Persistence, Ambitious: are there higher end versions of same?

[gentemanndvm]

thanks for any help with a noob question.

i've had the Persistence and Ambitious in my EDC rotation for a while. same as everyone else, fantastic blades at this price. heck, fantastic blades at double the price. but i'm curious about some higher end versions of these blades.

since there are about 8 billion different spyderco models, i figured i'd cheat and ask here, see if anyone knows, and has done side-by-side comparisons.

guessing, but is the spyderco cat the same size/profile as the ambitious, and is it still avail in s30v if so? sage and persistence the same or diff sizes? b/c i'd love something in vg-10, s30v, different handles, etc.

thanks in advance for the help, and if you happen to know of any side-by-side comparison pics to any of the blades you recc, i'd be in some serious interwebz debt to you.

mpg

 

[The Deacon]

Not really, at least not if part of their attraction is the "all edge" blade. Otherwise, the two you mention, the Cat and Sage I, would probably be the closest.

 

[flatface77]

I bet a sprint run of these models would be a big winner. I'd have to get at least one of each myself. My wife loves the blade design (particularly the way the tang's edge grind angles back) & I've been thinking of having custom handles fabricated for the Tenacious. That would be roughly $150 spent on a $30 knife but she really loves this design.