Chinook 3 variations

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I have noticed a few variations in the Chinook 3 series.... When did they go to the fine jimping on the blade? I have also seen the course jimping and a polished clip....or is this the tell tale signs of counterfeits??
 
Tigerski said:
I have noticed a few variations in the Chinook 3 series.... When did they go to the fine jimping on the blade? I have also seen the course jimping and a polished clip....or is this the tell tale signs of counterfeits??
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Both of the Chinook models I owned from what I remember of them didn't have any jimping except right where you place your thumb when cutting. The Chinook III was a "full flat grind" and made at the Golden Colorado USA plant. I always wondered what that model would have been like in Spyderedge?
 
I would bet it would be a highly aggressive cutter in a Spyderedge!
As I have noted the Jimping on some of the blades I have seen have been close together. I have a Chinook 3 and the jimping is on the blade but it is spaced wide, and they are sharp as to bite into your thumb when using.
I have the opportunity to pick another one up, however the jimping is fine and the clip is polished not black......just want to make sure its legit before I pull the trigger on it......
 
Can't recall ever seeing a Chinook 3 with fine jimping, but it may just be that I haven't paid that much attention to them Mine 3 has the coarse jimping on the thumb ramp and none on the choil, but it's Collectors Club numbered, so it's very early production.

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Here is an example of the fine jimping........
 
Your link doesn't work for me, but I did find one on eBay with fine jimping. Nothing jumping out at me screaming FAKE!!!!!, but I can't be sure it isn't one.
 
The Deacon said:
Can't recall ever seeing a Chinook 3 with fine jimping, but it may just be that I haven't paid that much attention to them Mine 3 has the coarse jimping on the thumb ramp and none on the choil, but it's Collectors Club numbered, so it's very early production.

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I have 2 'nook 3's with fine jimping Paul.
 
Interesting Paul, and thanks for the input!! I am wondering just how many variations of the Chinook 3 there really are then..................
 
Tigerski said:
Interesting Paul, and thanks for the input!! I am wondering just how many variations of the Chinook 3 there really are then..................
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That may depend on what you consider a "variant", as opposed to what Spyderco considers one for Collectors Club purposes. I'm pretty sure Spyderco would say that, while the Chinook 3 was itself a variant of the Chinook 2, there were no variants of the Chinook 3. Your criteria are obviously different. Since mine has the coarse jimping, and both of singularity35's have the fine, it's safe to say there were at least two batches with an obvious difference between them. On a model like the Chinook, which used a relatively common clip, differences in clips are harder to pin down and harder to assign meaning to, since Spyderco tends to use whatever they have laying around and folks tend to change them aftermarket.
 
The Deacon said:
That may depend on what you consider a "variant", as opposed to what Spyderco considers one for Collectors Club purposes. I'm pretty sure Spyderco would say that, while the Chinook 3 was itself a variant of the Chinook 2, there were no variants of the Chinook 3. Your criteria are obviously different. Since mine has the coarse jimping, and both of singularity35's have the fine, it's safe to say there were at least two batches with an obvious difference between them. On a model like the Chinook, which used a relatively common clip, differences in clips are harder to pin down and harder to assign meaning to, since Spyderco tends to use whatever they have laying around and folks tend to change them aftermarket.
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yes this is what I was thinking as well. Good to get a little insight on this fine blade!!
 
Chinook 3 had no variants. All flat grind plain edge with the fin type jumping on hump.
 
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I think there were similar differences within the Stretch CF model. I've seen some very early ones with the spaced jimping, where a majority have the fine jimping.
 
Again, Chinook 3 = Fine Jimping on ramp and choil. Besides the early production collectors club model of course. Which can hardly be described as a "variant".
 
Rum. Monkey. said:
Again, Chinook 3 = Fine Jimping on ramp and choil. Besides the early production collectors club model of course. Which can hardly be described as a "variant".
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Again, you are wrong.

I'm not saying the coarse jimping makes it a "variant" by Spyderco's standards, but there was at least one entire batch, and possibly more than one batch, of Chinook 3's with the coarse jimping on the ramp and no jimping on the choil, not just the relatively few pieces set aside for "All Variants" members of the collectors club, since Spyderco considered both the Chinook 2 and Chinook 3 to be "variants" of the original Chinook.

What actually defines a Chinook 3 is the full flat ground blade.
 
Those are what i describe the fin type jimping. I think it is a better description than jimping.
 
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