why does the lil' native have minimal jimping?

[Cheddarnut]

Im waiting for the skeletonized liners to get jimping, to secure the dust that finds its way into those unnecessary topographical exercises. And why don’t we jimp the spyder hole and lanyard hole, to give a more secure opening and string grip. ****, lets jimp the edge, to get a more secure cut. Wait, thats called serrations. NM.
I like jimping on the top of the blade SOMETIMES, never for the forefinger. Not sure what a person would be doing to need jimping there, but to me its just annoying. The original native had it dead on. None index jimping.

[StuntZombie]

Just like what the subject says. The lil' native is smooth in the finger choil and generally smooth on the spine except for a 3 grooves (jimps?) adjacent to the liner. I'm just curious why the design choice to make this generally smooth. In contrast, the dragonfly, native 5, and shaman have more jimps.

Because well designed handles don't need jumping.

[sethwm]

Just like what the subject says. The lil' native is smooth in the finger choil and generally smooth on the spine except for a 3 grooves (jimps?) adjacent to the liner. I'm just curious why the design choice to make this generally smooth. In contrast, the dragonfly, native 5, and shaman have more jimps.

Because well designed handles don't need jumping.

So in your opinion this is one of the only well designed handles spyderco makes because most of their other knives have jimping? Honest question, I can’t tell if you’re being funny or serious.

[Ramonade]

There is a reasonnable amount of people thinking that jimping only hurts when you squeeze a knife. And that a well thought out design does not need jiming for the knife to stay in hand.

Personally, jimping is only useful to me when wearing gloves. I won't use a Lil'Native wearing gloves so I'm ok !

[StuntZombie]

Just like what the subject says. The lil' native is smooth in the finger choil and generally smooth on the spine except for a 3 grooves (jimps?) adjacent to the liner. I'm just curious why the design choice to make this generally smooth. In contrast, the dragonfly, native 5, and shaman have more jimps.

Because well designed handles don't need jumping.

So in your opinion this is one of the only well designed handles spyderco makes because most of their other knives have jimping? Honest question, I can’t tell if you’re being funny or serious.

I'm being serious, but I'm not implying it's the only well designed handle Spyderco makes. I find jimping is unnecessary for the majority of knives, and can actually be a detriment in some cases.

I'm not too fond of choils either, but that's a different topic.