One coworker was wanting to get a knife for mountain bumming around, climbing, lightweight backpacking etc. He is not much into knives, this would be his first serious purchase for one. He had wants, lightweight and around $100 to get into things and see if he likes it being the big ones. I mentioned we should go to a shop and just start looking and holding things.
He saw my Spyderco PM2 and so we got going on the Spyderco thing. Well next thing we made plans to go during a lunch break to Spyderco to go look around; I wont say no to a trip to the SFO.
So Monday, 3 of us loaded up and went to SFO. My other coworker that went along happens to know someone on the inside at Spyderco so I got to meet him while we were there too. Super cool!
Back to coworker looking for a knife:
We looked at Byrd knives, we then wandered to the Delica/Endura cabinets. I also had him put a LW Manix and PM2/3 in hand. He held all the sizes that he wanted in all the knives that interested him and kept going back to the Endura line. So there was then a debate between Full Flat or Saber grinds, Partial SE, Full SE, Plain only etc. After about an hour in the shop looking and holding things he decided to go with a Plain Edge, VG-10, Black FRN, Saber grind Endura. A solid choice I feel.
Today, I brought my torx bits and some blue loctite and we got it all buttoned up and the action just how he wanted it. He wanted to try it out with no clip on it so we took that off. Now he thinks he will need to get his girlfriend a Delica....
