Help: ID, please

[RLDubbya]

Knife was purchased secondhand in about 2000. Anybody know model information? TIA!


edit: Let's try this for a link.

https://plus.google.com/115296537968077 ... AFPeNPgE3P

[RadioactiveSpyder]

I can't see your images

[RLDubbya]

I can't see your images

Thanks - try following the link I just posted, please.

[dplafoll]

That's a Delica. AUS-8 steel, stainless steel handles.

Edit: Whoops. That's an Endura. I didn't look closely enough at the length that you graciously provided.

[SpeedHoles]

Early stainless Endura Spyderedge.

I'm not good with model numbers, but I'm sure others here will be able to help out!

[jabba359]

Looks like either a C10 Endura (2nd generation) or C47 Endura II. Those are the same, just it was called a C47 Endura II from 1997-1999, then they decided to reclassify it as a second generation of the C10 model, so changed it's number from C47 to C10 in 2000.

[RLDubbya]

Thanks to everybody - was sure it was the Endura, but I don't have any resource to get to model number; also didn't know when the Endura was made in all stainless. It's got such simple, classic lines uninterrupted by anything.

[yablanowitz]

Need a resource? Try this one: http://www.spydiewiki.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

Lots of good information there.

[RLDubbya]

Need a resource? Try this one: http://www.spydiewiki.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

Lots of good information there.

If I'm reading correctly, my knife doesn't exist according to that resource - my knife is stainless handled, AUS-8. What gives?

[jabba359]

Need a resource? Try this one: http://www.spydiewiki.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

Lots of good information there.

If I'm reading correctly, my knife doesn't exist according to that resource - my knife is stainless handled, AUS-8. What gives?

We may have missed that variation on the Spydiewiki. Looking at eBay, I see a completed sale of a stainless steel Endura that claims AUS-8 as well. The photo that shows the tang with the stamp isn't very good, but it does indeed look like it could be an "8".

I know that the Endura (first gen) used AUS-8 for a time and production overlapped with the C47 Endura II, so it's possible that some blades were made with AUS-8 for one reason or another. Wouldn't be the first time something like that has happened.

[yablanowitz]

Need a resource? Try this one: http://www.spydiewiki.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

Lots of good information there.

If I'm reading correctly, my knife doesn't exist according to that resource - my knife is stainless handled, AUS-8. What gives?

Welcome to the wonderful world of Spyderco knives, where undocumented variations are the rule rather than the exception.

[RLDubbya]

Welcome to the wonderful world of Spyderco knives, where undocumented variations are the rule rather than the exception.

Fair enough. That's one of the things that threw me when I researched; I couldn't find any mention of an Endura with the attributes mine has - so this is probably the best information provided so far!

[Doc Dan]

Post pics of it that are clear, then send all the information to Spydiewiki so it can be updated once it is figured out what it actually is.