Gotta say it one more time

[twinboysdad]

I carry lots of different PE primary Spydies. Mostly my Caly 3.5 but several others too. That said I throw all the tougher plastic and tougher media at my Ladybug Hawkbill H1 and it simply laughs and keeps cutting. I simply love it. I had one and lost it (members here offered to give me theirs'...too cool) but I ordered a new one from CS as soon as I realized my loss. Easy to sharpen with the SM too. Most days I could get by with the LBHB as a stand alone. Muy excellente! Just got to say if you have not tried one, you just have to buy one and use the fire out of it. P4P the best Spyderco of all time

[SpyderNut]

I haven’t tried EDC'ing my LB Hawkbills, but maybe I should give it a try. I do, however, use the snot out of my standard SE Ladybug and it simply slices through whatever I toss at it and asks for more.

[RadioactiveSpyder]

I climbed on board the SE hawkbill bandwagon recently as well with the USN release, but I graduated up to a Lil Matriarch instead. You can see the SE Ladybug profile in the tip of this knife but then you get SO much more added benefit behind it! Here's my modded one with my SB Caly 3.5. Cheers, Radioactive :)

[DougC-3]

Hi, Radioactive, very nice mod. It seems more useful for everyday purposes without the extreme curve on the blade tip. Are those foliage green scales from a Delica?

As for Ladyhawks, etc, I think this thread needs more pictures I can't oblige because I don't have any hawkbills except a Byrd I got just to try one out to see if I had any need for it, from Rakuten for about $1.78 after a Superpoint discount, ha ha -- my only Byrd.

[Surfingringo]

I climbed on board the SE hawkbill bandwagon recently as well with the USN release, but I graduated up to a Lil Matriarch instead. You can see the SE Ladybug profile in the tip of this knife but then you get SO much more added benefit behind it! Here's my modded one with my SB Caly 3.5. Cheers, Radioactive :)

This exactly. ^ It makes me kind of sad since I feel many (myself included) are just waking up to what a great edc design this is...now that it has been discontinued.

[Doc Dan]

This is a great design. The reason I think it gets ignored as an EDC knife is that hawkbills are illegal in a lot of places. They are ranked with other highly dangerous designs such as switch blades and gravity knives. I had a run-in with the law many years ago over this very issue. Hawkbills were and are illegal in that city and State. What saved me was the fact that I was actually employed doing house remodeling and so it was a necessary tool. Where I live now, this is a go straight to jail and do not pass Go kind of a knife.

[Surfingringo]

I believe the reason the lil Matriarch was so often overlooked as an edc is because it was marketed and viewed as a smaller version of the Matriarch. I think folks never really considered it for edc and most who were looking for an actual SD knife opted for the larger more extreme variant. Just my guess.

[Evil D]

Mine was seeing quite a lot of use before getting my SE/H1 Dfly. I'm still dreaming of a hawkbill Dfly.

[RadioactiveSpyder]

Hi, Radioactive, very nice mod. It seems more useful for everyday purposes without the extreme curve on the blade tip. Are those foliage green scales from a Delica?

As for Ladyhawks, etc, I think this thread needs more pictures I can't oblige because I don't have any hawkbills except a Byrd I got just to try one out to see if I had any need for it, from Rakuten for about $1.78 after a Superpoint discount, ha ha -- my only Byrd.

Hi Doug, yup that's a blade/lockbar swap with a G10 Delica. It has a very solid feel to it and David, I think I prefer the little extra grip on the Delica size handle versus a possible Dfly version. I could stand to be without a 50/50 choil on it given I'd like to keep my fingers away from that mean-a$$ blade as much as possible ! To me it's just a better knife in its G10/SS liner form vs the FRN, it gives me a lot of confidence. Cheers, Radioactive :)

[greatscott]

I EDC'd a Harpy for the longest time and the LBHB looks pretty sweet. I will probably pick one up.

[twinboysdad]

I honestly don't know how much a larger hawkbill interest me. It is the size, steel, and serrations on this guy that just create more utility than should be possible on a knife this small