What Spyderco is in your pocket today??

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Re: What Spyderco is in your pocket today??

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Blast from the past! I carried this yesterday. It's the first Spyderco that I ever purchased, the first real quality pocket knife I ever purchased. It was probably 25 years ago that I got this beauty. It's seen tons of use, and care.
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My weekly carry journey comes to an end today for the Para 3 in M4. I'm left thoroughly impressed! It was a fairly heavy work week this past week. I never once touched up the edge or gave it any passes on the strop. I finished up most of my work fairly early today and it was still shaving. The past couple hours I decided to try and dull the edge by cutting up various materials I can find around the warehouse.

Sliced up a few boxes into pretty small pieces, the brown paracord I cut 225 pieces. I used 75 cuts for the tip area, 75 cuts for the belly and 75 for the heel of the blade. The blue rope is heavy duty stuff, covered in a waxy finish to help keep it bound together. The Para 3 cleanly cut through those pieces while having to use a bit of strength looping the rope around my finger and pulling the rope towards myself as I push cut with the knife. Cleanly cut through every time on the first try. I finished up with various cuts of the heavy duty rubber hydraulic hose. My hand is now a bit cramped haha.

I ran my finger along the edge and it didn't feel very sharp. I thought, yes...I've defeated M4. I grabbed a piece of paper, and as you can see...cleanly cut it along the entire edge! I never really got to test the toughness of M4 I guess, but wow...this steel handled everything all week long, outlasted my hand in strength and still isn't done yet. I was very impressed with the results of the Manix 2 in 20CV a couple weeks ago, but I think M4 claims #1 of my weekly long tests so far.

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15 :bug-red 's in 10 different steels
1 - Bradford Guardian 3 / Vanadis 4E Wharnie
1 - Monterey Bay Knives Slayback Flipper / ZDP 189
1 - CRK Small Sebenza 31/Macassar Ebony Inlays
1 - CRK Large Inkosi Insingo/ Black Micarta Inlays
1 - CRK Small Sebenza 31 Insingo/Magnacut

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sal wrote:Knife afi's are pretty far out, steel junky's more so, but "edge junky's" are just nuts. :p
SpyderEdgeForever wrote: Also, do you think a kangaroo would eat a bowl of spagetti with sauce if someone offered it to them?
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Happy Aloha Friday
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Freediver wrote:
Fri Feb 28, 2020 10:09 pm
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Happy Aloha Friday
Whole lot of greatness in that pic!
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Spydergirl88 wrote:
Fri Feb 28, 2020 10:34 pm
Freediver wrote:
Fri Feb 28, 2020 10:09 pm
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Happy Aloha Friday
Whole lot of greatness in that pic!
Thanks
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After a lot of lurking, my first post here. Just got the Spyderco Para 3 Lightweight, and I'm over the moon, such a great knife. I'm eyeing the Smock next. Cheers!

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legOFwhat? wrote:
Fri Feb 28, 2020 8:53 am
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The Endura looks nice!
Silver clip and not the typical "Endura blue" - customized?
Top three going by pocket-time (update March 24):
- EDC: Endura thin red line ffg combo edge (VG10); Wayne Goddard PE (4V), Endela SE (VG10)
-Mountains/outdoors: Pac.Salt 1 SE (H1), Salt 2 SE (LC200N), and also Wayne Goddard PE (4V)
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ChicTaters for quiet Saturday comfort

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Shortround131 wrote:
Sat Feb 29, 2020 9:51 am
After a lot of lurking, my first post here. Just got the Spyderco Para 3 Lightweight, and I'm over the moon, such a great knife. I'm eyeing the Smock next. Cheers!

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Congrats on the Para 3 and welcome to the forum!
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Wartstein wrote:
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legOFwhat? wrote:
Fri Feb 28, 2020 8:53 am

The Endura looks nice!
Silver clip and not the typical "Endura blue" - customized?
Thanks, it's RIT dyed Vtoku2. Played around with trying out a acid wash on the blade but it didn't turn out like I wanted.

Probably too nice of a knife to experiment on but I still give it love :)
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Tools for the upcoming week... :spyder:

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Welcome aboard Shortround and nice Para3! Very nice Zippo too.
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Shortround131 wrote:
Sat Feb 29, 2020 9:51 am
After a lot of lurking, my first post here. Just got the Spyderco Para 3 Lightweight, and I'm over the moon, such a great knife. I'm eyeing the Smock next. Cheers!
Welcome Shortround! Hear great things about the Smock.
-Larry
Hebrews 13:6 So we may boldly say: “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?”
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^^^😍^^^
Those micarta handles look fantastic, turbo! How is the texture? Grippy?
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The winner of the poll I started yesterday, for what to carry for the week. Thanks to all who participated. Let's see what you're all about Rex!

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15 :bug-red 's in 10 different steels
1 - Bradford Guardian 3 / Vanadis 4E Wharnie
1 - Monterey Bay Knives Slayback Flipper / ZDP 189
1 - CRK Small Sebenza 31/Macassar Ebony Inlays
1 - CRK Large Inkosi Insingo/ Black Micarta Inlays
1 - CRK Small Sebenza 31 Insingo/Magnacut

-Rick
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