How about a Shark-Ray? Also available in orange and yellow.
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These are very cool. I would love to see a larger version of these with an FRN grip and H1 SE blades.
Heck I would even take a plain edged version if they used LC200N blade steel. But those are nice and it just drives home the fact that a fixed blade Hawkbill would fit nicely with Spyderco's great line up of Hawkbill folders.
I agree JD. It is not only a hole in Spyderco's lineup, but in the knife market in general for non-Karambit style fixed blade SE Hawkbills. They just don't exist. That Shark-Ray is cool as heck!
Also, a fixed blade Spyderhawk in H1 SE with a full tang and torx screwed FRN handles would be cool. An XL version of this would be even cooler!
CRU-CARTA THE SEKI MODELS! AND BRING US THE DODO-FLY!
How about a Shark-Ray? Also available in orange and yellow.
shark-ray-black.jpg
These are very cool. I would love to see a larger version of these with an FRN grip and H1 SE blades.
Heck I would even take a plain edged version if they used LC200N blade steel. But those are nice and it just drives home the fact that a fixed blade Hawkbill would fit nicely with Spyderco's great line up of Hawkbill folders.
I agree JD. It is not only a hole in Spyderco's lineup, but in the knife market in general for non-Karambit style fixed blade SE Hawkbills. They just don't exist. That Shark-Ray is cool as heck!
Also, a fixed blade Spyderhawk in H1 SE with a full tang and torx screwed FRN handles would be cool. An XL version of this would be even cooler!
You are so right "steelcity" and I've said it for the past 5 years or so that if anyone would take their Spyderhawk model and use it for lawn, garden and landscaping as well as flower bed chores the demand would be broad based for sure.
Everyone that has taken my advice and tried any Hawkbill blade with lawn and garden uses has always had something good to say about them for those types of uses.
These are very cool. I would love to see a larger version of these with an FRN grip and H1 SE blades.
Heck I would even take a plain edged version if they used LC200N blade steel. But those are nice and it just drives home the fact that a fixed blade Hawkbill would fit nicely with Spyderco's great line up of Hawkbill folders.
I agree JD. It is not only a hole in Spyderco's lineup, but in the knife market in general for non-Karambit style fixed blade SE Hawkbills. They just don't exist. That Shark-Ray is cool as heck!
Also, a fixed blade Spyderhawk in H1 SE with a full tang and torx screwed FRN handles would be cool. An XL version of this would be even cooler!
You are so right "steelcity" and I've said it for the past 5 years or so that if anyone would take their Spyderhawk model and use it for lawn, garden and landscaping as well as flower bed chores the demand would be broad based for sure.
Everyone that has taken my advice and tried any Hawkbill blade with lawn and garden uses has always had something good to say about them for those types of uses.
I agree JD, my SE Spyderhawk is in one pocket and my SE Pacific Salt in the other every time I am doing yardwork. Great one-two punch! The H1 SE Spyderhawk should be a permanent production model and marketed to the landscaping crowd. Insanely useful and nothing like it out there!
CRU-CARTA THE SEKI MODELS! AND BRING US THE DODO-FLY!
Heck I would even take a plain edged version if they used LC200N blade steel. But those are nice and it just drives home the fact that a fixed blade Hawkbill would fit nicely with Spyderco's great line up of Hawkbill folders.
I agree JD. It is not only a hole in Spyderco's lineup, but in the knife market in general for non-Karambit style fixed blade SE Hawkbills. They just don't exist. That Shark-Ray is cool as heck!
Also, a fixed blade Spyderhawk in H1 SE with a full tang and torx screwed FRN handles would be cool. An XL version of this would be even cooler!
You are so right "steelcity" and I've said it for the past 5 years or so that if anyone would take their Spyderhawk model and use it for lawn, garden and landscaping as well as flower bed chores the demand would be broad based for sure.
Everyone that has taken my advice and tried any Hawkbill blade with lawn and garden uses has always had something good to say about them for those types of uses.
I agree JD, my SE Spyderhawk is in one pocket and my SE Pacific Salt in the other every time I am doing yardwork. Great one-two punch! The H1 SE Spyderhawk should be a permanent production model and marketed to the landscaping crowd. Insanely useful and nothing like it out there!
Pull cutting has several advantages in lawn, garden and landscaping and to some degree working with fruit trees as well. It was all the way back around 2004-2005 when I took my VG-10, SE Spyderhawk by mistake one day when I was working in some North Missouri wetlands. I had meant to take my full SE Endura instead. It was one of the better mistakes I ever made. It didn't take but about 10 minutes to realize that the Spyderhawk was a much better tool for working in that harsh, overgrown environment.
And a fixed blade Hawkbill would even have more advantages.
Holy Toledo Stuart!!! I would love to test drive that bad boy with a Spyderedge :cool: And that contour could fit in a sheath very easily and securely at the same time. I'm wondering what the blade length is on that model i.e. Boomerang???
Put a CF or G-10 handle with a Tek-Lok sheath on that bad boy and I'm off to the races :cool:
Joe
The length, from memory, was around 5 inches for the blade, from the bottom of the ricasso to the tip, in a straight line.
To me that would just about be letter perfect for a first Spyderco fixed blade Hawkbill. It would be just a tad bit bigger than the Spyderhawk and it would be the ideal length for a hard use fixed blade Hawkbill.
Also I hope that it has a thick spine and to be available in PE & SE both.
I don't know if this idea ever gained enough traction, but Hawkbills are becoming a style of interest for me. I think I might buy a linoleum/leather cutting Hawbill for cheap to test what I think of this blade style. I am more of a fixed blade fan than a folder fan, so this idea intriques me a little.
Hey @Stuart Ackerman I have made a few leather sheaths at this point, so after thinking about trying a hawkbill fixed blade, my mind immediately went to what the sheath would be like. Hawkbills require a bit of a different design approach and I'm messing around with what one might be like, but I haven't seen any examples of a sheath for one yet. You don't happen to have a picture of a sheath for the Boomerang design do you?
The Boomerang is owned by Daywalker...Chad Los Banos...
The Kydex sheath works by drawing the knife with the spine out first, with the curve edge following. Leather will not work unless you use a Kydex liner to secure the blade.
Inserting it is easy, and the sheath can be carried in a multitude of ways... SOB... Crossdraw... even attached to a handgun shoulder holster under the weak hand armpit.
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The Boomerang is owned by Daywalker...Chad Los Banos...
The Kydex sheath works by drawing the knife with the spine out first, with the curve edge following. Leather will not work unless you use a Kydex liner to secure the blade.
Inserting it is easy, and the sheath can be carried in a multitude of ways... SOB... Crossdraw... even attached to a handgun shoulder holster under the weak hand armpit.
Cool, thanks for the description.
I know I can make a leather sheath, it just will probably work totally differently than a kydex one would.
I found this old beat up thing in a toolbox. Not sure if I can make it useable again with the tools available to me, but I guess I will find out.
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Most interesting you show a pic of a linoleum Knife. I've got a BUCK linoleum knife that I snagged off of Ebay several years ago. I've had it in my all purpose tool kit for about 5 plus years now and I've used it on quite a few fix-it jobs over the years. BUCK made a really nice linoleum knife and very few people are aware of their existence.
A partially serrated linoleum knife has a lot of advantages. I'd like to see one in H-1 or some other nitrogen based steel blade. I'm really intrigued that this old thread would pop up again.
