Salty Stretch?

[tangent]

Just had an idea for a new knife...how about a Stretch Salt. You know, linerless, LC200N, etc... It seems that the blade shape is quite practical and useful, so why not give it the full rust-proof treatment? I know there are major costs in terms of redesigning the FRN handle to be linerless (like Spyderco did with the Salt 2) but what a fantastic knife this would be. It's no secret to anyone who has read my posts before that I am a huge fan of linerless knives as I find them to be more than adequately strong and just simpler in design...anyone else on board?

[clovisc]

I'm in!!!

[Evil D]

Oh absoflippinlutely. I'd buy a Stretch Salt 100% over a Pacific.

[pinepig2]

Nice idea, but the Stretch 2 changes eliminated a couple of my favorite qualities of the Stretch.

[Joris Mo]

Definitely but I would prefer the Stretch 2.

[cabfrank]

As D said. I'm in the market for a Pac Salt SE, and will hopefully get one soon, but if a Stretch Salt lightweight were available, I'd jump on it.

[J.Sib84]

I would buy a Salt Stretch in a heartbeat. I bought my first stretch 2 about a month ago and used to to gut and quarter this years deer.

[steelcity16]

Wondering if we will see an LC200N Stretch Salt soon?? That would be an instabuy for me! A Lil' Stretch Salt would also be incredible!

[Enactive]

Yes. Would buy. Have made/ seen a couple other similar suggestions. While I might prefer linerless, it wouldn't have to be ( see Carribean). Dunno which would be more affordable tho.

Problem is Stretch 2 is already not selling as well as Spyderco would like and I don't know if the market for a salt version is there.

[Wartstein]

Wondering if we will see an LC200N Stretch Salt soon?? That would be an instabuy for me! A Lil' Stretch Salt would also be incredible!

This Thread startet (and died) well before I joined the forum, so thanx for bumping it!
Of course I am in! Stretch Salt, man, that would be great...

[Wartstein]

Yes. Would buy. Have made/ seen a couple other similar suggestions. While I might prefer linerless, it wouldn't have to be ( see Carribean). Dunno which would be more affordable tho.

Problem is Stretch 2 is already not selling as well as Spyderco would like and I don't know if the market for a salt version is there.

Not too long ago Sal posted, that he'd be planning a "straight spine Stretch". So basically a spine like on the Endura I'd assume. While I prefer the current curved shape of the spine, maybe a straight spine Stretch would look better to many and consequently sell better?

I would be ok with a Salt Stretch having a straight spine...

[Doeswhateveraspidercan]

Salty Stretch or Stretch 2 is fine with me would buy either one but I want liners or it is a no sale.

[tangent]

Yeah...I'm really surprised we aren't seeing more plain edge salt folders with LC200N. I know it's probably coming, but I'm just impatient. :)

[ugaarguy]

Yeah...I'm really surprised we aren't seeing more plain edge salt folders with LC200N. I know it's probably coming, but I'm just impatient. :)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aside from the Spydiechef, Carribean, and N5 LW, aren't all of the Salt folders made in Japan? The Japanese both strongly prefer to use domestically produced steel, and are very reluctant to export their steels. IIRC, Sal has said it was quite a feat to get the Japanese to export H1 so Spyderco could use that steel on the Golden made Autonomy auto openers. My understanding (again, I could be wrong) is that Zapp only produces LC200N in Germany.

In short, I don't think we'll see LC200N on the Japanese made stretch. I hope that the N5 LW Salt sells well enough that Spyderco makes LC200N Salt versions a standard offering in the rest of the US made lineup.

[wrdwrght]

I love LC200N’s sharpening response. I imagine a Stretch Salt would be unlined to avoid the cost (included in the Caribbean) of corrosion-resistance liners and their fabrication. Still, I’d take one. A Stretch2, please.

But, I agree. I don’t see this steel in a Seki-City Spydie.

[cycleguy]

I prefer the fit to hand with the Stretch 2 g10 to that of the Caribbean so it would be a no brainer that it would be the preferred knife between the two options.

CG

[Doeswhateveraspidercan]

I prefer the fit to hand with the Stretch 2 g10 to that of the Caribbean so it would be a no brainer that it would be the preferred knife between the two options.

CG

Yep and charge me $10.00 or $20.00 bucks more for Salt Liners will be glad to pay the up-charge.

[SpyderEdgeForever]

I am 100 percent for this and I believe that many Spyderco users and collectors and other people would be for such a product. I would hope that it would have FRN handles and LC200N blade.

[Evil D]

I prefer the fit to hand with the Stretch 2 g10 to that of the Caribbean so it would be a no brainer that it would be the preferred knife between the two options.

CG

Yep and charge me $10.00 or $20.00 bucks more for Salt Liners will be glad to pay the up-charge.

If you think about it they could save a fortune on tooling costs instead of making new FRN molds like the other Salts use, and then mark up the price a bit to cover the cost of whatever rust proof steel they decide to use for the liners. This would save us the wait time for handle development too.

[Doeswhateveraspidercan]

I prefer the fit to hand with the Stretch 2 g10 to that of the Caribbean so it would be a no brainer that it would be the preferred knife between the two options.

CG

Yep and charge me $10.00 or $20.00 bucks more for Salt Liners will be glad to pay the up-charge.

If you think about it they could save a fortune on tooling costs instead of making new FRN molds like the other Salts use, and then mark up the price a bit to cover the cost of whatever rust proof steel they decide to use for the liners. This would save us the wait time for handle development too.

Very well said the handle after all is wonderful on the Stretch 2 better in fact than the Stretch 1. The handle can also accommodate the same longer more stretch 1 like blade found in the ZDP189 Stretch 2 in G10.

I am all in for this and while they are at it I will pledge to purchase 6 total 2 in PE, 2 in SE and two in PS.