Chinook 4

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dragonram7

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Sal mentioned in one of the threads he was thinking about having James Keating do an update to the Chinook with a new locking mechanism and either CF or Green G10 handles. I said I would take either. Additionally, I asked if I could give my card number and reserve one. I thought we might let Sal and Spyderco know we are in full support of this project through indications of interest.

Sal, if you need anyone for testing-I volunteer.
 
Nothing wrong with the back lock, but if the Chinook could lose a few more ounces that would be great!
 
I'd be happy with either ball or compression-lock like on the ATR. Both work just fine for us lefties.

That being said, I love the heck outta my Chinook 3 anyway.
 
jjacques said:
I'd be happy with either ball or compression-lock like on the ATR. Both work just fine for us lefties.

That being said, I love the heck outta my Chinook 3 anyway.
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Yes, the Chinook with an integral compression lock would be great.
Though the ball lock would be a little more fun.
 
I would love (and buy) the idea but maybe Sal could chime in and give us some real news?;)
 
For a Chinook IV, I would like a fixed blade Chinook indentical in every respect to the II or III.

The flat grind of the III would make more sense with a fixed blade knife.

It could have a skeletonized tang under the scales, and otherwise remain absolutely indentical in every contour and nuance to the II or III.

The unsharpened swedge already serves a good purpose, in creating a more acute but strong point; and, in that, if one pulls against the swedge, it drives the point deeper.
Not to mention that the knife remains legal in more localities than one with a sharpened swedge, and at its present blade length.

A fixed blade Chinook IV with a Kydex multi-position sheath, in the mode of Bob Dozier's sheaths.
 
Either a fixed blade or a ball bearing lock would be fine with me. I will buy either but I think the fixed blade might be the way to go.
 
A fixed blade Chinook of any size would get my money. But I wouldn't want it double edged, that would be illegal for concealed carry here in Oregon. And IMHO you don't need a sharpened clip for a back cut anyway. Again, IMHO an unsharpened clip causes much more trauma.
 
Ken Cox said:
The unsharpened swedge already serves a good purpose, in creating a more acute but strong point; and, in that, if one pulls against the swedge, it drives the point deeper.
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Good point; I've never thought about that aspect.
 
A fixed blade Chinook would be a good way to go i think ? the Chinook folder is a really good knife, a fixed blade version would be viewed the same way im sure !!!
 
Get this guys how about a chinook 4 with a 4'' laminated zdp-189 blade a carbon fibre handle ball lock.$300 would be fair.
 
I believe Spyderco has already perfected the Chinook as a folder.

I see no way of improving on absolute perfection.

The Chinook IV, then, ought not fold.

Make it fixed, and when I say identical to the II and III in every respect and nuance, I even mean the little the scallops in the scales on each side for guiding the thumb into the hole.

Identical in every respect and nuance means retaining the hole in the exact position and conformation as in the II and III.

In fact, I'd even use the same scales and liners, with the same cutout for the lock release in the scales, as sort of an insider's understanding of the Chinook's roots.

To me, the real challenge would involve designing a multi-position sheath that would retain the knife and, at the same time, deliver it quickly to a defender's hand, ready for action.

This same sheath, then, would accept and carry a Chinook II or III in its opened configuration.

Spyderco could sell the sheaths to people who own Chinook II's and III's.

For myself, though, I could not live without a fixed blade Chinook IV that had an IWB sheath for the blade portion of the knife, with the entire grip exposed above the waistband for instant excess, and with some sort of extension of the sheath to act as a liner between the grip and the body to keep the grip from rubbing the wearer's skin through his shirt.
A very high-ride sheath.

Additionally, I would like to see a sheath I could take apart and put back together as a mirror-image of itself, so I could carry it on the left or right side, and so I could carry it so oriented as to present itself in either the Ice Pick grip or the saber/hammer/baseball-bat grip, depending on the wearer's hand and grip preferences.

I would skeletonize the tang of a fixed blade Chinook to exactly match the skeletonization of the present liners, and I would use the same liners between the scales and the tang as the present folding Chinook uses.

I'd also stick with S30V.

Make a fixed blade Chinook IV as indistinguishable from its folding predecessors as possible (I'd use the exact same screw/fastener pattern, and even the same fasteners), and put the thought, research and development into the most flexible, multi-position, left/right, IWB/belt sheath the world has ever seen.
 
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