The Mastiff wrote:I'd pick the Native to XXL and run it in CPM Cruwear naturally.
Vivi, after seeing your thread in the other section about Cycling cross country I understand more why you feel a few ounces is significant. I'm still at the stage where I like full liners and extra beef where a knife benefits from it as well as both scales being Titanium rather than one G10 or Carbon fiber. I understand the reason those materials are chosen but I am comforted by steel or titanium scales or liners. As long as the blades are thin and good at their sole purpose. I don't require thick blades and have never come close to breaking any of my knives.
Joe
I understand both sides. When I first got into quality I was obsessed with G10. Many years ago another member here shared a story of using a Cara Cara in FRN for, IIRC, a few weeks or months in a south american jungle. I was confused why someone would pick FRN over G10 with that model as its only an $8 price difference. Like I do these days, he valued saving weight over the extra rigidity of the G10 version.
My Pacific Salts really drove home how little I need liners. I certainly appreciate the "premium" feeling a knife like my Szabo folder has, with its CF slabs and full liners....but it I had a 5oz FRN Szabo folder it'd see more pocket time.
Dragonfly2, increase the blade lenght and the handle with 1/2 inch each.
Marius
" A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it "
( Rabindranath Tagore ) Proud member of the old school spyderedge nation
I'd like to see an XL superhawk. It was a great design and I think it deserved a longer blade. Around the size of the Spyderhawk with a little longer handle and no choil.
XL Persian. Love the lines of this knife but the regular Persian is a little tight for my hand.
I'd also like an XL yojimbo. Call it the yo4 with a 4 inch blade. I'm a big fan of compression locks.
Xl kris. The current model fits my hand pretty well but I'd like to see it a little larger. I'd like to see it brought back in any iteration honestly.
I'm sure there are some others but these are the ones I can think of right now.
well, having more thatn 15 XL (5 inch blade or more) folders I can say I'd like to see (and could imagine working properly) these knives upped in size:
DF2 (not XL, but a larger version)
Yojimbo (a longer and less wide blade, some handle changes)
Pacific Salt (Serrated, one or one and a half inches longer)
Police (keep it thin, but longer, and linerless, ala Broken Skull)
larger sized Reverse S (Especially the Lil' Matriarch, linerless, thin)
Spyderco would definitely get most of my $ if they did so :D
prog_knife wrote:Chaparral XL. Use that thin, sharp blade to slice up watermelons and such.
The overall design is much different but the Centofante folders are light and slim with 2mm blades. Might be worth a look if the lack of a choil or FFG isn't a deal breaker for your tastes.
This is also one of the reasons I'd like to pick up a catcherman. Thin and long blades are perfect for my uses. Anything over 2.5mm in a folding knife is dead weight for how I use them.
Centofante 3 has been on my radar for a while The man really knew how to design a knife.
I have the Memory and like it a lot for this reason (plus awesome ethos in my small hands), but it misses out on pocket time due to horrible blade play.
