Not Enough Love for The Stretch

[tvenuto]

The original R was related to the Q, right? (Skeletonized blade and handle?)

Yes and no. Although they are only one letter apart, the Q predates the R by 3 years according to spydiewiki. The original R did indeed have laser cut blades as well as a skeletonized handle, which makes it similar to the Q in that regard. However, the construction of the R is quite different, much more of a user design than the more novelty Q. Subsequent versions of the R exhibit a more pragmatic approach: dropping the cut blade in the second run, and then dropping all skeletonized features in the nishijin sprint.

[sal]

There was a "Q", "R" & "S". All skeletonized blades.

sal

[Luke2236]

I have an original model. It is probably my most used and carried knife I own period. It rode faithfully in one of my pockets every day for almost 10 years. It cleaned every animal and fish that it came across. I retired it this year. I went to replace it with another but went with a LNIB GB1. If I ever run across another stretch in zdp I’ll get it.

[ugaarguy]

I'd love to see the Stretch 2 production moved to Golden; then given the Native 5 treatment of ditching the liners, and putting in metal thread inserts for the clip screws. This would really make sense for a Salt version with LC200N blade, but I'd be happy with an S30V blade and those changes.

[tangent]

I'd love to see the Stretch 2 production moved to Golden; then given the Native 5 treatment of ditching the liners, and putting in metal thread inserts for the clip screws. This would really make sense for a Salt version with LC200N blade, but I'd be happy with an S30V blade and those changes.

This ^^

A salty stretch would be awesome