So THAT's what y'all have been on about

[chaps]

Postman just dropped off my first Spyderco, Manix 2 LW Translucent Blue. To say I'm impressed doesn't capture the experience. Locks up like a fixed blade, smooth, centered tip, sharp (peeled some shaving curls from the packing container). I REALLY like the balance, the ability to choke up on the choil ... and its so light. Ok, I get it now. :D

I feel like this guy

[tvenuto]

Pretty soon you'll be like...

[swigert]

Welcome to the addiction.

[palonej]

Uh oh!!! Hide your wallet chaps!!! Before you know it you'll be saying stuff like this, again and again......what's next? Sprint runs? limited editions? Another new steel?
I say run as fast as you can bro! There are a bunch of shameless enablers here that will look to spend your money by telling you 1 Manix is NOT enough!! They got me.......I now have 5!
Terrible enablers.........chap, ya gotta check out the blurple Manix!! It's the best one!!
:D :D :spyder: :spyder:
Joe

Pics make it even harder to resist!!

[palonej]

This one, Cruwear sprint, is pretty cool too!!
:spyder: :D

[10just]

Welcome to the Spyderco fam.. LW manix 2, what a good way to start a collection

[3rdGenRigger]

Yep, you're doomed. Embrace it or be destroyed by it.

[SpyderNut]

Welcome to the Brother and Sisterhood of the Spyderco Addiction, Chaps. You may want to warn your wife not to examine the upcoming credit card statement...:D

[farnorthdan]

I'll just leave this here for ya :D

[abbazaba]

Congrats!

I think it might need a friend (or 10) :D

[chaps]

I'll just leave this here for ya :D

Is that the Bento Box special run? WOW :eek:

[JasonC6612]

I was new to Spyderco not even a year or so ago... I'm still a knife newb.... but I also own 4 more spyderco knives than I did when I first came to the forums lol I just sort of get caught up looking around and seeing, then I'm price checking and buying... that quick. I was the kind of guy who has only used Buck and Gerber knives. 440C and Aus-8 was all I was familiar with prior to Spyderco. I would look at all of Sal and Erics designs, steels, handle materials, locks, etc with a cocked head and strange look. H1, Hap-40, LC200N, Super Blue, ARE ALL steels (well not h1 and lc200n) that I have read extensively about (as of NOW, but not so much a few weeks ago) and I had absolutely NO INTENTION of purchasing a knife with these weird odd named steels. NO INTENTION. I think my initial impression of all the sprint run steels and stuff was along the lines of : WHAT!? WHY?! Who would pay that? Who would want that. Now I hope I don't scare you away... but here is where it gets weird.. I now want all of these steels and more. I always went by "RUST RESISTANCE RUST RESISTANCE" (say that fast) and looking at Super Blue for example, I would turn my head so dang fast I'd almost snap my neck. Now I want Super Blue the most. It's not only the stories I hear of the performance of the steels that lure me but the names now.. lol It's definitely a strange addiction for me. I was NEVER a "knife guy" or "Knife nut". I didn't collect. Now I am and I do collect.. So the world of knives is new to me. Now I go to bed thinking about how they are made and wondering if I could make them one day ( I won't lol but I do dream of myself having the knowledge and opportunity) I talk knives so much that I take the word "addiction" seriously. My girlfriend knows almost every Production model spyderco that is out right now because of my frequent babblings of "I'm getting this.. I want this.. I wish this was offered in frn" She knows as much as I do now because I don't know how to shut up about them. ITS A REAL ADDICTION! I'm happy to be hooked and it's so amazing how a company can make us feel so appreciated, involved, and make products of such good quality that we KNOW it, we LOVE it, and we come back. I never had such an appreciation for knife design or steel chemistry until Spyderco.