About Spyderco FB13

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I saw a new model of Spyderco named FB13, I like it. But I utterly ignorant about FB13. Can anyone tell me the date of this, such as size steel etc?
Thanks!

http://www.ted.tweakdsl.nl/spyderco/history.html
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Here you go:


FB13 Kumo

Text from Spyderco:

Kumo is Japanse for spider and a fitting name for the new Japanse influenced fixed blade knife designed by custom maker R.J. Martin and manufactured by Spyderco. A self-professed steel junkie R.J. Martin is celebrated for integrating multiple grind-lines on the blades of his knife designs. Made from a solid 9-inch piece of VG-10 steel, the Kumo blade has two definite grinds: a swedge grind along the spine and a hollow-grind above the non-serrated cutting edge. Converging in the center of the blade the two grind lines meet creating a look that is streamlined and pleasingly tapered. Where the thumb naturally settles on the blade are a series of notches that latch onto the thumb pad adding an appreciative level of grip and cutting control.
In japanese fashion, the handle is wrapped with epoxy-saturated cord over an undercoat of pebbly black stingray skin that has a silver Spyderco bug Menuki peeking through the wrapping. The Kumo slips into a fitted black Kydex sheath mounted with a TekLok detachable polymer clip that can be situated to carry the knife in five different positions: vertical, inverted, cross-draw, small of back or horizontal position. Overall length of the Kumo is 8-5/16" (211mm) cutting edge is 3-3/4" (95mm) and it weighs 3 oz (85g).


It's not out yet - sometime in 2005

David
 
That looks pretty good, although I prefer a single guard. Any idea of MSRP?
 
Reviving the long dead.

My Kumo came in a box that states it is a FB11.

So back to the opening post. What is a FB13, was it ever made and if not: why?
 
According to the Spydiewiki, FB13 was/is an unused number. Why? Only Sal can tell you that.
 
Thanks Jack for the reply, that is the feeling I was getting about the FB13.

I have asked a couple of times on the Spyderco forum and never really got an answer.

I’m a bit of a Spyderco fixed blade collector and trying to work out what is out there and what isn’t. But; such is life.
 
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