High Performance Delica Excitement

[Manixguy@1994]

This project is growing on me , only have three Delica variants in three different steels and two grinds and blade configurations . Just a question and doesn’t really matter to me , will these Delica HP models have a designated color ? MG2

[p_atrick]

...will these Delica HP models have a designated color ? MG2

I recall that many pages back there was suggestion that this come in white FRN so people could dye it whatever color they wanted. Again, this was only a suggestion, but I think it is a good one.

[awa54]

Time for the quarterly check-in... Nope, not here yet.

I'm just worried that with my infrequent visits to the forum, I'll check in and it'll have sold out two months ago

(yes I'm subscribed, but in our modern times, I've been ignoring social notifications more often than in the past)

[p_atrick]

When a new reveal comes out, this is what I look for above all. I’m gonna be so pumped when the hollow-ground Delica gets its unveiling. I know the GB2 is out now, has a bigger more useful blade, and has a better steel, but there is something about a Delica. It is small, light, comfortable, and can do pretty much every cutting task I need (I’m a desk jockey). When this comes out, I’m gonna put some of those Lynch scales on it. This will be one heck of a knife.

[ZrowsN1s]

Still looking forward to this as well

[weeping minora]

Yep, still waiting with the rest of you.

I'm afraid the model will breach the $100 threshold when finally revealed, ultimately putting a premature death to the "high performance" chassis that this platform will offer. Oh well. Still looking forward to this one for at least a Sprint Run.

[elena86]

Yep, still waiting with the rest of you.

I'm afraid the model will breach the $100 threshold when finally revealed, ultimately putting a premature death to the "high performance" chassis that this platform will offer. Oh well. Still looking forward to this one for at least a Sprint Run.

100$ ??? This is not a number for a hp Delica, even in VG10 ! At least not for me and I bet for quite a few other blokes. 150$ might be ....

[Mushroom]

It’s going to be two models and they will both be over a $100. Personally, I would be surprised if they aren’t.

[Flash]

FRN, VG-10 and over $100 isn’t exactly music to my ears, so I’m expecting the blade grinding work and quality control to be absolutely phenomenal with this model.

…this includes no blade play or lock-rock I hasten to add.

[awa54]

The bone-stock FRN Delica is already $126 list price, so the prospect of a Sprint/Flash batch/Exclusive with the same materials coming in at a lower price is unlikely at best...

[awa54]

The zome/Super Blue Delica that was only sold at the SFO and Spyderco online, was priced about the same as MAP had been for the Vtoku 2 Sprint. Hopefully the HPDs will follow this sort of pricing model.

...if the regular production Delica falls short of your expectations, then you may not want to bother with the HPD

[elena86]

This has got to be one of the most exciting things coming from Spyderco in ages.

The best high hollow grind ever done by Spyderco (IMHO of course) is to be found on the T-Mag, one of my absolute favorites (what you're seeing here is the very factory edge from a decade back, never needed to touch it up, though I obviously never used it for heavy cutting either).

Yessss ! That high hollow grind is my kind of grind ! They should bring back the T-mag with a proper lock or release something similar. We need more thin behind the edge HHG in our lives or at least I do. Anyway, I never understood why Spyderco is grinding most of their blades so thick bte !!! Most of the Delicas come 0.025''-0.028'' bte from the factory. Crazy !

[awa54]

... I never understood why Spyderco is grinding most of their blades so thick bte ...

Compared to many other mainstream makers Spyderco FFG blades aren't unusually thick BTE, also as with sharpening choils, you can remove stock from a blade to make it meet your expectations, but adding steel where there was none is a bit more difficult

I think that most of us in this thread are in the minority of knife users these days, in that we respect the capabilities *and* limitations of a thin grind, rather than treating every knife as if it was a multi-tool, then complaining when it breaks.

[Flash]

... I never understood why Spyderco is grinding most of their blades so thick bte ...

Compared to many other mainstream makers Spyderco FFG blades aren't unusually thick BTE, also as with sharpening choils, you can remove stock from a blade to make it meet your expectations, but adding steel where there was none is a bit more difficult

I think that most of us in this thread are in the minority of knife users these days, in that we respect the capabilities *and* limitations of a thin grind, rather than treating every knife as if it was a multi-tool, then complaining when it breaks.

Completely agree. Spyderco does a great job of their general BTE on most of their knives - one of the reasons I keep buying them.
I think we can all acknowledge many people use their knives for more than just cutting stuff, but I think there is a healthy market for more performance oriented knives with a very low geometry and hollow grinds for the people that do just want to cut reasonable stuff.

On a separate note I was pruning some thin willow branches from a pathway to a fishery so I could reverse my van up to it unimpeded. Switching between 2 knives I had on me; Notable resistance whilst using my UKPK salt, almost zero resistance using full-hollow ground QSP Hedgehog. Both no-snag arm-hair shaving sharp.

The more I use them, the more I think a well executed hollow-grind is the way forward for me.

[jasonstone20]

Oh, man, this is a dream come true!! It will also be interesting to see the results of people using the HP Delica and what they think of how they are in use and how they perform compared to other knives!