Show your Spyderco pins!

djinnzfree · #1

Well now i consider myself as real fan of Spyderco; i got two pins! :D I could show them to everybody without alert anybody! :cool: I wear them proudly on my "SG1 Daniel Jackson Hat" black.

Did you guys got some pins?

The Deacon · #2

djinnzfree wrote:Did you guys got some pins?

A few...

The Mentaculous · #3

Are those available anywhere? I assume they're out of production as I haven't seen any

CanisMajor · #4

The Mentaculous wrote:Are those available anywhere? I assume they're out of production as I haven't seen any

I've seen a few on ebay, but other than that I haven't seen any.

Canis

SteelDragon · #5

The ones you see on ebay sometimes fool you at first glance, atleast they do me until I start reading and realize I am looking at a pin and not a knife.

I actually forgot about the pins, I have a box of them somewhere :confused:

The Deacon · #6

At one time or another, Spyderco handed out all of them except for the little gold :spyder: at trade shows and knife shows. Generally shortly after the model they represent was introduced (although the BiFold pin beat the real McCoy to market by a couple years. They also occasionally slip one into the box when you order a knife from SFO. The most likely "secondary market" source would be eBay. Most of them show up there occasionally.

They're made for Spyderco by a company in Amsterdam, New York called Empire Pewter. AFAIK, Empire does not have a website, but will send you a catalog with at least some of the pins. I believe you can order directly from them.

The gold :spyder: s are/were given to Spyderco employees who have worked there for a specific amount of time. As with the pewter pins, they show up on eBay. although much less frequently.

rycen · #7

SteelDragon · #8

Deacon, what's the one on the far left? You always have awesome pictures and thanks for sharing them!

Rycen, Look's like you have most of them as well, great job!

rycen · #9

SteelDragon wrote:Deacon, what's the one on the far left? You always have awesome pictures and thanks for sharing them!

Rycen, Look's like you have most of them as well, great job!

Thank you.

I think the one you mean is the Byrd bird or knife chicken.

v8r · #10

I have a Caspian salt pin that they put in the box with the D2 Para I bought from them last year. Free stuff is cool!

SteelDragon · #11

rycen wrote:Thank you.

I think the one you mean is the Byrd bird or knife chicken.

ahh, the Knife chicken is kinda cool surprised I hadn't seen it before. thx

So are you just short 2 or 3 from having all of them, I am guessing Paul's picture is probably all of them to date?

rycen · #12

Only spyderco knows just how many models have been made. I have a few more, that is an old pic.

Pneumothorax · #13

Here is one that I just picked up. My first and only one...so far.

RIOT · #14

any reason the Endura is in the half way part of being opened ? always seemed odd to me.

The Deacon · #15

RIOT wrote:any reason the Endura is in the half way part of being opened ? always seemed odd to me.

Only ones I'd call partly opened are the Dyad and the Snap it. The Dyad looks better that way than with both blades fully open, it's the way multi blade knives are most often displayed. As for the Snap It, fully open would hide it's most unique feature, the snap.

graf_zero · #16

The Deacon wrote:A few...

Do want!!! :)

I only have phoenix. Won in a knife competition. For me it was worth more than knife that was my another reward :)

RIOT · #17

The Deacon wrote:Only ones I'd call partly opened are the Dyad and the Snap it. The Dyad looks better that way than with both blades fully open, it's the way multi blade knives are most often displayed. As for the Snap It, fully open would hide it's most unique feature, the snap.

very true, but the Endura pin always looked funky to me, never understood why they made it look like that.

im surprise they made one of the Pride too.

The Deacon · #18

RIOT wrote:very true, but the Endura pin always looked funky to me, never understood why they made it look like that.

im surprise they made one of the Pride too.

Have to remember the Endura is the original version with the integral FRN clip. I'd guess it's the first, or one of the first, pins that was made. My guess would be that, like a number of the other pins, the Pride was a model Spyderco wanted to publicize a bit.

RJNC · #19

I find it interesting that even though the G. Sakai Firefly wasn't an "official" Spyderco there is a Spyderco pin of it.

The Deacon · #20

RJNC wrote:I find it interesting that even though the G. Sakai Firefly wasn't an "official" Spyderco there is a Spyderco pin of it.

Why? The pins are an advertising/marketing tool. If Spyderco sells something, even if it's made by someone else, they might want to advertise it.