What was your 1st Spyderco?

[JMM]

Resilience

[Featherblade]

Manix 2 154CM, hollow grind, all-black (C101GPBBK2).

It was followed by Paramilitary 2. Paramily pushed Manix out of my pocket and send it to the drawer. I gifted it to a friend an year later.

[Red]

Resilience

Oh yea, love the Resilience! You haven’t lived until someone asks to borrow your “pocket knife” and you flip open the Resilience and hand it over!

[DSH007]

Compression lock Lil Native for me.. I didn't realize it at the time, but the Lil Native had pretty much just been released when I bought it. I'd been into knives for years and years prior to buying my first Spyderco, but had always been "too poor" to buy "good" ones.. got a nice raise at my job and decided that I wanted to celebrate by buying a nice knife. I'd always heard good things about Spyderco and I spent a lot of time researching before settling on the Lil Native. Once I got that first Spyderco, there were many that followed in rapid succession, thus my signature tagline..

[Red]

Compression lock Lil Native for me.. I didn't realize it at the time, but the Lil Native had pretty much just been released when I bought it. I'd been into knives for years and years prior to buying my first Spyderco, but had always been "too poor" to buy "good" ones.. got a nice raise at my job and decided that I wanted to celebrate by buying a nice knife. I'd always heard good things about Spyderco and I spent a lot of time researching before settling on the Lil Native. Once I got that first Spyderco, there were many that followed in rapid succession, thus my signature tagline..

Oh yea, Very nice!

[SG89]

I believe it was a black FRN Manbug.

[BD583]

Endura - Blue ($51.99) and Poliwog G-10 ($89.99) on January 30, 2011.

[Red]

I believe it was a black FRN Manbug.

Keep a Manbug in the tacklebox, excellent for that. I love it.

[Ngati Pom]

Persistence.

[Tucson Tom]

PM2 with S30V. Still have it and it is a great knife. A real work-horse.

[TomAiello]

G-2 Snap It, early-ish 90's.

[steelcity16]

I bought a Dragonfly Salt a few years back after I saw a shark swimming in about 2 feet of water right where me and my sons were about 5 minutes earlier. It was the only Salt knife I could get free next day Amazon Prime shipping to the beach house we were renting. Never had to use it on a shark, but it did a dang good job of deveining fresh east coast skrimps! :D

[Abyss_Fish]

smallest of the bug series, used it as a keychain knife. My first proper one was a blacked out delica I got at random from one of Massdrop's lottery things. Has to be almost 4 years ago now.

[Wartstein]

I bought a Dragonfly Salt a few years back after I saw a shark swimming in about 2 feet of water right where me and my sons were about 5 minutes earlier. It was the only Salt knife I could get free next day Amazon Prime shipping to the beach house we were renting. Never had to use it on a shark, but it did a dang good job of deveining fresh east coast skrimps! :D

True story?!

I am sure the DFly Salt is a great knife, but if I had to fight off a shark with a knife, I´d probably choose a different model... (though to be honest: I don´t know a lot about sharks and probably would not be able to fight one with a knife anyway, regardless which model or size... :o )

[Takuan]

In 1994, I bought a Generation 1 Delica (fully serrated with G-2 steel). I loved it so much that I immediately bought a Pro-Venator to keep it company. I gave the Delica to a friend a few years later, but the Pro-Venator is still a part of my collection, which has grown considerably since then.

[steelcity16]

I bought a Dragonfly Salt a few years back after I saw a shark swimming in about 2 feet of water right where me and my sons were about 5 minutes earlier. It was the only Salt knife I could get free next day Amazon Prime shipping to the beach house we were renting. Never had to use it on a shark, but it did a dang good job of deveining fresh east coast skrimps! :D

True story?!

I am sure the DFly Salt is a great knife, but if I had to fight off a shark with a knife, I´d probably choose a different model... (though to be honest: I don´t know a lot about sharks and probably would not be able to fight one with a knife anyway, regardless which model or size... :o )

Ha! Yes, it is a true story. I just wanted a rust free knife I could have the next day! I figured I could stab it in the eye if needed. Luckily I didn't have to find out how effective a Dragonfly would be against a shark!

[Red]

I bought a Dragonfly Salt a few years back after I saw a shark swimming in about 2 feet of water right where me and my sons were about 5 minutes earlier. It was the only Salt knife I could get free next day Amazon Prime shipping to the beach house we were renting. Never had to use it on a shark, but it did a dang good job of deveining fresh east coast skrimps! :D

[JD Spydo]

Native II AUS-10 ComboEdge Stainless Steel Handle (Seki-City, Japan) which I purchased in August 2000! Still works great!

My second Spyderco was Military CPM-S30V ComboEdge Black G-10 which I purchased in September 2005. Still works great!

You don't hear of or hardly ever see that NATIVE II with the AUS-10 blade steel. I had one of those and traded it and now I kind of regret it. The AUS-10 wasn't bad steel at all. I'm kind of surprised they didn't make more folders with that steel.

My second model I bought was an ATS-55 POLICE model in CE. It's been very interesting watching this company evolve over the past 20 years.

[Cambertree]

Grey FRN Delica in VG10.

It’s had a change of clothes since then:

[Red]

Grey FRN Delica in VG10.

It’s had a change of clothes since then:

Thats a great photo!