i am confused, please help...

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Dan-the-man

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I go one place on the internet and they say that the stainless handle Delica has a AUS-6 blade, while another place says its ATS-55. Which is it? Also, the dragonfly with ss handle has an ats-55 blade, right?
Thanks,

Dan
 
There's probably a lot of other people more qualified than me to answer this but from what I know there are different steels used by Spyderco over time. At the moment, the Delica and the SS Dragonfly are in ATS-55. I'm not sure I've heard of an AUS-6 Delica but it might have been one of the older ones that Spyderco made and have discontinued. You'll find that with other Spyderco's also like the Military that used to be in ATS-34 but is now 440V. Like I said, others here can probably elaborate more on this.

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ET

 
There's probably a lot of other people more qualified than me to answer this but from what I know there are different steels used by Spyderco over time. At the moment, the Delica and the SS Dragonfly are in ATS-55. I'm not sure I've heard of an AUS-6 Delica but it might have been one of the older ones that Spyderco made and have discontinued. You'll find that with other Spyderco's also like the Military that used to be in ATS-34 but is now 440V. Like I said, others here can probably elaborate more on this.

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ET

 
Spyderco switched to ATS-55 in their delicas and Enduras when the new '98 models came out. The '98's are redisgned, the texture of the handle is more grippy and the clip is not reversible and is metal as opposed to plastic. The dragon fly probably underwent a steel change at the same time.

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Dan
My Dragonfly is fairly new. Blade steel is ATS55. Not sure about the Delica. The little catalog given to me when I bought the Dragonfly shows composite handled Delicas (C11) with ATS55 and SS Delicas (C43) with AUS6.
I understand your confusion.
Spyderco continually works to improve their products, whether this means a design enhancement that is barely visible or a brand new material. It's good for us "end users" and also confusing.
You are doing the right thing. Asking questions on this forum should eventually clear the fog.
The forumites recently guided me to an understanding of the changes in the Military over the past couple years. This is a great place to learn.
ptn


[This message has been edited by ptn (edited 17 October 1999).]
 
The original zytel handled Delicas and Enduras (with the plastic clip) were marked "G-2" steel, later ones were marked "GIN-1" (though I think I read somewhere that these are two names for the same steel).

In 1998, they revised the Delica/Endura line with the (what else?) "Delica98" and "Endura98"; these feature the texture on both sides, a reversible metal clip, and ATS-55 steel. These are the current production zytel handled Delicas and Enduras.

Around the same time, they introduced the "Delica II" and "Endura II", which are the stainless steel handled versions of the knives. These have blades marked "AUS-6".

I don't have a steel-handled Dragonfly, and my first generation zytel Dragonfly isn't ready to hand, but I'd venture a guess that they went through the same transformations (except of course they didn't do a metal-clipped "Dragonfly 98").

By the way, the original Dragonfly had a more curved spine, a less pronounced hump, and was hollow ground, rather than a full flat grind.

As ptn said, Spyderco is constantly tweaking and revising their designs, which is one of the things I really like about them...

I know, more than you really wanted to know,
-- Carl
 
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