How did you discover Spyderco?

I was stationed in Hawaii with the Army and I was in the BX on Hickam AFB and saw one of those very early Endura's with the half serrated edge and I bought one, this was my first intro to spyderco.
 
I wanted a good knife and knew that what I had was junk. I went to youtube and started researching. I got on amazon, and read reviews. I picked up a Tenacious first, which is the newer guy's first Spyderco it seems. Now the Tenacious is one of my lowest end knives (still amazing, but I discovered many more of course).
 
I've always been interested in knives, but I really got into them around this past christmas.

I remember years ago I used to get a knife catalog all the time that I would look thru and I dont remember anything out of the catalog other than the spyderco knives. I dont remember so much the different knives but just their spider logo, and thinking how neat and different it was.

Flash forward to this past November (2011) something sparked my interest in knives and of course Spyderco was the first brand of knives I looked at. I got my first spydy for xmas which was a Delica 4 (love it) then I got a Tenacious and I just got my first Para 2 last week in which I'm in love with.

I really love everything about them; quality, value, customer service. They got a life long customer here!
 
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I was visiting the US for the very first time in 1997 and was in the MD area visiting a girlfriend who was at John Hopskins so I decided to give Hal Korn a call at a new place called the "Knife Center of the Internet" to buy my first decent knife, the GerberBMF of my username. Hal was based in a small unit in Beltsville at the time so I had to talk him in to allowing me to call round as it wasn't a retail store. I dragged my girlfriend down there and Hal spent about 2 and a half hours talking about knives of various types as he pulled all and sundry out of boxes to show me. As we were wrapping up Hal said he would throw in a super deal on a small knife called a "Spyderco" for $30 and produced a Seki City made GIN1 Tufram handled Copilot with a spydie edge for me to consider. I'd never even heard of them before then but fell in love with that little knife at first sight and well I've been hooked on Spydercos ever since. It's still one of my favourite Spydies 15 years later and is still razor sharp and has zero blade play. The Tufram has held up really well (there are still no marks on it) making me wish Sal would do a Sage in this handle material some time.
 
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I had a few Cold Steel knives in the early 2000's and wanted to start trying out a few other manufacturers. I started looking at reviews for Spyderco and bought an Endura 4. My original plans were to get a Benchmade, a Kershaw, a CRKT and so on. Since I got the Endura, though, I've gotten one Benchmade, one Kershaw, and 17 Spydercos... so you can see where my focus has been.
 
I saw the [then] newly released black blade, black handled Manix2 and just had to put a bright orange Grimsmo aluminum scale on it. That led to wanting all the Manix2 sprints. I purchased a group of miscellaneous users off c-list locally and one of them was a PM2. Carried it for a little while and really liked it, especially appreciated the compression lock. There will be many more Spydies in my future mostly because of the PM2.
 
it was long in making. in the 70s, i saw gun magazines advertize sharpening systems. then in the 80s i saw weirdly shaped knives in popular mechanics. in the 90s there were a lot of movies that featured saw-toothed knives with holes in them. then in 2000 there was this moderator in glock forum (think of the children.) that's when i started to trace the spydey story.
 
A bunch called Golden Promotions showed up every year at the San Diego County Fair in Del Mar. They used to put on a pretty good booth show sharpening knives with the Sharpmaker. I picked up an early model Sharpmaker and a Worker one year. Don't know if it was Sal or someone else, but they were a nice bunch of people.

I think Spyderco really took off with the Endura/Delica/Police models. I was shooting a gun match and someone asked me about my Endura. I showed it to him and he pulled out a Police. Five or six other shooters walked over and they ALL pulled out Spyderco knives. Spyderco had arrived. ;)
 
I saw a spyderco ambitious and a gerber AR 3.00, liked the ar more at the time, then heard people call it "gerber mystery steel", heard it didnt get very sharp, didnt hold an edge, and most people got them dull ootb. found a forum about spyderco and its quality----bought the ambitious. The spyderco grew on me,that was followed by a delica , then a ladybug, then a caly 3.5 etc etc ......love at first open
 
Youtube made me discover Spyderco as a brand, but Bladeforums made me come in contact with the actual knife. Thanks BF!
 
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For me it was the movie, Cliffhanger, with Sylvester Stallone. In one scene he whips out a Spyderco and cuts a climbing rope like it's dental floss. I went to a knife store for the first time the next day and bought an Endura...that was in 1994.
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Exact same thing for me - that's what got me into tactical folders!
 
Cutlerylover on YouTube got me into spyderco! The first spydie I held was a stainless dragonfly and combo edge delica at cabelas... A few day later I bought the g10 dragonfly for my birthday!!
 
I was taking a Swiftwater Rescue course last month, as I am an avid whitewater kayaker. The instructor suggested we each find a lightweight backup folder (blunt tip, serrated, of course) for the front pocket of our PFD, one that could be readily opened with one hand. He drew a Spyderco from his vest: a Rescue 79mm.

Since then I've purchased an Assist (orange), a Rescue 79mm (orange), the Jason Breeden Rescue, and the Chicago.

BTW, the Jason Breeden Rescue is not suitable for river use, IMO, and the Assist is too large for the PFD. The Chicago's just for edc.

Gabe
 
I bought an early, fully-serrated Endura at the BX at Griffiss AFB, NY in '92 or '93. I already had a Swiss Army knife (I thought it funny, being a USAF officer with a knife built for the Swiss Army) and an early Leatherman, and this Spyderco thing looked pretty cool. As I was removing it from the packaging, the plastic pocket clip snapped off when I tried to remove the piece of cardboard it was clipped to. So, it was never carried as intended. I sold it cheap at a knife show in Las Vegas while stationed at Nellis in '99 or '00.
 
I saw a Spyderco demo at the Oregon state fair sometime around 1987. I bought a serrated Worker as soon as the guy got done with his dog and pony show. There's been some sort of Spyderco clipped to my pocket almost every day since then.
 
Dont remember how i discovered Spyderco but someone needs to invent Spyderco Anonymous!!
 
While watching the movie Anaconda in the theater, back in 1996 or '97. It was a Delica being handled by Ice Cube. I thought it was a weird-looking knife. Then for some reason, I received a catalog in the mail from a mail-order company in Bellingham, Wash., which had many knives, including Spydercos, which is where I learned the name Spyderco. Later that year, I bought my first, an AUS-8, PE Delica with molded pocket clip. I still have it.
Jim
 
I bought a folder for 87 dollars, not really knowing what a good knife was (Cutco Lockback), so I started doing some research on steel and steel types the more I learned the more I found my self interested in folding knives. searching around ebay led me to the Spyidies. My first was the PM2 in S35VN, I just added a Native 5.
 
I heard on these forums that you could get an S30V (PE) Native at Walmart for about $40 so I went and bought one...later that same day I decided I really liked it and and drove back and bought another for my oldest son. After that I bought the original Manix C95 (one of my all time favorites) and from then on I was hooked, the Sage 2 (wonderful knife) being my latest Spyderco purchase.
 
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