Spyderco Cricket Tip Getting Stuck

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Mark Cust

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This week I decided to do some meat cutting tests. I got a pair of old jeans and wrapped them around a piece of meat to try some of my knives that I own. I thought for sure that the Spyderco Cricket would be an excellent slicer with its reverse S blade but to my surprise I found it to be one of the worst slicers in this test. The reason was that the tip of the Cricket dug in pretty deep with no problems initially but then as I slashed across the meat the tip of the point seemed to make the entire blade get dragged and stuck on the denim of the jeans. Has anybody else experienced this with fibrous materials such as denim, cotton, ect or am I slashing wrong with the Cricket? I would assume that against a soft target such the meat directly it woud make a nasty initial dig with its tip and them slash it apart but if it has to go through a layer of clothes it seems to get stuck.
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A hook shape like that needs a lot of force behind it to not snag. The Cricket is a downright tiny knife, not something you could put a lot of leverage on. I imagine its hooked tip is more for precision work than slashing. You'd probably want a Matriarch for that.
 
Serrated or non? I have a serrated SPOT, which has a reverse S like the Cricket. and was never impressed with its cutting "power". It'd bind in cardboard and want to tear chunks out of it rather than cut through it. I had a plain edge SPOT (lost it years ago, miss it dearly) that I bought after being disappointed in the serrated, and it sliced and slashed much better.

Similarly, I had a serrated Tasman Salt (2 actually), and it would also bind and/or tear rather than slice, which I attributed to it having the small serration scallops next to the tip. I carried a plain edge Tasman Salt for years after that instead, and it worked much better. I've mostly replaced it with a Dragonfly Salt hawkbill, which has the large serration scallop behind the tip, and it's a much better slicer/slasher than the serrated Tasman Salt.

Note that the SPOT I carried strapped to my backpack as a ready self-defense knife just in case while riding my bike. The Salt knives are strictly utility, as I cut a lot of boxes and plastic bags open at work.
 
Serrated or non? I have a serrated SPOT, which has a reverse S like the Cricket. and was never impressed with its cutting "power". It'd bind in cardboard and want to tear chunks out of it rather than cut through it. I had a plain edge SPOT (lost it years ago, miss it dearly) that I bought after being disappointed in the serrated, and it sliced and slashed much better.

Plain edge. But the tip still snags.
 
Had a Cricket once that lost the tip.

Was marking a door frame for mounting a lock set, just scratching the soft wood when the tip snapped off.

Never did get a chance to see if it would cut, and never bought another one.

Edit: Don't know if it matters or not, but the steel at the time was ATS-55.
 
I've got a couple of Crickets but only ever thought of them as a novelty knife and thought they'd just be fun to have. I can see where the OP is coming from as to the tip catching as it's pulled through material.

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Maybe it's just not sharp at the tip. That type of blade is pretty common for cutting material.
 
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