Greetings, I would like to humbly present to you some thoughts on the Spyderco Persistance. This is my first foray into the world of Spyderco. This is not an expensive knife, but appears to be one of high value, which is why I decided to purchase it. I looked at the Tenacious at first, the bigger brother, but I like my folders on the small side, that's just me. This knife can probably be had for less than $30.
Some basic info:
blade length: 2.75 inch
overall length: 6.8 inch
weight: 3.3 oz
handle material: g-10
blade material: 8CrCoV13
skeltonized steel liners
bronze washers
jimped liner lock
clip can be tip up/down, left/right
country of origin: China (this bugged me a little)
This particular knife had a pretty nice fit and finish, some of the negatives:
The grind was a little off, nothing major though.
The blade was not perfectly centered, but with the blade closed I just pressed it to the center and tightened screw and problem solved.
The handle felt nice. The blade locks up very solidly, but possibly at the expense of deploying super smoothly. Zero play up/down. When I went to adjust the pivot screw it turned easily with just me holding the torx bit, no tool, evidently no lock tite was used. I first loosened the screw so I could flip it easily open, but there was a little blade play left/right and this angered me. So I applied blue loc tite, then turn screw till the blade had zero play.
At this point I can flick the blade open with a slight, firm, wrist snapping motion, and a proper thumbing of the hole. I like this, for men with limp wrists they might not like this. But I pride myself on how strong my wrist are.
Of course the knife is not fully broken in yet, so we'll see.
This blade came quite sharp, shave, push cut notebook paper. So far I've cut quite a bit of heavy duty plastic deer fencing, require some good effort to sever. Touched it up on fine diamond stone (did sharpie trick, you can still see some on blade), shaves, push cut circles in wrapping paper, in other words sharp enough for any EDC battle that I might become entangled in.
I know some look down upon such steels as the 8CrCoV13 but so far I think it's OK. I'm not a steel snob yet, but if I keep hanging around Blade Forum I'm probably going to turn into one
. I snap cut some bailing twine that I dangled, and was out mowing some grass with it, it does just fine.
Overall, I like the knife, feels solid because of the steel liners, but still only weighs a little over 3 ounces, so it's not gonna make it feel like your pants are going to fall off carrying it around all day.
In conclusion, for the budget conscious, but discerning individual, I would recommend this knife. Based on the quality of this knife I am inspired to invest into some of the higher priced blades from Spyderco made here in the states out of some of the higher end steels.
UPDATE May 17, 8:06 pm EST - So after cutting things for a while, the knife no longer shaves arm hair, or cuts very thin paper across the grain. Touched up the blade on a a 3 inch piece of lansky medium ceramic. The reason that it was 3 inches is because I dropped the big rod on the the ground and it broke into 3 pieces. Anyways, I'm a freeballer, so I marked the edge with sharpie to get some feedback, stroked probably about 20 times each side till sharpie wore down. Knife cuts kindergarten lined paper cross grain and shaves baby hair. 8CrCoV13 to the test boys and girls. I'm carrying this knife every day, I work at farm, this knife will be abused, we'll see how it hangs.
Some basic info:
blade length: 2.75 inch
overall length: 6.8 inch
weight: 3.3 oz
handle material: g-10
blade material: 8CrCoV13
skeltonized steel liners
bronze washers
jimped liner lock
clip can be tip up/down, left/right
country of origin: China (this bugged me a little)
This particular knife had a pretty nice fit and finish, some of the negatives:
The grind was a little off, nothing major though.
The blade was not perfectly centered, but with the blade closed I just pressed it to the center and tightened screw and problem solved.
The handle felt nice. The blade locks up very solidly, but possibly at the expense of deploying super smoothly. Zero play up/down. When I went to adjust the pivot screw it turned easily with just me holding the torx bit, no tool, evidently no lock tite was used. I first loosened the screw so I could flip it easily open, but there was a little blade play left/right and this angered me. So I applied blue loc tite, then turn screw till the blade had zero play.
At this point I can flick the blade open with a slight, firm, wrist snapping motion, and a proper thumbing of the hole. I like this, for men with limp wrists they might not like this. But I pride myself on how strong my wrist are.
This blade came quite sharp, shave, push cut notebook paper. So far I've cut quite a bit of heavy duty plastic deer fencing, require some good effort to sever. Touched it up on fine diamond stone (did sharpie trick, you can still see some on blade), shaves, push cut circles in wrapping paper, in other words sharp enough for any EDC battle that I might become entangled in.
I know some look down upon such steels as the 8CrCoV13 but so far I think it's OK. I'm not a steel snob yet, but if I keep hanging around Blade Forum I'm probably going to turn into one
Overall, I like the knife, feels solid because of the steel liners, but still only weighs a little over 3 ounces, so it's not gonna make it feel like your pants are going to fall off carrying it around all day.
In conclusion, for the budget conscious, but discerning individual, I would recommend this knife. Based on the quality of this knife I am inspired to invest into some of the higher priced blades from Spyderco made here in the states out of some of the higher end steels.
UPDATE May 17, 8:06 pm EST - So after cutting things for a while, the knife no longer shaves arm hair, or cuts very thin paper across the grain. Touched up the blade on a a 3 inch piece of lansky medium ceramic. The reason that it was 3 inches is because I dropped the big rod on the the ground and it broke into 3 pieces. Anyways, I'm a freeballer, so I marked the edge with sharpie to get some feedback, stroked probably about 20 times each side till sharpie wore down. Knife cuts kindergarten lined paper cross grain and shaves baby hair. 8CrCoV13 to the test boys and girls. I'm carrying this knife every day, I work at farm, this knife will be abused, we'll see how it hangs.
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