I'll always run back to Spyderco

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dkblade

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My first knife after joining the BF was a British racing green Delica in ZDP-189 which introduced me to the awesome (and expensive) world of high quality folding knives. At this time i occasionally saw the name "sebenza" thrown around but paid no attention to it, too enthralled with my Delica and the never ending posts comparing it to the various mini-grips, Ritter, etc.

Then I saw a video about the PM2 and decided I had to have one. I asked for it for Christmas and, low and behold, there it was under the tree! This knife seemed huge to me. Much bigger than the Delica. Also very sturdy and light.

Around a month later I gave my Delica away to a friend who was heading off to hollywood to try and become a star. Figured he could use some kind of protection from the nut jobs in that industry! [emoji23]

Then I found the glorious Sage 1 and was introduced to spydercos astonishing liner lock, flawless in deployment and engagement. Well I eventually sold both my remaining spydercos and now I've been spyderless for about 3 months.

Until yesterday, that is! I pulled the trigger on a brand spanking new blue tenacious from BHQ, and it will be here on Monday! I just couldn't resist....after feeling the liner lock spydiehole combination on the sage, the tenacious just seems like it'll be an all out winner.

Anybody care to share thoughts/comparisons of these different knives?? Would love to see some pics of all of them together if anybody owns all of them.

I love the way the sage opened and how easy the liner was to disengage. Found my pm2 to be stickier but also quicker. Fit and finish on sage was the best of any knife ice ever owned. My seki-city Delica was not quite as nicely finished.

Delica, Sage 1, PM2 and Tenacious.


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The Tenacious, as reflected in its price, will probably be less refined than your others, but is still certainly worthy of the Spyderco badge. It's a fantastic knife and the liner lock works great.

If you find the cash later and want the best liner lock in the industry, in my humble opinion, get a Spyderco Military. It's a BIG knife, but has the odd ability to still be comfortable in smaller hands. It also has that stellar blade shape. Slices like a dream.
 
I have been fussing for another Spyderco. Manix 2? Sage? Military? I hate GRN and FRn scales on folders. I guess I am a g10 snob lol. But I have carried Benchmades, CRKT's and Cold Steels. Even a Rat 2 which is fantastic for its price. But damn if I can't stop putting my Manix 2 XL in my pocket day after day over the others. I really want a Caly 3.5 but people that sell them seem to want more than I am willing to pay. Spyderco is an addiction and I embrace it.
 
I feel ya OP. I collects and use my spydercos, always watching for their new/old offers... I was maybe 10 times trying to break free from collecting these funny looking blades... I went to grayman, sebenza, spartan, benchmade, etc but whenever that Spyderco Byte enter my e-mail I always went back to buying Spyderco again. as with using them, it was hard for me not to pick a Spyderco for my EDC for the day.
 
I used to like spyderco back when my dad was a knife collector. Now the market for spyderco knives is flooded with counterfeit.

In the last 5 years I have up on them unless you buy directly from spyderco or a authorized dealer then it's a big gamble.
 
I have some nice BMs and ZTs, but I also keep preferring Spyderco and own/carry/use more of them than the rest put together. I always seem to run back to Spyderco too.

I don't currently have a Tenacious but can offer a pic of the other 3, along with 3 other favorites of mine.

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OP I'm sure you will enjoy the Tenacious, and it sounds like it may not be your last Spyderco.
I hear you about the Sage quality too. I have a Sage 4 and it's just flawless. I only buy knives I will use, but I just haven't been able to bring myself to mar this sublime back lock. It remains uncarried, I just enjoy admiring it as the folder that's nearest to perfect in quality I've ever had.
That's normal right?

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For years, my CQC7 and Spyderco have been jockeying for my pocket. At this time, it's my Para1.
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I've got somewhere between 50-60 knives, huge majority (20+) of them are spyderco. They offer form, function, versatility, uniqueness, and so on where a lot of companies don't. Part of that is due to the fact that they have large facilities in multiple countries that produce very different knives for different price points. I love cold steel and like benchmade as well, but both of those companies produce knives that are too similar to one another, and pretty much use one lock, tri-ad lock and axis lock respectively, where as spyderco has knives with a ton of different locks and styles. If other companies could successfully branch out to new styles, I'm sure they'd get as much praise as Spyderco, but for now Spyderco seems to be the big winner, for myself included.
 
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I've got somewhere between 50-60 knives, huge majority (20+) of them are spyderco. They offer form, function, versatility, uniqueness, and so on where a lot of companies don't. Part of that is due to the fact that they have large facilities in multiple countries that produce very different knives for different price points. I love cold steel and like benchmade as well, but both of those companies produce knives that are too similar to one another, and pretty much use one lock, tri-ad lock and axis lock respectively, where as spyderco has knives with a ton of different locks and styles. If other companies could successfully branch out to new styles, I'm sure they'd get as much praise as Spyderco, but for now Spyderco seems to be the big winner, for myself included.
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Agree! No knife company on earth has a better variety. They literally have something for everyone.


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I've gone over to slipjoints/Chris Reeve frame locks/bushcraft fixed blades primarily, but I've had a hankering for my favorite Spyderco patterns lately.

Manix 2, Manix 2XL, Native 5, Military. All USA made in Golden CO, all G10 (my favorite G10).
 
silenthunterstudios said:
I've gone over to slipjoints/Chris Reeve frame locks/bushcraft fixed blades primarily, but I've had a hankering for my favorite Spyderco patterns lately.

Manix 2, Manix 2XL, Native 5, Military. All USA made in Golden CO, all G10 (my favorite G10).
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Spyderco does great things with G10. I've heard the G10 on the tenacious is a little more slippery than on the CO and Taiwan models, is that right?

