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This review is a long time in coming but I finally got the time to post up all of my thoughts on these awesome blades.
Right off the bat that I want to send a very heartfelt thank you to sodak for letting me borrow the two beauties. His generosity is amazing. Thanks man.
On to the knives!
sodak sent me two Caly 3s. One standard, and one reground. Speaking to the overall design of the knife, Spyderco really hit it out of the park with this knife. It's a great design. Size, weight, blade shape, handle shape, materials, workmanship, pretty much everything about the knife is outstanding. Compliments to Sal for this one. It's one of the best folders I've ever had the pleasure of using and I will most definitely be picking up a Carbon FIber/ZDP version in the future. I can't speak to the out of box sharpness as I'm sure sodak has resharpened it before but I will say this, unmodified, the Caly 3 is one of the best cutters I've ever used. A truly great design overall in my eyes.
As I mentioned, the stock Caly 3 was one of the best cutters I've ever used but the Krein reground Caly, well, that was the most effortless knife I've ever had the pleasure of using. Everything I cut using it was easily done. I used it to take down a few cardboard boxes one night at work and it out cut the boxcutter I had with me. In fact, it wasn't even close. The performance was so good that I didn't even think about touching up the edge until a week or so before I sent them back. I think I did about 5 or 6 passes on the Sharpmaker at 15 degrees. After that, I didn't really notice much difference so either I didn't do it right or the Krein Caly really didn't lose any performance level. I feel that it didn't lose anything.
I'll admit, I didn't push either knife too hard seeing as how they are not mine. I did use them though and both, especially the Krein Caly, were noticeable improvements over most of my other knives. I've emailed Tom about his customs but haven't heard back from him. I'll probably call him soon to see if that will work better. I know he's very busy but I'm very interested in one of his knives. I'd also like for him to do some of his regrinding magic on one of the new Swicks I recently picked up.
Overall, if you want a knife that will cut, cut, and CUT, the Calypso 3 is a great choice. If you then want to take that knife to the next level, send it off to Tom Krein and have him regrind it for you. You'll have a knife that glides through just about everything it cuts like it's not there.
Right off the bat that I want to send a very heartfelt thank you to sodak for letting me borrow the two beauties. His generosity is amazing. Thanks man.
On to the knives!
sodak sent me two Caly 3s. One standard, and one reground. Speaking to the overall design of the knife, Spyderco really hit it out of the park with this knife. It's a great design. Size, weight, blade shape, handle shape, materials, workmanship, pretty much everything about the knife is outstanding. Compliments to Sal for this one. It's one of the best folders I've ever had the pleasure of using and I will most definitely be picking up a Carbon FIber/ZDP version in the future. I can't speak to the out of box sharpness as I'm sure sodak has resharpened it before but I will say this, unmodified, the Caly 3 is one of the best cutters I've ever used. A truly great design overall in my eyes.
As I mentioned, the stock Caly 3 was one of the best cutters I've ever used but the Krein reground Caly, well, that was the most effortless knife I've ever had the pleasure of using. Everything I cut using it was easily done. I used it to take down a few cardboard boxes one night at work and it out cut the boxcutter I had with me. In fact, it wasn't even close. The performance was so good that I didn't even think about touching up the edge until a week or so before I sent them back. I think I did about 5 or 6 passes on the Sharpmaker at 15 degrees. After that, I didn't really notice much difference so either I didn't do it right or the Krein Caly really didn't lose any performance level. I feel that it didn't lose anything.
I'll admit, I didn't push either knife too hard seeing as how they are not mine. I did use them though and both, especially the Krein Caly, were noticeable improvements over most of my other knives. I've emailed Tom about his customs but haven't heard back from him. I'll probably call him soon to see if that will work better. I know he's very busy but I'm very interested in one of his knives. I'd also like for him to do some of his regrinding magic on one of the new Swicks I recently picked up.
Overall, if you want a knife that will cut, cut, and CUT, the Calypso 3 is a great choice. If you then want to take that knife to the next level, send it off to Tom Krein and have him regrind it for you. You'll have a knife that glides through just about everything it cuts like it's not there.
