Deploying the Southard with the Spyder Hole [Now With Video]

If you can get your thumb in there it actually deploys even faster than the already quick and smooth flipper. I love my Southard!
 
Deputy572 said:
If you can get your thumb in there it actually deploys even faster than the already quick and smooth flipper. I love my Southard!
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"If" is the operative word, all right.

Officer's Match said:
I find I can thumb flick mine open via the hole, but am much more confident using the flipper.
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If Spyderco had offered the Southard with and without the Spyderhole, I can't help but wonder how many of us would have purchased the latter. I know I would have. Having said that, the hole doesn't bother me. It's part of what identifies the knife as a Spyderco.
 
As I've mentioned my thumbs are fat, very fat, and I can't get them into the Spyder hole really. I can still operate the blade on the Southard via the hole, but the flipper is far easier and more reliable. Can't wait for the Domino to get he best of both worlds.
 
bld522 said:
I'm sort of at a loss to understand why a knife needs to incorporate more than one blade deployment method. If I buy a flipper, I buy it to open it using the flipper. So while the thumbhole in a Southard can probably be made to work smoothly and efficiently, it's simply not the method I ever plan to use to open mine.
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Injury. Like, er... knife cut on your flipper finger. :) I don't have any problem deploying the blade either way on this knife, but the flipper is funner.

BTW, I think the angle of the thumb stroke is more important than whether you're pressing on the lock bar. Many people try to push out with the thumb rather than forward. Forward angled slightly to the left is the way to do it. Same as the thumb stud on knives like the Blur.
 
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tatteredmidnight said:
As I've mentioned my thumbs are fat, very fat, and I can't get them into the Spyder hole really. I can still operate the blade on the Southard via the hole, but the flipper is far easier and more reliable. Can't wait for the Domino to get he best of both worlds.
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I'm going to have to have a Domino, I think. The Southard is my favorite blade right now, but I understand they're going to stop producing the 204P steel, which is a shame. This is just the greatest little knife.
 
freewheeling said:
I'm going to have to have a Domino, I think. The Southard is my favorite blade right now, but I understand they're going to stop producing the 204P steel, which is a shame. This is just the greatest little knife.
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So what from their? Will they just change the steel I wonder? Hopefully a super steel. Maybe CTS-XHP, M390, or CTS-20CP. I plan on getting another southard but I like CTS-204p too much to have it in any other steel. It performs awesome. I do wish it was a little tougher though but that is not a big deal
 
Over in the Spyderco forums Sal said Carpenter watches threads about its steel, and community response might influence his decision. I'll edit in a quote when I'm back at my computer.
 
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