Spyderco Solo

[mycough]

Hi, years ago I received a stainless steel solo folder in a suede slip case and a plastic scaled combo blade folder, also solo.
They are the lobe openers, marked seki city. They were in the old white spyderco box with their edge u cation paperwork from back in the day.
I just ran across them cleaning some reloading equipment up, hadn't seen them in years.
My question is, are these of any value to a spyderco collector? The stainless bodied knife is actually kind of nice, it is a gentlemans size and quite solid. I was hoping you guys could fill me in on these old cutters.
Thanks for your time, Russ

 

[remnar]

Hi mycough, Are you saying that you have a Solo with all stainless scales? I haven't seen one like that. I would think that there are Spyderco collectors that would like to have some Solos for their collections but I have no idea what the value would be. Some would say that they are not Spydercos and Technically that is true, but they were designed by Sal and produced for Spyderco. The original bolstered versions are quite nice and would probably bring more than the later versions but that's about all that I can speculate.

Here's a pic of the one Solo that I own.

 

[mycough]

Yes, all stainless, cool little leather slip case for it. It is hefty. I think I will just put them on the exchange, I am not a collector.

Thanks for the reply, Russ

 

[Chris "Anagarika"]

Russ,

This was mentioned sometime back on Spyderco own forum. I think Paul/Deacon has good info about it, also perhaps check spydiewiki.

 

[BilboBaggins]

Russ,

This was mentioned sometime back on Spyderco own forum. I think Paul/Deacon has good info about it, also perhaps check spydiewiki.

Solid advice

 

[foofie]

I see you let them go for a song, Russ.
You're a good man.
For collectors - one of the few non-holey spideys.

 

[JD Spydo]

I have several of Spyderco's older catalogs and even a couple of the older Ironstone catalogs as well. It's really interesting to go back and see some of the older stuff that Spyderco used to sell along with their own line up of great blades. The two Japan made lines that Spyderco sold that I like the most are the SOLO and G-SAKAI lines. The MOKI line of blades were nice looking too but the SOLO and G-Sakai were blades I could actually use as well as make collector pieces of them.

There was even one G-Sakai fixed blade hunter that I wouldn't mind seeing them do a Sprint Run of. When you go through the older catalogs and look at the more recent ones it's truly interesting to see how rapidly and nicely that Spyderco's product line has evolved right before our eyes.