Another surprise hit for me was the Junior. When I first saw it I thought it looked ugly and ridiculous (seems that way for most of the Spyderco knives I end up really liking). I bought one to try and it's been a great purchase. I like it.
Great knife all around. Thin, light, perfect grip, decent blade length and deep pocket clip. I have a hard time keeping this out of my pocket.
The important thing was that I had an onion tied to my belt, which was the style at the time. You couldn't get white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...
Evil D wrote:One of my dream knives would be a Junior with a Yojimbo 2-ish wharnie blade.
I think this dream knife exists. If I recall, the designer of the Junior made some variants and posted pics on this forum at least once. I recall seeing a wharnie-ish rendition of the Junior. I don't know if you can actually purchase one of these, though.
Here is a good thread and review of the junior, dialex even had some ideas for a modified blade, not sure about a wharncliffe tho you might need to start from scratch.
w3tnz wrote:Here is a good thread and review of the junior, dialex even had some ideas for a modified blade, not sure about a wharncliffe tho you might need to start from scratch.
Spyderco Junior came today! Sharpest
blade in recent memory. Scratchiest liner
lock to tang movement in recent memory.
Applied Triflon to tang locking surface
and exercised lock-unlock about 100
times and it smoothed out. I think that
I will carry this one.
This must be the ultimate ergonomic design. Spyderco got it right, "amazingly" comfortable in the hand. All the features I wanted in one knife.
Congratulations DiAlex.
I was thinking of getting one for my wife for our outdoor adventures. My thought would be it could also be used on a cutting board. Any Junior owners able to comment about use in that fashion?
Alex has a very good artistic eye in design. This knife has a couple of attributes that are very good. The first is safety, it is very difficult for your index finger to get "involved" with the blade. The second is the advantage of a deep index finger choil. This particular area is the fulcrum point of the knife, the deeper the index finger grip area the deeper the fulcrum point. It lets the knife fall into your hand and more importantly it gives a great range of movement in a stable controlled postion. For example take a piece of material 1 1/4" wide and a piece of material 3/4" wide, find the center of gravity lengthwise. Hold between your index finger, "the axis or fulcrum" and your thumb and rotate around the axis of your finger. I think you will find that there is a significant difference the the lengthes of arc range, "with reasonable control". Good job Alex...Take care...Ed
