Can anyone ID this Spyderco??

[renomaverick]

Done!

 

[vjb.knife]

I am pretty sure it is a Spyderco Pro-Venator. That was the model C13.

 

[xdshooter]

Hmm, ProHunter sounds right, but maybe this thread can be moved over to the spyderco forum to get the experts to weigh in. Didn't the Pro-Venator have grip inserts? Or only some of them?

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[Esav Benyamin]

I'll move it.

My Pro-Venator had grip inserts, including inside the clip. There was some question about someone else having rights to the "venator" name, so it was re-designated Pro-Hunter. Venator is Latin for hunter, anyway, and is the root of venison (meat that is hunted).

 

[wutitiz]

I was going to guess the Spyderco Tim Wegner Model that was made before Tim started making his own Pro Hunters under the Blade Tech name.

 

[D-Roc]

I have one- it is not the Pro Venator but the Pro Hunter. When I bought mine it came in a blue box and said "Pro Hunter" on it.

 

[3Guardsmen]

You guys are confusing the "Pro-Grip" and "Pro-Venator" with the "Hunter". The knife pictured is an evolved Spyderco Hunter. The original Hunter had a straighter blade. The Pro-Venator had kraton inserts. The Pro-Grip was the FRN version. The Pro-Venator was later renamed the Pro-Grip SS. The knife pictured is a second evolution Spyderco Hunter. A great knife!

Regards,
3G

 

[3Guardsmen]

I was going to guess the Spyderco Tim Wegner Model that was made before Tim started making his own Pro Hunters under the Blade Tech name.

Not quite. Spyderco did make the Tim Wegner model, but it had G-10 scales and a liner-lock. Spyderco made their first Hunter model long before Tim Wegner's design came about. If you ask me, Tim Wegner must have been greatly influenced by the Spyderco Hunter.

Regards,
3G

 

[3Guardsmen]

I stand corrected. According to Paul Beretta, a very sharp Spyderco collector, that knife was indeed called the Pro-Hunter:
http://paulberetta.com/index.htm

Sorry guys,
3G

 

[The Deacon]

Nope, that's not a Pro Hunter, it's a Ironstone Hunter, The Pro-Hunter / Pro-Venator / Pro-Grip (which are all just different names for the same knife) had a Kraton inlay in the left scale. The regular Hunter had a narrower blade. The Ironstone Hunter combined the wider, "Pro" style blade with the original Hunter's all SS handle. Nice catch, they are about the least common of the Hunter series variants.

FWIW, the "Pro-Hunter" name was dropped, because of a trademark issue with another knife. It was first renamed the Pro-Venator, but aside from a few priests, very few others knew that venator is Latin for Hunter. So the name was changed yet again to Pro-Grip.

Paul

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[D-Roc]

You guys are confusing the "Pro-Grip" and "Pro-Venator" with the "Hunter". The knife pictured is an evolved Spyderco Hunter. The original Hunter had a straighter blade. The Pro-Venator had kraton inserts. The Pro-Grip was the FRN version. The Pro-Venator was later renamed the Pro-Grip SS. The knife pictured is a second evolution Spyderco Hunter. A great knife!

Regards,
3G

That's what it was- I stand corrected. Been about ten years since I had that box.

 

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