Where did you buy your 1st Spyderco?

[Halfneck]

So where did you buy your 1st Spyderco, and why?

I bought my 1st Spyderco at a Tobacco Shop in Carmel, California back in 1987. I was back there seeing friends I had graduated from High School with in 1986. We were in Carmel just hanging out and I saw a odd looking knife in the display window of the Tobacco Shop. It was a odd looking knife, Serrated edge, Hawkbill blade with a hole in it, and a Pocket clip on a stainless handle. The store manager went on to explain how the hole was used to open the blade and the clip let you clip it on your pocket. I thought it was too interesting of a knife to pass up, so I bought my 1st Spyderco - SS SE Harpy.

[DFD04]

I bought my first one from a Sportsmans Warehouse in Loveland, CO. It is my duty EDC Rescue JR. I bought it when I was a Cadet with Denver and hoping to get on with the DFD. When I finally did I thought it was appropriate to carry it-and I could not be happier.

[ront]

At Sportsman's Warehouse in Spokane, WA. It was a Native that got me started.

Ron

[tonydahose]

Shore's gun shop along with my service gun, a beretta in 2000. the endura has been resharpened a few times at Golden but it still works just fine.

[fellyjr]

I bought my first Spyderco at a martial arts store in Federal Way, WA. in 1995. I was in there looking at swords with a friend and happened to look in the case at the pocket knives and saw an all stainless knife that caught my fancy. I asked to see it and as I was checking it out I knew I had to have it just because of the quality feel of it. It was a PE Worker and wish I still had it but I lost it down the road. Since then I have picked up three more and to this day the Worker is still my favorite Spydie.

[Jenner 515]

My first was a SS PE Native I got at the local Mall Cutlery Store. My next was @ the local Army Navy Surplus store here in Arvada...Then the SFO was moved to Wheatridge next to AppleJack liquors...and most of my cash went there for two years.

[java]

Bought an FRN clp Endura at the Wright-Patterson AFB exchange in 1993 and haven't looked back since. Some 300-odd Spydies later still have the same (retired) Endura and have carried the G10 Rookie for over 6-years as my EDC since replacing Endura-One.




J

[psimonl]

Living in Canada, Spydercos are hard to find….So :

When it’s Christmas , in our family, we do a mystery exchange gifts. We pick an envelope in a bag which contains a name and a list of desired gifts. We have to write 5 downs and you buy one of them.

So, in our family, one member lives in Washington DC and he had picked up my name. I didn’t know it was him who had picked my name until the day of Christmas.

I had written several things on my list like a pair of jeans, some movies I don’t remember, gloves and, just because I had no other idea, I asked for the knife I saw on the net: Meerkat…… whatever…

So when I saw HE had picked my name, I was really excited. But the box was quite big. So, after diner, we gathered and opened our present.

I opened mine and it was, like I asked asked, a pair of levis jeans. My bro’in law insisted I go wear them, I didn’t want to, but he is very persuasive. I put them on and there was something stuck in the back pocket: It was a little black box with a grey spyder web on it…..

Great thread…

Simon

[Tlohm]

Knife shop in I believe the Brookridge Shopping Center in Denver. Late 1981 or early 1982. C01 SE Worker. Shop owner had one in his pocket. He pulled it out, snapped it open, showed me the clip and the SE blade and it was all over. I had to have it. It was my EDC for many years. The sickness didn’t come until the late 90’s. Now 70 Clipits and counting.

[bubbamets5505]

My D'allara DP at knifesite.com :spyder: = :cool: = :D

[fellyjr]

Living in Canada, Spydercos are hard to find….So :

When it’s Christmas , in our family, we do a mystery exchange gifts. We pick an envelope in a bag which contains a name and a list of desired gifts. We have to write 5 downs and you buy one of them.

So, in our family, one member lives in Washington DC and he had picked up my name. I didn’t know it was him who had picked my name until the day of Christmas.

I had written several things on my list like a pair of jeans, some movies I don’t remember, gloves and, just because I had no other idea, I asked for the knife I saw on the net: Meerkat…… whatever…

So when I saw HE had picked my name, I was really excited. But the box was quite big. So, after diner, we gathered and opened our present.

