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The one thing I don't like is the tip-down screw holes found on some knives. While I don't mind tip-down carry (the Military is my favorite knife), I don't like the look of extraneous screw holes.

For the longest time I was a PM2 fan and ignored the Manix. Then I actually got a Manix and fell in love (but still liked the PM2). And then I got a Military and fell doubly in love! Now the PM2 feels to me like a shrunken, deformed Military!

So I am a Military and Manix man now.

Because of my geographic location, I don’t have as much need for corrosion resistance. So while Magnacut is admirably tough at a given level of hardness, there are other steels that are even tougher at that same hardness. I’d taken nicely hardened 52100 or AEB-L, for example, over Magnacut.

I think my Spin in blue Nishijin glass fiber might qualify. Every time I open up my knife chest I look at the thing and say "why are you still here?" But there's something likable about it, and it manages to squeak by without being sold.

I hate to be a Debbie Downer but the M1's days are coming to a close. Gotta be realistic guys. For a small period of time you could also buy a Paramilitary and a Para 2 at the same time but it didn't last long. I'd get your M1 purchases squared away now while you can and start embracing the future....

I am very late to the Military party—just got my first one last month, and in BG42/carbon fiber no less! I was instantly smitten with it and regret not having gotten into this model sooner. So the Military would be my choice. Assuming price/availability was not an issue, I'd pick up the following fi...

That was a great survey, thanks! I look forward to seeing the results.

Amazing! I must have that K390 Lil' Temperance 3 LW. My favorite Spyderco of the last several years.

I absolutely love the Stretch 2 XL LW. If (heaven forbid) all my knives disappeared overnight, this would be the first one I’d replace.

I just hope it’s popular enough that Spyderco decides to do it in various steels and handle colors sometime down the road.

My wife got me this lovely pre-2009 Police (my first Police model):

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The big question is are you sneaking into the office today to get your Chief? Cheers, Radioactive Sadly the office is closed today. While I could sneak in I would have to lie in wait at the reception area for the mailman, and while it's tempting I've decided I can should just hold out until after C...

I am totally blown away by that custom Whale Rescue Blade. I almost regret passing on the chance to get one a few years ago—I mean, I have no practical use for it, but it has such a unique, purpose-driven design that for the right Spyderco fan, it's worth having one even if it's just for posterity'...

Did someone say we need MORE Super Blue pics? Here's some of mine: Caly 3.5 and Calypso Jr. :D You are tempting fate, sir! Speaking of Super Blue, I foolishly sold my Super Blue Caly 3.5 several years back, and it is the one and only knife I've ever sold that got lost in the mail. I dropped it into...

Sir, there's an unwritten rule here that you're NOT allowed to post any pics of a Super Blue Caly!!! It's just too painful for those of us here who never got one!! I am sorry sir! I will hide that one away; out of site, out of mind. But I'll do my best to clamor here for another Super Blue sprint r...

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Thu Dec 22, 2022 2:00 pm

hrmmmmm i really like that catcherman

It’s fantastic; such a great cutter and so light. I hope they do another one some day.

Sorry for the low quality photos; they were taken in a somewhat lazy fashion as I sit at home sick with strep throat. The only Spydies not pictured are a SpyderSaw and a 4V St. Nick's Native Chief on the way in the mail. My wife may have gotten me a Spyderco for Christmas as well (one can always hop...

I've got two very exciting ones in the mail. The first is a plain edge brown FRN full flat ground Matriarch sprint run from 2010. I've got the serrated one already. This sprint run is in the only member of the Civilian/Matriarch family with a fully flat grind. It's arriving today. The second is a Sp...

I’ll go with 667. Thank you!

Never complete. For me, there is a lifetime’s worth of past models to track down/hope to come by/daydream over.

What can you tell us without Shaun hunting you down? I'm not entirely certain! I know they don't want people photographing the prototypes but I'm not aware of a prohibition on describing them. I didn't get a super close look, but it had a fairly sizeable trapper-style blade with an unswept tip and ...