New Preview - Chaparral May the 4th be with you

[xceptnl]

Terrific little teaser @sal and company.



Red carbon Chap appears to be strong with the force.

[Mushroom]

Looks cool! Wonder if it is going to be a new regular production version or a sprint run.

[apollo]

Terrific little teaser @sal and company.



Red carbon Chap appears to be strong with the force.

Finally i was waiting for this one to be revealed since Amsterdam!

Loved the video by the way i wonder who is the Starwars fan at Spyderco as that helmet is not cheap…

[Paul Ardbeg]

Thx for posting, nice one

[northmanscall]

What an amazing video. Props to the social Media team at Spyderco.

[Sildani]

That was great. My congratulations to the team. The "Mustafar" edition Chaparral.

[RyanY]

Thanx for sharing! I've been wanting a chaparral for a long time now. Maybe this is the one to get, cost permitting.

[Flash]

Another Chaparral with CTS-XHP and a fancy handle?

More steel options please.

[Mushroom]

Yes - another handle variant added to the controlled series that exclusively features different handle variants.

More steels will be used in the LW model platform.

[riclaw]

More steels will be used in the LW model platform.

Oh? A Salty Chap, mayhap?

[Catchadroppimgknife]

I want a 15v Light Saber !!!

[Mat_ski]

Yes - another handle variant added to the controlled series that exclusively features different handle variants.

More steels will be used in the LW model platform.

Wheel was also a controlled series at some point in prehistoric times. I bet there were those who wanted it to feature different shades of flint, but strongly opposed making it out of different stone types.

Look where we are now.

[Mushroom]

[abbazaba]

Looks fun. Hey, maybe it's 3.5"

[xceptnl]

Looks fun. Hey, maybe it's 3.5"

THIS

[sal]

Sorry guys,

I'm still testing the handmade prototype of the 3.5" that Roque made. We're a long ways from a production piece.

sal

[Wartstein]

Looks really cool!! - actually thinking about getting one, despite not being much of a CF guy.

Personally though I´d even more like to see a Micarta Chap eventually (would also be an "even newer" version, since there already was a CF/G10 laminate Chap).

Generally I am with Nick / @Mushroom

I think keeping the Chap line true to the original intention of displaying various handle materials, but specifically "open up" the FRN version for (steel-) variants is a great approach.

Most ideal would be if blades were swappable between all variants (which is mostly the case anyway? Idk...), so that people could create their ideal Chap if we ever see steel variants in the FRN model (as of now I can see folks wanting the SE blade of the FRN model in another handle. I actually think the "aggressive" look of teeth with that red carbon should look really cool...)

[Wartstein]

Sorry guys,

I'm still testing the handmade prototype of the 3.5" that Roque made. We're a long ways from a production piece.

sal

Still, and I can´t repeat this enough: So cool you´re doing this, Sal!

[apollo]

Another Chaparral with CTS-XHP and a fancy handle?

More steel options please.

Sorry if its boring for you but the idea behind the Chaparral line is around the handle differences as its like what the Kopa used to be.
So steel is not it main focus for once…

[Wartstein]

Another Chaparral with CTS-XHP and a fancy handle?
More steel options please.

Sorry if its boring for you but the idea behind the Chaparral line is around the handle differences as its like what the Kopa used to be.
So steel is not it main focus for once…

No offense meant, @Flash , but I also think one can hardly criticise the Chap - line for doing what it always was meant to do....

Again, for possible steel variants there is the FRN version now (see here viewtopic.php?t=97589 or here viewtopic.php?p=1614611#p1614611)

To quote @sal:

"I made the FRN version because I felt there was a market for a less expensive utility version. This also offers opportunity for colors, exclusive variations and who knows what else." (viewtopic.php?p=1613132#p1613132)