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Bobsagget

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So I've been doing research and it seems that the general concensus is that the Manix 2is a good knife...just not for hard use. I know that spyderco has the constant quality improvement thing and I'd like to know if they have improved the manix 2 to withstand more abuse?
 
I think they have. There is a new manix 2 model will be released soon, you shoulda try it, same lock, different steel and handle material...I'm wondering if BD1 steel is any better than 154cm or 440c...
 
Define hard use. I have many folders that are tougher than the Manix 2 (stouter blade, stronger lock, thicker tip), and yet I've never really come across a chore that the M2 couldn't do. As with most Spyderco's the tip is relatively delicate, but that's about it. For practical purposes the M2 is a very good folder. Practicality is not all there is to knives however, and for that reason most of us own many of them. It's just nice to own a folder that can purportedly handle a 1000 pounds of stress on the lock. :D Even if the knife never does more than cut pary ribbons!
 
My Manix 2 is a great knife (Sal, let's see a FFG 154CM model, hint hint).

I would like to see a definition of hard use.
 
Anything you should do with a folding knife the manix 2 will do with ease.
 
Bobsagget said:
So I've been doing research and it seems that the general concensus is that the Manix 2is a good knife...just not for hard use. I know that spyderco has the constant quality improvement thing and I'd like to know if they have improved the manix 2 to withstand more abuse?
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The Manix 2 will do what it was designed to do very well. Cut things. Things that it won't do well is pry, chisel, hammer on things.
 
I have no qualms about the capacity of the Manix 2 to stand up over time and a steady diet of work.

Speaking more generally, all these terms like hard use or abuse will vary based on who's using them and how they interpret what constitutes them. My concept of abuse might be your normal day with a knife. There are those who seek to make a knife fail so they can say it isn't "tough." The fact that one knife of many thousand failed is an indictment on the entire production to them. Unfortunately, they tend to have more influence on some of the impressions that people form because of the sensationalism that such discussions create. It is sometimes the boldest headline that we remember, regardless of how accurate it may or may not be.
 
My M2(new sprint w/BD30P) seems pretty damn tough. I have only had it for a day but I get the impression that it will handle anything I will ever ask it to do. In fact I am planning on carrying it as a work knife(I am an electrician)for a while to test out the new steel. I have to feel super confident in a knife's toughness to even consider carrying it @ work.
 
Talley1013 said:
My M2(new sprint w/BD30P) seems pretty damn tough. I have only had it for a day but I get the impression that it will handle anything I will ever ask it to do. In fact I am planning on carrying it as a work knife(I am an electrician)for a while to test out the new steel. I have to feel super confident in a knife's toughness to even consider carrying it @ work.
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Where did you get your BD30P sprint from? I'm still waiting for mine to come in from Knife Center.
 
philwar said:
Define hard use. I have many folders that are tougher than the Manix 2 (stouter blade, stronger lock, thicker tip), and yet I've never really come across a chore that the M2 couldn't do. As with most Spyderco's the tip is relatively delicate, but that's about it. For practical purposes the M2 is a very good folder. Practicality is not all there is to knives however, and for that reason most of us own many of them. It's just nice to own a folder that can purportedly handle a 1000 pounds of stress on the lock. :D Even if the knife never does more than cut pary ribbons!
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I must have had one of the early ones because I could defeat the lock with my hands. The lock-ball just didn't seem to engage far enough over the tang to be secure. I had to push pretty hard but I could definitely defeat it. I'm looking forward to this FFG black sprint with Carpenter steel. Hopefully/more than likely it will have milled liners. I love the light feel of the sprint M2's but I find myself not carrying them as much because the handle scales are such light colors and my work is so dirty.

Why does it seem like there are more Manix 2 sprint runs than any other knife?
 
I'd say the Manix 2 is pretty tough, just based on my uses. I used mine to hack down saplings and limb small trees a couple times when I had nothing else available, and it was no worse for the wear. I also threw it a couple of times and cut just about everything I could come across with it. It definitely withstood quite a bit of what I would call abuse for a pocket knife.
 
I have one of the first runs of the xhp with the titanium back spacer and ive never had any worries about the lock. The thing was in my pocket for a good three months strait when I received it and I tried some spine whack's when I first heard there was a problem just for the hell of it. It has never failed and I doubt it ever will.
 
I got it from my local knife dealer. He gets 2 of each new Spyderco before they are available elsewhere. He is a "special Spyderco gold member dealer"(or something like that). He gives me a call when he gets something new. His prices are a little high but it is more than worth it for the convenience. Plus I get to have the new sprint runs knives first!!
 
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