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My Manix is about 11-12 degrees per side with a tiny 15dps microbevel. I’ve used it off and on as my regular edc for a couple of years and have never seen ANY edge damage. Very easy steel to sharpen too. The edge retention to ease of sharpening ratio of this steel is excellent.

For my uses (fishing, beach, kayaking) the only ways to improve the Siren are to make the scales a bright color , and the steel MagnaCut. I'm not even sure I'd prefer that over LC200N. The linerless, checkered G-10 of the current model is perfect, except that it's too dark. I can see how this new m...

Call me crazy, but I don't get an S90V Siren. Yeah, I know all about S90V, so someone explain the logic in this to me. Please. Magnacut I could understand. S90V...nah. I think anybody who uses one is going to find corrosion, and probably sooner rather than later. The edge will hold a long time, but...

JRinFL wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 23, 2022 12:37 pm

So, did the friend order one?

He didn’t. He might have thought I was going to take a hint and get him another since I’m the “Spyderco guy”. Unfortunately his gift did not come with loss replacement insurance.

I had another look and this is harder than I thought. I’m posting my guesses just for fun but I’m really spitballing on most of them. Again, NOT AN ENTRY, just wanted to play.

Spyderhawk
Military
Caribbean
Subvert
Shaman
Manix?

Congrats to Mushroom and everyone else who participated. Thank you Spyderco for giving us the chance to be involved and enjoy this every year!

I’ve got some pretty good guesses based on both blade shapes and the knives I know you own. I’m not playing but I’ll write mine down just to see if I was close. Congrats on the great photo. That’s a how to say Spyderco without saying Spyderco photo if I’ve ever seen one.

zemogKA wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 22, 2022 1:12 pm

Maybe he can check out the Dragonfly as a substitute. It has very similar ergonomics with a slightly larger blade.

None of the fun “try to unlock my knife” shenanigans though.

I think that was his favorite part.

I wonder how many knives were produced for this sprint? Probably less than something like a PM2 sprint I would think? I could be wrong but I seem to recall sprints being like 600-1200 pieces but that was MANY years ago. I’d be curious to know how big these runs are nowadays.

Back strap…chicken fried. Ooof. I’m going to the states in October for a visit and that’s in my short list!

Hey guys, I bought a Meerkat several years ago as a gift for a buddy and he loved that knife. Unfortunately he lost it last year and has mentioned several times how much he would like to replace it. I don’t really spend any time perusing the retailers anymore so thought I would ask here. Does anyone...

I rarely buy the sprints and exclusives, but there is one that I have always kind of regretted missing. The frame lock m4 Military. I think it was a Knifeworks exclusive? That one came and went just before the time I was getting active on the forum. I would have enjoyed that one I think.

I have it down to these knives... GB2 I like the BTE thickness and slicing ability while still being tough PM2... will decide what steel if I enjoy the feel of the knife M4 Shaman I like the robustness of the knife and compression lock MABYE a pacific salt 2 Of those that you mentioned, the PM2 is ...

Hi Bass, welcome to the forum. Those are two excellent models you are looking at and I think you will be happy with either. The M4 will be a bit tougher, the Maxamet a bit harder. I have multiple users in both steels and I’d say I prefer Maxamet. Great edge performance, amazingly easy to sharpen for...

I like the idea but my concern is price point. Spyderco (and their fans) tend to lIke using high performance steels. I feel like making a large profile knife like this in some of the higher end steels that Spyderco uses might turn out to be prohibitively expensive. This may not be a popular opinion ...

Maybe the Tusk for me. I don’t carry it often and don’t have any real world use for it but every now and then I slip it in my pocket just to enjoy the intricacy and beauty of the design.

sal wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 08, 2022 10:13 pm

TkoK83Spy wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 08, 2022 5:01 pm

Ugghhh, hate to think of the Shaman, a bad a$$ working knife, built for toughness...referred to as an adult toy. I bet Sal sighs at things like that.

Sigh.

sal

Maybe they should hang an “Adult Toys” sign outside the SFO just so there’s no confusion?

I’m probably a bit of an outlier with my opinions but I cleaned a TON of game with my dad growing up and we never used anything but folding knives. There was no such thing as a Salt knife back then but our folders performed fine and lasted decades. They cleaned thousands of squirrels, rabbits and de...

My two favorite work knives. Spyderco Waterway and Siren. Love all the great images this year!

Never for me. About once or twice a year I’ll get a fish scale it some heavy gunk in the pivot that won’t blow out. If that happens I’ll loosen the pivot enough to create and blow it out with a high pressure hose and retighten. Like Vivi, I’m not scared of taking them apart, I just don’t have the ti...