i have become completely enamored of this lock type. is there any chance of one from spyderco in the future? i just saw that you'd like to do a collaboration with chris reeves. would you wait for him to do it or is there a chance we'll get one before that? i'm sure you've researched the possibility, so i'm just curious to see what you've decided about it for now. and forum members, wouldn't you like to see one?
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I think this is more of a dream at this point...
now don't be getting your panties in a bundle, there is none in the works to my knowledge. i know that sal had mentioned that he'd like to do a collaboration with CR, and this thread was just sort of an extension of that. brian turner is right, it's a dream, but a nice one at that. i wouldn't care who designed it, it would just be nice to have one.
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We'd be happy to build a Chris Reeve style frame lock. But we'll wait for Chris to design it, and oversee construction.
I've been nagging Chris & Anne for about 12 years now. Someday.
sal
I've been nagging Chris & Anne for about 12 years now. Someday.
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Fozzy, you, sir, are incorrigible! That's why we're glad you're here.
Wouldn't this be a funny surprise for Chris and Anne when they get back... LOL.
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Don LeHue
The pen is mightier than the sword...outside of arm's reach. Modify radius accordingly for rifle.
Wouldn't this be a funny surprise for Chris and Anne when they get back... LOL.
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Don LeHue
The pen is mightier than the sword...outside of arm's reach. Modify radius accordingly for rifle.
This actually came up last year. Many people asked on the Chris Reeve Forum in KF and it was confirmed at that time that Chris was not interested.
I know Sal will wait for a Chris Reeve collaboration or else most likely not do a frame lock. Sal, keep needling away...be like water wearing away at the rock, my friend!
We may get that collaboration yet...it just won't be a Spyderco "Sebenza."
Jim
I know Sal will wait for a Chris Reeve collaboration or else most likely not do a frame lock. Sal, keep needling away...be like water wearing away at the rock, my friend!
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Chris Reeve makes what is arguably the best execution of the frame-lock concept, so that his is the one that all other frame-locks are inevitably compared to, but as I understand it the mechanics are not proprietary. It would presumably be bad karma to make a knife that closely resembled a Sebenza without discussing it with Chris Reeve first, but there are many other blade and handle styles out there.
[An aside - At the Blade Show West, I avoided what would have been a polite but professional @$$-chewing by Chris Reeve, by letting him know that I was not the custom maker with a name similar to mine who, he said, was making a line-for-line copy of the Sebenza, and not to his standards either!]
In factory knives, we have the CRKT S2 and the Benchmade Mono-Lock. The Benchmade has gotting some flack from some fans for having a handle that looks like a Sebenza from a distance, though the blade is clearly not a Chris Reeve. The S2 does not in the least resemble a Sebenza, and the SHOT Show samples I handled of some new smaller S2s answer a couple of complaints I had about the full-size version that they're now discontinuing.
CRKT is introducing a titanium frame lock in the Hammond Mirage series, and Outdoor edge is a little farther from production with steel frame locks designed by Darrel Ralph and Kit Carson.
Chris Reeve makes an excellent frame-lock drop-point hunter, but he doesn't make a Wharncliffe, for example, or a spear-point, etcetera, etcetera.
What about a frame-lock version of a Delica or Calypso Jr. shaped knife? Or a frame-lock version of the C25? It would be nice to have Chris Reeve's input in the design and engineering, since he does frame locks very very well, but it would seem that he has been offered right of first refusal, and has for his own good reasons decided he has other priorities.
A Spyderco-Reeve frame lock would be a very good thing, and I'd be in line to buy them. But, if that isn't possible, a Spyderco-Somebody Else frame lock and/or a Spyderco-Internal Engineering Team frame lock would also be a good thing.
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[An aside - At the Blade Show West, I avoided what would have been a polite but professional @$$-chewing by Chris Reeve, by letting him know that I was not the custom maker with a name similar to mine who, he said, was making a line-for-line copy of the Sebenza, and not to his standards either!]
In factory knives, we have the CRKT S2 and the Benchmade Mono-Lock. The Benchmade has gotting some flack from some fans for having a handle that looks like a Sebenza from a distance, though the blade is clearly not a Chris Reeve. The S2 does not in the least resemble a Sebenza, and the SHOT Show samples I handled of some new smaller S2s answer a couple of complaints I had about the full-size version that they're now discontinuing.
CRKT is introducing a titanium frame lock in the Hammond Mirage series, and Outdoor edge is a little farther from production with steel frame locks designed by Darrel Ralph and Kit Carson.
Chris Reeve makes an excellent frame-lock drop-point hunter, but he doesn't make a Wharncliffe, for example, or a spear-point, etcetera, etcetera.
What about a frame-lock version of a Delica or Calypso Jr. shaped knife? Or a frame-lock version of the C25? It would be nice to have Chris Reeve's input in the design and engineering, since he does frame locks very very well, but it would seem that he has been offered right of first refusal, and has for his own good reasons decided he has other priorities.
A Spyderco-Reeve frame lock would be a very good thing, and I'd be in line to buy them. But, if that isn't possible, a Spyderco-Somebody Else frame lock and/or a Spyderco-Internal Engineering Team frame lock would also be a good thing.
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- JKM
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