i think that one came about when i joined this forum.. must be one of my favorite designs..
never got around to buy one, unfortunately..
and having read that thread about the guy that bought one..
gosh, i'd LOVE to have one!
sal, sprint run, with SS-scales, pretty-pretty-please!?
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They just did a sprint of it with g10 a few years back. Some of them are still around for something like reasonable prices. I ended up trading my orange dodo for one. I think I made the right choice.
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I never fully understood why they left. Slumping sales? Perhaps an FFG, a supersteel, and a Golden CO stamp would improve sales? *shrug* I got my first poliwog years and years ago back in stainless steel. Its what restarted my knife sickness. Given that spyderco bills itself as a "little big knife" company, the poliwog seems to fit the bill extremely well. The blade-handle angle and grip shape really allow you to put immense force behind the relatively small blade. Its a wonderful little thing. Only down sides are that the geometry is sub optimal (small radius wheel hollow) and its VG10 not something more exciting like ZDP-189. I still don't even care, love it. :P Its a very lovable knife. It is a bit hand-size sensitive though. If your hand is either very large, or small, the grip totally doesn't work.
I do simultaneously sympathize with Sal/Spyderco though, because we demand sprints and new designs all the time, but by the time Spyderco manages to roll them out some of us don't necessarily put our money where our mouths are. :P
I do simultaneously sympathize with Sal/Spyderco though, because we demand sprints and new designs all the time, but by the time Spyderco manages to roll them out some of us don't necessarily put our money where our mouths are. :P
I really like the Wog. Functionally more than the Dodo. It suffers from even more polarizing aesthetics (IMO) which probably didn't help with sales.
In pictures it looks VERY wide and uncomfortable. In hand it's pretty small folded and the width isn't as bad due to the thin handle. That probably doesn't make sense but neither does the Wog, lol.
Great knife. Definitely worth the hunt.
In pictures it looks VERY wide and uncomfortable. In hand it's pretty small folded and the width isn't as bad due to the thin handle. That probably doesn't make sense but neither does the Wog, lol.
Great knife. Definitely worth the hunt.
The Stainless Steel handled version just never appealed to me, but I *LOVE* my G10 Poliwog. I don't know if I would buy a SS sprint, but I would definitely buy another G10 version.
Not sure why SS doesn't appeal to me much, because I *do* like my Ti handled Spydies.
Not sure why SS doesn't appeal to me much, because I *do* like my Ti handled Spydies.
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