Captain my captain

[shaldag]

So I go into the local retailer and here is this Spyderco that I had never seen before, and I had to ask the guy behind the counter about it. Oh the humiliation!!! (He couldn't believe that they had a model that I didn't know about.) Spyderco captain.VG-10, all 4 clip positions, etc.

Okay, what am I paying my BFC membership fee for? Somebody here oughtta be able to tell me the design principles behind the knife, all the gory details, etc.

By the way, the knife felt great in the hand, and I'm eventually gonna get one. Not that I know what I need it for, but, as the Elrond character put it in Lord of the Rings: "men are weak".

 

[KamSingh]

"All eyes were on knife designer Jason Breeden’s knives at a recent knife show; hypnotically drawn to a folder with a blade shape unlike anything knife enthusiasts has previously seen. The lower half of the blade was curved like a Hawkbill blade but its tip was bulb-like, perched on top the curved portion like a head on a neck. When someone asked the designer about it, he replied, “My designs are born from need I have experienced. I live in the Appalachian Mountains and am regularly outdoors or in water. A recurve blade has cutting advantages in water but I also wanted a strong tip for outdoor applications.” A Spyderco Round Hole was added and the Spyderco/Jason Breeden Captain came to be. The blade’s unusual shape in effect creates two opposing cutting angles one curving inward, one out. The inward curve holds onto what is being cut keeping it in contact with the sharp edge, ideal for downward and pulling cuts such as rope and line. The outward curved cutting edge bulges out at the blade’s tip for close in controlled cutting like skinning, whittling and horizontal slicing moving the wrist."

 

[shaldag]

Thank you. :thumbup: