Spyderco Knife you'd want to have a Flipper/EmersonWave?

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Long title, but pretty much summarizes the topic discussion. I bought two para 3's from the Spyderco factory sale and think they're both great knives with exceptional ergonomics. However, I think an Emerson wave or somehow... incorporating a flipper into the design would make it my absolute favourite EDC knife. However, my favourite Spyderco knife by far is the Domino and frankly, I'm not a huge fan of the spydiehole being the only opening option - however, as a secondary opening option, I'm quite fond of it. With multiple models having the Emerson wave and the limited edition pm2 w/emerson wave (would be nice if the retailer would ship to Canada...).
Personally, I think the Manix 2 & Manix 2 LW would be an exceptional candidate to get the Emerson wave and secondly the para 3. What Spyderco knife would you like to see a flipper or Emerson wave added to?
 
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Yojimbo here as well. The wharncliffe blade shape lends itself to reliability on the Wave, plus it's intended as a defensive knife, so having a very fast alternate opening method would be an improvement. I'd want a sprint or exclusive with a steel upgrade and scale material upgrade, while we're fantasizing.
 
Yojimbo and Police 4 would both be great candidates for the Emerson Wave.
 
Personally, I'd just as soon see flippers and waves removed from the ones that have them rather than cluttering up even more models. Speed of deployment is way, way down on my list of priorities.
 
yablanowitz said:
Personally, I'd just as soon see flippers and waves removed from the ones that have them rather than cluttering up even more models. Speed of deployment is way, way down on my list of priorities.
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I don't enjoy those features either.
 
yablanowitz said:
Personally, I'd just as soon see flippers and waves removed from the ones that have them rather than cluttering up even more models. Speed of deployment is way, way down on my list of priorities.
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No clutter on this one. A flipper that can be ignored (good luck trying though, as addictively well as this flips).
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I own a variety of Spyderco (including the Tropenn, Endura, Karahawk, Pikal and Matriarch) that incorporate an Emerson (or similar) wave feature but I do NOT think they would look good or work well on a Yojimbo or Manix.

It wouldn't work on the Yojimbo or Manix because of the width of the blade; the wave tap would just make an already very wide blade even wider and more difficult to draw from the pocket.

The wave feature generally works best on knives w/longer or shorter blades that are thin enough to add that feature into the blade along the spine so that the profile of the blade remains relatively slim with the tab of the wave sitting just slightly about the radius of the handle so that it will be easy to draw from the pocket. Most Spyderco knives that have a wave feature also gneerally use a backlock so that there's a solid and positive lockup when opened.

The Pikal is a special case and the exception to this. It uses an axis type lock (like that used on the Manix) but uses a spur attached to the pivot rather than a wave designed into the blade but I don't think you'd like such a spur attached to a Manix. The Pikal is also designed to be drawn up (not down/back like the others) so that I can be held in a reverse grip and used like a karambit.

The point of all this is talk is talk is to highlight that there are A LOT of considerations to take into account when designing a knife and it's not as easy as just adding a wave feature to a knife to make it a worthwhile addition.
 
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yablanowitz said:
Personally, I'd just as soon see flippers and waves removed from the ones that have them rather than cluttering up even more models. Speed of deployment is way, way down on my list of priorities.
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Spyderco Knife you'd want to have a flipper/emerson wave?
I don't understand why people don't answer the question asked. It seems like their opinion is more important than answering the question, weird. If you asked somebody how to get to the Post Office and they replied"i hate the Post Office all they do is lose mail and waste money", how would you feel?
 
sgt1372 said:
I own a variety of Spyderco (including the Endura, Karahawk, Pikal and Matriarch) that incorporate an Emerson (or similar) wave feature but I do NOT think they would look good or work well on a Yojimbo or Manix.

It wouldn't work on the Yojimbo or Manix because of the width of the blade; the wave tap would just make an already very wide blade even wider and more difficult to draw from the pocket.

The wave feature generally works best on knives w/longer or shorter blades that are thin enough to add that feature into the blade along the spine so that the profile of the blade remains relatively slim with the tab of the wave sitting just slightly about the radius of the handle so that it will be easy to draw from the pocket. Most Spyderco knives that have a wave feature also gneerally use a backlock so that there's a solid and positive lockup when opened.

The Pikal is a special case and the exception to this. It uses an axis type lock (like that used on the Manix) but uses a spur attached to the pivot rather than a wave designed into the blade but I don't think you'd like such a spur attached to a Manix. The Pikal is also designed to be drawn up (not down/back like the others) so that I can be held in a reverse grip and used like a karambit.

The point of all this is talk is talk is to highlight that there are A LOT of considerations to take into account when designing a knife and it's not as easy as just adding a wave feature to a knife to make it a worthwhile addition.
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Officer's Match said:
I definitely was not thinking about adding material to wave a Yo2; rather removing.
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I think I was kind of basing this post off of the limited edition pm2. Where the wave seems to work, the blade grind was changed from FFG to a saber grind to accommodate the wave feature w/o adding the additional blade material on an already wide blade.
 
BTW, the simplest thing that you can do to make a Spyerco folder "wavable" is to just attach a ziptie to the Spydiehole which is used as a friction point to open the blade while removing the knife from a pants pocket.

The advantage of this mod is that it is non-destructive and easily reversible.

You can do this with just about any Spyderco folder w/o resorting to modifying or redesigning the blade but, personally, it is not something that I've ever wanted to do to any of my Spyderco folders.

BTW, the folder has to be in the tip up position to do this and I note (because I'm currently carrying one) that that's NOT possible w/a G10 Millie because it is made in the tip down position to facilitate use of the Spydiehole for opening and it is impossible to move the clip to make it tip down. So, no ziptie "wave" mod for the Millie (as currently designed) is possible.

Not really necessary anyway because I can flick the 4 inches of my Millie open pretty d*mn quick in it's current configuration when I want to do so. LOL! ;)
 
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As a thought, I think the Military could be adapted nicely to flipping. The tab is always a bit of a comfort as a finger guard while poking at stuff.

Military flipper, Military compression, Military liner for the purists.

edit: ps, need some brain bleach after reading about the chicken b@ner
 
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