Please Help With Spyderco Knife ID

[justjohn]

Requesting your help in identifying this knife. I will gladly take any and all info you wish to provide me. Thank you in advance people. :D

[Mushroom]

This is one of the many Variations of the "Q" model. Unfortunately, I dont know which specific variation it is.

I really like the blade though! It's a clever idea using the Spydie hole as a Sun rising over the mountains!

[JonLeBlanc]

Yeah those Q models always amazed me... What a neat creation!

[JuPaul]

Just did a little googling, and wow, there were a lot if cool versions of the Q. Looks like this one was made for Moteng in both plain edge and serrated edge.

[Qcrazy]

This is a Moteng. Check http://www.spydiewiki.com/index.php?title=C35_Q C35SBK Moteng #3 Black FRN SE 440C 1998 49.95$ Moteng, with five upper and five lower interweaving curved bars cutout. Sold through Ironstone catalog. Various similar patterns were made. Flat handle. 500 (total SE, CE) Hollow sabre grind Q wire clip TD/TU LH/RH

[justjohn]

Thanks one and all for your inputs. Qcrazy, :eek: ,holy crap!

[sal]

Hi John.

The "Q" project was one of mine that most folks thought I was nuts to create. In fact when the model won a Blade magazine award, one of our competitors said; "It wasn't a real knife and will go nowhere".

sal

[Stuart Ackerman]

A resurrection of the "Q" would be great, unless the molds are gone? (:

Call it the "Re-Que... :)

[justjohn]

Mr Glesser,
I was not aware of the Blade Magazine Award, but I am not surprised at all. Just reinforces what I've believed all along, Spyderco is not your average Sammy Sausage knife company. Your competitors have been made aware of that for quite some time. Keep up the great work!

[sal]

thanx.

sal

[Qcrazy]

The Moteng is one of the nicer ones that contain no letters/company name/ or trade mark. When Spyderco won the Blade of the Year, Blade magazine offered their own Q sequentially numbered for $10.00 each.

I tried to copy a scan of the Blade magazine cover though couldn't. Sorry..... July 1995 edition