Fluted Ti Para2 Prototype on the Market?

[Donut]

If it IS from the Spyderco factory, it left the factory after the blade was ground and before the engravings were put on the blade.

So, at any rate, it is not completely legit. It's semi-interesting and expected that there are no pictures of a box.

[Popsickle]

im going to call "fake". Ive seen a fluted millie up close and if they planned on doing the para in similar fashion it just doesn't match up. just my 2 cents from what ive seen in the pics

[Blerv]

Even if it's real the purchase is insane.

First you won't get anyone to authenticate it, at least not favorably. Not a big deal at $200 but $2000? If I was throwing away a couple grand I would do so with various bottles of whiskey. Second what if they fix the bugs and make the production knife in a few months? Third it could very well be fake which is worse than throwing the money away, it's supporting a thieving sub industry that produces potentially unsafe reputation marring products.

Best base it's a safe knife that was made by Spyderco that would retail about $250-300 that someone bought for the price of a cheap used car.

[bengaiser]

That looks really cool, but I certainly wouldn't pay anywhere near this unless it had typical Spyderco prototype markings used throughout the years and/or had some sort of provenance with it. Quite a gamble with the sophistication of fakery out there these days...

[RadioactiveSpyder]

I fail to understand why the fakers would go through such an involved/intricate process that was obviously required to make this "prototype" to only make one of them that they'd sell for $2100 and then all retire to mansions on desert islands with their profits. Even fakers have a business model, an awful deceitful one we all know and agree upon, but this whole discussion that this is a fake seems more and more unlikely in my mind (I'm pretty used to assessing low probability events in my line of work). Owning all available fluted varieties of Spyderco Ti handled knives, the detailed level of machining is not easily accomplished and this prototype looked pretty clean with its fluting, so I'm very inclined to go with that earlier comment that noticed the sellers proximity to Halpern Titanium in Massachusetts. Occam's razor and all that...

[yablanowitz]

Yep. My concern would be that it may have been a Halpern Titanium mock up with a dummy blade (no heat treat) rather than an actual Spyderco prototype or concept model.

[Blerv]

Or that one would be paying the price of a cheap car for a knife with an unknown past. Forget organic and non-GMO when you can be eating mystery meat sandwiches from the back of a suspicious minivan!