Orange Paramilitary 2

SpydieZ · #221

I dunno that kinda seems like jumping the gun.... They already are busy they don't need us calling in requesting our knives. I ordered 12/31 and still no word. I'm not worried good people over there!

md8232 · #222

Got an email today that mine is on the way.

vaisforlovers · #223

I got mine today. I'm very impressed with my 1st PM2

Wonderful, Wonderful, Wonderful and yet again wonderful, and after all that, wonderful.

A special thanks to Jeff and the folks at CS for all the hard work to make this go so smoothly for us.

And another special thanks to all the folks at Spyderco for giving us such a well designed, engineered, and manufactured tool/piece of art.

Alchemy1 · #224

After loosening up the pivot screws I have been able to make this Para2 a close second to my M390 Para2, but doing so did make the blade off center. I don't really care about that though. I never understood why people are so concerned about how a knife looks when it is CLOSED. A knife is meant to be used open. I will say in my VERY limited use this Para2 is not as "aggressive" of a cutter. My M390 seems to grab whatever it is cutting and just rip through it. This is not to say that the Orange isn't and excellent cutter/slicer or that it isn't pretty close to razor sharp out of the box.

B22 · #225

Alchemy1 wrote:After loosening up the pivot screws I have been able to make this Para2 a close second to my M390 Para2, but doing so did make the blade off center. I don't really care about that though. I never understood why people are so concerned about how a knife looks when it is CLOSED. A knife is meant to be used open. I will say in my VERY limited use this Para2 is not as "aggressive" of a cutter. My M390 seems to grab whatever it is cutting and just rip through it. This is not to say that the Orange isn't and excellent cutter/slicer or that it isn't pretty close to razor sharp out of the box.

Now you can update your sig line

wsdavies · #226

It was the Knifeworks green Para2 that had the 2 knife limit. Sprint limits are kinda silly AFAIC.

BuffaloBill wrote:^ This is true. just got off the phone with someone at CS, very polite guy. took my Order # , cc # and exp date. Told me it would be in NJ by this time next week.

I too was under the impression that there was a limit of two knives, maybe it was only 2 knives per order. :confused:

not too worried though since I got one and it will be on its way.

cubsfan1969 · #227

The Oompa Loompa has landed.

KardinalSyn · #228

chuck_roxas45 wrote:Yep, there was no limit on the orange sprint para.

Did you receive your shipping info yet Chuck?

JB3 · #229

BAM!!

sir_mike · #230

Man, I just cant believe I missed this one! The pictures make it worse!

chuck_roxas45 · #231

KardinalSyn wrote:Did you receive your shipping info yet Chuck?

Mine is with a forum member who is doing me a great favor by getting the knife for me. It will be in the mail soon. I asked for the favor because I use a debit card for my paypal and when the PO started it was a weekend for me(and the card had insufficient funds) and I was really worried that the run wouldn't last the weekend.

Here's me thanking Josh. You are awesome dude!!

KardinalSyn · #232

chuck_roxas45 wrote:Mine is with a forum member who is doing me a great favor by getting the knife for me. It will be in the mail soon. I asked for the favor because I use a debit card for my paypal and when the PO started it was a weekend for me and I was really worried that the run wouldn't last the weekend.

Here's me thanking Josh. You are awesome dude!!

Wow, that's cool.

I was hoping that CS would ship international orders by Friday but seems they haven't. Oh well, gonna try and find my lost virtue, patience :)

Orion's Belt · #233

Mine is out for delivery. Mail usually comes around 1000 or 1030, so any minute now.

wquiles · #234

One out in the wild - already changed hands:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showt ... ht=CTS-XHP

Price unknown ...

wsdavies · #235

The price was $215 shipped...

wquiles wrote:One out in the wild - already changed hands:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showt ... ht=CTS-XHP

Price unknown ...

Orion's Belt · #236

Mine came, but I'm not feeling the love. It's super tight and when I loosened the pivot, it introduced massive side to side play. I can't find a good balance of no play and smooth action. It also has up and down play like crazy.

Slash · #237

Orion's Belt wrote:Mine came, but I'm not feeling the love. It's super tight and when I loosened the pivot, it introduced massive side to side play. I can't find a good balance of no play and smooth action. It also has up and down play like crazy.

can't have a sprint w/o someone complaining about something.
Disassemble, clean/polish the pivot, etc.

-F1 · #238

vaisforlovers wrote:This morning USPS said out for delivery.

...

Somehow I doubt "every effort" is being made.

The joy is in the waiting, right?

Hah, yeah--I've tried to love USPS but they make it rrrrrreally difficult sometimes. Their online tracking system sucks terribly too, in my experience. The lag between what's actually going on and what it shows can sometimes be ridiculous. And sometimes it doesn't work at all.

And, of course, USPS delivery is hit-or-miss. On the day Ernie arrived in my mailbox, so did ALL of my neighbor's mail for the day. I asked my daughter to imagine how upset I'd be if my $117 knife was the item that was misdelivered. Idiots. What really bothers me is that if I screwed up that often, I'd be in serious trouble.

And for my part, the joy is in the getting, not in the waiting. :)

JNewell · #239

Orion's Belt wrote:Mine came, but I'm not feeling the love. It's super tight and when I loosened the pivot, it introduced massive side to side play. I can't find a good balance of no play and smooth action. It also has up and down play like crazy.

The Para2 is very sensitive to the tightness of both the stop pin screws and the pivot screws. Mine was very tight when I received it, too. I fixed it by loosening all four screws, then tightening the pivot so it was snug but smooth and easily opened. I then snugged the stop pin screws up very, very gently. This locked up the blade again, so I very, very, very slightly loosened the non-clip side pivot screw and all was well. I applied blue loctite before doing this. This has been my procedure for many Para2s and it has worked on all of them.

Timbo114 · #240

One of mine came outtathebox @ 100% perfect blade opening adjustment - I ALWAYS have to set my knives up to my preferences - not this one.
My preference is ... to hold the open knife level with the floor and compress the lock button, and have the blade fall to about 80% closed by its own weight/mass.

The 2nd one came out just a wee bit snug, but still great.
Both are dead centered and very smooth action.