Spyderco Knife ID Help

[patekatek]

I purchased this Spyderco knife at a local pawn shop a week ago. I can't seem to match it to the many models I looked at when trying to figure out what model this knife is and how old it might be? Is there someone out there who recognizes this model? (There are no scratches on the blade. It's from the cloth used to clean the blade.)

 

[maugust09]

Native aus 10

 

[bearfacedkiller]

The Stainless Steel Natives were the Native2. They were made in Japan and I thought they were all AUS10. Not sure why yours says VG10? I guess they made it in both steels?

 

[wire edge]

I agree, the VG-10 stamp is confusing. Those that I’ve had were AUS-10

 

[patekatek]

Thank you for the responses. Now I'm curious about the steel used for this knife. :>)

 

[bearfacedkiller]

Strange? On Spyderco's website the picture is a Native with AUS10 but the description says VG10?

https://www.spyderco.com/catalog/details.php?product=21

 

[DocT]

Most likely it is a transition knife.

 

[koenigsegg]

http://www.spydiewiki.com/index.php?title=C41_Native#Variations_of_the_Native_SS_.28Generation_2.29

Somewhere between 1998-2007

I seem to remember reading somewhere on the forums last week about the transitions from G1 to G2 and so on but I can't find the source

Looks like on the FRN model they added a boye dent around 2003 so might be before that

 

[patekatek]

Does the issue with the steel being VG-10 vs. AUS-10 affect the value one way or another?

 

[M. Johnwell]

Does the issue with the steel being VG-10 vs. AUS-10 affect the value one way or another?

Be careful asking for value on this forum. Can’t do that without a gold or higher membership.

 

[patekatek]

Understood. Thanks for the education.

 

[Danke42]

Does the issue with the steel being VG-10 vs. AUS-10 affect the value one way or another?

VG-10 is a better steel. In it's day (and still now really) it was a super steel.

So that change is a plus.

I am going to use my guessing powers here and figure that back in the day they would take the catalog pictures in a studio set up and use those for the print catalog and port over to their website. When a knife came up with a new steel they probably wouldn't re-shoot that one knife just to update the website in that period. They'd use the representative Native picture and then just go forward with the new knives/print catalog/product page.