Cliffhanger Spyderco

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The park ranger gets the knife from a dying friend, hides it in his boot and manages to turn the tables on a bad guy. Does anyone know the exact model? Spydercos are good knives and find their way into a lot of films, but I'm disappointed that so much of the line have blades three inches in length. My first knives were three inches, but now I rarely carry them, except as secondary knives, then I carry my Native. I like it because of its blade shape and the fact that the butt of the frame tucks into the palm of my hand.

In Cliffhanger, the Spyderco was used to open up a bad guy's femoral artery, pretty much ruining his day. Based on these photos, what was the knife?


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A SE Delica or Endura. I'm thinking it's Delica. I had one of those old Enduras but a submarine troop needed it more then I did, great knives.
 
Peter Parker said:
A SE Delica or Endura. I'm thinking it's Delica. I had one of those old Enduras but a submarine troop needed it more then I did, great knives.
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look at the lenght, handle clip ratio, hole blade ratio
in no way its a delica, il stick to my idea that is an endura :D
no offense spiderman :D
 
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If you like big knives, why don't you check out the Police3 and Military? Last I checked those were the biggest folders in the lineup.
 
carrot said:
If you like big knives, why don't you check out the Police3 and Military? Last I checked those were the biggest folders in the lineup.
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I think he actually prefers smaller knives :)

Looks like a 1st Gen Endura to me!

:thumbup: for noticing it!
 
I like larger knives and, particularly, the Police 3.

Is it me, or is there some continuity problems in the scene above? First, ranger slips the knife off his dying friend (note the blood), then he tucks it away. Yet it's fastidiously clean when he stabs the bad guy. He also pulls out the knife in such a way that if he stuck it into the bad guy's leg, it would have been upside down, front facing the camera; yet the back (clip) side is facing the camera. But what am I complaining about. At least it's the same knife. (I've seen Rugers morph into Smith & Wessons in one movie). Ah, well. There's also a great continuity error in the gun scene in Sneakers, when Redford gets the Smith 659.
 
Three hundred and twenty bucks for a 4-inch folder is a bit rich for me. I like the 5-inch Cold Steel Gunsite, plus I carry a little Spyderco Native for little work.

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Confederate said:
Three hundred and twenty bucks for a 4-inch folder is a bit rich for me. I like the 5-inch Cold Steel Gunsite, plus I carry a little Spyderco Native for little work.

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The limited run in the CPM-S90V actually costs 199.95 bucks. The 320 is just the MRSP... But you can get the regular Military in CPM-S30V/G-10 handles for mere 125 dollars, which quite frankly, it will spank the living shit out of any foreign crap Cold Steel has to offer.
 
Outdoors Fanatic said:
....... But you can get the regular Military in CPM-S30V/G-10 handles for mere 125 dollars, which quite frankly, it will spank the living shit out of any foreign crap Cold Steel has to offer.
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I'm curious, does that Spyderco Military "spank the living shit out of any foreign crap" Spyderco also has to offer, like the Endura or Delica or ZDP-189 bladed knives?

You know, the ones made in the same place as Cold Steel's Gunsite :rolleyes:
 
Tony_A said:
I'm curious, does that Spyderco Military "spank the living shit out of any foreign crap" Spyderco also has to offer, like the Endura or Delica or ZDP-189 bladed knives?

You know, the ones made in the same place as Cold Steel's Gunsite :rolleyes:
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Actually... yes. IMHO the Military is Spyderco's *best* folder. Not that it is the best for everything, but it is probably the finest example of superior Spyderco engineering and design - excellent usability, high performance, low tolerances and relatively low cost.

Also, do remember that CS spec'd out the designs then had the designs made outside. Just because it may (or may not) be made by the same manufacturing plant does not mean the knives are necessarily equal in any way, except in quality of manufacturing. Taking the crappiest design to the best manufacturer will only result in a well made piece of junk. :)
 
carrot said:
Actually... yes. IMHO the Military is Spyderco's *best* folder. Not that it is the best for everything, but it is probably the finest example of superior Spyderco engineering and design - excellent usability, high performance, low tolerances and relatively low cost.

Also, do remember that CS spec'd out the designs then had the designs made outside. Just because it may (or may not) be made by the same manufacturing plant does not mean the knives are necessarily equal in any way, except in quality of manufacturing. Taking the crappiest design to the best manufacturer will only result in a well made piece of junk. :)
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I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. My least favorite types of knives are linerlocks:barf:
 
I don't really care how good it is. All I know is that if they made a Military with a framelock I would probably buy one right now. I have no logical rationale or anything except that I'm not getting a linerlock knife.
 
To those of you who swear off liner locks, well you most certainly don't know what you're missing. The Military is simply one of the best engineered liner locks around. But don't worry, we may very well see a Stop-lock Millie soon and that will be that. Then everyone will recognize the greatness of the Millie pattern.
 
The Military is a BIG favorite of mine. I picked up a carbon fiber/BG-42 model but it's waiting its turn. My S30V gets regular carry, and I have been real happy with the durability of the blade and with the lock-up. I actually like small knives and rotate many of them, but I also carry a Sebenza, Military, or Boker M-type.

There are people with real self-defense credentials like Fred Perrin who will school you on the effectiveness of a blade 3" or less. Like self-defense generally, it's about the know-how not the gear.

But even a less-experienced knife knut can do a lot of damage with a small blade since a knife is going to be an up close weapon anyway and probably a reaction to a surprise assault.

Big dueling scenarios are for The Three Musketeers.

Cold Steel Gunsite II -- a formidably effective knife, for general work purposes and for sure for self defense. You do not want to be on the wrong end of that razor of a blade. You want to see an impressive display, I've got the 5" Gunsite and a 5" Voyager clippoint. :D

The Voyagers -- and the Gunsites are really "just" Voyagers -- are well-designed, well-made knives that have a long run now. Nothing to sneer at, they probably account for a serious and well-deserved percentage of CS profits.

Now if I wasn't on such lousy terms with Lynn Thompson, maybe I could get him to do a flat-ground, non-serrated Vaquero Grande ...
 
carrot said:
To those of you who swear off liner locks, well you most certainly don't know what you're missing. The Military is simply one of the best engineered liner locks around.
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I've had my eye on the Military and the Police 3 for some time. A liner lock can certainly be made reliable depending on the materials that are engaging. I don't think Spyderco has ever made a truly awful knife, at least not in the few years I've been around. When I see the quality of the lowlier Byrd line, they're so good I want to cry. I always feel better when a liner lock is reinforced, but I've never seen a Spyderco user who's nickname was "Stumpy."

There are just so many knives I can't afford. The scene in Cliffhanger was great in several ways. It showed how small knives can be used in last ditch instances. Back in the 70s, I think, two cops were taken into an onion field and there brutally executed. There was even a movie about it. Both had given up their weapons (a big no-no now) and they had no last ditch knives or guns. That single incident led to new designs in back up guns and, I'm sure, tactical knives. Now small knives are widely used in "weapon retention," meaning, of course, the officer's side arm.

One of the lousy aspects of our society is that as soon as something is designed as a weapon for man (who comes into this word with no significant defense), some idiot somewhere always wants to ban it. I'm just stunned that there's no apparent movement in the U.S. to ban tactical knives.

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Even this small S&W hawkbill can be opened quickly and
brought into action. The hawkbill shape of the blade has been
found to be very effective in defense us. It must have some-
thing to so with being shaped like a claw. Much of our greatest
inspiration comes from nature.
 
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