This is another cross posting from the Recent Acquisitions thread in the General Discussion Forum.
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This is the 3rd of 3 recent acquisitions of knives that I have been looking for FOR YEARS in order to "complete" a subgroup of knives in my collection.
In this case, it's a black FRN PS Spyderco Native III (C78PSBK).
Note that the Native III does not use the same model number as all other Natives, which are numbered C41 instead. Why? I have no idea but it's clearly denoted as a Native III on both sides of the mold injected FRN scales and on the label of the box that came w/it.
The only problem with the Native III PS is that it doesn't exactly match the Native III PE (C78PBK) that was already in my collection.
The differences are the replacement of the Spydiebug w/the Collector's Club # (apparently because there was not enough room for both on the swedged blade (see the blade of the Native 4 for comparison) and the use of a black instead of uncoated satin clip screw.
Something is better than nothing but because of these differences, I'm not entirely happy with this acquisition and still will be on the look out for a better match. So, unfortunately, the search must continue.
Nonetheless, my collection of Spyderco Natives (for now) includes these 10 knives.
From top to bottom:
Native I Black FRN PE VG10
Native I Black FRN PS VG10
Native 2 S/S PE VG10
Native 2 S/S PS VG10
Native 3 Black FRN PE VG10
Native 3 Black FRN PS VG10
From top to bottom:
Native 4 CF PE VG10
Native 5 Black G10 PE S35VN
Native 5 Fluted CF PE S30V
Native 5 Fluted Ti PE S90V
And, of course, I know that there are many other Native variations that exist but these are the only ones that I care to collect because think its representative of the Native line (historically) and 10 of anything is more than enough.
