How many of You are collecting exclusively (or nearly) Spyderco knives?

[horzuff]

While reading the forum a question came to my mind. How many of You collect exclusively Spyderco knives? How many have mostly Spydies with some other brands sprinkled in? Who isn't really selective with their collection and gets a somewhat even mix of any brands that catch their eye? Maybe some of You don't have any Spydercos yet?

I myself have a pretty even spread of brands as I like variety and novelty.

However my Spydies are definitely a more stable part of my herd while most of the rest rotate out pretty frequently. They just very rarely have any glaring issues while being fantastic cutting tools so there's rarely any reason to let them go.

How about all of You?

[yablanowitz]

I accumulate all kinds of knives. I collect Police Models, Mule Teams and Militaries, but I also collect Queen knives.

[horzuff]

That's an impressive bunch! Any particular reason for those choices?

[jwbnyc]

I’m having a little trouble figuring out which category to pick in this poll. I collect Spyderco almost exclusively in modern folding knives, having maybe Three Benchmade, otherwise, all the same model, which are older work knives. OTOH, I have somewhere close to the same number of SAKs that I have Spydercos, so I’m leaning towards 50/50.. I also have some fixies that are not Spyderco. I’d have to go count to figure out if I have more Spyderco fixies or not. I think so, though. I’m pretty static with my collecting now, so don’t expect that ratio to change too much in the near future, maybe the occasional item going forward, like my first Spyderco slippie, a Roadie, that’s coming in the mail on Monday. Just thinking out loud here. I’m not much interested in other brands, anyway.

[Scandi Grind]

I don't have many knives period, so I am probably not the kind of person this question best applies to, but... Despite how much I love Spyderco folders, my favorite knives will always be of the fixed blade breed. Spyderco seems to lack fixed blades in current production that really appeal to me from all angles, so in the realm that I am most likely to expand my collection, Spyderco is not likely to make up the majority.

[benben]

I checked Spyderco 100%, actually the only other knife I own is a ZT 0562. I just don’t care for thumb studs but I have no problem with non-assisted flippers, my 0562 is a fantastic knife!

I’d love to have a Hinderer XM-18 Skinny Sheepsfoot flipper if there was one in the world to buy!

[jwbnyc]

I accumulate all kinds of knives. I collect Police Models, Mule Teams and Militaries, but I also collect Queen knives.

What the heck is this guy in the middle there?

[Mad Mac]

My collection of Spyderco knives is listed in my signature below.
Only a few other inexpensive knives of other brands
have been acquired over the years.

[Mushroom]

100% only Spyderco.

[vivi]

All brands. Spyderco, Leatherman, Cold Steel, Victorinox, various japanese kitchen knife makers, fiskars, queen, scrap yard, kiwi, etc.

spyderco has too many gaps in their line-up for me to go all in. $25 or less beater machete, 5"+ folders, different kitchen knife patterns (don't think they currently sell a boning knife for example), axes and hatchets, folding saws, don't think they sell anything with a scandi grind for wood working these days, nothing like my scrapyard dogfather (9" s7 chopper), etc.

[Manixguy@1994]

I have collected different brands over the years but over 90% are presently Spyderco . MG2

[Cali HogHead]

Almost entirely Spydie's. I picked up a Boos smoke to try it. And since I had a Slyz Bowie first, I picked up a CRK Sebenza to see if the Internet was accurate to compare those two. I don't feel like they were comparable.

[Synov]

About half of my collection is Spyderco. I also enjoy a few others

[Naperville]

I bought many different knives from 1 inch to 24 inch blades, because Spyderco can't make them all.

I'm cutting way back selling another $10k in (fixed and folding) knives again and will have almost nothing but Spyderco Native Chief folders.

My fixed blade collection is a lil trickier, and I'll have a few Spydercos and a few other brands.

[Coastal]

Definitely most, but probably less than 80%. I have only a few Spydies from back in the day, no more than half a dozen. The rest are spread among SOG, Chris Reeve, William Henry, Case, Browning, CRKT and so on. And other than a Z-Cut and the occasional Mule Team, I seldom use Spydies in the kitchen.

On the other hand, a large proportion of my purchases from the past several years have been Spydercos. I like a couple of other brands a lot too, but they don't have Spyderco's variety and their average price point is higher, so I don't end up buying many.

[Evil D]

I spent most of 2023 with a Microtech in my pocket

But the vast majority are Spydercos. Probably more like 90%.

[JayHenMac]

The poll needs another option. It's less than 50% but not an even spread. If we are going by percentage of $ invested, then it's more than half.

[yablanowitz]

I accumulate all kinds of knives. I collect Police Models, Mule Teams and Militaries, but I also collect Queen knives.

What the heck is this guy in the middle there?

Not sure what to call it. Easy out melon tester, elephant castrater, or ? Someone called it the best folding skinner ever made.

Edit to add: got home and dug it out, pattern number is 62. Queen called it a citrus/melon knife.

[Mad Mac]

If you are referring to the long Spey blade,
castration is exactly what it is for.

My Wrangler uses the Spey blade on a Case Trapper
to castrate the bull calves.
Between calves the open knife blade is stuck in his hip pocket.
He has cut himself a few times and lost it one day.

I think Spyderco should make a Spey blade knife
so wranglers can one hand open, close it
and clip it between calves.

My wrangler could save us taxpayers a lot of money
if they put him in charge of
gender affirming surgery.

[JoviAl]

About 90% of knives I buy for work and home are now Spyderco. I don’t collect knives per se, I just have a lot of users. Out of a current 50+ knives 4 are PW Customs fixed blades, 1 is a Hogue and 1 is an engraved Opinel which I received as a gift from a conference I spoke at. The rest are all Spyderco.