I opened mine and it was, like I asked asked, a pair of levis jeans. My bro’in law insisted I go wear them, I didn’t want to, but he is very persuasive. I put them on and there was something stuck in the back pocket: It was a little black box with a grey spyder web on it…..

Great thread…

Simon

Hey Simon, how long did it take you to figure out how to close the Meerkat? :D

[deeker]

I had just got bitten by the climbing bug and was looking at getting a knife that was better than a SAK for cutting webbing and rope. In the big climbing store in Toronto - Mountain Equipment Co-op - they had a small display of knives (back in '92 or so) and a couple of multi-tools. I picked out a first generation SE Delica and made it my own. :D It still sees use these days, too.

[squad314]

I bought my first,a SE Navigator at Headlines in North Conway NH.I had lost my CF CRKT M16 on a climb of Mount Washington the day before.My buddy flipe8 had been carrying Spydies for some time and recomended the Nav.Thanks again Pete! :)

[Bodieism]

It was a SE SS Police. I was 12 at the time I think. I bought it b/c I had decided I wanted folding knife with a lock that only had one blade for a change. I wasn't to interested after I saw the price ($109.18 after tax) but my best friend was with me and told me that he had read quite a few stories about how high Spyderco's quality and performance was so that convinced me it was worth it... plus he had just bought a Native and was showing me how it would push cut paper :D It took all the money I had saved up that year and a little that my uncle gave me b/c he knew I really wanted it. Best purchase I ever made. That knife probably would have lasted me the rest of my life but it fell out of my pocket one day never to be found again I guess its a mixed blessing though because if I had never lost it I never would have found this forum and I probably never would have bought another Spyderco again... or any other knife for that matter.

[JD Spydo]

My first Spyder ever was a GIN-1 fully serrated Mariner. I bought it from a vendor at a Gun Show here in the Kansas City Missouri area. And I can remember the day as though it were a month ago. I was in the early spring of 1996.

I actually miss the Mariner model. It is one of the few older Spyders that I still long for. But there are so many of the older ones I would like brought back with newer/better blade steel that I could name off at least 12 of them.

There truly is a mystique surrounding the older, first generation Spyders.

[Tank]

I got my first on in 1991 from the US Calvary Catalog. I forget the Model, it was like a Delica. It was SS with a Clip molded in. I miss that knife actually, it was stolen during a burglery in 1999

[cobrajoe]

I've been into knives as long as I can remember, but I came from a small family farm, so the only ones I could afford were the "cheapo" folders. I did get on a couple mailing lists of higher end knife catalogs (A.G. Russel most notably) and the only knives to really catch my eye were the kooky little spydercos.

Fast forward, I was looking for a decent knife to replace my cheapo that I was tired of sharpening. I ended up buying a little lockback on ebay, a ladybug. I was dissapointed with it at first, but for some reason I couldn't put it down, and finally I realized that it was amazing for it's size. Then came a FRN cricket (also from ebay), and now I'm hooked (and impatient waiting for my new spydie to come!).

[hornshwangler]

I bought my first :spyder: 's at the SFO in Golden. The purchase included a poliwog and a native. I have both of these knives today though the original native doesn't see much pocket time.

Dan

[Firefighter880]

First Spydie was an Endura that I puchased at a Gart's Sporting Goods store. I had bought a Cold Steel Recon 1 PE Tanto folder about two weeks before, and the axis lock broke! Took it back to Gart's (where I had gotten it too)... they replaced it... but the guy there recommended the Endura because it wouldn't so easily fail. Been addicted ever since.

[kbuzbee]

There was a nice little knife shop in Lafayette LA (when I was working in the oilfield, offshore) around 1982. I'd stopped in to look at some Gerbers (already had an MK-I and MK-II AWA a sweet polished 440C rosewood handled hunter - a long story for another time) and they had a few Spyderco's. The logic of the design was immediately obvious and I wound up buying a C03 SS Hunter PE. Had that knife forever. I have no idea now whatever happened to it. It was a great design and I really miss it. That was several lifetimes ago.

Thanks for bringing back memories of a simplier time.

Ken