Grail spyderco

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rycen wrote:
Sat Sep 17, 2022 11:30 pm
The first forum knife from 2000
Any photos of this floating around?
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Maybe not rare (yet), but the Schempp Bowie is about as close as a knife got to a grail for me until now.
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As far as I know, the Pride Integrity Guts Police and some of the Swiss made Walkers are pretty high value, low availability models.
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Not my cup of tea, but rare:
Peter Herbst Titanium (the Spyderco most people forgot about or didn't know existed, most had bad locks and were factory seconds)

Church Mouse (mouse with a Jesus fish on it)

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Terzuola and the Starmate
Lum Tanto (just look at that grind!)
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Meadowlark wrote:
Mon Sep 19, 2022 1:54 pm
rycen wrote:
Sat Sep 17, 2022 11:30 pm
The first forum knife from 2000
Any photos of this floating around?
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Re: Grail spyderco

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Buddafucco wrote:
Fri Sep 16, 2022 10:14 pm
Janisong and the Mosquito should be fun to track down.

Lamnia restocks Janisongs time and again. I got my copy from them a few years back...
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Meadowlark wrote:
Mon Sep 19, 2022 1:54 pm
rycen wrote:
Sat Sep 17, 2022 11:30 pm
The first forum knife from 2000
Any photos of this floating around?

I have one, pictured here. But I'd consider the BladeForums blue g10 native that came before this one, more of a grail. ;)

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When discussing Spyderco grail knives the C27 Jess Horn often comes up; excellent old-school Seki workmanship and ... no opening hole.

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Nice, thanks, Mr. Blonde. Turns out I have the 1st forum knife albeit in its original production form.

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The holiest grail was a flipper prototype called the Cruciflix. It would always draw blood from the user.
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Mr Blonde wrote:
Wed Sep 21, 2022 6:28 am
When discussing Spyderco grail knives the C27 Jess Horn often comes up; excellent old-school Seki workmanship and ... no opening hole.

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Well, I have a burgundy micarta Jester coming from Japan, but I didn’t know it was a grail until I saw pics of it.
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I am delighted to have picked up a few Spydercos in the past several months that I consider grails:

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Beautiful knives, brancron.

I've been thinking more and more about trying to track down a C22. Probably gonna be that or one of the Lum Tantos.

Closest I had to a personal "Spyderco grail" was the Mamba, and I got one a couple weeks ago. Extremely impressive fit and finish.
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Those are incredible brancon!
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