Do you carry/use your Chokwe

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If you have a Chokwe, do you use it? It's a great knife and deserves more use and attention than it gets.

I've carrying mine the days few days. It's one of the thinnest and sharpest spydies I have. It's a really Great knife!!
 
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It is a great knife and one of the models of the Ethnic Series that look most like it's progenitor, IMHO.

Check out Mr. Blonde's comparison of authentic Chokwe knife with Spyderco version:
https://spydercollector.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/spyderco_prototype_iwa09_chokwe_original.jpg

It definitely has one of the smoooothest openings of any knife I own...

This summer I plan on crafting a more traditional hardwood handle for mine....maybe Rosewood, if I can get my respirator back from my neighbor!;)


Interesting story about my first Chokwe...I showed it to my one knife knut son and he said, "What's this called?"

I replied, "Chokwe." He said, "So it's like Central African?"....stunned, I said "Yeah, how'd you know that?"

He said, "We learned about Congo this week in school."

Not bad for a public school education in Tennessee. :thumbup:

One question for the Spyder-men....

Was Sal the designer of the Chokwe? Ed Schempp? Eric? Someone else? :confused:
 
The Chowke is a knife used by the natives of Zambia. A lot of them use a fixed blade Chokwe, not a folder.

A member of the Spyderco.com forum visited Zambia in 2008. He like the design so well that he made some drawings of the knife and sent

them to Sal. He convinced Sal to make a folder designed like a fb folder like those he saw used in Zambia.

There was a thread about all of this on the General Discussion forum at Spyderco.com for a few months in 2008. It was great to have Sal make a cool knife

from drawing of a knife made and used in Zambia.
 
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I love my Chokwe. Carry it alot. Definitely a user. As all of my knives are!

 
Nice natural G10! I have carried and used mine a lot. Doesn't get as much time as it used to though. Great blade shape and very smooth.
 
I use and love the Chokwe so much that I got 2 backups before they were discontinued. It is great around the kitchen. It's a unique and practical design. The tip is a little delicate though as I've already had to repair it once. I've modified a ZT deep carry clip to work with it.

One issue that I had with it was that the titanium lock bar was wearing out too fast. I ended up heating the lock bar to harden it. It has not moved since then, but in the process of hardening the lock bar, the detent popped out. I had to install a new detent ball. All is fine now.

I don't carry it as much anymore because I'm in an axis lock kick with my 940.

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Has anyone both the Chokwe AND the Pattada?

I'd be interested in your views of their comparison in use.
 
chrisinhove said:
Has anyone both the Chokwe AND the Pattada?

I'd be interested in your views of their comparison in use.
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I don't see anything remotely similar between the two. What are you comparing?
Different grips, different blade profile, different lock, different grip finnish.
 
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I don't see anything remotely similar between the two. What are you comparing?
Different grips, different blade profile, different lock, different grip finnish.
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Precisely.... other than being thin tipped Ethnic series, with unusual and different blade profiles, each originally with many generations of evolution and use behind them. What could possibly be interesting about that?
 
chrisinhove said:
Precisely.... other than being thin tipped Ethnic series, with unusual and different blade profiles, each originally with many generations of evolution and use behind them. What could possibly be interesting about that?
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Sarcasm?

So you're not looking for a comparison. You're asking for anecdotal experience with each knife.
 
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