Spyderco Amsterdam Meet 2024 Report

[Mr Blonde]

Sage 5 CPM-REX121 – Spyderco Design Production Sample 2024
The steel junkies among us get an extra treat in the form of CPM-REX121, mated to a lightweight Sage 5 chassis. This knife will have a pivot bushing system. Like the previous REX45 sprint run knives, the Sage 5 in CPM-REX121 will be offered with an orange handle.

Approximate Specifications
Closed Length: 7.13 inch / 181 mm
Overall Length: 5.71 inch / 145 mm
Blade Length: 3 inch / 76 mm
Edge Length: 2.64 inch / 67 mm
Blade Thickness: 0.118 inch / 3 mm
Steel: CPM REX 121
Weight: 2.9 oz / 82 g
Grind: Full-flat
Lock: Compression
Handle: G-10
Clip Position: Ambi
Tip Carry Position: Tip-up
Origin: Taiwan

I have no information on pricing or release dates.

 

[Mr Blonde]

Tenacious R.I.L – Spyderco Design Production Sample 2024
This year’s meet did not just showcase new steels on existing designs, there were also a few nice surprises in handles and handle materials. This R.I.L Tenacious is a good example. The titanium handle was beautifully anodized. The handle featured a Reeve-style Integral Lock (hence the R.I.L.) that had a lock insert and an over-travel stop. Opening, unlocking and closing was very smooth on this sample. The blue handle seemed to change color a little bit, when held at different angles which I liked a lot. Combined with the black-oxide finished blade, this Tenacious will be a stylish, and functional, EDC option.

Approximate Specifications
Closed Length: 4.38 inch/ 111 mm
Overall Length: 7.77 inch / 197 mm
Blade Length: 3.39 inch / 86 mm
Edge Length: 3.39 inch / 86 mm
Blade Thickness: 0.125 inch / 3.2 mm
Steel: 8Cr13Mov
Weight: 3.6 oz / 95 g
Grind: Full-flat
Lock: Reeve Integral Lock
Handle: Titanium
Clip Position: Ambi
Tip Carry Position: Tip-up
Origin: China

I have no information on pricing or release dates.

 

[Mr Blonde]

Tenacious R.I.L. – Spyderco Design Production Sample 2024
This unnamed Tenacious R.I.L. featured a satin finished D2 blade and an absolutely stunning handle design. The handle is titanium and has been beautifully anodized. The end result seems like Thor’s hammer crashed into this Tenacious and somehow it survived. An absolutely stunning looking folder. The Reeve Integral Lock on this sample featured a lock-face insert and an over-travel stop, and the operation was very smooth.

Approximate Specifications
Closed Length: 4.38 inch/ 111 mm
Overall Length: 7.77 inch / 197 mm
Blade Length: 3.39 inch / 86 mm
Edge Length: 3.39 inch / 86 mm
Blade Thickness: 0.125 inch / 3.2 mm
Steel: D2
Weight: 3.3 oz / 93 g
Grind: Full-flat
Lock: Reeve Integral Lock
Handle: Titanium
Clip Position: Ambi
Tip Carry Position: Tip-up
Origin: China

I have no information on pricing or release dates.

 

[Mr Blonde]

Charisma – Spyderco Design Production Sample 2024
The Spyderco Charisma was a new design that seemed to want to fly out of my lightbox. This was an impressively thin and lightweight folder. The cutting edge however, is almost as long as the edge found on a Paramilitary 2. The Charisma is thin and light enough to easily carry in a shirt pocket. I did have to practice a bit to find the opening hole, but after a few cycles, opening and closing was very easy. The 3D handle design offered a bit extra grip. Again, and I can’t stress this enough, the Charisma was impressively light and thin. Despite its diminutive dimensions, I didn’t notice any noticeable flex when handling the Charisma.

This is the last of the Spyderco Production Samples I got to shoot and share with you. I’m working on videos of these knives, but they won’t feature any new knives, just more footage….

Approximate Specifications
Overall Length: 6.73 inch / 171 mm
Blade Length: 3 inch / 76 mm
Blade Thickness: 0.04 inch / 1 mm
Steel: CTS-BD1N
Weight: 0.8 oz / 23 g
Grind: Full-flat
Handle: FRN

I have no information on pricing or release dates.

 

[yablanowitz]

Thank you so much for all your work in bringing these pictures to us. At least I have a Manix2 lightweight to look forward to this year

 

[elevator man]

Thanks indeed. Very nicely done

 

[elevator man]

So are all of these going to be regularly available production models or sprints?

 

[yablanowitz]

The Manix2, Sage 5 Rex-121 and framelock Tenacious were "sneak peeked" as Sprints in a video from SHOT. The others are likely to be regular production. I hope the Manix2 LW gets changed to production instead of Sprint.

 

[elevator man]

Me too. The lw manix 2 in maxamets regular production so it's not a stretch to hope for a 15v version. Seems like 15v is being added to the regular lineup along with s110v and maxamet. But I'm only speculating

 

[yablanowitz]

I suspect 15V is going to replace Maxamet just because it is easier to work. They have a *lot* of QC rejects with Maxamet.

 

[elevator man]

Wouldn't be a bad thing necessarily. I'd love to see Larrins tests for 15v done with this BBB heat treated 15v versus the regular 15v in his charts. The edge retention chart showed regular 15v below maxamet. But I watched a YouTube video by Cedric cutting rope and this BBB 15v surpassed maxamet and was getting into ceramic knife territory. Plus its a little tougher than maxamet. I also noticed in another thread posted a link to a bunch of snapped blades on spyderco knives that the majority of which were maxamet. I'm sure it's an in house secret, but I'd also love to see the CATRA results from spydercos own testing on some of these steels. Either way it seems like this 15vs giving you most or all of the benefit of maxamet with a little more toughness. I'd be happy with either really.

 

[Mr Blonde]

Video: Military 2 CPM-15V – Spyderco Design Production Sample 2024


This Spyderco Military 2 CPM-15V production sample was shown at the 2024 Spyderco Amsterdam Meet. See my previous post in this thread formore information on this upcoming new Spyderco folding knife. (I shot this in portrait mode, so it's optimized for phones.)

 

[Mr Blonde]

Video: Manix 2 Lightweight CPM-15V – Spyderco Design Production Sample 2024

 

[Mr Blonde]

Video: MicroJimbo CPM-15V – Spyderco Design Production Sample 2024

 

[Mr Blonde]

Video: Para 3 Lightweight CPM-15V – Spyderco Design Production Sample 2024

 

[Mr Blonde]

Video: Para 3 CPM-15V – Spyderco Design Production Sample 2024

 

[Mr Blonde]

Video: Lil’ Native CPM-15V – Spyderco Design Production Sample 2024

 

[Mr Blonde]

Video: Sage 5 CPM-REX121 – Spyderco Design Production Sample 2024

 

[jd_elam]

Great pictures and information as usual! Thanks for posting for all of us to see!

 

[Mr Blonde]

Video: Tenacious R.I.L (Blue) – Spyderco Design Production Sample 2024