My New Atlantic Salt!!!!!

[rmc85]

Well I finally got one! I'm not sure why it took me so long since I live in FL. This summer I went on vacation to Naples for 5 days and not having a knife on me got really annoying. In the past I've just had a cheap blade I'd take in the water, but in Naples I was at the pool and beach all day every day. I didn’t even want to ruin one of my cheap knives by subjecting it to 5 days of pool and salt water. I was literally in and out of the pool/hot tub/beach water for a minimum of 7-9 hours a day.

I'm really excited to test this H1 out! From now on this will be my fishing/beach/lake/river/springs/creek knife.

My initial impressions after having this knife for a whole 17 hours are...

1. Very light weight knife. The FRN handle is very solid feeling yet extremely light weight. The texture of the handle gives is sooooo much grip.
2. Very smooth to open. All of my other Spydercos are G-10 and I was wondering how easy the FRN would be to open compared with my G-10 stuff. The pinned blade with FRN is very pleasant to open.
3. The Jimping is insane on the knife!!! Talk about something that gives you positive grip!
4. I love the "HEY I'M OVER HERE" yellow!!! I think you could drop this knife in a tar pit and still see it from 100 yards away.

 

[Ken44]

Great looking knife, thanks for the pics:thumbup:

I'm not in the water all that much, but have been thinking of getting one of the H1 Salts myself.

 

[rwasham]

I just got one of these at the beginning of the summer. It saw so much use in and around the water. I love pretty much everything about it. It does however leave me wanting all the other salts in complement

 

[Gary W. Graley]

Nice shots, very tempting to get one myself!
And I bet the yellow is easy to spot, I just got
the Orange Military and that was easy to find yesterday
when I went looking for it, I had laid it down while
cutting some foam and left it. But as I say, quite easy
to spot from some distance away
G2

 

[zenheretic]

Nice shots, very tempting to get one myself!
And I bet the yellow is easy to spot, I just got
the Orange Military and that was easy to find yesterday
when I went looking for it, I had laid it down while
cutting some foam and left it. But as I say, quite easy
to spot from some distance away
G2

I remember reading that Spyderco found the yellow to be the easiest to spot underwater, so it has that going for it as well.

Naturally it does dirty up rapidly with use, but it a work knife, not a mamby pamby safe queen.

 

[The Government]

-"the jimping is insane" yes!

I have had a salt 1 model for a while now.

I carried it this summer into the ocean diving and surfing where it rested in my boardshort's pocket. It got all crusted with sand and sea debree. It still opened and closed just fine, a little grity , but fully functional. Once you come out of the water, just give it a fresh rinse and the sand magicaly comes out.

The only thing that changes is the "1" on the "H1" logo. For some reason it rusts and nothing else. I actualy think this makes it look cool.

 

[rmc85]

It got its first swim last night! Killed a some beers and chilled in the pool for a few hours.

 

[James Y]

-"the jimping is insane" yes!

I have had a salt 1 model for a while now.

I carried it this summer into the ocean diving and surfing where it rested in my boardshort's pocket. It got all crusted with sand and sea debree. It still opened and closed just fine, a little grity , but fully functional. Once you come out of the water, just give it a fresh rinse and the sand magicaly comes out.

The only thing that changes is the "1" on the "H1" logo. For some reason it rusts and nothing else. I actualy think this makes it look cool.

I heard somewhere that the rust on the H1 logo is actually tiny bits of metal that was leftover from the tooling process that stuck in the logo, but that the H1 itself does not rust.

I've had my yellow PE Pacific Salt for almost 3 months now, and it's great. A couple months ago, I'd taken it on a beach vacation and it got all wet and sandy, but as mentioned, it rinses out very easily. The H1 does tend to accumulate scratches from using or just from carrying a bit more easily than many other steels seem to, but that's okay with me, because I feel it gives a knife 'character'.
Jim

 

[rmc85]

I heard somewhere that the rust on the H1 logo is actually tiny bits of metal that was leftover from the tooling process that stuck in the logo, but that the H1 itself does not rust.

I've seen people say that on a few online forums.

 

[anti-torsion]

I heard somewhere that the rust on the H1 logo is actually tiny bits of metal that was leftover from the tooling process that stuck in the logo, but that the H1 itself does not rust.

Yep, happened to me, just wipe it off.

And good looking knife rmc85.

 

[chickeneye]

always really liked the look of the atlantic. i want one to complement my pacific