Spyderco tenacious - any love here

I gave one to my brother and my wife bought one(without my consent, ha ).


I mean it’s a China made Spyderco with mediocre steel and a mediocre lock system at a mediocre price point.

It will cut, the blade will lock in place, the blade will take and hold an edge, it’s basically a good $50 knife.
 
My first spyderco. Loved it back then. But when I got mine they were $28. It was a fine budget knife but for $50+... no thanks. You can get a para 3 lw for less than $100.
 
I have a Tenacious that I bought a long time ago. It's a fine knife for most people for most purposes.

A lot of knife fans (aka "snobs") talk sh*t about 8Cr13MOV steel but I've got a lot of knives w/that steel and they are easily resharpened and none of them have ever rusted or broken on me. The knife would just be more expensive using any other type of "better" blade steel.

Current pricing for the Tenacious is at $75 MSRP or $52.50 MAP plus sales tax & shipping where applicable.

I think it's a really hard sell and difficult to justify as a "value folder" at that price but, if you're a member of Spyderco's OpFocus program you can still buy one direct from Spyderco for $37.50. I think that it's still a "good buy" at that price but at $52.50, there are just too many other options, like the Ontario Rat 1 for $40, which I also own.

On the other hand, FWIW, I own 3 knives in the Tenacious family - the Resilience, Tenacious and Persistance -- and I like the Resiliance the best, which IMO is the best value (even at $60 MAP) for a 4" pocket knife. ;)
 
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Tenacious was my first Non Byrd Spyderco that I could afford at the time when they first got released. It was definitely a good value at the time.
 
I bought one a long time ago and used it as my work knife. It dulled fast but was easy to sharpen. I broke the tip off and made it a wharncliffe. It was a good deal at under $30. I am not sure now.
 
I remember the time (about 10 years ago) when was a lot of discussions about preference between Tenacious and Rat-1, so at this time I bought both of them and I need to tell that I prefer Rat-1 much more then Tenacious. I gifted it to a buddy.
 
I like the Chinese Spyderco knives well enough for what they are. I gave my little brother my Resilience about a year ago. Great work knife for what it is.

A CRK it is not. A solid $50 work knife, yes.

The soft steel makes for an easily repaired beater.
 
Yeah the steel leaves a lot to be desired, as does Spyderco's Chinese QC, but I've had a few Tenacious (and Resilience) and they've all been fantastic users. Each one has had a great action, solid lockup, and no quality problems. Yeah you have to sharpen it more often, but the design is solid.
 
When I first started gaining interest in knives years ago, I decided I wanted something nicer than the Gerber Paraframe I had at the time. I thought long and hard about it and decided the Tenacious was the answer. I carried it daily for at least a year I would say. Looking back, I think it's okay.

The G10 is slick. The pivot would loosen after a few weeks and I'd have to tighten it up again, although I never tried Loctite. It didn't do anything exceptionally well or poorly in my book.

I remember it as a knife I never really bonded with but that never let me down nonetheless. It holds a weird place of respect in my collection
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Steely_Gunz said:
I like the Chinese Spyderco knives well enough for what they are. I gave my little brother my Resilience about a year ago. Great work knife for what it is.

A CRK it is not. A solid $50 work knife, yes.

The soft steel makes for an easily repaired beater.
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Hello, I am a newbie on here, but the meadowlarks & cara cara make great EDC , the 8cr13 steel can be beat up then hit a lick or two on a strop or diamond stick and be back to work, without much pain, and I cut lots of crazy stuff
From hay string to rope and wire , and clean lots of hogs and other stuff ( like about 50-100 feed sacks a day). And my meadowlark just jumps right back to razor very quickly
the CRK I had wound up being a very expensive paper weight as the
Blade ( s35v was very unstable because of uneven temper ) it would
Get flat spots after lite use, and the customer service was terrible,
Never had any problems with spyderco products or my old gerber 7223 EDC’s in comparison with the CRK , I keep some of the cara cara and meadowlark In all my trucks ( along with some other knives like moraknif) every thing has a place or time that it is a stand out

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CVamberbonehead said:
I had one, and I liked it until the liner lock failed and I could push the blade closed. Kind of scary. Plus the steel dulls if you look at it funny.
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For what it's worth, the same thing happened to one of the first knives I owned, a Benchmade AFCK in ATS-34 steel. It was scary, but luckily I noticed it before it could do any damage. Benchmade, to their credit, fixed it but it's now retired (the blade steel was fine though- no problems there).
 
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