What's your Spyderco beater knife?

[iyn]

I hear the term "beater knife". What's your Spyderco beater knife?

[kennethsime]

I just use all of my knives. If I get it too dirty or chip the edge I can always clean it up and/or sharpen it.

[BAL]

I use or have used all of mine, except for ones that I carry for Self Defense.
I like to have an extra knife at all times that I call a rough work knife or beater
knife. I have a Tenacious, Delica, Endura PE and Endure SE that I use for this
purpose.

I have an old Delica that I have scaped metal to remove gaskets, grease, paint
etc. I use the Serrated blades to cut limbs or use as a coping saw. I hate to use
my EDC such as a Millie, Yo2 or even Tuff for some of these chores.

I did cut a fair sized broken limb off a tree with the Tuff last night and it worked
like a charm. The edge looked exactly the same afterward.

[The Deacon]

When I was working, I kept a BRK 1st Generation Native in my desk drawer as a loaner. Now that I'm retired, I'd probably grab it if I had something really nasty to do.

[phillipsted]

My old first generation Delica. It has seen the wars and come back to tell tales.

TedP

[Holland]

[bh49]

C41 Native is my most abused knife. But in my defense I want to say that the most abuse it received from two people (a friend and my son), who borrow it from me.

[GTPowers]

Dirty Beater: Manix2
Office Beater: Techno

[Evil D]

Whatever I'm carrying at the time, but then I only cut things with my knives so "beat" is pretty much up for interpretation. Anything outside reasonable use gets delegated to my Wildsteer.

[Dodge]

79mm rescue
Delica CE
Delica wave
Tasman salt PE
Byrd crow
Tenacious CE

[chuck_roxas45]

I have this beater but it's not a spydie...

[Spyder-fan]

Used to be my Pacific Salt. Now it's my Tenacious

[tvenuto]

Tenacious.

[SQSAR]

Endura 4 sabre grind in VG-10.

[xceptnl]

This one...


and this one...


and I can't forget about this one...

[MCM]

Endura

[personofinterest]

Chinook 3

[JD Spydo]

I have one Spyder that truly fits that category. About 4 years ago I had a job which required a blade that I could use and very much abuse. So I went to my footlocker where I keep all my new stuff, collector stuff, user stuff and various other blades for many different uses and purposes.

I had a Golden Colorado made Native model fully serrated 440V model which I had used many times and I always use that one knife for jobs that I don't care if it trashes out the blade or not. I had truly resigned myself to believe that this knife was destined for the graveyard.

With the work I had in front of me I didn't give the folder one chance of surviving what I was about to put it through. But much to my pleasant surprised the 440V SE Native is still my "GO TO" knife in times where I need a blade that will take a horrific amount of abuse.

Many Spyder models are built for hard use but the Golden CO USA made NATIVE model is truly a "wolverine" of a folder :cool:

[BigBill5953]

I've got a FFG Delica that I've been beating the absolute crap out for the past year and a half.

[D1omedes]

My Salt 1 with a FFG. I've used it to cut everything from carpet, to caulking, to cardboard and even weeds. The H1 steel in PE is so easy to touch up and it doesn't chip. The edge geometry now makes it a wicked slicer.

But to be clear, I don't really beat on the knife. I don't stab, pry or hack with it. If I need a sharp edge and I know the cutting chore will scratch the blade and be laborious, I will seek out my Salt 1.