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four_shore

four_shore

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i purchased a g-10 delica recently with "115v" etched in the blade and was wondering what that number meant.

i'm new to spyderco and any info would be appreciated.
 
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its a collectors club number. 115 is some collectors number and V stands for variation. some people like it some dont. doesnt really add any value. i kinda like it personally.

my paramilitary 1 is marked 164V

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There are 200 slots on the Collectors Club list. If you're on the list they send you every single knife and every single variant (like serrated ones, different handles, different steels, etc), which the member has to pay for at full retail.

There's apparently a bunch of slots available, because there's lots of these that find their way into people's hands from regular dealers. I've gotten a few over the years myself from newgraham.
 
Planterz said:
There are 200 slots on the Collectors Club list. If you're on the list they send you every single knife and every single variant (like serrated ones, different handles, different steels, etc), which the member has to pay for at full retail.

There's apparently a bunch of slots available, because there's lots of these that find their way into people's hands from regular dealers. I've gotten a few over the years myself from newgraham.
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Not exactly.

It's not so much that slots are "available" although that is true. AFAIK, Spyderco only engraves any given configuration, whether it be a base model or a variant, for the active numbers. Not all members receive every knife. There are fewer "all varaint" members than "new models only" members, and now there are several other membership options as well. However, a number of the active all variant memberships are owned by dealers specifically to allow them to receive at least a few of any Sprint Run or otherwise "exclusive" piece for resale. New Graham, for example, has several such numbers. Dealer owned memberships are the source of most of the CC#d pieces in general circulation. Of course private members also will sell off models they don't really want, but had to accept, on eBay and the forums.

Paul
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