Cricket or Chive? Which do you prefer?

I have a Chive that I've been carrying for about 2 years now and I aint givin it up. Nice knife, not expensive and you hardly know it's there until you need it.

Kevin
 
I thought this topic looked a little bit familiar.

Well.. I HAD both the Cricket and the Chive, but lost the Chive about a year ago. I still miss it, and just haven't gotten around to picking up one to replace it.

The Cricket is really great, slim, and w/ a much nicer clip.

I think the clip on the Chive is just about useless, as a clip (it's very tight, and very thin), but fine to help me grip the knife. I took the clip off the Chive once, and then put it back on, because it just didn't feel right.

The speed safe feature is very fun to play with.

I never put either under very hard use, so the steel properties were pretty negligible, at least for my use.

I also went a little bit more upscale after this, and got both a regular Benchmite and a Benchmite Auto.

All 4 of these knives are in the same size category, just under 2". I find the very slim and streamlined form factor of the Benchmite to be optimal, and the auto-version the one that ends up in my watch pocket the most.

If I need a more secure/accessible knife, then it's the Cricket, clipped to my pocket.

My favorite of the 4, is the Benchmite auto, but I like them all. The Chive is to me, the poor man's Benchmite "auto".
 
WadeF said:
So I'm slicing the shrink wrap plastic away from the card board when all the sudden I feel pain. Here there was an area where there was no cardboard (like a window) behind the handle of the driver. So the blade went right through the shrink wrap and right into my pinky!
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Been there, done that! Band-aids and knives go together!

Here's one for ya, that I heard awhile ago:
"Cut toward your buddy, not toward your body."
 
I've had the chive for about 1 year now, its worked well for me as a edc, nice an small, holds a decent edge easy to sharpen.
 
there was the SS Cricket and before that was the Chive. I carried the Chive a lot as my work knife till I got the SS Cricket which I thought was the best little work knife ever. Then along came the Dodo and that's the end of that. The Cricket and the Chive are gathering dust in my safe and the Dodo gets the nod every day.

I like the Cricket better than the Chive because in a warehouse type environment, the Cricket has the advantage with it's "S" shape blade and little hook tip that slits open boxes with the greatest of ease.

May have to give that Boron coated Chive a closer look though...hmm... :rolleyes:
 
The Cricket is easier for me to open and utilize so I prefer it to the Chive I used to own.I've also seen references to using a Cricket as a last ditch defence item but I've never felt the need.tom. :cool:
 
Pocketknife said:
Been there, done that! Band-aids and knives go together!

Here's one for ya, that I heard awhile ago:
"Cut toward your buddy, not toward your body."
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Wow! Time warp! I did that like 2 years ago. :)

I'd still go with the SS Cricket over the Chive. Chive is just to small for me, and I don't like fumbling with the speed safe in such a small knife.
 
Chive is just to small for me, and I don't like fumbling with the speed safe in such a small knife.
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Yeah, I have the same problem with smaller handle knives. If the knife has a lanyard hole, I tie some paracord in about a 3" long hangman's noose that kind of extends the handle's grip.
 
If the tip breaks off, spyderco needs to do a nice regrind for you, which is worth the 10$ if it was me.

I'd go with the Chive if it was the only knife you're carrying.

Or the Blade Tech Mouse lite
 
I have and like both but the chive is a small knife the cricket is a big knife in a small package. I find the cricket easier to open, stronger and it performs like it's big brothers. The chive looks good and works well for what I think it is, a cute keyring knife.
 
I bought a black Chive and a rainbow Leek at the same time. Wish I'd got both in rainbow as it's so 'purdy', also the black really shows up fingerprints.
 
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