Sage?

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In the 2008 Retail Price Guide that Spyderco sent out with their new 08 Catalog there is a model called the Sage. C1222CFP is the SKU. MSRP is $149.95 and only available with a plain edge.

The new Tenacious has a SKU of C1222GP. Is the Sage a Carbon Fiber handled variation of the Tenacious (made in the US since the price is so much higher?)?

I asked a dealer today at the local knife show and he didn't have a clue what it was although he had also seen it in the price book. So what's the deal?
 
Looks like a misprint to me. Believe it should be C123CFP for the Sage. Two different knives.

Paul
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Taken from http://spyderco.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31273&page=4 :

The "Sage" is a project model that I've been trying to create for a few years. The knife itself is a 3" blade Walker linerlock. I know, the last thing we need is another 3" knife .

I guess part of the purpose for the model is that we do not have very many linerlocks in our line and linerlocks are desired by many.

But the real purpose is a bit deeper. The design itself is a synthesis between the Native design (3" mid lock-back with no "hump") and a Caly3 (3" mid lock-back with a large "hump"). "Sometimes you feel like a hump, sometimes you don't" and sometimes you're not sure

The Sage pattern has a small hump (not sure ). It's wider than the Caly3, but narrower than the Native. It is "leaf" blade shape with a finger choil. Full flat grind. Carbon Fiber scales, full skeletonized liners. The knife is made in Taiwan, but the S30V is shipped from the US. It is a nice EDC design (I'm biased) that carries and uses comfortably.

The first model is a "recognition" of Michael Walker's contribution to our knife industry. His Linerlock creation and the use of a ball bearing / detent has made a mark on the industry that we all get to enjoy.

Follow up models (6 months to a year between) will use the same pattern, the same flat ground S30V, but will be a "recognition" of another "folding knife lock creation" by a different person using different handle materials.

An opportunity to offer respect to those "lock" pioneers as well as compare different locks in the same format.

I might fall on my face, but I'm hoping there is enough interest to support the R&D & engineering required to fit a new lock into each model and maintain a limited production.

sal
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a good read, too:

http://spyderco.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31572


Dennis
 
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