Spyderco Byrd ?

I have owned 3 and all have been great. frn does feel different and have a different texture pattern but still feels ok. Be careful as usual as 8Cr will rust
 
Love my byrd Meadowlark2. It is essentially a choiled Delica. The FRN is solid and grippy with a nicely designed texturing. I blacked out the shiny pocket clip with heat shrink tubing. Edge retention is sufficient for a knife's purposes this size and gets nicely sharp. Markedly behind my Delica though in that category but performs just the same having essentially the same blade but with an added bonus of a choil which I find useful.I have since retired it purely out of a necessity for myself to get even more use out of my other folders. There is only so many things to cut in a given day. I will say that it is a great performing knife on its own.

My first 3 Spyderco's (within the first month of trying Spyderco) were a Tenacious, Meadowlark2, and Sage 1. Great performance from price points top to bottom.
 
FCM415 said:
Love my byrd Meadowlark2. It is essentially a choiled Delica. The FRN is solid and grippy with a nicely designed texturing. I blacked out the shiny pocket clip with heat shrink tubing. Edge retention is sufficient for a knife's purposes this size and gets nicely sharp. Markedly behind my Delica though in that category but performs just the same having essentially the same blade but with an added bonus of a choil which I find useful.I have since retired it purely out of a necessity for myself to get even more use out of my other folders. There is only so many things to cut in a given day. I will say that it is a great performing knife on its own.

My first 3 Spyderco's (within the first month of trying Spyderco) were a Tenacious, Meadowlark2, and Sage 1. Great performance from price points top to bottom.
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What is a "choile"?
 
That would be choil


HoB said:
A choil is a cut-out out of the blade on the "edge side" right were the tang is (right in front of the handle), usually to fit a finger when you are choking up on the blade, or to catch a blade when knife fighting (which isn't really my thing) (the Swamp rats all have pronounced choils). Spyderco referes to their choils as 50/50 choils since the choil is actually half cut out of the handle and half cut out of the blade (check out the Manix as an example). Sometimes there is only a small notch right at the transition between the edge and the tang. Some refer to this notch as "Spanish notch" but I have heard others say that is incorrect. To them a spanish notch is more of the size of a choil but differently formed and presumably had a defensive function in catching an opponents blade. I don't think the nomenclature is overly strict.
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While I'm not a member of the spyderco forums I lurk there occasionally and remember one individual who was a commercial fisherman and carried a Byrd rescue knife that was fully serrated and actually preferred the shallower serration of the Byrd. Byrd's F&F has impressed me a great deal and am very confident in their product. If I was on a budget or wanted an inexpensive beater, I'd take a hard look at them. Actually I am and want to pick up a fully serrated blade of a sort. Thinking about the Robin in particular. Serrations aside they still make a fine knife.
 
I would highly recommend the byrd line if you're looking for the performance of Spyderco designs but on a tighter budget. The fit and finish and economical steel is more than satisfactory for a working knife. I happily carried a byrd Raven for many years before establishing a salary and venturing further into Spyderco knives. After trying out some other models that were $100+ or $200+, I decided on obtaining two additional Ravens.
 
I have a couple byrds... very good knives in general... and when you take price into consideration they stack up even better. Buy with confidence, just don't expect a high end knife... expect a value folder that will get the job done and you will be very happy with whatever byrd you buy.
 
I like their lock-backs (I've got a G10 Robin that I'd swear was as nice as my G10 Dragonfly was), but I've not been too keen on their liner-locks. They're nice, but the G10 and liners (and blade-stock on the one I got) seemed really thin.

My rule of thumb is to go with Byrd lock-backs and Spyderco's value line (and give up the choil) on liner-locks.
 
I don't believe they even make any liner lock models in the byrd line anymore, do they?
 
We're in the process of redesigning and improving the Raven and the Crow models. They will remain linerlocks.

sal
 
jon1all said:
I don't believe they even make any liner lock models in the byrd line anymore, do they?
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That's a good question. They're still for sale out there, but I hadn't even paid attention to whether or not they were still being produced.

Sal Glesser said:
We're in the process of redesigning and improving the Raven and the Crow models. They will remain linerlocks.

sal
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That's pretty awesome. One thing to note - I miss the feather-textured scales man - that made those knives really desirable in my opinion (they don't all have to be that way, but I'd love to see some feather-shaped FRN or Aluminum scaled variations on any of the Byrd line models).
 
Sal Glesser said:
We're in the process of redesigning and improving the Raven and the Crow models. They will remain linerlocks.

sal
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And there you go... from the man himself! :) Thanks Sal.

Am very interested to see what changes to the Raven and Crow you come up with. I have almost pulled the trigger on the Crow multiple times, but for some reason just found something else to buy instead (most recently a Byrd Meadowlark2 G10 which is in transit as I type this... so Byrd/Spyderco still got my business). :)

Anyway, looking forward to the redesigned Raven/Crow. Any ETA on them?
 
EZ Bake said:
That's pretty awesome. One thing to note - I miss the feather-textured scales man - that made those knives really desirable in my opinion (they don't all have to be that way, but I'd love to see some feather-shaped FRN or Aluminum scaled variations on any of the Byrd line models).
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I too really enjoyed the thorough avian theme. From the packaging, to the model name, to the blade profile, to the hole, and to the feather-textured handle. I would be glad to have that style handle come back regardless of what material it's made in.
 
got the byrd cara cara 2 in g10 its si identical to the endura 4 but the biggest difference it the cara2 is 8cr13mov and the endura 4 vg-10 i love them bolth but for the price of a byrd i have no prob beating up on it
 
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