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See this thread from August 17th, 2010: http://www.spyderco.com/forumII/viewtopic.php?t=44819&p=658518 Here are the two posts from Sal clarifying: Aichi Foundry makes a steel called AUS-8. Some of the makers call it 8A for short. There is no AUS-8A. sal ... Any Spyderco's marked AUS-8A was in er...

Nice pics. Still a little bright for my eyes. The lightness detracts attention from the subjects a bit so that they don't pop as much. Also, a few of the backgrounds are wrinkled, which is pretty distracting for the OCD crowd (myself included).

Nice find. I've never seen a Delica in the blister pack before. Some I've come across packaged that way are the Ladybug and Spydercard (and maybe even a couple more that I'm forgetting at the moment).

yablanowitz wrote:The length difference is an optical illusion caused by the curvature of the handle.

But the blade and spine thickness, grind and taper are not. Very interesting thread.

My Spy C25GP has the black clip without any engraving text, a picture of it. I do not believe that is the original clip for this model or perhaps it was near the end of the production run. All the ones I have seen have had text engraving as opposed to the bug engraving. Maybe someone more knowledga...

I... I believe at one time they even had a left handed version of the Civilian and I believe it was one of the Tufram models. The only left handed variant of the Civilian I'm aware of is the limited run they did in CF (all four variants were produced, R/L, PE/SE). The Matriarch (which shares the sa...

aquaman67 wrote:A left handed 2 screw Worker sold on EBay in July for $710.

And that price didn't include the original box (and/or paperwork if there even was any back then), just the knife.

That looks really cool, but I certainly wouldn't pay anywhere near this unless it had typical Spyderco prototype markings used throughout the years and/or had some sort of provenance with it. Quite a gamble with the sophistication of fakery out there these days...

24 hour rule. http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1024x768q90/540/vvSOte.jpg When was the SS Native released with VG-10. Does any one have more information about these? Was there a plain edge variant as well? A while back I thought I remembered running across one some place, but then was never able to...

Cliff Stamp wrote:You can keep contact on the blade when it is coming up, John Davis has a video where he shows this in practice very fluidly.

I love this technique, but constantly find that I need to remind myself to slow down when using it as I tend to get a little carried away as sharpening progresses.

If we insist on playing boxes (which is fine with me), then I suggest that we only count the box style, which would lower it to under 10 boxes. I think there would be more than 10 styles, especially if you count the different sizes / colors. There are also clam packs, bags (leather / plastic for th...

Thanks (I found the other thread too), beautiful pics!

GoldenSpydie wrote:Fresh caught--just got in from Japan.

Wow, I haven't seen an Everest or wooden inlay worker in quite a while. What is the third one on top there? Could you please post a pic showing the front scales?

GoldenSpydie wrote:I love that Dino Bone Executive, but at $500, I'm done. It went to about $750, IIRC.

I expect it would have gone for even more than that, but it looked from the pictures to have been broken and repaired near the front.

I believe that the Matriarch got it's debut with ATS-55 >> I'm pretty certain of that but correct me if I'm wrong. I believe this is correct. I have a CC numbered one in black that is ATS-55, and the ones I bought when they were first released (black and grey) are also ATS-55. I think Spyderco also...

I've also seen them in blue and grey as well as the black one shown.

Different scales, isn't that just the regular production run?

The "Golden, Colorado USA Earth" inscription appears better centered between the hole and the edge of the ricasso on the left hand model than on the right hand model. There is some variance with the placement of the stamps. Usually it doesn't seem to be very much at all as Spyderco tolera...

Welcome! Yep, sounds like an Economy model (also look for the highly visible flat pins on the clip side).

The Bushcraft blanks have been released before, so this is just an additional run of the previous blanks. Since it isn't a new SKU or anything, it wouldn't be numbered as part of the collector's club. I could have sworn that they changed the SKU and steel when I posted the question. I think I need ...