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Went to a local knife shop last night and came home with this :D Spyderco c15 numbered 0203 plain edge in ats-34. If anyone has anymore info on this i'd like to learn a little more about it. Sorry for the crappy cellphone pics ill try and post some better ones later
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...Oh the lockup is solid at around 50% blade is almost centered (off by a hair) and it looks as if it has the factory edge
 
Hi Krust,,

Nice find. "Back in the day", 1988. I was a member ofthe US Custom Knifemakers Guild and the ABS. I was at a Guild show and was having dinner with BobTerzuola. Bob is given the title of the "Father of Tactical Knives". A custom maker with a knowledge of the pratical and useable. We were discussing designs. He said, "Sal, your designs are just plain ugly. The blade goes one way, the handle goes another". I said,
If you think you can do better, do it! If you do, I'll put it into production". The C15, Bob Terzuola was our first collaboration. You might say that Bob T was also "the father of Spyderco collaborations".

Bob Taught Lester DeAsis and I to make Linerlocks in Bob's own shop in Santa Fe. He is a great teacher and he taught us to make the lock by teaching us how to make the entire knife. I'd love to have that first knife now. I loaned it to a maker in Seki to study, and never got it back. Bob also was a consultantfor us for quite a while.

Like most of our knives, there is a story and a spirit to the design.

The knife was US made, though outsourced. We hadn't started our factory yet. Walker Linerolocks weren't very well known at the time. It was the first US production Linerelock, the first US production knife to use ATS-34 and the first Spyderco collaboration. We've been asked many times to do a "Sprint" run, but we'd have to make new tooling and our Golden plant is running as fast as they can at this time.

sal
 
Sal, Thank you for the response (This is why I keep buying Spyderco Products:D).Thats an amazing story and i'm sorry to hear you never received that knife back. That quote about your designs from Bob woke my dog up because I laughed to loud. I cant believe how well the knife looks after 20+ years but it will become a user as crazy as that might sound to some people. Thanks again for the great products and taking the time to tell us this great story.
 
Sal Glesser said:
Hi Krust,,

Nice find. "Back in the day", 1988. I was a member ofthe US Custom Knifemakers Guild and the ABS. I was at a Guild show and was having dinner with BobTerzuola. Bob is given the title of the "Father of Tactical Knives". A custom maker with a knowledge of the pratical and useable. We were discussing designs. He said, "Sal, your designs are just plain ugly. The blade goes one way, the handle goes another". I said,
If you think you can do better, do it! If you do, I'll put it into production". The C15, Bob Terzuola was our first collaboration. You might say that Bob T was also "the father of Spyderco collaborations".

sal
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I'd heard this before, and I still think it sounds like the pot calling the kettle black. Sorry, Bob, but the Starmate was the only one of your designs that I personally find at all attractive. Compared to the C07 Police Model, I think that C15 is just plain ugly.
 
I bought one of these when they first came out as I thought they were the best thing since sliced bread. Still have it, too. Its been to hell and back. I have since retired it as it started to develop some up and down blade/lock play. If anyone has suggestions on how to fix it I'm all ears. I've sent it to Spyderco and they couldn't straighten it out either. Otherwise...I may just sell it to buy another Spyderco...who knows.
 
Great find and thanks for the back story Sal. I love hearing about how different models came about. :)
 
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