Overall disappointed

[cabfrank]

I find it really unlucky, sorry for you.

As for my knives, i throw them at the numerous feral cats around my home. That's why I have to buy them often.

We have never needed a like button this much.

[Ramonade]

I find it really unlucky, sorry for you.

As for my knives, i throw them at the numerous feral cats around my home. That's why I have to buy them often.

May I recommend

https://www.spyderco.com/catalog/detail ... Large/1132

You indeed can ! I hope it's a good sheath though

[Evil D]

I find it really unlucky, sorry for you.

As for my knives, i throw them at the numerous feral cats around my home. That's why I have to buy them often.

May I recommend

https://www.spyderco.com/catalog/detail ... Large/1132

You indeed can ! I hope it's a good sheath though

Eh, who needs a sheath anyway just carry them in your teeth like a proper commando. You'll be throwing them often anyway.

[JSumm]

My para 3 lightweight that I parted with would often get hung up on bushes and snagged from my pocket.
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Perhaps a bit more likely to happen with a wire clip and a not too long knife like the Para 3 (and Chaparral, and other Spydies) is?

The ops Salt even has a spoon clip though...

The Para 3 clip on mine would roll left and right when I pushed it with my finger. Retention was terrible even after tightening the heck out of it. The chaparral and Manix 2 LW with wire clips never have that problem. I figured the Para 3 was just a bad example I received.

[Evil D]

If you guys saw some of the situations I get myself in at work, it's a wonder I come out still wearing pants at all let alone not losing my knife.

I've carried this Autonomy more than any other knife since 2017. It uses a wire clip, and it's also among the heaviest knives that Spyderco has put a wire clip on. It also gets clipped onto cheap uniform pants that are basically slacks, so the pocket fabric thickness is thinner than jeans and more slippery in texture. All together you'd think the combination of job conditions/weight/clip design/pocket design would mean I'd lose this knife or at least see it come out of my pocket but it hasn't ever happened.

[Wartstein]

Double post

[VooDooChild]

Well I gave my civil response yesterday. Now its time to say it how it is.

Can we all just appreciate how this person lost a knife, which is completely their fault. Then blamed the knife design. Then accused Spydercos entire customer base of not being real knife users.

Grow up.

[Wartstein]

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The Para 3 clip on mine would roll left and right when I pushed it with my finger. Retention was terrible even after tightening the heck out of it. The chaparral and Manix 2 LW with wire clips never have that problem. I figured the Para 3 was just a bad example I received.

Probably this ("just a bad example")

I tried a Para 3 LW for a bit more than a month, and in that (admittedly rather short) period of time it sat just as firm in the pocket as my Manix 2 LW, Chap and FRN Native (which happens to have a wire clip, but not from the factory)

[JSumm]

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The Para 3 clip on mine would roll left and right when I pushed it with my finger. Retention was terrible even after tightening the heck out of it. The chaparral and Manix 2 LW with wire clips never have that problem. I figured the Para 3 was just a bad example I received.

Probably this ("just a bad example")

I tried a Para 3 LW for a bit more than a month, and in that (admittedly rather short) period of time it sat just as firm in the pocket as my Manix 2 LW, Chap and FRN Native (which happens to have a wire clip, but not from the factory)

It's definitely not a wire clip issue. The Chap has amazing retention. I am so confident in that knife that I have gifted 3 of them in hopes to gain some Spyderco fans.

[JSumm]

I think offering detailed critique is great for improvement, but blasting an entire customer base is not that.

It is funny that I think of Spyderco completely opposite of the OP. Many of the base models are not made of fancy shiny materials, but lend themselves to easy one handed use and can hold up to hard use while maintaining incredible geometry.

[anycal]

Who said Spyderco forum engagement was down

[vivi]

I kept a spyderco clipped to my waist band when I rode a bicycle from south carolina to ohio without issues.

Kept a Pacific Salt clipped to my rear right jersey pocket when riding a bicycle from texas to sc in 13 days.

I've run over 1,000 miles of mountain trails with a Pacific Salt clipped to my waistband without issue.

I've had Spydercos clipped to my front, rear, cargo and side cellphone pockets for two decades without losing one.

Sometimes things happen. Your experience is far from the norm, however.

Only close calls I've had are seatbelts sometimes unclipped my folder.

All of my experience is with stock clips, not aftermarket deep carry.

[Doc Dan]

Okay, OP, I am going to ask a question and don't get mad. When you say you clipped the knife on, was the knife itself outside of your pocket or was it down inside of your pocket?

I ask because I have known people to clip the knife on, like they do on TV, with the knife showing outside of the pocket where it absolutely will fall off.

[Gtscotty]

Sock Drawer Commando checking in! To be fair though, every day I take a knife out of the sock drawer and carry it around until the next day... when it gets swapped. Also, I only have an Instagram for looking at new product announcements from gun and silencer manufacturers and I'm afraid I don't post anything.

In the interest of common ground, I also don't like serrations and agree that it sucks you lost your knife.

[Superflex]

I think the lack of response by the OP says volumes about his desire to have an informed discussion about the problems he encountered.
Some monkeys like to fling their poo at the zoo visitors. Thank god those monkeys are not allowed to carry Spydercos.

[Sharp Guy]

I think the lack of response by the OP says volumes about his desire to have an informed discussion about the problems he encountered.
Some monkeys like to fling their poo at the zoo visitors. Thank god those monkeys are not allowed to carry Spydercos.

The OP hasn't been logged in since they made that post yesterday

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[Josh Crutchley]

Well I gave my civil response yesterday. Now its time to say it how it is.

Can we all just appreciate how this person lost a knife, which is completely their fault. Then blamed the knife design. Then accused Spydercos entire customer base of not being real knife users.

Grow up.

To be fair he was only talking about the people that gave him advice not the entire customer base. He said "all the spyderco fans that made recommendations are those kinds of people."

[RustyIron]

Can we all just appreciate how this person lost a knife, which is completely their fault. Then blamed the knife design. Then accused Spydercos entire customer base of not being real knife users.

Grow up.

No! YOU grow up!
A Navy Seal gave him a knife, and he climbs 5.5 at Joshua Tree.
He's way smarter than any of us sock puppet jockeys.

[ladybug93]

it always makes me laugh when people complain about spyderco pocket clips. without spyderco, we'd still have those awkward knife-shaped bulges in the bottom of our pockets and silly belt pouches.

[James Y]

Looks like OP posted and ran. He lost a knife, which was entirely his fault; then decided to start a thread where he posts a passive-aggressive insult to members who thought they were helping him, and left because he didn’t want to see the responses. I’m glad I wasn’t one of those who tried to help the OP.

If/when he gets a Kershaw or whatever and loses that, he’ll be blaming Kershaw, and insulting anyone who suggested to him that those were good knives.

Jim