Custom Spyderco??

DJC72

DJC72

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On occasion I will check out Benchmade’s website to look at their custom knife maker. While the cost is at a premium, I did purchase a couple last year and I am quite happy with them.

No knife company has as many models, steel options and scale colors as Spyderco! Could you imagine being able to create your dream Manix or Pm2. I would love to see this option on the home site. Not sure it would ever happen but I can dream. What would your dream Spyderco be?
 
Military with compression lock. M390 DLC blade with a titanium frame lock and carbon fiber presentation side. While we are dreaming maybe an option for tip up carry to help with small pockets.
 
I've thought about this too. PM2 and Manix would be my choices. It would take away much of the excitement of the sprint run/exclusives however.
 
I would love to see something like that as well. It would kinda ruin the whole sprint run thing though
 
jstn said:
I've thought about this too. PM2 and Manix would be my choices. It would take away much of the excitement of the sprint run/exclusives however.
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I think the bold portion is the problem you have with the idea. I think if they kept it to their standard steels and scale material and colors with some engraving options that would be a nice middle ground for a custom shop.

ie you can get VG-10, S30V, S35VN(maybe), and S90V for blade steel and then FRN, G10, and maybe Titanium in any of the normal production colors. Then the final added option to really make it worth using would be an engraving option.
 
PirateSeulb said:
I think the bold portion is the problem you have with the idea. I think if they kept it to their standard steels and scale material and colors with some engraving options that would be a nice middle ground for a custom shop.

ie you can get VG-10, S30V, S35VN(maybe), and S90V for blade steel and then FRN, G10, and maybe Titanium in any of the normal production colors. Then the final added option to really make it worth using would be an engraving option.
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But if you just kept it to their normal options, really engraving is the only thing that would be added.
 
You would get some variety in the steel but nothing crazy like M4, M390, S110V, Maxmet, CruWear, etc the more basic steels with the most premium available being S90V and there could be a small expansion in the scales but keeping the rarer color options out so G-10 would be Brown, Green, Black and FRN well that ones got too many standard colors to list and Titanium would have no special milling and no anodizing. They could let you do like Benchmade and do some mix and match ie 1 side Titanium 1 Side G-10 or if you went full G-10 or full FRN you could have different colors each side.

The issue is for Spyderco sprints, flash batches, and exclusives are a big part so we can't reach too far into that realm if we were to ask for a "custom" shop.
 
PirateSeulb said:
I think the bold portion is the problem you have with the idea. I think if they kept it to their standard steels and scale material and colors with some engraving options that would be a nice middle ground for a custom shop.

ie you can get VG-10, S30V, S35VN(maybe), and S90V for blade steel and then FRN, G10, and maybe Titanium in any of the normal production colors. Then the final added option to really make it worth using would be an engraving option.
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To be clear, I don't have a problem with it, and would in fact prefer it over the sprint/exclusives, and the accompanying inflated secondary market prices. With the custom option people could have the exact knife they want and use it without worry of being able to replace it at a decent price. I could see dealers balking at the idea, and it might hurt sales for Spyderco as well.
 
I started a thread on the same topic a couple of weeks ago, for me it would be a millie with a thicker blade (+1mm) and a convex grind.
 
Build your own Spyderco has been suggested here a ton of times and so far it's been a non-starter. Too bad as it would be pretty cool.
 
Danke42 said:
Build your own Spyderco has been suggested here a ton of times and so far it's been a non-starter. Too bad as it would be pretty cool.
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Yeah, I was just thinking, "Has it been three months already?"

We might think it would be cool, but it would be an industrial PITA for Spyderco. Especially with their policy of Constant Quality Improvement and the resulting undocumented rolling changes they make. Just trying to maintain an inventory of parts that fit together properly would be a nightmare unless they gave that up, along with developing new models.
 
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