Gayle Bradley

rg02 · #1

UPS just came :) . I am very impressed with the quality of this knife. F&F is very nice. It is the newer version that has cut outs in the frame to help with the weight. Blade is razor sharp and the carbon fiber and polished frame edges are beautiful. This definitely is a stout knife! Enough with my babble, let's see some pics! Apologize for my poor photography skills :)

Blade perfectly centered:

Next to my para mil 2:

Top view of both:

MIL-DOT · #2

The GB is definately a cool blade, and it's reputation speaks volumes. I've been keeping this one at arms length largely because of it's weight, but as I've just observed with my new Manix2, 5 ounces ain't so hefty,afterall.

And don't short-change your photography skills, I thought that first one was particularly imaginative.

INFRNL · #3

Congrats! Awesome pics too. I love this knife as well, it's one of the nicest spydies I think, especially fit & finish. Definitely classier then most others.

DeathBySnooSnoo · #4

By far one of my favorites! I really love it...so much so that I overlook it's somewhat horrible blade to handle ratio.

SQSAR · #5

Congrats! The GB was my 1st knife with M4 steel, and man it has become one of my favorite steels of all time.

nakahoshi · #6

Glad you took our advice :D

Enjoy it!

-Bobby

wrdwrght · #7

Ain't it grand?

Rockcrawler · #8

Nice pics! My favorite spydie!

rg02 · #9

nakahoshi wrote:Glad you took our advice :D

Enjoy it!

-Bobby

Wouldn't of got this one without you alls advice! I can't wait to carry it :)

KardinalSyn · #10

Nice....congratz :)

Tdog · #11

Congrat's, this is perhaps the smoothest opening Spydie I have. Gonna have to get mine out and give it some attention. Be safe.

Alchemy1 · #12

I'm jealous. I have the same two knives coming in the mail along with a Sage 1. After seeing these pics now I'm really getting anxious to get my hands on them.

rg02 · #13

I just tested the out of the box sharpness and was able to shave hair on my hand. The M4 is razor sharp :)

rg02 · #14

Alchemy1 wrote:I'm jealous. I have the same two knives coming in the mail along with a Sage 1. After seeing these pics now I'm really getting anxious to get my hands on them.

You will not be disappointed with either one! I understand the wait! I have a Yojimbo 2 on the way as well. Should be here Friday. I am done buying spydies for a while...... Baby girl due in March/April (our first)

Alchemy1 · #15

Congrats on the new addition to your family! I need to stop buying knives if I want to be able to pay my bills...LOL

I keep trying to ignore the fact that there are still blue paramilitaries for pre-order. If I knew I wouldn't get the invoice until my next paycheck I'd be all over one...hahaha.

BAL · #16

Hey rg02, Congrats on the new arrival, your upcoming daughter that is. Children are like Spyderco's. They have a way of changing the way that you view life and you spend WAY too much money on them and don't seem to mind. You need to thick about what Spyderco will be her first, maye a pick Native or Ladybug.

BAL · #17

Hey rg02, you should see how your wife would lmind if you named your daughter after a Spyderco knife, such as Gayle, or Zulu, Cat, Delica, Cricket, Caly, Sage, Kiwi, Honeybee, Shabaria or even Chaparral. It wouldn't hurt to ask. You could just name her Sal.

defenestrate · #18

this one is high on my want list.

Allen R. · #19

+1 on naming baby girl Sal itd b great and whered you find the **** yojimbo I've looked everywhere a PM would be nice

powernoodle · #20

I think I have shown this before, but an improvement - at least in my view - on the design is to relieve the scale and liner to give good access to the Spydie hole and liner lock. The work was done by Tom Krein.

Its a tremendous improvement. But I understand why its the way it is -presumably to prevent unintentional disengagement of the lock under hard use.