Para 3 - anyone else wish the blade stock was thinner?

[wrdwrght]

Anyone else think the Para 3 should be less a Para 3?

Sorry. couldn’t help myself.

[wrdwrght]

No, Always grab a Para 3 if I’m going to go full boar on a cutting task.

If I am trimming up a drywall cut out it’s a para 3

I have several Spyderco knives in several thicknesses so the choice is good.

Not any Spyderco’s I really want to change as there is another knife that suits what difference I want.

Some years ago a guy here extolled the virtues of his slicy SB Caly 3.5 sprint for cutting drywall (I think he was a professional installer).

I admit to being shocked. I had not imagined that this sprinted model, which I have owned and treasured since its release, was robust enough to survive this kind of task.

I think it was then that I came to believe that any mid-sized Spydie can handle just about anything a folder should, but more than this, that Goldilocksing the models that Spyderco puts out unbidden actually interferes with what it might next put out unbidden.

Said some dude from Minnesota, “He not busy being born is busy dying.” Asking for a tweak is missing a chance to learn new stuff.

[dlum1]

I'm pretty happy with the thickness of my para3 -- but I mainly use it for carving and the thicker blade stock puts less pressure on my thumb. Have you tried a sage? I think the two knives are very similar with the sage having the thinner blade stock.

[cabfrank]

Yes. I wish it was the same as the Delica. I also wish that for the Endela.

[Wartstein]

Yes. I wish it was the same as the Delica. I also wish that for the Endela.

So much this!!

Blade stock thickness is the aspect I would have liked to see the most getting transferred from the smaller DELICA to the "middle ground" Endela, and NOT (as it turned out to be) from the larger Endura...

[gull wing]

Thinner blade stock on the Para 3?
Perhaps on the lightweight, in keeping with the "lightweight" name.
Not for the G10 models.