New Spyderco: Flipper & Emerson Wave!

anthony cheeseboro said:
It is the Spyderco Tropen. Does anyone have one yet? I need to go up to GPK and fondle one!
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Did they ever fix the issue with this knife? The sharp edge was intruding into the compression lockbar cut out where it could cut your finger. I think their inelegant solution was to leave part of the heel of the knife unsharpened.

Curious if they came up with a better solution.

See look at the picture of the closed knife. Look at the lockbar cutout. See the bladd sticking through?
 
Beautiful lines to the knife (if it didnt have the wave).
I have a number of Spyderco knives but for some reason never took to the factory waved Spyderco models.

Lapedog said:
Did they ever fix the issue with this knife? The sharp edge was intruding into the compression lockbar cut out where it could cut your finger. I think their inelegant solution was to leave part of the heel of the knife unsharpened.

Curious if they came up with a better solution.

See look at the picture of the closed knife. Look at the lockbar cutout. See the bladd sticking through?
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I wasnt familiar with the problem, as I hadnt looked into buying the Tropen (due to the wave feature) but if that is so, how is that an 'inelegant solution?'
Seems to be a good solution (if indeed there is a problem) and certainly no less elegant than say a choil in the same place (a choil can be functional and compliment the right knife design-wise).
 
Lapedog said:
Did they ever fix the issue with this knife? The sharp edge was intruding into the compression lockbar cut out where it could cut your finger. I think their inelegant solution was to leave part of the heel of the knife unsharpened.

Curious if they came up with a better solution.

See look at the picture of the closed knife. Look at the lockbar cutout. See the blade sticking through?
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If I had to have that knife (which I don't) I'd send it immediately off to REK for a bigger choil add.
 
I like so many things about this knife. The Emerson wave is really elegantly done on this one. Spyderco does amazing polished G10. But it's inching toward pocket sword territory for me, and the sharp edge in the compression lock cutout is likely a deal breaker.
 
BladeScout said:
Beautiful lines to the knife (if it didnt have the wave).
I have a number of Spyderco knives but for some reason never took to the factory waved Spyderco models.


I wasnt familiar with the problem, as I hadnt looked into buying the Tropen (due to the wave feature) but if that is so, how is that an 'inelegant solution?'
Seems to be a good solution (if indeed there is a problem) and certainly no less elegant than say a choil in the same place (a choil can be functional and compliment the right knife design-wise).
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Having a fairly large section of the heel unsharpened but still fairly accute seems like not the best fix in my eyes. Just my personal opinion.

Charlie Mike Charlie Mike This knife looks like it has alot of potential to be a cqc8 killer. I’m still a little concerned about the problem I spoke about above.
 
SpySmasher SpySmasher yeah I agree bigger choil was my first thought too. But if you look at the blade, where that choil would have to be plus the placement of the Spydiehole you would end up with a fairly narrow section of blade there in the spine to edge dimension.

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Lapedog said:
Having a fairly large section of the heel unsharpened but still fairly accute seems like not the best fix in my eyes. Just my personal opinion.

Charlie Mike Charlie Mike This knife looks like it has alot of potential to be a cqc8 killer. I’m still a little concerned about the problem I spoke about above.
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Its of course individual, what one perceives to be a 'fairly large section.' IMO the small section of blade visible in the cut-out doesnt seem to be enough to severely handicap the slicing/cutting ability of the blade but lets just agree to disagree on that point.

We all have different knife features, which we find acceptable and thats just fine. Would be boring, if we all liked the same knives.
 
Lapedog said:
SpySmasher SpySmasher yeah I agree bigger choil was my first thought too. But if you look at the blade, where that choil would have to be plus the placement of the Spydiehole you would end up with a fairly narrow section of blade there in the spine to edge dimension.

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As mentioned above, a (modest) choil would have been OK - also in a structural sense IMO.
 
Lapedog said:
SpySmasher SpySmasher yeah I agree bigger choil was my first thought too. But if you look at the blade, where that choil would have to be plus the placement of the Spydiehole you would end up with a fairly narrow section of blade there in the spine to edge dimension.
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You could make the choil very shallow which would preserve (for the most part) the blade strength but whatever you do, you are losing a lot of edge real estate.

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SpySmasher said:
You could make the choil very shallow which would preserve (for the most part) the blade strength but whatever you do, you are losing a lot of edge real estate.

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That edge is already lost. Apparently they are shipping it with that portion unsharpened.

This knife should have been done with a ball bearinf lock. Just my opinion.
 
I've got a $5 pre-order for one on file w/ BHQ.

Love the 3 way option to open it. Looking forward to receiving it whenever it arrives.
 
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