Congrats on the Spot! You took some great pics and I love the sheath mod.cyberspyder wrote:BTW, the reason on why it's second was probably due to the unfinished inside surfaces of the handle cutout---
sal wrote:Hi Cyberspyder,
Thanx for the comments and the great pics.
Fred's "Index finger hole" was a really great concept. We use Fred's concept with his permission and we pay him royalties for having created the idea. (on all of the models).
The SPOT design was the result of a forum request for a neck knife. Fred's index finger hole (IFH?) is hard to beat for security (hard to drop) and permits the fingers to be used without dropping the knife.
The LaGriffe was too small for my liking. I have a custom serrated LaGriffe that Fred made for me many years ago, and I carried it quite a bit.
I realize that the finger indentations "force" a position". I felt this was the best insurance against twist and provided the most security and control of that cutting edge. (Which could conceivably be used with great force).
I apologize that it didn't hit your hand in a natural psoiition. It is a very difficult design task to "force" a position that accomodates all hand shapes and sizes, but we are improving that concept all of the time, a mm at a time.
The "Swick" model was a refinement of the SPOT design and the ergos fit more hands "naturally" than the original SPOT. The Caspian Salts also are more accomodating.
BTW, we've got a sprint run of "Swicks" in the works. 500 pcs, no scales, no sheaths, CPM-S30V warncliffe, A little different from the first run in that we've added the "trademark" round hole as we have been doing with fixed blades of late.
We had quite a few requests to do another run. If it's well received, we'll do a sprint in a leaf style blade shape.
sal
Holy Mackerel....sal wrote:
BTW, we've got a sprint run of "Swicks" in the works. 500 pcs, no scales, no sheaths, CPM-S30V warncliffe, A little different from the first run in that we've added the "trademark" round hole as we have been doing with fixed blades of late.
We had quite a few requests to do another run. If it's well received, we'll do a sprint in a leaf style blade shape.
sal
LOL :pPiercieve wrote:Haha this is a thread about the SPOT and now I'm all excited about this run of Swicks... Sounds like it's coming up pretty soon as well.
My 2 Spots : )
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[/CENTER]Personally I would love to see a slightly larger Swick that could more naturally accommodate a larger blade in the same design as the original. The Swick was my first real Spyderco and I was lucky enough to get what I think is the last one off ebay. I have not seen one available since I purchased mine.sal wrote:Hi Cyberspyder,
BTW, we've got a sprint run of "Swicks" in the works. 500 pcs, no scales, no sheaths, CPM-S30V warncliffe, A little different from the first run in that we've added the "trademark" round hole as we have been doing with fixed blades of late.
