And mine, from an earlier thread on Spyderco forum, about whether Spyderco has ever made a bad knife (last active 10-13):
The Spyderco Rescue was a good idea, a Mariner done with light, brightly colored plastic. It didn't take me long to break the plastic pocket clip. I smoothed that off and carried it inside my pocket.
The serrated blade was capable of cutting a bundle of stranded automotive wire, such as you find running to the left door of a modern car. Pulling hard against the knife put pressure on the release. When it popped through the wire, the blade swung halfway shut from momentum. Fortunately, I was wearing firefighter's gloves.
Maybe it was my particular knife, but when pulling hard, the pressure caused the spring to raise a bit and the blade to come back a little. It never folded back, of course, and that alone did not unlock it, but it shook my confidence.
If I was doing it again, I'd pop the extra $$ for the Mariner. Same blade, more weight, more strength.
