Is the Lava assigned to oblivion?

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It's a great little knife which never got the FRN or G-10 handle it deserved. How about it? Sales data aren't public. but would at least a Lava sprint run make sense? With g-10 or frn scales. Preferably not orange, or pink or some crappy color. British racing green, the Meerkat blue. or black if you have to. Just a thought.

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Looks that way, seems to have disappeared not only from the active, but historical listings on the Spyderco site.

As for a re-run. It just got discontinued and that's generally a pretty big clue that sales were not strong this year. I suspect it would be a couple years before a Sprint would be considered. Doubt FRN would be considered, since the molds are too expensive for a limited production knife. Not even sure about G-10, it would probably require at least some new tooling, which ups the cost.

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Have not picked this one up yet, but would really like too, poliwog just came out in g10 and I can't find the SS ones on the bay, did fortunately pick one up elsewhere recently
 
Yet another great design that didn't catch on enough with the general knife-buying market to last very long. It's also one of the few knives that I actually like in a steel handle. It's not slippery at all like they usually are, and the heft feels good in the hand.
 
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Yet another great design that didn't catch on enough with the general knife-buying market to last very long. It's also one of the few knives that I actually like in a steel handle. It's not slippery at all like they usually are, and the heft feels good in the hand.
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That happens a lot with Spyderco's "afi" oriented knives and, since many of them fall into that category, collaboration models are particularly prone to it.

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I saw someone who made linerless G10 scales for theirs, it looked fantastic. I really wish that would have been a regular production model.
 
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