Can somebody ID this spydie for me?

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Dekz

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Somebody posted this pic and I think the knife is gorgeous, what is it?

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It looks like a Navigator II with an abalone overlay. Not sure who did the overlay, but it looks well done.
 
Well that was fast. Discontinued, that's why I couldn't find it. And the handle is a custom job, guess that probably puts it out of my price range :(
 
It also looks like it has the notch on the spine behind the hole that indicates it was a factory second.
 
Is there anything currently available that is similar? (relatively small blade with a decent handle)
 
Dekz said:
Is there anything currently available that is similar? (relatively small blade with a decent handle)
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Absolutely! The Spyderco Lava and the Spyderco Dragonfly. I own all three (Navigator 2 included), and of the three, the Lava has what I consider the best grip (Chad really knows what he's doing), but the Dragonfly and Navigator 2 are great as well. Good luck!:)

Regards,
3G

P.S. You also may want to check out the Spyderco Cricket.;)
 
Because you can get a factory second a lot cheaper. If it was a cosmetic defect of the handle that made it a second, a custom abalone scale would cover the defect, effectively correcting the problem that made it a second.

On the other had, the blade could have gotten notched like that when the custom work was done.
 
yablanowitz said:
It also looks like it has the notch on the spine behind the hole that indicates it was a factory second.
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The notch in the picture is on the left side, normally the factory does the notch on the right side. I'm not sure that this is a factory 2nd.
 
Peter1960 said:
The notch in the picture is on the left side, normally the factory does the notch on the right side. I'm not sure that this is a factory 2nd.
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Was thinking the same thing Peter, all the ones I've ever seen on folders were on the other side. As for finding one, seeing that it's the serrated version, John F Jensen still has a bunch of them.


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