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Spyderco bushcraft Or bushcraft NW?

the thumb scallops on the NW's handle are a real bonus when utilizing different grips for bushcrafting if you ask me.
 
Mine is one the way. I am really hoping that handle will be easier on the joints in my hand. Arthritis is already deep in them and I'm not even 40!
 
i don't like the looks of the Handle on the Spyderco at all. I wouldn't buy one without holding one in my hand first.
 
I think I'd go with the spyderco (assuming the same cost). It looks like it would be lighter, and I think the steel is thinner. But, I'd have to fill that hole somehow, it just looks weird.
 
I'd love to get a Skookum without the metal butt instead your two picks, but there's a long-ass waiting list, next up would be the NW. Better design. That Spyder hole, for one, is just asinine.
 
I had the chance to handle the Spyderco at Blade this summer, and it's a nice design. The handle is comfortable, and it's well made, as one would expect from Spyderco. However, they are very expensive for what they are. I think the street price is right around $180- more than most customs. My Koster in 3V cost less.

But who am I kidding, I'll probably end up getting one anyway.

I like the design on that NW. :thumbup:
 
The bushcraft NW is a "smart" design. At least they tried to make something different from "another ray mears clone", and they succeeded.
Fills hand well. Interesting slabs material.
Not the perfect but that's the kind of design I would have liked to come up with.

If you want the more classic design you'd probably get bargain then the Spyderco. For example Koster makes one that is cheaper with better steel but there are many other options.
 
I wouldn't want to buy a scandi ground blade in 3V until I had hands on experience of how easy it would be to sharpen. I know that A2 and O1 are easy to sharpen, even using water stones or silicon carbide paper, and take a fine smooth edge. The time it took to properly flatten a wide bevel on a D2 scandi has put me right off the idea of "High wear resistant" steel for such grinds. I have used an A2 Skookum and it was very nice, a friend has taken his to Borneo twice and the blade has held up a lot better than O-1 would, but otherwise I couldn't detect much difference between the two steels.

That bushcraftnorthwest looks a nice knife, about time someone did a beefed up and higher quality version of the classic Mora. I think that in trying to choose between it and the Spyderco you are going to come down to shades of personal preference, rather than significant differences in performance.

The Spyderco might be lighter, it is thinner stock (can't remember if it is 1/8th or 3mm) but a lot depends on what's been done with the tang and how dense the handle material is. That bamboo looks very interesting. The original Alan Wood Woodlore used maple from sustainable resources and its a nice idea in principle.

It was only after we were quite a long way down the road with the Spyderco/BushcraftUK knife and comments really started to be made on forums that we realised that a lot of cost could have been saved by greatly simplifying the handle profile, and that a lot of folk wouldn't ever notice the difference. Sadly, only hindsight is 20/20:rolleyes: :D
 
Ravaillac said:
The bushcraft NW is a "smart" design. At least they tried to make something different from "another ray mears clone", and they succeeded....
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It's funny how designs drift and perceptions change. The Spyderco/BCUK knife was not originally designed as a Woodlore clone although it did draw upon it, as it did a lot of other knives. The comments about it being a clone only started when the grind was changed from flatish convex to scandi. Nothing else was altered. Prior to that, all the comments were about how great it was that it wasn't a Woodlore clone! Go figure. :D
 
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