Para 3 lw

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Just recieved 2 of these today. Bought 1 for my wife's son as a gift and one for me. He finished basic a month ago and is in AIT now but it looks like his first duty station will be germany and they have funky knife laws so it looks like my wife and I each have a para 3 lw now and I'll get him one when he returns stateside down the road.

I have a couple other lw spyderco's and have mixed feelings about them. My wife and I each have lw natives. Hers is the pink one and super smooth and mine is black and beat to sheot after being my work knife for years. Got her a manix lw when they came out and am less than impressed with the flex in the handle. I can pinch the 2 scales together they flex so much. I dont like it at all. So I've shy'd away from the lw knives for quite some time now.
While browsing for a knife idea for her son I saw the all black lw para 3 and loved the look. Being smaller handled than the manix I was hoping the flex wouldn't be as bad. Man I gota say I think spyderco knocked it out of the park with this one. Feels great in the hand. Lock stick is pretty bad on both of them. One of them clicks very loud when you go to unlock it. May have to tear it apart and see if there is a bur on one of the edges somewhere. I'm not a fan of the wire clips and I read on another post that some people had to put washers under the screw to keep the clip tight to the knife?...overall though I'm very happy with the knives. I'm sure the little bugs will work themselves out. I wear a large size glove but I'm on the smaller side of large. Can squeeze into most medium gloves if need be to give an idea of hand size and this para 3 fits my hand perfect. I have a g10 para 2 I've had for years and love that. I'm curious now if I'd like the g10 para 3 more than the lw version...
Anyways if your on the fence about this little beast go for it.

Question, does anyone know if there is a different aftermarket non wire clip you can get that will work with the 1 screw set up these wire clips have?
 
fonedork said:
There are aftermarket wire clip replacements by RGT and by Lynch Northwest. They'll make the knife less lightweight, I'd imagine.
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Oh nice! I have lynch clips on a couple of my other spyderco's but I had no idea he made a replacement for the wire clips! It's been quite some time since I needed clips. I honestly don't care about weight. I'm just not a fan of the wire clips. Thanks.
 
steelhead seeker said:
Oh nice! I have lynch clips on a couple of my other spyderco's but I had no idea he made a replacement for the wire clips! It's been quite some time since I needed clips. I honestly don't care about weight. I'm just not a fan of the wire clips. Thanks.
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No problem, I had no idea he made them for the wire clips either until I looked up the other ones I'd seen before so I could tell you what the brand name was. The stamped Lynch clips cost about a 1/3 as much as the milled RGT ones but looks like they're sold out at the retailer I was checking. I agree that the Para 3 LW is a shockingly great knife and the wire clip is bit of an annoyance, I don't like how it shifts and wiggles back and forth on that single screw.
 
My first Para 3 was a LW. The thing was just too slick for me when dry that I never could get a confident grip. I ended up giving it to a friend. Then I made the mistake of buying a G10 version. Now, I have 8 of them in different steels and handle compositions. I've sold an old knife for every one of these new ones I buy, so I keep my rotation number static. The Para 3 is my favorite knife, but I do love the Native 5, too. If they every make a compression lock Native 5, it'll be the perfect pocket knife.
 
FYI: Casey Lynch has the non-wire replacement clips available on his website.
 
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