Native with and without the "Bug"?

JD Mandrell

JD Mandrell

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Just curious, I have a Native without the bug etch, that I bought at Wal-Mart, and one with the bug from an online knife store.

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Is the lack of the bug etch a Wal-Mart thing?
 
I don't think so. More than likely it's from an earlier production run of Natives.
 
Spydercos decision to put a bug on the blades goes back to 2004/early 2005. So, if your Native has no bug it's a native before ... independent from your date of purchase. You will find the propduction date on the original box; it's a code and if you do a search, you will find how to crack the code or you send me email and I will inform you ;)
 
I have two natives. One has '1st Generation BRK' stamped on the blade and the other has an S30V blade. Neither have the bug. I don't know how old they are. When did they first start using S30V in the Native?
 
The "bug" has been around for a while, but the Native appears to have been one of the last models to become infected. :D Aside from the pink one, I haven't bought a Native for a couple years, but this year's catalog is the first one that shows the standard and all black versions with the bug, so I'm inclined to believe it's a fairly recent addition.

Paul
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moral of the story, DON'T buy stuff from wal-mart and expect the same stuff. You get what you pay for!
 
Chillax said:
moral of the story, DON'T buy stuff from wal-mart and expect the same stuff. You get what you pay for!
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That may be true for certain things, but it was absolutely not true in the case of the Spyderco Native.

The Natives which Wal-Mart carried were identical to those being sold by every other Spyderco dealer at the time and were a bargain at the price Wal-Mart charged for them. I'd suspect there are still some brick and mortar dealers with "bugless" Natives in inventory either due to low sales volume or failure to rotate their stock. It's a question of when the knives were delivered to the dealer or distributor, not whether that was Wal-Mart or somebody else.

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Chillax said:
moral of the story, DON'T buy stuff from wal-mart and expect the same stuff. You get what you pay for!
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Other than the bug logo, (and the color), there is not one thing different between these to Natives as far as quality.
 
The Deacon said:
That may be true for certain things, but it was absolutely not true in the case of the Spyderco Native.

The Natives which Wal-Mart carried were identical to those being sold by every other Spyderco dealer at the time and were a bargain at the price Wal-Mart charged for them. I'd suspect there are still some brick and mortar dealers with "bugless" Natives in inventory either due to low sales volume or failure to rotate their stock. It's a question of when the knives were delivered to the dealer or distributor, not whether that was Wal-Mart or somebody else.

I find it more of a question of is it a factory second Like rest of the name brand knives you get at wally world are. Price reflects alot when they are able to sell it at the same cost your specialty shop has to buy it for some thing has to give!
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My very first spydie was a walmart native. I liked it soooo much I started to look into more spyderco knives. That was aug 08 and now I have 19 spyderco knives. There is nothing wrong with a wm native period!:cool: Not only that, my wife liked it enough to want her own so I got her a pink one.
 
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