Spyderco Battlestation

Interesting comments. I find the Battlestation very well designed and a good size for it's intended use. It is very attractive to me, mostly because it is different and has a kind of Persian flavor which I have always liked. I like that it is stout and has a lock back. In addition, the design of the choil is intelligent and will prevent injury in the unlikely event of a lock failure. I have ordered one and will soon see if it meets my expectations.
 
Mall Ninja. Hmmm. I went to the mall with my grandaughter yesterday. There was a sushi restaurant in there but I did not see any Ninjas. I did not see any knife stores either. So I asked the info counter and he told me that knife stores attract gang activity so thus no knife stores.
I see the term Mall Ninja a lot, all over the forums and I'm assuming it be intended in a negative way aimed at folks who buy either pretend combat gear or folks who buy real combat gear and pretend to be combative. I guess according to this one must be a gardner to own a shovel or a barber to own shears. I have a stethascope but I'm not a Doctor.
I also own a SpyderCo Civilian. I received it years ago as an issueed gear item. Funny thing I never took it to the mall or assasinated any Samurai.
Labeling good quality products and the people who purchase them and use them in such a childish connotation is not only silly, and insulting, it breeches the shoreline of down right stupidity. Not everyone who owns a sword is a Cavalier and not everyone who owns an Endura is a mall ninja.
 
I guess a collector might like it. I can't possibly see what it might be useful for as an edc. Too thick to cut...anything. Too short to be very useful as a self defense tool unless you're an expert and even then highly unlikely. Seriously, how many people are actually going to use a knife for actual self defense? Less than .1%? Better all around choices for sure.
 
I will be very happy to finally get on in my hands.

Too each there own though IMO. I'm not sure I even know what a mall ninja is...

I EDC everything from an Ambitious to a Military and everything in between, why? Sometimes it's based on the task , sometimes it's based on which one I feel like carrying that day.

The one thing with all Spyderco products , and what keeps me coming back is all the new and interesting designs.

The Battlestation is a very cool looking design, I will be getting one.
 
Greykilt said:
Mall Ninja. Hmmm. I went to the mall with my grandaughter yesterday. There was a sushi restaurant in there but I did not see any Ninjas. I did not see any knife stores either. So I asked the info counter and he told me that knife stores attract gang activity so thus no knife stores.
I see the term Mall Ninja a lot, all over the forums and I'm assuming it be intended in a negative way aimed at folks who buy either pretend combat gear or folks who buy real combat gear and pretend to be combative. I guess according to this one must be a gardner to own a shovel or a barber to own shears. I have a stethascope but I'm not a Doctor.
I also own a SpyderCo Civilian. I received it years ago as an issueed gear item. Funny thing I never took it to the mall or assasinated any Samurai.
Labeling good quality products and the people who purchase them and use them in such a childish connotation is not only silly, and insulting, it breeches the shoreline of down right stupidity. Not everyone who owns a sword is a Cavalier and not everyone who owns an Endura is a mall ninja.
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Well you see, it all comes down to a high school mentality of putting others down to feel better about oneself.

"Like, oh my gawd, can you believe Doug got that knife? It's like sooooooooooooooo mall ninja. What a loser."

Read the term "mall ninja" in the voice of a spoiled 16 year old girl, and it suddenly is self explanatory. :)
 
Brasso3 said:
Too short to be very useful as a self defense tool unless you're an expert and even then highly unlikely. Seriously, how many people are actually going to use a knife for actual self defense? Less than .1%? Better all around choices for sure.
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If that knife is too short for self defense, you shouldn't be trying to defend yourself with a knife. That's well more than enough blade to do what you need to do in terms of SD. It's on the border of what a court would count as SD as is.

Now, if you want to breach a ship, you probably want something bigger.
 
