Help me with my Spyderco dilemma...

[madcap_magician]

So I was going back and forth between the Slysz Bowie (fit and finish, like a Sebenza, only more ergonomic and with a Spyderhole!), Domino (flipper!), and Dice (Cheaper!) to replace the waved Delica that I have carried for probably five years before I lost it about a month ago.

What I ended up with was the blue weave Domino from Grand Prairie, which is currently sitting in my mailbox at home.

But I really think I like the Slysz, and GPK said I could refuse the shipment and get the Slysz instead. Obvious con side to this is that it'll take me another week at least to get the Slysz (returning the Domino to GPK and redoing the order) and cost me another $75.

I haven't really seen any comparisons between the two knives other than that the Domino is slightly fatter, and the all the extra $$$ in the Slysz went into radiusing and polishing everything beyond the usual Spyderco fit and finish.

I can afford either, but not both.

Anyone have both and want to chime in on which they like better, and why?

 

[Barman1]

I liked my Dominos' but found I was using the hole to open rather than the flipper so it was a rather redundant feature for me. Very nice knife but if I had to choose between the two the Slysz would be where I spend my money.

 

[3rdGenRigger]

If you can afford both at a later date I'd keep the Domino for now. I have the blue weave and it's awesome...ground very thin behind the edge, and the flipper works awesome. Super smooth with the ball bearing pivot, and you can thumb hole open it in front of sheeple if needed...oh and the internal stop pin is a really cool feature that makes the back of the knife streamlined while open. I don't have a Slysz Bowie, but I intend to get one as one of my next purchases. As I said...you can't afford both now, but the blue weave's in stock will eventually run out, and the Slysz Bowie should be around for a while, so if you can afford the Bowie down the road a ways I'd stick with and enjoy the Domino.

 

[Yo Mama]

The Domino is still on my list. The steel on the Slysz Bowie the same as the Domino. I'd keep the Domino, wait and still get the Slysz Bowie later.

 

[Yo Mama]

btw, if you don't have a Southard, you need one before you get anything else!

 

[3rdGenRigger]

I'd hold a Southard first if possible...the Domino is very similar ergonomically to the Manix and Sage series so it's fairly easy to know if you'll enjoy it, but the Southard is quite different and there's a good chance you'll have nothing to relate it to. I held a Southard on a number of occasions and it just didn't work for me ergonomically so I don't have one.

 

[madcap_magician]

Southard didn't call to me... for the longest time, the base Spyderco design with the leaf blade didn't either, but it's grown on me a lot. I ended up keeping the Domino with an eye toward getting the Slysz perhaps later. I love the texture of the carbon fiber laminate, and it is a smooooooth flipper.

 

[3rdGenRigger]

Both decisions were good ones, but seeing as how you already have the Domino it's probably the more logical decision. I carried my Domino today actually..

 

[madcap_magician]

Both decisions were good ones, but seeing as how you already have the Domino it's probably the more logical decision. I carried my Domino today actually..

Then my wife found out I spent almost $200 on a knife.

The fact that it was my discretionary money that I had been saving literally in a piggy bank, the fact that it was put on the credit card and immediately covered by a deposit into the checking account from which we pay said credit card, and the fact that pre-Domino she had said what I did with my discretionary money didn't matter did not save me for her initial reaction.

Fortunately she appears to have since realized how irrational that was.

 

[3rdGenRigger]

Tell her it will hold its value a LOT better than any of her clothes/shoes...and last a lot longer too.