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Hello!
I am finally a proud owner of a Police 4 Frn K390 , grabbed it on bf sales straight from spyderco.es website.
Mine is from batch CU which means March 2021, but i have seen some on ebay from batch EV May 2022.
It is a silly question, but are both batches the same in term of qualities?
I am so obsessed over my first Spyderco

Dear LAASF:

Welcome to the Spyderco Forum.

Yes, the quality of Spyderco knives remains consistent from one manufacturing run to the next. Our QC team makes sure of that.

Stay safe,

Mike

LAASF wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 07, 2022 11:06 am

Hello!
I am finally a proud owner of a Police 4 Frn K390 , grabbed it on bf sales straight from spyderco.es website.
Mine is from batch CU which means March 2021, but i have seen some on ebay from batch EV May 2022.
It is a silly question, but are both batches the same in term of qualities?
I am so obsessed over my first Spyderco

They should be identical.

Sometimes Spyderco makes small changes known as CQI, or Constant Quality Improvement.

To my knowledge the FRN Police models have been exactly the same run to run.

For comparison sake you can look up the C36 Military model. That model has gone through numerous revisions despite all of them being included under the Military 1 designation. The original run had a single liner, coarse jimping and a large logo on the blade. Later they made the jimping smaller, added a second liner, and removed the large print on the blade. Couple years ago they changed the stop pin and made the clip a little curvier.

Thank you Michael Janich and Vivi, your answers were really helpful to me.

Now i just need to put my new knife to use, altough i think it will stay pristine for just a little longer