Sal and Eric: How about a Spyderco twist on this?
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Sal and Eric: How about a Spyderco twist on this?
Thought i'd put it out there, might just be me who would be interested in buying a Spyderco-ed LeMaire? I think it would be amazing!
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Re: Sal and Eric: How about a Spyderco twist on this?
It's kinda like a Zippo lighter, the knurled wheel opens the blade. It's one of my favorite gent's style linerlocks
(I'll bring it to Amsterdam if you want/are coming) :)
(I'll bring it to Amsterdam if you want/are coming) :)
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Re: Sal and Eric: How about a Spyderco twist on this?
I'm not, but thank you. I like the opening idea, but not the liner lock. Not sure if you could still have a Spyderhole on there with the wheel. Would be cool though.
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Re: Sal and Eric: How about a Spyderco twist on this?
A "functional" Spydie hole would be redundant, i am thinking a SpyDK-jobbie :)
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Re: Sal and Eric: How about a Spyderco twist on this?
That's a neat concept. Kind of reminds me of the Gerber Paul Knife.
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Re: Sal and Eric: How about a Spyderco twist on this?
I uploaded a wee video on Youtube to show how it works:
https://youtu.be/WOcR84jk08U
https://youtu.be/WOcR84jk08U
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Re: Sal and Eric: How about a Spyderco twist on this?
I love this design. Would it fit under their ethnic series? I've never seen this style knife - do you know where or when it originated?
Re: Sal and Eric: How about a Spyderco twist on this?
Nice, I really like the design. Super clean little gents knife. It reminds me a lot of opening mechanisms Darriel Caston uses on some of his folders.
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Re: Sal and Eric: How about a Spyderco twist on this?
As far as I remember Denis(?) LeMaire was a French Canadian, my knife is afaik made in France. Bought it from my uncle in the early 90's. I will ask him where he got it. He has a mammoth ivory scaled one.
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Re: Sal and Eric: How about a Spyderco twist on this?
Not quite the same though as far as I can see, the LeMaire has the thumb wheel attached to the blade as opposed to it being part of the blade/tang.
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Re: Sal and Eric: How about a Spyderco twist on this?
I stand corrected. Thank you for the history lesson :)Larry_Mott wrote:Not quite the same though as far as I can see, the LeMaire has the thumb wheel attached to the blade as opposed to it being part of the blade/tang.
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Re: Sal and Eric: How about a Spyderco twist on this?
Larry, I for one consider your idea to be a great idea. That French made knife is very good quality and with Spyderco collaborations, that would take it to the next level.
Florinox is one of the French makers. Interestingly, a lot of French knife companies have begun in the last few years to use Swedish-made Sandvik Stainless Steel. I have no problem with that; Sandvik is great steel, to say the least. Opinel does this, as well.
Here is a page about this LeMaire knife:
http://www.chuckhawks.com/lemaire_folding_knife.html
Here is their official page:
http://www.florinox.eu/
Florinox is one of the French makers. Interestingly, a lot of French knife companies have begun in the last few years to use Swedish-made Sandvik Stainless Steel. I have no problem with that; Sandvik is great steel, to say the least. Opinel does this, as well.
Here is a page about this LeMaire knife:
http://www.chuckhawks.com/lemaire_folding_knife.html
Here is their official page:
http://www.florinox.eu/
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Re: Sal and Eric: How about a Spyderco twist on this?
SpyderEdgeForever Thanks! That was, almost word by word what i have been told :)
Also agree that Spyderco would take it to the next level, and hopefully fill a hole after the Laguiole :)
Steel is almost irrelevant to me, considering its intended use. Ok, maybe not 8Cr14, but VG10 and up
Also agree that Spyderco would take it to the next level, and hopefully fill a hole after the Laguiole :)
Steel is almost irrelevant to me, considering its intended use. Ok, maybe not 8Cr14, but VG10 and up
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