Spyderco Hawkbill: A Utility Dream Blade

[JTR357]

20 posts & not one pic?!

 

[legato1]

Your right, heres a pic of my favorite hawkbill. Spyderhawk H1 with purple rit dye handles.

 

[carbonsteelfan]

I'm sure you're spot on and you may indeed be 100% correct. But here lately the Matriarch and the newer Lil Matriarch are being touted for all kinds of different uses>> it's only been in the past two years that I've heard guys from here at BF and over at SPYDERCO.com forum where I personally frequent more than I do here have just given tons of testimonies as to how good the Matriarch and Lil Matriarch are for various utility and EDC tasks.

OK with that being said you would think that with this newly found popularity that Spyderco would capitalize on it and start marketing the Matriarch and Lil Matriarch for the EDC crowd. With that being said I would think they would want to bolster the tip and make it significantly stronger>> and I think that would even give the law enforcement customers even more confidence in them as well. Personally I'm not nearly as much of a fan of the Civilian as I am with the Matriarch>> my hand fits the Matriarch almost perfectly and the Matriarch does well with FRN handles IMO.

Yeah I'm seeing the Matriarch and Lil Matriarch becoming rival models to the Harpy which sort of baffles me in a way because the HARPY is a super ridgid and iconic Hawkbill model and the jobs that it does well it does really well IMO. It is an interesting development taking place for sure IMO.

I have full confidence in the Matriarch. They do have a somewhat stronger tip than the Civilian. But , to be fair ,I do have a friend who used a VG-10 Civilian model to harvest mushrooms ; but you do not want to know what the condition of that Civilian knife , is . The entire tip is gone . l asked him why he uses a civilian. He said " Lookedlike a folding Sickle when l bought it ". I felt so bad for him that l got him a Byrd Crossbill on his birthday. He uses that now.