Lionsteel SR-1/Spyderco collaboration

nevermind35

nevermind35

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Hey Sal,

Word on the street says you're working with Lionsteel on a collaboration model of the SR-1. Is there any truth to this? If so would you mind spilling any juicy details or pictures!!? Thanks. :thumbup:
 
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Sounds unlikely to me. The SR-1 is about as un-Spyderco as it can get.
Not that I'd mind it though. :D

Edit: Seems it's true though: BritishBlades.com
Sal himself says so.
 
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Wow. I really like the look of the SR-1 -- add a spyderhole and it would be perfection.
 
This model should really be something being that its an integral framelock! I'm not much of a Spydie historian but I don't think they've ever produced one? Mr. Glesser said he hopes to have a working prototype by the Blade show in June!!
 
nevermind35 said:
This model should really be something being that its an integral framelock! I'm not much of a Spydie historian but I don't think they've ever produced one? Mr. Glesser said he hopes to have a working prototype by the Blade show in June!!
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They have had several, with the Sage II being the latest.
 
I know they have made plenty of Titanium RILs but this is an integral RIL aka the handle is milled from one solid slab of titanium. If you look at the back of the knife it does not have backspacers or standoffs it is just solid titanium. A very cool looking and solid design if I might say. Will the Spyderco model also be an integral design?

Edit: Sorry now that I look back at my post it does seem a bit confusing. I have always called these type of knives integral because that is what you call a fixed blade that the bolsters, buttcap and tang are all one piece, perhaps I am using the wrong term. It gets confusing when you start saying its an integral Reeve Integral Lock!! Is monlithic the correct term?
 
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nevermind35 said:
I know they have made plenty of Titanium RILs but this is an integral RIL aka the handle is milled from one solid slab of titanium. If you look at the back of the knife it does not have backspacers or standoffs it is just solid titanium. A very cool looking and solid design if I might say. Will the Spyderco model also be an integral design?

Edit: Sorry now that I look back at my post it does seem a bit confusing. I have always called these type of knives integral because that is what you call a fixed blade that the bolsters, buttcap and tang are all one piece, perhaps I am using the wrong term. It gets confusing when you start saying its an integral Reeve Integral Lock!! Is monlithic the correct term?
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I see what your talking about now. Don't know if there is a terminology for that, first I've seen of it.I bet it's expensive to have milled out. Lots of waste.
 
Yeah monolithic is the right term. This is only the second one I know of with the Lochsa being the other. I will be surprised if the spyderco version is monolithic. That is a lot of machining and a fairly complex CNC design. I would be curious to know how much time went into machining the original.
 
Wouldn't it!!! As far as the the titanium shavings that are milled out of the middle I do believe that they are recycled. I believe it was STR that said that most of the titanium used in production knives today is recycled.
 
stabman said:
Make it pointier!
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Agreed. Thats why after much deliberation I backed out on this one.

The blade shape just dont do it for me. Way too nice and expensive for a framelocked folding "skinner".

Fix the point......awesome knife.
 
I don't have a problem with the blade shape. I like having some belly as it is useful and not all that common. Also, it has plenty of point, it is just at a different angle. I can hold my Rift (EDC) up to it which most would probably say is fairly pointy and it is only slightly wider than the Rift, maybe 10 degrees more. The point is just angled up about 40 degrees from horizontal instead of the point being inline with the knife. I can still use the point for a lot of the things that you use the point of a knife for.

I wasn't sure if I was going to use it at first but why not, it's only money. I would really like to hear the plans for Spyderco's version of the knife.
 
Two features I really like on the BM 760 that should be on every frame lock:

over-travel stop (accomplished by the Rotoblock/clip/scales)

asymmetrical stop pin that can be rotated to adjust lock.
 
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