Chinook II / III question

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Hello all. Awhile back I purchased what was described as a Chinook 3 with box. I put it in the safe and recently sold it on an auction site as a Chinook 3. The purchaser just emailed me to say he got the knife and all is good. He also claimed that its a 2, not a 3. I checked Spyderco website and compared the desc for the two knives to find that the ony diff (in the descriptions) is that the 3 is .062" shorter in OAL and is .2 oz lighter. The picture for both show a FFG blade (the knife I had was FFG).

My question is: Is there a way to tell a FFG Chinook2 from a Chinook3 without a scale and/or a tape measure?? Are there any visual differences??
 
Chinook 2 has a hollow grind
Chinook 3 has a full flat grind

Sounds like you sold a 3!
Any pics?
 
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If the blade is full flat ground, it's a Chinook III. The Chinook II's were all hollow ground.

rycen, do you (or does anybody else) get a strange pop-up from a third-party website asking for ID and password when you open the thread you linked to on the Spyderco Factory Forum?
 
I didn't get anything when opening it in Chrome but I tried it in Internet Explorer and I did get a Pop Up asking for that. It said on top connecting to premium knives.com
 
Yep, that's the one. I'm probably just a bit more paranoid than usual today, but it raised a red flag for me.
 
Jester60 said:
Hello all. Awhile back I purchased what was described as a Chinook 3 with box. I put it in the safe and recently sold it on an auction site as a Chinook 3. The purchaser just emailed me to say he got the knife and all is good. He also claimed that its a 2, not a 3. I checked Spyderco website and compared the desc for the two knives to find that the ony diff (in the descriptions) is that the 3 is .062" shorter in OAL and is .2 oz lighter. The picture for both show a FFG blade (the knife I had was FFG).

My question is: Is there a way to tell a FFG Chinook2 from a Chinook3 without a scale and/or a tape measure?? Are there any visual differences??
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I'd take a Chinook 2 over a Chinook 3 any day.
 
The knife I sold was a FFG. I had heard that there had been some 2's that had been FFG. I did see on another forum pics of a Chinook 2 compared to a 3 and it looked to me like there was a slight diff in blade profile.

Doesn't really matter, the buyer said he was happy with it, I was just curious about it.

Thanks for the responses.
 
Not just a "slight" difference in blade profile. The 'nook 2 is hollow ground and the 'nook 3 is FFG. Since the 'nook is an SD knife(for a few people) how it does in meat tests would be an indicator of how it will perform in it's task. The 'nook 2 is one of the best performers in blades of it's size. The 'nook 3 on the other hand, does incredibly poorly. BTW, I have 3 chinook 3's which I don't carry at all. I'd have sold them long ago if I could ship out knives from where I am.

Chinook 2

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Chinook 3

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I understand the difference between hollow grind and full flat grind. The difference I was talking about is in the profile of the blade. On the 2 the curve of the spine seems to flatten out as it gets towards the tip whereas the 3 seems to have a slightly more upsweep towards the point.

Perhaps it's an optic trick due to the hollow grind?
 
Jester60 said:
I understand the difference between hollow grind and full flat grind. The difference I was talking about is in the profile of the blade. On the 2 the curve of the spine seems to flatten out as it gets towards the tip whereas the 3 seems to have a slightly more upsweep towards the point.

Perhaps it's an optic trick due to the hollow grind?
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Yep, the 3 does seem to have a more upswept tip. Probably one of the factors that reduce it's slashing performance.
 
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