I like the Battlestation since it has a sub 3" blade length (2.97"), fairly thick blade at 0.138" and seemingly a very strong tip (if someone needs to use it as a prybar in a fix). It's oddly angular, don't know how comfortable it'd be to hold for extended periods and rather high-priced for a semi-ordinary VG-10. To my reckoning, at that price, it should at least be a Taichung folder with CTS-XHP and contoured G-10 if not CF. This should be a $150 street price knife and perhaps it'll be in a couple of months.

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That's the beauty of Spyderco' something for everyone approach. If you can't relate to a particular design you still have many more chances to find one that works for you. I'm sure the battlestation will sell out. It actually looks like a Cold Steel product to me :foot:
 
It is VERY comfortable in hand...a lot more so than I expected, using the choil or behind, and reverse grip is also very comfortable. The tip is definitely going to be very strong, and overall it's just very stout. I bought one more as a collection piece because the grind is exquisite, but I've been using it for some general edc tasks over the last couple weeks and I really like it. It carries deeply and more unobtrusively than you'd think, and the clip is the strongest of all my Spyderco wire clips out of the box (Short clip length probably has something to do with that). My friend had me order one for him too and he plans to try it for some skinning next time he goes hunting, so I can provide an update at a later time on how it performs at the task of skinning. I suspect they kept the blade below 3" for people who have length limits in their knife laws.



 
I like the way it looks in the pics 3genrig put up. It's at home on the wheel of a Western Star :thumbup:
 
I took more but didn't want to spam the thread too much as I didn't start it...and the mixed reviews. Doesn't seem to be overly popular.
 
That little notch looking thing on the blade, is that a Dialex signature detail or something? I like the design overall, just that and the smooth part on the G10 I'm not big on.

I don't think it's really fair to call the wave opener "mall ninja", that term (derisively) makes me think of overly complex, impractical and unrealistic "tactical" nonsense. The wave is about as simple and rudimentary as it can get. I'd almost like to see a wave opened Battlestation.
 
Tie wrap on the Spydie hole would make a good wave improvisation. I don't carry a knife for self defence or tactical purposes and fast deployment out of pocket isn't something I look for...a knife is a tool just like many other things. A baseball bat or shovel just to name two things would make much more deadly weapons, especially in the hands of someone not trained in martial arts or knife fighting (I'm not trained in either). Almost anything can make a weapon...to my mind a weapon is any object that is used for martial intent which can be almost anything, but common sense is much less common every day it seems. Drivers licences are VERY common for people to have, and if you really wanted to hurt someone you could just run them down with a vehicle...seems easier than trying to knife them as you're in a giant metal cocoon and won't get hit or stabbed back...you don't see people lining up to ban cars, though they're obviously a lot more potentially dangerous than a knife. Bureaucratic nonsense and the nanny state are borderline out of control these days. Anyways, this is getting morbid (My aplogies...I've never even been in a fistfight and I've had a pocket knife in my pocket for over a decade without incident and I've yet to turn into a "Mall Ninja" and go on a stabbing frenzy...just seems preposterous to me on so many levels) so lets get back on topic.

The groove isn't a Dialex signature, nor is it a blood fuller as I've seen it called in a few places, because to my knowledge a blood fuller runs the length of a blade and is more of something you see on a larger blade like a sword...wouldn't be much use on a slashing blade which would be the way to use a small knife like this if you did carry a knife for self defense (Some probably will like armed forces or law enforcement and I don't see blood fullers on anything smaller than swords). I think it's more of a styling feature than anything, and I think the knife would look worse without it. If it's not simply aesthetic someone who knows definitively may chime in and correct me.
 
I can dig it, but I'm not too confident in using Vg-10 in a hard way. Hopefully that doesn't mean I've been holding my endura back any.
As for mall ninja, eh. I think it can find it's uses and they'll only be apparent after it's been around for awhile, somebody said something about skinning and that seems like an amazing idea with this blade. If I'm wrong and it can take a beating like my ZT 0700 then I'll pick one up the second someone puts one up here
 
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