Damascus Caly 3 Varieties?

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So I recently ordered two Caly 3 CF and Damascus from the same vendor. I just got them in today and was surprised to see that one has a blade stamp of 092V next to the Spyder logo and one does not. The boxes are also labeled with and without the 092V. Can someone more knowledgeable than me tell me why the difference? Wondering if they are from different runs or something.
 
It's just the collectors club number.
 
So one is a collectors club knife and the other isn't? Which one should be the user?
 
Sprint run with SS bolster and CF scales. Still for sale at some dealers.

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Got that part, I bought 2 of them and one has a collectors stamp and one doesn't, trying to decide which to make my user and which to shelve. I am guessing the collectors club one will be shelved.

Locutus D'Borg said:
Sprint run with SS bolster and CF scales. Still for sale at some dealers.
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I don't like CC numbers on my knives, in fact I avoid buying knives with them. I would use the CC Caly and store the non-CC.
 
The Spyderco collectors club allows members to get knives ahead of the general public. Members pay for the privelege and have options on which knives that they will receive (i.e. basic production models, variants, everything made in a particular year, or whatever).

The collector's club number is meaningless for anything but designating which collectors club member it would go to. Spyderco has a select number of collector's club slots that they sell (I think 300 but I'm not sure). 092 would only mean that the person that bought membership into the club was assigned that number by Spyderco. If he bought a full membership, it would mean that he would get first shipment of all newly issued knives in that particular year (collector's club members knives ship first - a couple of weeks before regular production knives). When you "leave" the club and don't renew membership, the number you were assigned would go to another new member, as needed. So 092 may have been held by several different folks over the years.

If you got 092 from a dealer, it probably means that the dealer owns that member number. Some dealers buy collectors club memberships (i.e. 10 or so) so they can get a handful of the new knives first and get them to market ahead of the general shipment.

The "V" after the number indicates that this model is a "variant" of the basic model (in this case, the "plain Jane" Caly 3).

There is no difference in the collector's club numbered knives versus a regular production knife, other than the number on the blade. That number, as noted, is only the collectors club member's assigned slot and not the production number of the knife as it was manufactured (i.e. - collectors club 001 does not mean that this was the first of that knife ever made - it only means that it will do to whoever holds slot #1 in the club). Any connection that may exist between collector's club number and production sequence is pure chance.

A lot of guys are turned-off by the number on the blade. To me it makes no difference. I have some with numbers on them, but most without. It means nothing to me either way.

So as far as which one to use and which one to keep in a safe, it really makes no difference.
 
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The collectors club is limited to 200. The only other knives you will see with a higher number are the collaboration models, which used to be numbered to 1000.
 
rycen said:
The collectors club is limited to 200. The only other knives you will see with a higher number are the collaboration models, which used to be numbered to 1000.
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Thanks for chiming in. I wasn't handy with the actual numbers on the collectors club membership. Crappy memory is becoming more frequent as I age.
 
Thanks for all the replies guys. I think I will pocket the non-numbered one and shelve the CC knife. Love it so far, now the hard part will be deciding if it gets carried or my SB caly 3.
 
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