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- JKM
www.chaicutlery.com
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Carving knife - 1 3/8"

Bread knife - 1"


- JKM
www.chaicutlery.com
Good tools to sustain life, or at least make life more convenient

Hmmm... bats... had this weird dream the other night where I was visiting somebody or other and they had this big pet bat and it was really affectionate and all the time trying to land on me, but it was ugly and scruffy and not at all like those southeast Asian fruit bats that are really good ...

The big Cook's knife - 1 3/4" (2" slot)

Larger Utility - 1 1/8"

Smaller Utility - 1"

Now I have to figure out what "safe place" I put my bread knife and carving knife boxes in! <i>Aaarrgghh! </i> Why do I do this to myself?!?!


- JKM
www.chaicutlery.com
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http://www.chaicutlery.com/mora/Eriksson1-Vorpal.jpg

Eriksson #1 - a $10 knife (probably $5 in a store in Sweden), mystery carbon steel, as-issued edge. Not quite in the same class as the Calypso Jr. or the Moki fixed blades for rubber band shredding, but very respectable nonetheless.

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Here's the URL to a fresh "R" scan.

http://www.chaicutlery.com/spyderco/R.jpg

Toothy and plain, "reflected" <img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle>

I suppose the fact that those were my initial "R" order and were still in the drawer for me to scan them is evidence for, or at least ...

And I get between six and a dozen pieces off a $10 Frosts of Sweden Model 840 carbon steel "Mora knife".


- JKM
www.chaicutlery.com
Good tools to sustain life, or at least make life more convenient

I did the rubber band test on a Moki Nami - the Umi's slightly shorter cousin. Twelve separate pieces, if I found them all, and six other cuts more than halfway through. Vorpal. <img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle>

Found another piece <img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align ...

Vesuvius, Temperence, Meerkat? <img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle>

The Herbst, by the way, will be a re-introduction. It's the Spyderco that The Wife picked out when she finally, after 30 years as a "mixed marriage," (knife-person, non-knife person) admitted that it just wouldn't ...

A Spyderco 6" serrated kitchen utility knife and a fairly heavy duty rubber band scored nine pieces that I could find, plus three more cuts more than halfway through the rubber band that didn't quite sever it. I think the Hattori Santoku, a rather more expensive knife, almost equalled that, if I ...

http://www.gix.or.jp/~gsakai/shop.htm

From up above ....

This forum doesn't do clickable links, as far as I know.

- JKM
www.chaicutlery.com
Good tools to sustain life, or at least make life more convenient

I had to come to the forum directly tonight through the spyderco.eonbusiness.com url - www.spyderco.com has been getting me a "404-not found" error message this evening.





- JKM

www.chaicutlery.com

Good tools to sustain life, or at least make life more convenient

Hmmmm .... I like the idea of a plain-edge Ladybug for precision work, though maybe it can't do anything that a plain-edge Dragonfly, which is available in North America, can't do as well or better. And any high-security portal that is fearful enough to turn away a Dragonfly will probably turn away ...

The rec.knives Benchmade 850-Pearl said "rec.knives" on it.

I'd go for a Centofante Jr. in pearly G10.


- JKM
www.chaicutlery.com
Good tools to sustain life, or at least make life more convenient

One customer picked the serrated Shabaria for being a "full-size" folder with a grip suitable for her smallish hands, and for having a blade suitable for collecting plant samples during a month or so on a research project on an island biology reserve off the coast of Maine.

I suppose you could ...

I'm considering the "CF" Civilian an "if" and not a "when," since I've been told it's a wee bit premature for me to go placing orders for them. And getting a special run of several hundred knives from the factory is probably a process measured in weeks and months, not days and weeks.

A couple of ...

So, should we dealers call Spyderco sales yet and get in line, or wait until it's official? <img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle>


- JKM
www.chaicutlery.com
Good tools to sustain life, or at least make life more convenient

Discontinue it, and folks will come out of the woodwork saying "No! No! I want a Calypso!"

And Spyderco's people in charge of making a profit will say "So? Where were you folks when we were making them?"

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I'd say to call it the "Recruit," but I don't think I'd be original.

How about "Reserve."

That's, among other things, either part-time military, or a quality of self-restraint, like "Temperence."


- JKM
www.chaicutlery.com
Good tools to sustain life, or at least make life more convenient

I haven't seen or felt such a thing to be sure, but I think the pearly surfaces should have flutes milled into them both for visual contrast and for traction.


- JKM
www.chaicutlery.com
Good tools to sustain life, or at least make life more convenient