Let’s see some old Spydercos (80’s, 90’s, etc.)

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I was browsing another forum and there was a “show your Spyderco” thread and some of the knives posted were very early examples. I thought this was very cool.... pat pend info on clips, integral clips, etc.

The oldest of my 20+ Spydercos is only a few years old, so let’s see some of your early Spydercos.
 
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~Chip
 
Sal Glesser said:
The TCN Police was one of the first coated production knives in the US with that coating.

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I'm not familiar with that term, TCN. Would love to know more about it, especially if it was mentioned in reference to the black Police model I posted. I haven't seen many of them, and it is a really great knife.
 
Officer's Match said:
I'm not familiar with that term, TCN. Would love to know more about it, especially if it was mentioned in reference to the black Police model I posted. I haven't seen many of them, and it is a really great knife.
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I believe it refers to titanium carbonitride :)

~Chip
 
WValtakis said:
I believe it refers to titanium carbonitride :)

~Chip
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Thank you, that helped me to do a bit of research. Apparently called "Blak Ti", and apparently quite rare indeed, here's a quote from the Spyderco forum from back in 2005:

We did some Police models in 1996 with black TIALN (Titanium Aluminum Nitride) which is a coating over a gold TIN (Titanium Nitride).

We did 5 ea of the left hand serrated and 29 ea of the right hand serrated. We did the knife whole (when the blade is closed there is a small area next to the handle that is un-coated) and the clip and clip screws separately.

That appears to match my knife's appearance.

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Super idea for a thread I am also looking forward to some of the pics as well as the information behind some of the older Spyderco offerings. My grouping if Spydercos has really transitioned from just a few of the new offerings to more examples of the older models. I will need to get some more pics :) of some others. Here is one I still use and carry often it is a Jess Horn Lightweight model c38 I believe. I think the blade grind and logo FRN scales are really unique:
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I only had one from the white box era and a couple from the grey box era. All gone now, I think.
 
yablanowitz said:
Quite a trick considering it wasn't introduced until 1990. Still a nice early model.
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Ha! You’re right!
I meant 1992.

Pretty scairy that I’m at the point in life where I count by decades. (And still manage to get it wrong). :(

I edited my post, but in my defense, I was only off by one digit. :p
 
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