What would make you buy more Spyderco fixed blades?
- Mini2white
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Re: What would make you buy more Spyderco fixed blades?
No hole in the blade. Handle material that will last the test of time (no rubber etc) No carbon steel, and no over the top pricing. I don't often carry a fixed blade and when I do it's a custom. The ergonomics are fantastic. That is so important.
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Re: What would make you buy more Spyderco fixed blades?
+1 so true, I was talking to this guy today who was open carrying a pistol and a fixed blade. Didn’t notice any markings. It was a deer horn handle hunting knife; I handed him my Amalgam ( mine is still factory fresh his was dull as a butter knife ) he said he never even heard of Spyderco. This guy was at least late 40s early 50s.500Nitro wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 12:25 amThe general knife buying public would know quality if it hit them in the face. Same goes with different steels.Tucson Tom wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 12:22 amMy only Spyderco fixed blade is the Temperance 2. No wait! I also have the Street Beat. Both are great knives in their own way. Both are VG-10 (Hmmm, I see a pattern). I have yet to figure out how to do anything useful with the hole, but I am still studying the problem.
Interesting steels would get some attention -- from the handful of steel maniacs that constitute this forum anyway, I don't know about the general knife buying public.
40 Spyderco knives in 11 different steels,
1 Byrd and 30 “others”
1 Byrd and 30 “others”
Re: What would make you buy more Spyderco fixed blades?
Would love a new Gayle Bradley design. The Junction and Bowie are awesome.
Josh
Re: What would make you buy more Spyderco fixed blades?
Why the price of course! I know it’s a hot topic right now, but I don’t own one because of their cost. I find I can get perfectly good fixed blades for $20-$80. I do want to pick up a street Bowie at some point, but even then I think I might be looking elsewhere at that price. Just my opinion of course.
- lonerider1013
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Re: What would make you buy more Spyderco fixed blades?
The main advantage to a fixed blade in use (aside from strength etc.) seems to me to be removing the extra motion of folding and unfolding. As I found out this year when cutting cord to bundle up downed tree branches, its a pain to pull out the knife, unfold it, use it, close it, pocket it,then repeat esp. if you have to do this multiple times. Simply drawing a knife from a sheath seems much simpler. That said outside of yard work I have no real use for a fixed blade. I could see taking one in my gear when hiking or mt biking, maybe a small one, but so far my folders have been perfectly sufficient. Also as some said there's "legal issues" (translation, intolerant jerks who make laws).
That said I am considering trying a Spyderco enuff, their small fixed blade knife.
At the very least next time at the store I want to check it out in person. But it's over a hundred dollars for a vg-10 3" blade. An Endura is only 70-something for the same length, hard to justify.*
*-I'm not knocking Sal/Spyderco, it's just that at my budget anything over the hundred buck mark is "expensive" right now...
Lonerider
That said I am considering trying a Spyderco enuff, their small fixed blade knife.
At the very least next time at the store I want to check it out in person. But it's over a hundred dollars for a vg-10 3" blade. An Endura is only 70-something for the same length, hard to justify.*
*-I'm not knocking Sal/Spyderco, it's just that at my budget anything over the hundred buck mark is "expensive" right now...
Lonerider
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