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Pics of a Salsa in hand?

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SpyderJon

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Hello! I live in the sticks, and while I love spydercos, I often cannot handle them until I buy them. This has, at times, led to some rather good knives becoming "drawer queens" that I take out and look at every now and again, but don't actually use. I'm interested in the Salsa, and while it looks good, and most people say that it is very ergonomic, I'd still be interested if someone could post a picture of someone holding the knife in hand.

Also, could someone with the ability to do searches please post the thread containing the results of the Salsa passaround?

Thanks!

Sincerely,
Anthony
 
I am sorry that I cannot post any pics of my Salsa in my hand, but let me try to describe how it fits my hand.

If you look at a picture of the knife open, you will see that the choil and the top of the hilt, right at the pivot, makes a finger indent that just fits an index finger. As you move down the hilt, there are three more indents for the other three fingers. I have a medium sized hand, but an arthritic one that has some difficulty with the smaller knives, and I have found the Salsa to fit my hand to near perfection. The total area for finger gripping, choil included, is 3 1/2" which is, conveniently, ths size of my hand across the first knuckles of my fingers. The Cobra Hood over the Spydie Hole does two things, it provides a very secure place for your thumb when cutting and it gives additional surface when opening the blade which would be helpful if you are wearing gloves. I hope that this is helpful.

BTW, the wide blade on the knife is a flat grind, as on the Military, and it is a demon for cutting.
 
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Sergiuz, in your first picture, it appears that you have a different type of lock on your Salsa. Mine has no sign of any kind of mechanical apparatus on the top of the back near the pivot screw, but your's seems to have something there. What is this, if you don't mind?
 
FullerH, I beleive the Titanium handled Salsa has the Frame lock and the aluminum models have the liner style lock. I just received a Salsa today and it is an aluminum model. I noticed the frame lock in the above pics too. Now I am going to have to have one with Ti handles! I didn't know there was a difference untill now.
 
Thank you VERY MUCH for the pics! I can now buy with confidence! Thanks, all!!

Sincerely,
Anthony
 
The lock on the aluminum hilted Salsas is the Compression Lock, not a liner lock. While may look similar, there is a very considerable difference in security, with the nod to the Compression Lock.
 
Hugh,
You are quite right – Alu-Salsa has compression lock, not liner one. But the difference between two models is that in Alu-Salsa the steel liner is compressed. In Ti-Salsa there ate no liners at all, there is compressed the part of titanium scale, this is exactly what you see on my photo. So the difference is similar to difference between liner lock and integral (frame, mono) lock, Ti-Salsa has some kind of compression mono lock.
 
I haven't handled or used any of the Spydie compression locks yet. How easy it really to retract the monolock on the Ti Salsa and simultaneously close the blade? (Is it a simple as on a conventional monolock?)

Thanks for further info.
 
It’s simpler than with conventional mono lock and – first of all – it’s safer because you don't need to put your fingers onto blade path when closing.
However the closing comfort could be quite variable matter for different users as well as handling comfort. For me Ti-Salsa works well.
 
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