Anyone Carrying the Spyderco Tusk? You liking it?

jeffsenpai said:
I am not a sailor or an ocean person by any means. What function does the spike of the tusk serve? I am genuinely curious.
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It's a marlin spike. It'll help you take apart wet line knots/bends. Jam it in there and pry! You can use it to splice line if it's a standalone, but not on a knife like this. Useful for linework but most guys I know prefer separated knife and spike.

Still, very cool to see. Spyderco seems to have a strong tie to the sea: easy to use knives with gloves on, corrosion resistant blades, specific tools to free whales from fishing lines, this knife, the dedicated autonomy knife, it's all pretty cool.
 
rushane said:
It's a marlin spike. It'll help you take apart wet line knots/bends. Jam it in there and pry! You can use it to splice line if it's a standalone, but not on a knife like this. Useful for linework but most guys I know prefer separated knife and spike.

Still, very cool to see. Spyderco seems to have a strong tie to the sea: easy to use knives with gloves on, corrosion resistant blades, specific tools to free whales from fishing lines, this knife, the dedicated autonomy knife, it's all pretty cool.
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The Glesser's also own a sail boat company.
 
I found an odd use for the marlin spike. I picked up a pistol tonight, the Kahr CW45. The one bad thing about it I found in research was the take-down was not the easiest. The slide lock pin has to be tapped from the opposite side and then pulled out to take it down. I am not crazy about this tapping esp. since the slide is SS. I noticed that there was a notch underneath the slide lock, and the spike fits in there nicely, and the overall shape and curvature gives a nice leverage action.



 
@ nccole,
I see that you like me have found a way to justify a new knife. In my case I use the marlin spike for picking out horses feet. I guess I could have just picked up a $8.00 hoof pick... but the I wouldn't have a really well made Spyderco hoof pick with a great blade to boot. Love your use for the spike too.
 
changaboy said:
@ nccole,
I see that you like me have found a way to justify a new knife. In my case I use the marlin spike for picking out horses feet. I guess I could have just picked up a $8.00 hoof pick... but the I wouldn't have a really well made Spyderco hoof pick with a great blade to boot. Love your use for the spike too.
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Right on!
 
I like the looks of it and have waited for a Spyderco knife with a marlinespike to come out for years. The price point though is a deal-breaker for me. I do a lot of work over the water and a lanyard on a knife is not an option. I am halfway through an almost $6000 rebuild on my engine and haven't worked in months but even if I had the disposable income, I could not bring myself to spend that kind of money on a knife that faces a very real risk of going in the drink.

I actually do like that it is small, and it is aesthetically pleasing to me. The small blade would be more "friendly" when I'm working for the harbormaster this summer and would be far more utilitarian for that kind of work than the long Byrd Rescue I use. The plain edge is more utilitarian on small boats like that and the spike is an indispensable tool when knots in wet lines get tight after towing another boat.

If Spyderco came up with a lower cost Tusk I would be all over it. But as it stands, no matter how useful the knife could be, I can't justify spending that kind of money on it, and even if I had the disposable funds to spend, I couldn't bring myself to do to a $200 knife what I would do to a $40 knife.
 
Pete1977 said:
If Spyderco came up with a lower cost Tusk I would be all over it. But as it stands, no matter how useful the knife could be, I can't justify spending that kind of money on it, and even if I had the disposable funds to spend, I couldn't bring myself to do to a $200 knife what I would do to a $40 knife.
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And so my request for a Salt with a marlin spike. Hope it happens.
 
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