Caly 3.5 with titanium liners! Who's with me?

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I love the caly 3.5. It has low wire clip carry, slim profile, and excellent blade to handle ratio, which makes it a very good EDC knife for me and most people. I believe that it sells really well and that's why Spyderco has manufactured a caly 3.5 with exquisite materials.

However no matter the upgrades, the Caly still remains as a pinned construction. I live in the hot and humid Singapore and have seen many of my knives develop heavy rusting on the liners. While it does not affect the structural strength of the knife, i do not like seeing those reddish brown spots on the interior. Rusts that appear on the steel parts that are exposed can be polished off, but the interior rusts are pain in the butt...

Sal mentioned before that the Caly 3.5 cannot be made into a screwed version without much design changes, so i thought how about a Caly 3.5 with titanium liners and backspacer? This would help with the corrosion of the interiors and also lighten the knife.

So, who's with me on a Caly 3.5 with titanium liners?
 
Benchmade at one point uses titanium liners but switched due to complaints of handle flex. That means either the Caly's handle would have to get thicker or it wouldn't be as solid feeling. It'd also increase the price of what is already quite an expensive knife. I also don't think it would make it much lighter, and it's current weight is not a problem anyway. In your position with the liners rusting on me I might feel different, but as is, for me it's not worth those tradeoffs.
 
The titanium liners worked fine on the small Bradley Air, but when you scale it up, I'm sure they will behave differently. The weight savings would be impressive though. It would make the knife much more "pocketable" in my mind.

TedP
 
I EDC Caly3.5 for more than a year. Carried Caly3 for about five years before that. Never had rust issues. So for me Ti liners would be just a waste of money. Sorry.
But I would love to see brass liners on upscale variant along with bolstered ironwood scales :)
 
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