Knives Spyderco needs to fill the gaps.

BHDKnifer · #1

What do you think is missing? I think we need a sprint run of Mr.Janick's very nice Endura. A new dodo and yojimbo. A 1/2 serrated ladybug 3. A sheepfoot (rescue) ladybug 3. A 1/2 serrated black blade manix II. A VG-10 black frn merlin. We have the stainless and carbon fiber harps and the H-1's, but no VG-10 frn merlin. The Goddard line-up is missing a frn burgandy plain blade, a full flat grind burgandy plain blade would sure be nice. And a yellow 1/2 serrated Goddard. Take care.

Blerv · #2

BHDKnifer wrote:What do you think is missing? I think we need a sprint run of Mr.Janick's very nice Endura. A new dodo and yojimbo. A 1/2 serrated ladybug 3. A sheepfoot (rescue) ladybug 3. A 1/2 serrated black blade manix II. A VG-10 black frn merlin. We have the stainless and carbon fiber harps and the H-1's, but no VG-10 frn merlin. The Goddard line-up is missing a frn burgandy plain blade, a full flat grind burgandy plain blade would sure be nice. And a yellow 1/2 serrated Goddard. Take care.

Janich's Endura is a custom ground piece. They couldn't do a sprint without doing the grinding back at Spyderco or redesigning it. A that point it's not really a sprint.

Dodo and Yo are in the process. The Merlin is more or less available as a H1 Tasman.

Those are interesting ideas and sound like nice knives. I'd like a Goddard in PE but since CE is the edge of choice I don't know if we are gonna see one for a while. A Goddard Salt sounds like a good idea and would work with the yellow.

For me I would love a Spyderco Tomahawk which they have been tooling around with from what I recall. A H1 gent's folder would be cool (cento3 with H1 and a Ti bug emblem!). Maybe a hawkbill snubby rescue knife. A Byrd Ronin would be great handle scales or not.

I'm eating up Schempp's ethnic designs. Folding Golok/Kujang/Tanto...anything weird he could do I would snatch up. :D

Really Spyderco doesn't have any "gaps" in my mind. They make a TON of knives in the most eccentric spread of materials and shapes imaginable. For me it's more of a "wish list" than a necessity.

DevilDog1833 · #3

I've been longing for Golden to put out a lockable FRN knife with a blade length that is less than three inches. Think of a locking UKPK - maybe a US Clasp Knife (USCK). On second thought, USCK is too close to U SuCK, so it would have to be called something else :p .

I know the Caly 3 is similar to the UKPK, but I get a sense of personal satisfaction from buying a quality product that was made right here in the U. S. of A. The Native 5, with its 3 inch blade, will be close (when it comes out in FRN), but for some strange reason I'm not that into Natives.

So to recap: lockable UKPK. If you build it... I will buy one in every shape and color - just don't tell my wife :D .

bohica1998 · #4

BHDKnifer wrote:...A sheepfoot (rescue) ladybug 3...

This has already been done. Look up the Ladybug II. Granted, it's not the latest version, but a Rescue Ladybug HAS been made.

eneyman · #5

I hope the Dodo and Yojimbo 2 come out with color scales rather than black, also I wish they'd be regular production models rather than sprints.

SteelDragon · #6

Lil Temperance 2 would be nice.

phillipsted · #7

SteelDragon wrote:Lil Temperance 2 would be nice.

You took the words right out of my mouth, SteelDragon.

Been following the one that is currently on fleabay - but its getting too rich for my blood. I've only handled one of the Lil Temperances a long time ago - they are really really cool.

[chanting]
Lil Temperance 2!
Lil Temperance 2!
Lil Temperance 2!
Lil Temperance 2!

TedP

phillipsted · #8

...or, how about an ATR-2?

TedP

Donut · #9

I wouldn't mind seeing a 3.5" version in the Delica and Endura series. We could call it the Janicha. :p

I want a small compression lock like the S, but without the designs on it.

Sithus1966 · #10

devildog1833 wrote:
so to recap: Lockable ukpk. If you build it... I will buy one in every shape and color - just don't tell my wife :d.

+1 I would love a lockback UKPK

Ladybug II

ChrisR · #11

Sithus1966 wrote:+1 I would love a lockback UKPK

Isn't that called a Caly3 with screw-together construction ... or is it the UKPK's S30V steel you like?

To me a 'gap' would be a kind of knife that Spyderco don't make yet that other manufacturers do. That's a really tricky one but perhaps a Caly3 with a bottle-opener and screwdriver attachment? :D

araneae · #12

Donut wrote:I wouldn't mind seeing a 3.5" version in the Delica and Endura series. We could call it the Janicha. :p

I would call it the Stretch.

DevilDog1833 · #13

It's not a Caly, but here's your bottle opener: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1dRvQsJa2E

Sithus1966 · #14

ChrisR wrote:Isn't that called a Caly3 with screw-together construction ... or is it the UKPK's S30V steel you like?
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No, I just like the price of the UKPK's but would like a lock. Looks like the Chaparral is about the same as the UKPK's, but at what cost would be my only question, since the current pictures are only in bloody carbon fiber.

Meshuggah · #15

- a large version of the Captain
- a medium Chinese in Ti handles
- ATR 2

DaBird · #16

I'm eating up Schempp's ethnic designs. Folding Golok/Kujang/Tanto...anything weird he could do I would snatch up.

I agree that almost every one of Ed's designs "trips my trigger" and checkbook :)

EDIT --- and another BALISONG or Two !!!!

ChrisR · #17

Sithus1966 wrote:No, I just like the price of the UKPK's but would like a lock. Looks like the Chaparral is about the same as the UKPK's, but at what cost would be my only question, since the current pictures are only in bloody carbon fiber.

Ahhh, so you mean an FRN lock-back UKPK? I think there must have been something like that in the past (like the Caly) but not sure about the disco'd models :)

Ben_1323 · #18

The knife I would like to see made more than anything would be a 3.5" original Manix. Keep all the features that made the Manix a classic but shorten the blade a little to make it legal where I live.

Sequimite · #19

We have a Paramilitary with a 3 3/32" blade and a Paramilitary 2 with a 3 14/32" blade.

Where, my friends is the Para with the 3 9/32" blade!?!? We have a gap!

Sorry to make fun of the premise but I find every non-kitchen knife need I have to be filled by multiple Spydercos; I don't see a gap in the model lineup.

Evil D · #20

I think the Tuff and Yojimbo 2 are going to fill two spots i wish were in the line up.