Chinook 3 variations

[Carnage1]

Then how do you explain mine (pictured above)?

I think those look like fins more than jimping. However you describe it that's what I am talking about. That is as you know a chinook 3. I lost 1 and it took me quite some time to find another 3. I remember reading a article from from Keating about the 3's changes.

 

[singularity35]

Those are what i describe the fin type jimping. I think it is a better description than jimping.

I think those look like fins more than jimping. However you describe it that's what I am talking about. That is as you know a chinook 3. I lost 1 and it took me quite some time to find another 3. I remember reading a article from from Keating about the 3's changes.

Whatever you think they look like, jimping is what they are.

 

[The Deacon]

I think those look like fins more than jimping. However you describe it that's what I am talking about. That is as you know a chinook 3. I lost 1 and it took me quite some time to find another 3. I remember reading a article from from Keating about the 3's changes.

Either way, the portion of this statement of yours I have highlighted is still wrong...

Chinook 3 had no variants. All flat grind plain edge with the fin type jumping on hump.

...because they did not all have the same type of jimping. As photos posted here have clearly show, there are specimens of the Chinook 3 with what you call "fin type jumping" and what we call "coarse jimping" on the thumb ramp and no jimping on the choil as well as specimens of the Chinook 3 with what we refer to as "fine jimping" on both the thumb ramp and choil.

The real problem is that "variant" means one thing to Spyderco and another to Spyderco collectors. There's a difference between what Spyderco considers enough of a change to deem it a "variant" and give a unique SKU#, and changes that at least some Spyderco collectors will consider enough of a difference to justify them purchasing both the "pre-change" and "post-change" versions. Steel changes would be an obvious example of that, but not the only one. The black FRN version of the original C41 Native Lightweight would be a prime example of that. There are specimens in GIN-1 with no Boye dent, specimens in 440V with no Boye dent, specimens in 440V with a Boye dent, and , specimens in S30V with a Boye dent. All share the same SKU#, but a Native collector will almost certainly own (or desire to own) all three steels and most of them will want both the "dented and undented" 440V versions.

 

[Popsickle]

I just want a chinook 4 with the power lock and CPM-Cruwear