My New Chinook

[Hellz]

My new Spyderco Chinook arrived today and I have to say I'm impressed. When I ordered it I knew the measurements and the dimensions, etc. But I was still surprised at the size and 'purposeful' nature of this knife.

The lockup seems great and the grip is comfortable and puts everything in the right place for me.

So for everyone who I've seen recommending the Chinook, you can now go ahead and say, "I told you so..." (and I thank you for it!)

Cheers,
Hellz

 

[glockman99]

I told you so..

(I have a pair of Chinooks, and I really haven't decided if I like the part-serrated blade, or the plain-edge the best.).

 

[FullerH]

It is one of Spyderco's all-time greats, IMNSHO. I love the blade shape, but then I've always been a sucker for Bowies, ever since the Iron Mistress movie, and the grips are great, as is the lock. But the steel is the final touch that makes the knife an all-time great, CPM440V. I once described it as a sort of Buck 110, the original and classic Folding Hunter, brought up to date. A Forumite challenged me about that and I said that it was like my Glock 22 compared to an S&W revolver, say a Model 29. The Glock is all modern design and made with plasics and some special nitrided coating on the steel parts while the S&W is made the traditional way with deeply blued steel and walnut grips. They both work wonderfully well and do just exactly what they are intended to do, but they are entirely different in appearance and appeal to entirely different aspects of a person's appreciation of fine weapons. This applies as well to the Chinook and to the Buck 110. The member agreed with that appraisal and said that he might consider a Chinook on that basis, as he had not thought about it that way before.