Do you still have your first Spyderco?

Still have my first - a worker. Wife gave it to me for Christmas sometime in the 80's. Thought it was the ugliest knife made at the time. Until I started carrying and using. The beauty is in the functionality it provides. And as everyone else this was the entry drug into many more Spydies over the years.

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HOMER GRIFIN said:
Those are really beautiful scales
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Glad you like them. Here are the green ones:

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I’ll have to do some digging through my knife drawer to verify but I believe I have my first Spyderco, a serrated Pacific in VG10(but don’t quote my on that until I see it again). Circa mid 90’s.
 
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My first Spyderco was a 90s Endura (from the white box era, probably ATS-55, just like the one above, except with full serrations). The tip got broken off in a nightclub in Almaty (not by me, but by one of the guys I handed it in to on entry - I guess they were playing with it).

I don't have it, but not sure what happened to it. Perhaps my brother inherited in along with other stuff that was still lying around my mother's house.
 
Sure, but as a long time ZT fan I must confess my first Spyderco (Yojumbo Black) arrived a couple weeks ago, now I have 4 lol
 
I've managed to keep this one, since I was 12 (1992). The smokey mountain knife works catalog was hours of entertainment for my Dad and I; saving my chore money, this was the 1st knife I bought with my own money. Despite not really favoring folders and preferring to collect and use fixed blades over the last 20+ years, Spyderco is about the only knife maker that attracts me if I am to pick up something that folds, likely due to my youthful affinity for this model:
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Helping to re-shingle a roof when I was 15, I did not listen to the adults around and I learned that the spydie edge was no match for an asphalt shingle, so about 1/4" of the tip is butter knife dull, but the rest of the edge can still get after it.
 
WasCEG said:
Still have my first - a worker. Wife gave it to me for Christmas sometime in the 80's. Thought it was the ugliest knife made at the time. Until I started carrying and using. The beauty is in the functionality it provides. And as everyone else this was the entry drug into many more Spydies over the years.

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Wow that Gem is still looking great. Awesome wife and knife 👌
 
Recently acquired my first two spyderco’s again. A Manix 2 in 154cm hollow ground and a PM2 in s35vn with brown scales.
 
I'm not sure which of these 5 is the very first Spyderco I bought, maybe one of the gen 1 Enduras. Notice the skinny molded clips, Volcano grip handles, and the G-2 steel. The Police says GIN-1 steel. The Ladybug pkg says AUS-6 steel. If not the Enduras, then it must be the Mariner. Left handed tip down only, and no steel listed on the tang. Thanks for this thread, a blast from the past. Oh, forgot to add, Sal wins, first prototype. Could we see a photo? Thanks for Sharpmakers, pocket clips, and the holes in the blades. Never felt the need for assisted opening, my thumb is all the assist my blades need. And thanks for all the good steels.20230504_003817~2.jpg20230504_003852~2.jpg
 
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My first was a serrated kitchen knife. The handle disintegrated with time and it was used up. My second was a G10 Harpy and I still got it. Went back to the Mother Ship for a tip repair, and it’s stilll in use.
 
To be really freaking honest, I still do not have ANY IDEA what my first Spyderco was. I just. . . . man. It's been so long and there's been so many knives. 😵‍💫
 
I think so.

I bought an Endura, Merlin and SpyderCard all around the same time in the 1980's.

I still have the Endura & Merlin. I sold the SpyderCard but don't think it was the 1st one that I bought.
 
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