Native 5 FRN

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I don't recall seeing this one in the 2014 catalog, or did I just miss it? Street price seems to be around 80 bucks for S35VN. Interesting...

Thoughts?

 
Don't know if they're a BF dealer or not, but you can figure it out from the watermark on the photo and a google search.
 
Holy Christ this thread makes me so happy! Hope! As long as the picture is legitimate I am ordering today.
 
Ok yeah, I found it at National Knives. Not in stock yet though. This one kind of came out of left field because I'd heard nothing about this one plus Golden output seems to be maxed with the PM2 and Millie demand combined with backorders of the new FFG G10 Manix 2 and G10 Native 5--two knives I never see in stock anywhere.

Any reason the FRN Native 5 won't use the same pivot bushing as the G10 Native? This could be a sweet little knife.
 
A full flat ground FRN native? Sign me up, looks good. My FRN native was my first spyderco.
 
are the scales removable?
If so that's great for us amateur scale makers. I would love to get this knife for cheaper than the G10 Native 5 and put some scales on it.
If its pinned that's a bummer, but still a great knife. Wonder if there will be any different colors sometime.
 
uofaengr said:
I don't recall seeing this one in the 2014 catalog, or did I just miss it? Street price seems to be around 80 bucks for S35VN. Interesting...
Thoughts?
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Just few bucks more than Native. In my opinion this is great. Hopefully the knife will have full liners and scales will be easy replaceable.
May be I will buy one for my nephew, personally I will be interested to sprints with various Carpenter steels like 204P, XHP, CPM M4, B75P, and K390.
 
bh49 said:
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Just few bucks more than Native. In my opinion this is great. Hopefully the knife will have full liners and scales will be easy replaceable.
May be I will buy one for my nephew, personally I will be interested to sprints with various Carpenter steels like 204P, XHP, CPM M4, B75P, and K390.
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Same here, I'd love a pa sourced steel.
 
bh49 said:
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Just few bucks more than Native. In my opinion this is great. Hopefully the knife will have full liners and scales will be easy replaceable.
May be I will buy one for my nephew, personally I will be interested to sprints with various Carpenter steels like 204P, XHP, CPM M4, B75P, and K390.
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I agree. This might be the perfect knife for a couple family members. They love knives, but are into foxed blade and traditional pocket knives. This would be a good all around work knife due to the size and the steel. I would buy a dozen of these if they cane in B75P. ;)
 
I was under the impression that these were to be Fiberglass Reinforced Co-Polymer (FRCP), but the description says FRN.

Tom
 
RevDevil said:
I would buy a dozen of these if they cane in B75P. ;)
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I will not go that far. Two will be enough for me. I do not know, why Spyderco is not using this steel much. Actually they used only once for mule.
I also would love to see Native5 with SS fluted scales. My son loves my Ti Fluted, but considering his habits of loosing knives (SAK traveler, Blur, Gerber X-Frame, G10 Caly3, SS Caly Jr., two bolstered C105) I am not buying him any more and he will not spend more that $100.
 
This knife will be a hot seller, and if it retains the same pivot bushing system and the scales are removable, good luck ever finding one in stock.
 
bh49 said:
I will not go that far. Two will be enough for me. I do not know, why Spyderco is not using this steel much. Actually they used only once for mule.
I also would love to see Native5 with SS fluted scales. My son loves my Ti Fluted, but considering his habits of loosing knives (SAK traveler, Blur, Gerber X-Frame, G10 Caly3, SS Caly Jr., two bolstered C105) I am not buying him any more and he will not spend more that $100.
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I wish I knew why we aren't seeing much of the B75P. If I had to guess, I would say that it might have to do with availability in a quantity tat would make it cost effective to purchase and possibly timing of production. Just a guess though. The regular Native with the hollow grind is still one of my all time favorite pieces to carry and use when a smaller knife is a must. It is also a great platform for various new steels to potentially be tested on.
 
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