All in all, what should I look out for on my new tenacious in terms of flaws and upkeep?


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i own knives from all the major brands, spyderco is by far my favorite. one of the reasons i prefer spydercos is because i really like the backlock more than any other type of lock and spyderco makes a lot of knives with it. my spyderco chinook 2 is still one of the finest folding knives ive ever owned.
 
JeremiahWeaver09 said:
i own knives from all the major brands, spyderco is by far my favorite. one of the reasons i prefer spydercos is because i really like the backlock more than any other type of lock and spyderco makes a lot of knives with it. my spyderco chinook 2 is still one of the finest folding knives ive ever owned.
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Spyderco does a great job with the back lock. It's somewhere between cold steel and like a buck 110 in terms of strength, but nothing your normally use a knife for will disengage it. And the boyd detent is a nice touch. I have yet to handle the native but I've heard great things.


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I initially thought some of Spydercos designs were ridiculous. Then, I bought a Delica and have been a fan of the entire company ever since. The Para 2 is just about a perfect knife and many other models are great too.
I agree about their G-10. I hated the slick G-10 on my new ZT so much I had to have a custom scale made...but the Para's G-10 is super grippy.
 
I really like my Delica 4, its light, sharp, fits the hand, and is attractive, it does everything a folder should. I have no complaints with my Delica but its one of my newest Spyderco's, but it was nice enough that I quickly ordered another, though I had to give it to my sister for dark parking lot duty.

The Tenacious however was my first, I used it forever as my EDC and eventually for work, I really liked the quality of it and it's size as well. The tenacious is one of those knives that doesn't break the bank but will do whatever you ask of it. My black bladed one has never even cut paper or string, in fact neither has my blue one, I carry them for defenseive purposes and just in case I ever do have to cut something. It's not that I think it would hurt to cut just anything, but I want it ready to go and as sharp as possible if I ever do call on it. My uncoated blade is my beater knife, I use it for everything but prying.

I have quite a few knives and have had in the past, but it's hard to beat a Spyderco, and IMO the tenacious is right up there with the rest of them, don't let the price fool you for a second. I carry my Delica quite a bit, especially when I'm carrying a pocket fixed blade, but when I want a knife that I know can really handle whatever I might throw at it I carry my Tenacious, and love every second of it.

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The blue one is beautiful in the hand too if I do say so.
 
NDJeep said:
I initially thought some of Spydercos designs were ridiculous. Then, I bought a Delica and have been a fan of the entire company ever since. The Para 2 is just about a perfect knife and many other models are great too.
I agree about their G-10. I hated the slick G-10 on my new ZT so much I had to have a custom scale made...but the Para's G-10 is super grippy.
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Some of them are...like the Tighe Stick, I could never see myself carrying that thing. But to each their own...and some people think it's the coolest looking knife on earth. Something for everyone!!!


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T.L.E. Sharp said:
The Tenacious, as reflected in its price, will probably be less refined than your others, but is still certainly worthy of the Spyderco badge. It's a fantastic knife and the liner lock works great.

If you find the cash later and want the best liner lock in the industry, in my humble opinion, get a Spyderco Military. It's a BIG knife, but has the odd ability to still be comfortable in smaller hands. It also has that stellar blade shape. Slices like a dream.
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Thanks for the advice. I've watched a lot of videos on the military and agree it looks like a dream knife. Have you gotten past the tip down pocket clip?? I've overlooked it to this point for that very reason. Petty, I know.


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Boxer .45 said:
I really like my Delica 4, its light, sharp, fits the hand, and is attractive, it does everything a folder should. I have no complaints with my Delica but its one of my newest Spyderco's, but it was nice enough that I quickly ordered another, though I had to give it to my sister for dark parking lot duty.

The Tenacious however was my first, I used it forever as my EDC and eventually for work, I really liked the quality of it and it's size as well. The tenacious is one of those knives that doesn't break the bank but will do whatever you ask of it. My black bladed one has never even cut paper or string, in fact neither has my blue one, I carry them for defenseive purposes and just in case I ever do have to cut something. It's not that I think it would hurt to cut just anything, but I want it ready to go and as sharp as possible if I ever do call on it. My uncoated blade is my beater knife, I use it for everything but prying.

I have quite a few knives and have had in the past, but it's hard to beat a Spyderco, and IMO the tenacious is right up there with the rest of them, don't let the price fool you for a second. I carry my Delica quite a bit, especially when I'm carrying a pocket fixed blade, but when I want a knife that I know can really handle whatever I might throw at it I carry my Tenacious, and love every second of it.

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The blue one is beautiful in the hand too if I do say so.
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Any issue with blade centering on any of them?


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dkblade said:
I've watched a lot of videos on the military and agree it looks like a dream knife. Have you gotten past the tip down pocket clip?? I've overlooked it to this point for that very reason. Petty, I know.
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I think the reason nobody really minds the clip is that it's too big to ride in most pants pockets in the first place. I imagine troops would be carrying it elsewhere, anyway.

The ZDP Delica (all of which are BR green, btw) was my first Spyderco, too. I also think the Sage is the perfect modern folder for EDC--I own a 1 and a 2, am currently on the fence about the 3 for my next purchase, would like a 4 for completeness, and am on tenterhooks for the 5. That's not an exhaustive list of my Spydies, of course, because I too usually default to Spyderco unless there's something particular that strikes my fancy. (I also EDC fixed blades with multi-tools more often than I do modern folders. Yes, Europe is in some ways more permissive than Texas.)

Part of it's looks, part of it's ergonomics, part of it's thin, useful blades in a world of needlessly overbuilt sharpened pry bars, but ultimately it's the package as a whole.

Then, of course, there are the doozies, but I guess you can say there's something for everyone.
 
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