Siren and Waterway in the meat house

[Don W]

I spent the week of Thanksgiving deer hunting. I had planned on getting some pics of my Spyderco Siren in use field dressing and skinning deer, but as usual I forgot about the camera until we were cleaning up. It turns out my buddy had purchased a Spyderco Waterway after handling it at a gun show. He thought that it would make a fine knife for working on deer. Neither of us had any experience with LC200 steel. We both were happy with how it performed. Keen enough edge and easy to sharpen we both thought were good attributes. He thought the only problem with the Siren was it was too easy to fold up and put in your pocket, which he pointed out as a bit of blood and deer fat smeared the pocket edge on my pants. I thought the only problem with the Waterway was you couldnt fold it up and put it in your pocket. By the way I only folded it up and put it in my pocket dirty the one time. Just wanted to share the one pic I did get.

 

[3fifty7]

Congrats on a successful outing.

 

[SALTY]

I've got plenty of knives, dare I say too many, but nothing slices like a full flat grind.

 

[craytab]

I spent the week of Thanksgiving deer hunting. I had planned on getting some pics of my Spyderco Siren in use field dressing and skinning deer, but as usual I forgot about the camera until we were cleaning up. It turns out my buddy had purchased a Spyderco Waterway after handling it at a gun show. He thought that it would make a fine knife for working on deer. Neither of us had any experience with LC200 steel. We both were happy with how it performed. Keen enough edge and easy to sharpen we both thought were good attributes. He thought the only problem with the Siren was it was too easy to fold up and put in your pocket, which he pointed out as a bit of blood and deer fat smeared the pocket edge on my pants. I thought the only problem with the Waterway was you couldnt fold it up and put it in your pocket. By the way I only folded it up and put it in my pocket dirty the one time. Just wanted to share the one pic I did get.

That is great to hear, especially on how the steel performed!

 

[Don W]

craytab I have been carrying the Siren everyday since August 7th.
LC200 seems to do fine when cutting flesh and connective tissue. It seems to dull very quickly in my use for landscaping and construction.
I used Spyderco's s30v for a few years when I worked as a landscape contractor. Maybe I just forget, but it seemed the s30v had a longer lasting useable edge.
I love the design of the Siren. I would definitely buy again in another steel.

 

[5-by-5]

I've got plenty of knives, dare I say too many, but nothing slices like a full flat grind.

Hollow grind as far superior. The hollow of the blade releases wet friction that flat does not.

 

[craytab]

craytab I have been carrying the Siren everyday since August 7th.
LC200 seems to do fine when cutting flesh and connective tissue. It seems to dull very quickly in my use for landscaping and construction.
I used Spyderco's s30v for a few years when I worked as a landscape contractor. Maybe I just forget, but it seemed the s30v had a longer lasting useable edge.
I love the design of the Siren. I would definitely buy again in another steel.

Interesting about the types of material cut, thanks for sharing. And yes, I'd expect s30v (& S35VN) to hold a longer working edge. That has been my experience too. For me LC200N has been not quite as good at edge holding as S30v but better in every other aspect of a knife steel like toughness, sharpen ability, and obviously corrosion resistance. I've absolutely had s30v and s35vn rust on me if neglected even a little.