John E wrote:I have a super blue Caly 3, bought last March at SFO. I also have an orange S30V UKPK. I would not really want to trade the Caly for the same blade without a lock. So the issue for me is that I would, I think, rather see the unusual steels as Caly sprint runs than UKPK sprint runs. I am not opposed to the non-locking knife, and use my Urban all the time, but I think for this kind of specialty, it makes more sense to go with the locking model.
John
John,
Anthony and I certainly with you. Unfortunately this will not work for couple reasons.
First of all, Japanese suppliers of Spyderco strongly prefer to work with Japanese steels. We cannot recall any Japanese made Spyderco with American or European steel. So if we want to try various flavors of American steels, we need to think about either Golden or Taucung knives.
Paramilitary and Military had a good exposure to various steels, but these knives are fairly expensive for some, plus sold out in a minute.
So we are talking about inexpensive as possible FRN Golden made model. My other and more preferred choice would be Native5 LW, but most likely the knife will be at least $40 more expensive, which I can live with. I personally would love to see all these exotic steels on polished G10 (various color) Native5. But we just are trying to find more or less realistic solution, which would be acceptable and for many people. And of course, this is just talks
