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Is there a reason the ladybug isn't available in a plain edge? It's all that keeps me from buying one.



Paul

My thoughts exactly (although I have CF lady). Ladybug should be all serrated or all plain. It is too short to be semi. Normal ladybug shoud be plain and the sheepsfoot blade serrated --> one would be able to recognize blade style by shape without need to open the knife even in dark.

Edited by - Tommi on 8/21/00 12:42:44 AM

Hi guys! I'd hesitated at first, but the serrated edge really fits the ladybugs! I've got two on my bike and keychains now! <img src="wink.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle>

Sam

have spydies
will travel...

I'll admit I didn't give it much thought when I bought it but I like the Ladybug the way it is.

Paul- Pick one up anyway. I don't think you'll be disappointed.

I'm still looking for a Ladybug II with orange handles- The RescueBug. <img src="wink.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle>

Ben

The ridiculous paranoia associated with serrations at airports, courthouses, schools, etc. (even with itsy-bitsy blades) justify a plain-edge Ladybug to me.

Joel

I found some for sale in the GSakai shop, here's their page:
http://www.gix.or.jp/~gsakai/shop.htm
Scroll down to about the middle of the page and you should see the sheepsfoot, plainedge and 50-50 models.

Yeah, the LBII ROCKS! <img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle><img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle><img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle><img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle>

Sam

have spydies
will travel...

Hmmmm .... I like the idea of a plain-edge Ladybug for precision work, though maybe it can't do anything that a plain-edge Dragonfly, which is available in North America, can't do as well or better. And any high-security portal that is fearful enough to turn away a Dragonfly will probably turn away a Ladybug too.

Now ... Is there any way some Yankee who's monolingual in English can order from that Japanese page, particularly for models that aren't being sold through one or another US knife company's regular channels here?

I recognize some things on the Sakai page that I've seen as "possiblities" at the Spyderco booth at the SHOT Show, other things that have been in Ironstone Catalogs past, and of course some SOG models. Anybody besides me want to see that Outdoor Cooks's knife and the Outdoor Sashimi Knife in the North American market?


- JKM
www.chaicutlery.com
Good tools to sustain life, or at least make life more convenient

Paul, Tommi. Making them is not a problem. They are sold in the Japanese market, but their atitude towards serrations is not that great. We frankly have had very little call for plain edge Ladybugs. It also means 3 more SKUs to inventory.

sal

I'm gonna jump on James' bandwagon and ask how we might order from that Japanese site? My 1994 vintage computer practically blew up trying to convert the Japanese characters!!

Ben

"No good deed goes unpunished."

So how do we go about ordering from the Japanese site?

Paul

Just DO IT man! <img src="wink.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle>

Sam

have spydies
will travel...

ahm... would you mind sharing the url in question?
TIA
red

Please, what is the URL?? My sister-in-law can read/speak/write japanese. I can have her get me one. <img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle>


Blades

Scroll up to doppelganger's post and all will be revealed <img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle>.

Clay

Don't worry that the world might end tomorrow, in Australia it's tomorrow already.

http://www.gix.or.jp/~gsakai/shop.htm

From up above ....

This forum doesn't do clickable links, as far as I know.

- JKM
www.chaicutlery.com
Good tools to sustain life, or at least make life more convenient

Thanks.


Blades