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The compression lock of the Salsa has undergone some improvements since the Salsa was released. The new Salsa would have the newer rendition of the lock. The main difference of the knives with the first generation compression-lock like the Salsa, the first Paramilitaries or the Lil' Temp is that th...

The Cobra Hood is quintessential fo me, any Salsa without it wouldn't be a Salsa anymore. Another problem with any Sprint of the Salsa I see is that it would be quite hard to improve on the Titanium variant. Yes, you could add some superduper modern PM-steel, but for my taste the classic ATS-34 is m...

Sal showed during the 2012 Amsterdam Meet two prototypes for a Sprint Run of the classic C52 and C54. The Sprint of the C54 eventually came at the end of 2012. I asked Sal in 2013 in A'dam about the missing Sprint of the Calypso jr., he said that I most probably wouldn't come due to quality issues. ...

When they do this to the Ritter version I will probably buy one. Knifeworks switched to M390 some time ago and for the scales there is Cuscadi... http://araneomorphae.de/images/forumpic/Minigrip_Cuscadi3.jpg http://araneomorphae.de/images/forumpic/Minigrip_Cuscadi4.jpg http://araneomorphae.de/image...

Short summary

no choil jimping:

• black G-10
  orange G-10 and foliage-green G-10 (early production pieces)

choil jimping:

• orange G-10 and foliage-green G-10 (from late 2008)
  foliage-green G-10 Droppoint
  Carbonfiber UKPK
  Titanium UKPK

Both possibilities do exist. My UKPKs in black G-10, orange G-10 and one of my UKPKs in foliage-green G-10 all don't have a jimping on the choil. The orange G-10 and foliage-green G-10 are early production pieces. IIRC the jimping on the choil was introduced in late 2008, additionally the jimping on...

If my memory serves me right, there were some made with G-10 and a GIN-1 blade as a domestic variant for the Japanese market.
This combination defintely exists, maybe some of them were also sold in the U.S.

Larry_Mott wrote:Thanks Peter! So apparently they're both gen1's but the black one is stamped AUS8A, which it shouldn't be according to the wiki..

It's one of the misprints of the AUS-8 variant.
You can find the whole AUS-8 and AUS-8A story here:
//forum.spyderco.com/viewtopic.php?t=66657

The seats for the Amsterdam meet went really fast this year, by the time I checked out transport and accommodation all the places were filled. Sad to hear that you as a very active forumite wasn't able to get a place. Newbies are always welcome, but from what I've read here quite a lot of places we...

Jess Horn for me.
Happy New Year everyone!

I think it's a nice touch that Sal chose the Damasteel 20th year anniversary pattern for the 40th Anniversary Native.
The Thor pattern looks good, but personally I like the aestetics of Odin's Eye, Hakkapella and Heimskringla even more.

Sorry, Joe. Missed that one completely.
So, better late than never:
Hope you had a good one and the best wishes for the New Year!

Marcus

And a small pic for the ultimate friend of the Spyderedge

E-Mail sent.
Looking forward to see you all again in February, most probably I will carry a C27 on this special occasion. :)

Marcus

Let's add some pics of the convexed grind Moran with the factory mirror-polished blade. A pretty old piece, I'd used to have it more than 12 years in my collection. http://araneomorphae.de/images/spyderco-gallery/Bilder/Moran_TP1.jpg http://araneomorphae.de/images/spyderco-gallery/Bilder/Moran_TP2.j...

The French knife laws are a bit confusing and I found them not entirely clearcut, a lot depends on your personal appearance and the way you dress and behave. In most cases you should be fine with some French type of Slipjoint like a Laguiole or the many different local knife types. Paris may be a di...

twinboysdad wrote:Best reason ever to purchase the awesome Pingo if there ever was one!! No regrets on mine

The Pingo would to did for Denmark.
To be legal there, a folding knife has to be
a) non-locking
b) non one-handed opening
c) with a blade length less than 7 cm or 2.75 inches

Is CTS-BD1 not an upgrade over 440C? I just assumed it was since they were making an announcement about it. I do not own a Cat or Chicago. But one in S30V sounds nice. Were they the carbon fiber versions? Don't get me wrong, the CTS-BD1 is an excellent all-purpose steel and I like it quite a lot on...

Spydergirl88 wrote:Yes this is good news. Steel upgrades are always great

Just out of curiosity : why do you think it is an upgrade?
The first Cats and Chicagos had a S30V-blade. I would consider this to be an upgrade to 440C, but not CTS-BD1.

There were some nice fixed blades like the Lum Tanto or the Kumo. Personally, I stopped buying Spyderco fixed blades after the unneccesary hole in the blade was implemented in 2008. I can understand the reason behind this, but nevertheless this made almost all fixed blades less appealing to me. Let'...

Guess you better start hunting for some of the old classics like the Wegners, the Zowada, the C42 Viele or some variant of the C22 Walker.