The waved feature does look interesting as well. Is there one Emerson waved folder that you'd recommend KaliGman?
KaliGman wrote:With a little technique and training, you can use the Delica and the small Persian for punyo (butt) strikes. As has been indicated, the grip is just enough for your four fingers, so you don't have a lot of spare punyo, but it can be done. Also, just as I have shown with the Lava, the front of a closed small knife can be used quite effectively.
As for the wave, it works well until it doesn't. What I mean by that is that it is a very quick way to deploy a blade on a folding knife, but that sometimes it will not wave all the way open under stress, or it will get caught on the lining of a pocket, etc. As long as you continue to practice alternative deployments for the "in case the wave fails" situations, waves can be very good--they give you another opening option. That said, in general I prefer my Spydercos non-waved and most of my Emersons waved. I find it a bit easier to bypass the wave at speed, should I need to pull the knife but not yet deploy it (a good idea in many a situation) with the Emerson wave. Besides, I practice deploying all of my knives from various grasps, with either hand, etc., and can pretty much open them no matter how I grab them.
It is probably good to have a Delica wave in the collection (you seem to have the start of a good addiction errr collection :D ), so I would pick one up. I would look into getting a mini Persian too. In fact, I think I have talked myself into buying another Persian, "just in case." :) The Endura, based on your criteria in the first post, would be a bit large: overall length of 8 3/4" when open, blade 3 3/4" (compared to your Chinook 3--overall length 8 9/16", blade 3 3/4") [all measurements from the current Spyderco catalog].
