Collaborations - Your Top Five Spydies

[Dazen]

1. GB Air (When I find my own, or Spyderco does another run!)
2. Proficient
3. Province
4. Magnitude
5. Kapara

[twinboysdad]

Anything Schempp did
Anything Surfingringo did or will do
Ayoob

[Pokey]

I'm breaking all the rules here, but I'd have to say:
Gayle Bradley: Advocate Ti & Junction
Kevin Smock: Smock
Michael Burch: Bombshell
Jess Horn: Jess Horn LW

And close behind those:
BenShot Lil' Native Rocks Glass

[Mako109]

Marcin Slysz - Swayback
Michael Janich - Yojimbo 2
Gayle Bradely - Advocate
Paul Alexander - Ikuchi

[toocool006]

In no particular order (and too many):

Brouwer (Jerry Brouwer)
Baby Horn (Jess Horn)
Techno 2 (Marcin Slysz)
Kapara (Allistair Phillips - but I really want the Lil Kapara Slippie please!!!)
Air (Gayle Bradley)
Lil Lum (Bob Lum)

Excited to try out the Astute and the SpyOpera very soon :-)

And I'm still kicking myself that I passed on a Sprig when I had the chance. Always keeping my eyes peeled for that at a reasonable price (sigh)

[qwkzotc]

I have not nearly enough of the great collaborations. I just did a review of the archived list and there are stunning examples I must leave off of the list because the rule for "actually owned". Here goes with a little liberal interpretation of the rule:

Marcin Slysz Bowie
Jim Ankerson Proficient
Jonathan McNees McBee
Phil Wilson Southfork/Sprig
Chris Claycombe Bushcraft
and
Michael Janich Yojimbo 2



Dan

[VooDooChild]

Siren
Spydiechef
Ulize
Province
?

[PSquared]

Centofante 3
Memory (a tribute rather than a collaboration)
Lum Chinese
Brouwer
Terzoula Slipit

[JMM]

Ulize.........Ulrich Hennicke
Ayoob.........Massad Ayoob
Yoj*mbo.......Michael Janich
Slysz Bowie...Marcin Slysz
Paysan........Peter Rassenti

[archangel]

Had to edit my list and add the Pingo. I barely ever leave the house without it, it's my environment-friendly small-mid folder. How could I initially have missed it??

[The Deacon]

In designer last name order
Centofante Memory
Los Baños Lava
Moran Drop Point
Perrin Street Beat
Schempp Persian

[ChrisinHove]

Brouwer
Ouroboros
Kapara
Waterway
Friction Folder

[jdw]

Any Ed Schempp collab and the GB1.

[acer]

Not in likability order, but in my collection,and highly regarded
Euro edge
Vallotton subhilt / Lil subhilt
Chinook 4
Southard
Tighe stick
Yojimbo 2
Kapara
Magnitude
Please excuse my Speeling and my countign

[MichaelScott]

Top five, some I have, others I have had:

Reinhold Rhino
Reinhold Ikuchi
Schempp Bowie
Lum Chinese folders
Gayle Bradley 2

[Peter1960]

Bob Terzuola Jr.
Bill Moran Drop Point
Jess Horn II
James A. Keating Chinook
Bushcraft (Chris Calycomb)

[Evil D]

Off the top o' me head in no particular order:

Sliverax
Southard
Centofante 4
Ayoob
Ulize

[RadioactiveSpyder]

In rough order, but all are super high up on my favorites list and all are users:

Peter Rassenti Nirvana
Marcin Slysz Bowie (the other family members are all amazing as well)
Jonathan McNees McBee
Alistair Philips Kapara
Mike Read PITS

I also have a huge soft spot for anything by Jess Horn, Bob Lum, and Gayle Bradley. Still hoping to see a full size gray G10 Jess Horn sprint someday to go along with the semi-recent Baby Horn. :)

[JD Spydo]

Spyderco's collaborations are among the models most dear and near to my heart. But being an old School Spyderco fanatic my 5 most loved collaborations to this day mostly fall into what I affectionately call the "GOLDEN ERA of SPYDERS 1998-2004.

My favorite Old School, GOLDEN ERA collaborations are the

( 1) C-60 Massad Ayoob
(2) The J. D. Smith
(3) C-56 Zowada
(4) C-46 Lum Tanto folder
(5) Fred Perrin StreetBeat
I do like a lot of the newer collaborations but the ones from the GOLDEN Era Of Spyders 1998-2004 are still my ultimate favorites and most cherished :cool:

[Wartstein]

Oh my... only owned a single one, the Kapara... all others are / were Sal, Eric or Sal and Eric designs... :rolleyes:

....

Forgot that I actually did have a second one: Centofante 3!

Liked it a lot, especially the long edge and thin blade, would still own it if it was ffg