How long have you loved spyderco?

[Jazz]

I think about 3 years ago for me. I didn't used to like the hump on the blade, but I got a Para and now, if it doesn't have a hump or hole (Spyderco only) I won't use it. I think they are all beautiful, also - something about Spydies - they're so ergonomic and useful.... I don't know, but I know I only use Spydercos now. :D

- best wishes, Jazz.

[A.P.F.]

I have been collecting since '06 and the PE Native was my 'gateway drug'. I also collect Buck knives, but I have never been able to resist a new :spyder: .

[Shenmue728]

I got bit by the bug (literally) about January when i got my girfriend a SS Scorpius PE. She wanted something thin and comforable in the had for breaking down boxes and when i arived i almost kept it for myself due to the wicked sharpness right out of the box. cut me real good and since then i've gotten a SpyderCard combo edge, SS harpy SE, SE SpyderHawk :eek: , P'Kal AND i gots a D2 paramilitary on the way! :D

[dete]

back around in 96,
I saw the serrated Endura and Delica in a tactical knife magazine
and I knew I had to have it, a week later, I got both knives.

2 other friends got the exact same thing with me because they trusted my eye :D
since then, over a decade later, they have gotten more and more into knives
and one of them switched to Kershaw Ken Onion designs, the other went for CRKT, I myself still value Spyderco as number one! YAY!

[messer454]

Somewhere I still have the Tactical Knives magazine from about 1992 I think where I circled a Spyderco Endura and a Cold Steel SRK in a Chicago Cutlery advertisement in the center. Went off To OSU and finally went to a gun store big enough to carry Spydercos. Went home with a SE Endura and have been carrying an Endura in one flavor or another EVERY DAY ever since although usually PE these days. I think I have just about all of the generations and handle colors of Endura that were made. It is still my favorite, sometimes I carry another spydie too but I always have an Endura somewhere.

Still want a Blue handled one though!!!!!!

[Phil Gibbs]

It was '83 or '84 for me,
I have been collector #18 ever since! :D

[Steelman]

For about 4 years now. We moved to Golden in the Fall of 2004 and went into the SFO and the rest is history.

Regards,
Doug

[Jarhead90]

Since '93. I have several CS knives but I have a soft spot for my SE Endura
broken clip and all. paid $40.00 for it.

[Tech a Billy]

August of 2002. I picked up a CE Police from Jekyll and Hyde bookstore in Bar Harbor, Maine while on vacation. Then I came home and found Bladeforums and learned that there was a clearance sale on Spydies at Smokey Mtn Knifeworks and I got the bug real bad. Have always had one or two on me ever since.

[Halfneck]

Since when I first saw this weird serrated hawkbill knife with a hole in the blade & a clip on the side back in 1987. Was walking through Carmel California & stopped into a Tobacco store that carried knives. Soon as I saw the SS Harpy in there I was drawn to it since it was so different from anything else at that time.

Bought it & I've never regretted it

[v8r]

It was 95 and I was 18, had a buddy I went to technical college with that had a delica,and he told me I should try one,so i did and the rest is history......Have always carried a pocket knife anyways growing up,it might as well be one that will CUT.

[AUXCOM]

Since the latter part of the 80's sometime around 1986 or 1987- I don't know if it was the Worker or Co-Pilot that I bought first, but I know I got them both at the now defunct mall cutlery chain "Hoffritz"

Wow - :spyder: has been a part of my life for over 20 years - That's longer than my wife :D

[ragingwolf66]

I had my First Spyderco in the Early to mid Nineties. It was a Delica with the incorporated FRN Clip. The Blade was fully Serrated. That was my first. I have had many since, But I will always have fond memories of my first EDC, as I carried her on the Submarine that I was attached to at the time. I Wish I could find a New old stock left over of one of those. I have much nicer knives now (mostly Spydercos) But an old skool original Serrated Delica would be my Trip down memory lane Spydie!!!

[smcfalls13]

Mid 2005 for me. Was the Harpy, and a whole bunch more afterwards :cool:

[butch]

date me on this one FRN integral clip endura in G2 steel :)
my first spyder and it didnt get replaced till 96 when i was in the corps and got an ATS34 millie SE was tween this and an Emerson SP? lucky now in hind site i didn't go custom order as i would have been sick to see what the "E" are pulling $$ these days. after what i did with my knives in the corp they had little more then memory's for value

[A.P.F.]

I am rather a late comer to Spyderco. It was 2006 when I bought a Native and started a :spyder: obsession.

[jzmtl]

I only got into knives a bit over a year ago, and an endura 4 was my first one. Was going into store to buy a byrd to replace my stolen cheap gerber but the spyderco is so smooth I had to get that instead. So far spydercos are the smoothest folders I've tried out of all the major manufactures, and huge bonus for they can be opened easily even when I have my ski gloves on. The endura is always in my side pocket when I go snow ski.

[kbuzbee]

Since the mid 80's; here is the long lost then found twin of my first....

That was my first as well. Sometime eary-mid '80s. Lost it working in the oil field. It's at the bottom of the Gulf, somewhere. Replaced it with an Endura which I had until I recently gave it to a brother here who'd been looking for a full FRN. Then a full sized and mini Wayne Goddard w/ Micarta scales. Still like them a LOT! Many since then. Unlike a previous poster, I really like many of the newer models better than the older ones. The S90V Mili and the Caly 3s are amazing knives. Good to see lots of folks coming to the Spyderco family. For a lot of years I had to look pretty hard to find them and very few people seemed to even know the brand. That's sure changed!

Ken

[druid]

I was introduced to spyderco, by a friend who had a civilian, he always left it lying on the table and I kind of missed them off by always picking it up and playing with it. he said correctly that it was not a blade that was meant to be used, except in emergencies in the tip was very fragile. although really I always had respect for it. This was back in 1996, are now looking for my own spyderco. but the prices even for ladybugs and dragonflies, seemed really high compared to the mass-produced junk for sale. I bought my first spyderco in a brick-and-mortar store for about $80 nice collaboration model a jot , quickly after I managed to completely ripped the clip out along with a chunk of the micarta, which I still think is kind of a design flaw in model, but the customer service and replacement I received, led to a long relationship with spyderco, and countless referrals this company. so I think it all worked out in the end.

[MCM]

Am really trying, but am not their yet.
Time will tell.