Handles & Their Choils

[Kysa]

Bar none, Spyderco has some of the best handles in the business. I tend to favor models that provide a subtle or distinct finger choil over those that do not.

Great knives with great choils include the:
1. Native
2. Navigator
3. Calypso Jr.
4. Jot Singh Khalsa
5. DragonFly!
6. Rescue
7. Military

Mind you, not every knife design MUST have a choil. My question is, why not? (Would every knife look too similar?) And as a user, do you tend to prefer knives with choils over those that do not have choils?

 

[Tom Carey]

I perfer choils on my knives. Of course I am a big Military fan! I seem to be addicted to Spyderco's at this point

. Good to see you posting here btw Kysa. I suggest you check out the irc chat sometime.

Regards,

Tom Carey

 

[Marion David Poff]

I on the other hand dislike choils as such on most knives....

Some I put up with but in general I would prefer a knie with very little metal not sharpened and a handle that gets me right up close, while safely on handle.

But I love Spydies so much.....

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[Sal Glesser]

Kysa - I'ts kinda like "Ford vs Chevy". The choil will actually get you closer to the cutting edge than a handle guard and edge grind right to the handle guard (front expansion), simply because of the thickness of the material needed to expand the front of the handle to create the guard.

The choil made up of half blade - half handle as Spyderco does allows for a longer cutting edge than a choil that is all in the blade.

The general public however seems to prefer the handle and blade separation and doesn't want to get too close the the blade. They are more comfortable with a little distance. That is why we make both.
sal

 

[Jackal]

Hey Sal...so which one is Ford and which is the Chevy? hahaha J/K...that would stir up a whole mess of trouble huh? -AR

 

[Tom Carey]

I am a big fan of choils. It allows you to sharpen the entire edge and allows you to choke up for more control. Those are two very good reasons to have Choils IMO.


Regards,

Tom Carey

 

[Frank]

I don't mind the choil if it is about the same width as the cutting edge. Once I was cutting a lot of nylon straps with a Gerber EZ-Out. I would put the knife under the strap and pull up. The choil on the Gerber is narrower than the cutting edge so there is a kind of step there. That would catch on the strap. It was more annoying than anything else, but I did give the Gerber away and buy an Endura.

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