, one enrolls online with a credentials verification. I’ve noticed that new releases...

I’ve had my Delica 1 since about 1992.
It was out of my league as a poor college student, but I had to have it!
It’s still a nice knife and in some ways I prefer it to the Delica 4.

I’m a small fish.

I have 3 Southards, 2 brown & 1 black.
I have 3 Delicas: a D1 SE, an orange D4 and a D4 in V-toku 2.

If your Chef was sentered before disassembly, I think Extra330sc might be correct in suggesting something isn’t quite reassembled correctly. With my Southard I had difficulties with the keyed pivot. With another knife I had a back spacer that wasn’t aligning correctly. On some knives the stop pin is...

I’m on both sides of this one. As far as bright goes, I really like the orange FRN as seen in the Delica, DF, etc. I’m not a fan of the Salt yellow FRN aesthetically, but it serves it’s purpose. With earth tones, I really like the blue-gray of the V-Toku run. It’s very much grown on me. The brown FR...

Spyderco Southard: Perhaps my favorite knife ever! It bothers me that it has paper thin washers for bearing races! My sample still functions well, but I can’t help but think the washers are a time bomb. I love everything else about the knife. Yes, that includes the clip, asymmetric scales, and othe...

The Rhino still rolls through my rotation. Each time it does, I’m reminded of how useful it is. Like others, it was kind of an impulse buy. It was a good impulse.