#1001 WORKER Which is?

[Marco72]

Hi everyone!

On the spyderwiki website (which may need updating), I noticed this page indicating that the non-original versions of the first two worker screws, provided they are spaced far apart and have a different punching pattern (and, I might add, clip satin finish), can be traced back to an evolution set.



I don't think any of us possesses absolute truths, but recreating timelines can be very frustrating.
I hope it can soon be rewarding too!



If we can have different clip thicknesses, we can also hope for two different screws and different curvatures.

Thank you so much for the hard work everyone before me has done in compiling the inventory!

[Marco72]

I'm posting some photos of the weight (the first in grams) and thickness of the grips (in mm)

[Marco72]

I'm adding some photos taken by me!

[Marco72]

Greetings to all of you. I was wondering, and I'm asking you, if you own a 2-screw set, please post some photos. It would be nice to have a photographic comparison. Post whatever you can on WORKER (stories, doubts, questions, photos, photos of the boxes, everything).
If we want to catalog, use a scale, caliper, or anything else :)). It would be nice to create a database.

I often wonder whether one should ask "permission" when trying to reconstruct a story that is part of someone else's personal history.

Many thanks

[Marco72]

I understand that the 2 screws are rare, but is there anyone who can post?

[PaloArt]

@Marco72 what an exhaustive thread and very informative including photos I never saw (like the keychain which was basis behind clips). Thank you very much for all the effort.

I think Worker should return into regular production under the new Category - Legends… followed by Mariner in SS handle, Rookie etc. @sal do you think it might be possible to revisit Worker please or not even considering that?

[Marco72]

@Marco72 what an exhaustive thread and very informative including photos I never saw (like the keychain which was basis behind clips). Thank you very much for all the effort.

Many thanks but it's not all my work, I'm just looking for a chronology in the history of worker models.
I reported the information I found, the main work is by Deacon and deRrock



and for this I point out an interesting post written by the user @The CoPilot, I think he does an excellent research but I can't understand how the clip (clip-it), the tallest and satin ones, are still always present even in the second versions of the worker, the question is: are the others therefore from an evolution set? To be better said, from the post by The copilot the series one of a worker is defined with this particularity (two screws on clip; thin stainless scales both sides, no lanyard hole; scale edges unchamfered) in my opinion the clip in the shape is fundamental, I wonder if these 2 different clips with pending patent do not indicate 2 different moments of the manufacture of the worker.

I think that for the clips it's just a different printing or type of processing






And last but not least, I'd like to point out that for Sal, the worker's "gamble" was a fundamental step.
The realities of life where we bite off more than we can chew, but then, thanks to luck, passion, foresight, or a dream, they come true. I'd like to say skill, but that was a cliché; today it translates only into words: work hard!



From Spyderco :
Integrity is being good, even if no one is watching”™

[Marco72]

For completeness, I'm adding some photos of the worker model (SAKAI).
It's the model referenced in the specific paragraph on spydiewiki.
It has its own unusual history.

[aicolainen]

I think Worker should return into regular production under the new Category - Legends… followed by Mariner in SS handle, Rookie etc.

Ohh.. A legends line

That'd be a wonderful thing

[Marco72]

Maybe even going back to talking about the original post would be nice!

[Infinite Zero]

I think Worker should return into regular production under the new Category - Legends… followed by Mariner in SS handle, Rookie etc.

Ohh.. A legends line

That'd be a wonderful thing

I could get behind this. There would need to be some sort of “Legends” marking to differentiate these models from the originals, if they are produced with the same materials.

[Marco72]

Guys, in my humble opinion, a legend never repeats itself and is unique.
It's the conjunction of a perfect time/thought that produced that particular creation.
Of course, everything can be replicated, but it wouldn't be the same!

The legend is sought in the details and curiosities of its very nature of having changed things. No one knows how the legend is born, but it is created in our imagination through the utilities experienced by users and, of course, by the foresight of the maker, that foresight that reads trends and fashions that, without knowing it, become the standard adopted by everyone.

Spyderco "in primis " can be defined as a living legend!

[Infinite Zero]

Guys, in my humble opinion, a legend never repeats itself and is unique.

Isn’t one of the main points of this thread to catalogue the variants of the Worker, including the reissue that’s part of the Evolution set?

Sounds like a Legend repeating itself to me.

[Marco72]

Guys, in my humble opinion, a legend never repeats itself and is unique.

Isn’t one of the main points of this thread to catalogue the variants of the Worker, including the reissue that’s part of the Evolution set?

Sounds like a Legend repeating itself to me.

Well, the Worker Evolution Set says it all: it's an evolution of the original Worker. It's not a repeat of the legend; I consider the progenitors, and therefore legends, to be, for example, a C27, a C22, and the Worker 1001R/L.
The rest are variations, like many other Spyderco models that, due to my ignorance, I'm not even familiar with.
The discussion was about figuring out which model was mine, then it evolved into a more in-depth understanding, and I'm very happy about it!
Thanks to you too for your contribution

[Marco72]

What rascals no one wants to take out the photos of the worker collections, let's do some research :) thanks again