Spyderco Civilian

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Spyderco Civilian

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Soooo I have this civilian model and its amazing
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A thourough perusal of forum rules would be a good idea before jumping in with both feet.


Oh, and welcome to the forums!
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Hi Chuck :)
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and welcome to the forum mwramos76 :)
Sorry pressed enter before I could type everything.
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KardinalSyn wrote:Hi Chuck :)
KardinalSyn wrote:and welcome to the forum mwramos76 :)
Sorry pressed enter before I could type everything.
Haha, welcome back too KS. I hope everything is fine with you. :D
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Thanks for the welcome and lesson
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Watching James Keating demonstrate this knives capability is frightening. I'd get one but will probably go with a Matriarch or Lil.
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Welcome from Singapore!

The civilian was one of the very first Spyderco knives I ever saw or handled, and to this day I am still impressed by its medieval looks and uncompromising design for a specific purpose. I especially enjoyed reading the card that comes with the knife, warning against using it for 'utility' purposes! I still wonder why they called it the civilian - I would have called it the Raptor...
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Why they called it Civilian, pretty darn easy to guess. Cuz you'll have to unleash it on some civilians and take em out, if they make any trouble of course.
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glbpro wrote:...I still wonder why they called it the civilian - I would have called it the Raptor...
This is directly from Spyderco's website:

"In the 1990s Spyderco was approached by a specialized branch of U.S. law enforcement about making a knife for their undercover agents. These plain-clothes LEOs found themselves in situations where they often could not carry a firearm but carrying a knife was not a problem. Most had no formal training in self-defense tactics or MBC but as a last resort could use a blade to protect or extricate themselves from a life-threatening situation. This was how the Civilian model came to be." :)
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I still carry a Civilian, deeply concealed, on a regular basis. Even though my (rather limited) blade training, since acquiring my pair of Civilians, has been more point-driven, the slim compactness of a Civi makes it effortless to carry, and its methodology is quite intuitive, so it still has a place in my life.

Yes, I did, indeed, say "slim compactness" in reference to the Spyderco Civilian. A Spyderco Temperance fixed-blade, or a Strider AR folder, is starting to get just a bit chunky.
Civilians, Dodo, Guntings, Mili, P'kal, Rescues, Ronins, Temperance, others...

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