Endura or Police....is there REALLY a difference?

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Lavan

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Yeah, I know....but....REALLY?? The Endura is just ABOUT as long a blade and FAR lighter.
So.....r e a l l y ????????

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As you already observed, the FRN Endura is much lighter that the all stainless Police. It is also much less expensive, uses the same steel, and, because of it's < 4" blade will be legal to carry in some places where the Police will not. The stainless Endura shares that last trait with it's FRN cousin, but is just about as heavy as the Police and uses AUS-6 steel, which most would consider inferior to the VG-10 of the Police and FRN Endura.
 
And don't forget that the Endura is carried tip-up while the Police is carried tip-down.

And the Endura has a flat-sabre-ground blade while the Police has a hollow-ground blade with a significant swedge.

And the Endura has the barrel-clip with lanyard hole while the Police has no lanyard hole and has a three-screw clip.

Cheers,
Allen.
 
I was able to talk to Mrs. Glesser at the SFO a few days ago, and she told me that the endura evolved from the police, redisgned from a utility standpoint rather than a combat standpoint. I belive the same is true of delica/rookie.
Looking at them side by side, they do look nearly identical. I would go for endura.
 
The question should be "how different is an Endura 2 from a police?" I got the latter because it was the biggest thing spyderco made at the time ~1992. If you're going to treat your knife as a prybar (abuse it :grumpy: ) get the endura 2--the handles hold up better than the aluminum or "plastic" and the tip is stronger than the police, as noted above.

jw
 
G10 police is flat ground.

of the 2 i like the police a lot better myself. dont like FRN and the police has a little longer blade, they are definitly diff knives.
 
Looks like the bottom line is that they are as similar, or as different, as our eyes and minds perceive them to be and as desirable or undesirable as our varied tastes rate them.
 
I think endura got more curve than police, which imho a good thing for slicing.
 
The Endura is totally ambidextrous, which appeals to sinister types like myself, and has a lanyard hole. But the Endura does not have the shark-like je ne sais quoi that the Police has. I continue my quest for a left-handed tip-up Police model. It's my own impossible dream.
 
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