Scary Sharp=Understatement

Daniel Moore

Daniel Moore

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After pacing back and forth like an expectant father, the friendly UPS man pulled up with his boxed goods. Inside lay a FRN PE Delica with my name on it. I tested the blade; my arms look like a newborns, every paper in sight has more slashmarks than people in a Krueger film, and this is the most beautiful things I've ever layed eyes on. It's so much thinner than I expected...it's the man. :eek: :eek: :D :D
 
BTW, is it normal for the two edges of the lining to have flaws? It's hard to explain, but right where the blade edge goes into the handle, the edges on the handle have misforms.
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Nothing to affect how it works, just wondering.
 
Well, my only Delica is a 25th Anniversary model but... checked out all my FRN Spydies (Rescue, Merlin, Calypso Jr, Native, Native III, Dragonfly, Jester, and Jess Horn) and none have any malformations like you describe. One thing I did notice, if you look at some of them with the blade closed the handle does appear to be "wavy", but it is really just an optical illusion caused by the difference in blade thickness at various points. On the other hand, when I open them and hold a steel rule against the inner edge, it's straight as an arrow.
 
I think your knife is fine.
If you look at the opening where the blade goes into the handle it will look wider than the blade because spyderco has sort of "washers" molded into the handles of the FRN knives (delicas anyway). The back bar is actually just a few thousandths wider than the blade tang. I found that out the hard way when I made a new handle for a delica and things didn't fit up right:D There is quite a bit of engineering behind them, thats why they're so good.
 
i'm not sure i completely understand which part of the knife you're talking about. don't suppose you've got a digital camera or scanner lying about?

abe m.
 
Grr. Tried to post a picture, Brinkster makes that very much impossible. I'll email it to you, allyourblood.
 
here's NeedleRemorse's picture for everyone else to see:

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and here's the text he included in his e-mail to me:

"These areas on the Delica are wavy (no illusion) and not smooth, there are strips that remind me of whittled wood. I was thinking that maybe this is where the mixture is poured into the mold? They also aren't uniform in how far into the inner handle they spread; until the parts pointed out it's a clean uniform line but then it gets pretty shady. No biggie, not worth return, just wondering."


NR, hope you don't mind my posting your e-mail. i just want the other forumites to help answer your question. i'll snap a pic of my own Delica for you, and post it here, so you can compare to mine.

abe m.
 
kay, here's a couple shots of mine, to compare. i'm not very steady with the macro function on my wife's camera, so bear with the sharpness:

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abe m.
 
Thanks for answering my question allyourblood. I think I see it on yours too. And I was hoping you'd post the e-mail:)

I didn't notice it until I tried counting all of the volacanoes on the grip and then it caught my eye. The handle is merely a sheath for the beautiful apparatus that is the VG-10 blade.

Even if it was a minor defect, certainly nothing worth parting with my knife over. Best $37 I ever spent.

Nice pictures, allyourblood!
 
I had to check mine at home last night, having never noticed anything before.

The outside of the handles is naturaly beveled for easy acces to the thumbhole, this is just fine.

The inside of the handles along the edge have a thin bevel all along from just behind the tang of the blade to the back of the knife, aparently made with a very fine rasp or sandpaper, probably an operation to remove a burr from the edge of the handles before assembly, it´s thin and even, the same on both sides, I don´t see it as a problem at all.

Your knife has probably the same thing, maybe it was done a little sloppy by the operator, it´s up to you to decide if it´s bad enough to be considered a defect, maybe it can be fixed with a bit of sandpaper, but doing it yourself would void the warranty.
 
On my PE VG-10 Delica, I don't see anything like what you've
described. I bought it 18 months ago, and it's been carried
and used quite a bit (i.e. it's a little beat up now, but still
to be 99.99% trusted). Maybe use has moved things (?), but
I agree with your original sentiments - scary sharp out of
the box, nice thing to have (especially for the price)!
 
I have a new PE FRN Endura that appears to have the same marks. Didn't notice them untill I read this thread. Must be part of the manufacturing process.

Tom
 
The beauty of the Delica is that it's now a time-tested design, but it's always being refined and improved. Oh, and it's affordable and lefty-friendly, too.
 
Cheers to that! It's a beaut!

I finally took my clip apart last night just for fun and when I put it back together i couldnt get it to stop rocking but I can't remember if it did it before I screwed with it. I also noticed that its design allows the clip to be removed without it looking funny.
 
As to clip movement, there's a washer in there. put it on the "back" side, opposite the clip... also, when the clip is off, give it a slight bend in, helps on retention a bit[I bend all of my clips a bit, more snap].
 
I tightened it as much as I could in that order that you described, VW, and the movement is still there. I think it's normal. When you push on the end of the clip if you apply a certain amount of pressure the clip shifts.
 
NeedleRemorse, you are probably being too picky, if you look hard enough for defects you´ll find them in everything (and in everybody too), just use and enjoy your knife.
 
there's always going to be a degree of movement in everything. Not many ppl manufacture everything to 0.001 of an inch(my machining teacher was picky, 1 thousanth from perfect was our 10/10 mark... .001 afterwards was 1 full mark(10%) off), so manufacturing clearances allow a slight movement.

only 3 spydies I have that don't have any vertical movement... spydie military, fb03 lumto and fb05 temp :D
 
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