Spyderco Okapi?

[SpyderEdgeForever]

What is the liklihood and who here would like to see Spyderco collaborate with or make a version of the African Okapi Folder Knife?

[PStone]

I would be down for one. But it would have to be on Spyderco’s level. Solid cf and a premium steel(s90v).

*Edited to add pic of my only Okapi*

[Surfingringo]

Never heard of it, had to look it up. Definitely not for me. I can’t really find anything about the design that I like.

[Surfingringo]

Not when we’ve got designs like this available. :spyder:

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[Marulaghost]

As a South African i think it's a pretty neat idea.
That and a great way to see how spyderco would make a super traditional knife

[Sildani]

Like the Nilakka, Chokwe, Puuko?

[Marulaghost]

I think it could possibly fit in the ethnic series.
How would spyderco make it theirs?

[BornIn1500]

The soul of the Okami is in the locking mechanism. Buck essentially already did that lock design with the Marksman. Would Spyderco do it, too?

[Larry_Mott]

IMO it's a cumbersome cheap knife. Not sure what Spyderco would be able to do with a sow's ear to be honest.

[Sumdumguy]

A pig in a suit is still a pig.

Lance has the best answer, IKUCHI!!!

[Larry_Mott]

I don't know if i have been unlucky or if they all come the way my 2 did (yes, two.. One took sso long to arrive i assumed it was lost and ordered another one, of course both arrived eventually)
When i got them the edge was insignificantly sharper than the spine.. I don't get how the can pass the whole assembly/packaging process virtually edgeless?!

"Edge"



Spine:

[Frozenspyder]

I'm having trouble understanding how that lock works. More specifically, how one would go about unlocking it. Cold Steel made something similar but theirs had a ring that you pull to unlock it.

[PStone]

I'm having trouble understanding how that lock works. More specifically, how one would go about unlocking it. Cold Steel made something similar but theirs had a ring that you pull to unlock it.

The two pictured do not lock. They are slip joints. There is a model(907e) that locks (straplock) and does have a ring to pull.

[Frozenspyder]

Oh. Thanks for the explanation. It's a neat design for a slip joint. They have a unique style that would fit in with the ethnic knives. I don't know that there'd be a big demand for them though.

[Doc Dan]

I certainly would not be interested. I am certain there are better knife designs from a continent as big as Africa and as many countries as there are on that continent.

[lonerider1013]

I have one (or a knockoff, not sure, got it used). Did not come very sharp but sharpened up ok and it is an interesting design. I think a spyderco version would be kind of neat.

[araneae]

I have 1 and its a miserable knife. Cold steel did a take on it i think.

[lonerider1013]

Dug mine out. I think it may be a knockoff as the point was practically blunt, but I did manage to sharpen the edge up ok in the past if I remember. Here it is next to the Spyderco military...
I think the design is neat aesthetically but the build quality (if mine is real) is pretty lackluster...

lonerider