Getting Back to the Basics

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adamg01

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I was bit by the Spyderco bug a little over a year ago and they have since consumed 80% of my knife purchases.

My first quality knife was a BM Griptilian and it was a solid "first quality EDC" but it never hooked me to the point where I couldn't wait to get my hands on the next model. I couldn't help but notice all of the rabid Spyderco fans when I researched what was popular in the knife world but the "Spydy hole" always made me a little hesitant to take the plunge. It just didn't look natural to have a hole in your blade.

Much the same way that I got into Glock, I ignored my first instinct and took the plunge with a grey Delica FFG. I instantly fell in love with the simplicity and value the Delica offered. I was researching my next Spyderco shortly after my Delica arrived, I was hooked. I have been through at least a dozen Spyderco models from the Endura to the PM2 Elmax Sprint.

Up until recently I had been carrying my Chokwe, what an excellent design that is. Just for old times sake I pulled out the Delica for the holidays, the one that got it all started. I had sworn off FRN after I discovered G10 and CF.

I had almost forgotten the simplicity and value that made me fall in love with Spyderco in the first place. Has anyone else came full circle back to the one that got it all started?
 
I just got my first Sryderco this week, a Delica 4 FFG in grey also. I previously only carried a SOG Twitch XL and II. The difference was just crazy, the Delica was even lighter than the smallest Twitch. Fit and feel was also better and the Delica locked up tighter. I'm already looking at the next Spyderco I'll get, I will probably order another next week. I never thought to look at them, I asked to see a Delica because Cabela's didn't have the Aegis I was looking for. The weight and feel was just perfect. It opened easily and had more traction than anything I had. The day I got it a guy at work handled it and promptly ordered one for himself. I doubt I'll buy another SOG, all of the Spydercos that I handled just fit me better. My SOGs have been put away, it's probably going to be Spyderco for me from this point on.
 
From a cost/function/value standpoint, it's hard to beat Spyderco, and nigh on impossible to beat a Delica. :)
 
I own a lot of more expensive knives, including some from Spyderco, but the Delica and Endura are my favorites. The only thing I would like to see is the blade stop pin from the Native 5 added to them.
 
The Delica was my first real knife many years ago and it's still a awesome knife , can't go wrong with a spyderco.
 
That's exactly how I came to love spyderco also. I usually edc my Gayle Bradley but from time to time I go back to the Delica that started it all
 
I did the same thing as well...coming back to the basics. I have owned well over 500 knives, from the cheap yet decent Ontario Rat 1, to Kershaws, Cold Steel, Benchmades, Spydercos, CRKs, Striders, Hinderers and full customs. The one and only knife that always tugged at my heart was the Spyderco Military. Whenever I carried my Sebenzas and high end customs I would be reminded how much I missed carrying the Military. It is such a simple and basic knife. The Spyder-hole totally blows any other opening method out of the water. I can open any knife with a Spyderco Hole faster and more secure than any waved, auto or flipper opening knife. The Military has a generous cutting edge and at the same time carries smaller and better than many other knives that are physically smaller. It can fly out if finger flipped or slowly opened. It has everything you need and nothing you don't. So going back to the OP's thread discussion, I have pretty much sold every knife I owned and will be sticking to Militarys for now and into the foreseeable future.
 
Yeah, I recently re-discovered the FRN Spydercos as well -- it's been about 10 years since I purchased one (or anything in FRN, for that matter), back in my days as a student. I recently got my hands on a Tasman Salt and a Dragonfly 2, and was almost shocked to discover how perfectly the FRN completes the design in both cases. It really illustrated the ridiculousness of "titanium snobbery" to me in a new way.
 
I'm carrying my C41PBK Lightweight FRN Native today. It was my first Spyderco knife. I just wanted to try this new-to-me (then) S30V steel everybody was talking about and it was the cheapest way to get some, at the time. Looking back, if I had known then what I know now, I would have stopped buying knives, right then and there. It's realistically all the knife I'll ever need - but, sadly, not nearly all the knife (or knives) I'll ever want. :confused: :) ;)
 
It's hard to beat the basic Spyderco models for utility. While I love the Gayle Bradley, PM2, G10 Dragonfly and others, the fact is the basic FRN models carry lighter and perform most cutting jobs I encounter with no limitations. Along with a Dragonfly, the Spyderco I've been carrying the most in recent weeks has been a Centofante 3, one of the basic FRN models and one of the few remaining pinned-together designs.
 
Delica was also my first quality knife. I currently own a pm2 and manix. I just bought a ffg delica to edc. Perfect for slicing food and I appreciate the frn handle not to damage the sterling silver engraved money clip that it shares a pocket with.
 
Spyderco is really an exciting company! Always coming out with something new.When they did the Stretch in super blue,I couldn't resist.:)
 
Hard to beat spyderco! So many choices of styles, steels, and collaborations that they keep our interest and money
 
jlamb said:
Hard to beat spyderco! So many choices of styles, steels, and collaborations that they keep our interest and money
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They do a good job at offering steels that the average knife guy might never get his hands on otherwise.
 
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