Spydercos Are Weird Looking!

Ironbut

Ironbut

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I've always thought Spyderco made a good knife, but avoided buying one because they just look so "un-traditional", for lack of a better description.

I finally bought my first, a Yojimbo 2 two months ago. I'm an old phart & not easily impressed, but I liked how well thought out & just plain useable the Spyderco designs are. Since then have bought two more. A PM2 & a Manix 2. There'll likely be one or two more added as time goes on.

I still think they look weird, though.:)
 
I agree with ya. They do look a little odd. Sometimes I think the blades look like the side of a great white because of the large hole. Spydercos are fantastic knives. I still have my very first one I got back in 2000.
 
Oh boy you got bit...[emoji2] ....honestly that's the reason I'm drawn to Spyderco I love their willingness to try different designs and steels..My favorite is a Schempp tuff very unique and gets allot of "wow that's a big, strange looking knife".[emoji6]
 
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I'm with Lee48. Been using Spydercos since the early 1990s (I'm pretty sure I bought my first one from Sal himself at the NYC knife show!) Other knives look weird to me.
 
Spyderco always makes me grin. I keep converting friends and family to the way of the Spyder. Initially, every one of them talks about how ugly they are, and I don't argue, just tell them to use one of mine for awhile. Now I've got a friend in the Navy who won't leave home without his Superleaf, a librarian in New Jersey who carries an Endura to work every day, my father favors the Dragonfly 2, my fiancée out-and-out stole my Paramilitary 2 and I spend 90% of my days with a Manix 2 XL clipped to my pocket with a Pacific Salt in the drawer for when I need something a bit lighter, slimmer and trimmer.
 
Sal and company's first concern is not to design something 'pretty'...

I would say most everything else looks pretty ordinary/boring/plain. ;) :D
 
ZuluKilo said:
Sal and company's first concern is not to design something 'pretty'...

I would say most everything else looks pretty ordinary/boring/plain. ;) :D
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Yeah, I buy my knives to use. None of them look pretty anymore & personally, I like the looks of a well used gun or knife. I've been carrying Benchmades for years & I still do, but now I can throw in some Spydies & ZT flippers, too. Having choices is nice.
 
Ironbut said:
Yeah, I buy my knives to use. None of them look pretty anymore & personally, I like the looks of a well used gun or knife. I've been carrying Benchmades for years & I still do, but now I can throw in some Spydies & ZT flippers, too. Having choices is nice.
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Indeed it is. My humble suggestion is to pick up an FRN Stretch. It is, for me personally, a knife that kind of epitomizes Spyderco. Everything about it looks vaguely wrong, but cuts and feels entirely right. I really think it may be the most underrated knife in the Spyderco lineup.
 
I'm fairly new to Spyderco knives and at first I kinda thought they were a bit strange looking for my taste too. Then a friend sent me a few to try out. Now I have a drawer full of those strange looking knives. Not all Spyderco's designs are for me but the ones I have aren't going anywhere anytime soon!
 
its the hole, theres only one model of spyderco that Ill actually buy, and its the harpy, cmon plain edge run!
 
Very weird looking.......but they feel and work very well!!
Joe


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I am an admitted Spyderco fanboy and even with having owned dozens and dozens of Spydies over the years some are just plain fugly. Now I love me a thumb ramp and to me the Delica4, Para2 and Military are the best looking knives on the market. That said, the Jot Singh Khalsa, whoa!!! At the very least it is a "weird looking". :D I apologize in a advance to the people who love that knife. There are other knives that Spyderco makes that are "weird looking" too but that is always the first one that comes to my mind. :p
 
Gorgeous pup Tas!! Weird looking looking knife tho!!
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Joe
 
Up until about 6 weeks ago they were ugly weird looking folders. OMG why would someone buy one. Of all things I got given a Leatherman Skeletool CX and liked the hole design on the blade deployment. So I went looking for another folder similar.
6 spyderco's later in a short time frame ..... I'm still loving that ugly yet functional spydy hole.
 
Hey just to let you know "Ironbut" that I do appreciate you launching this thread. Because before I got my very first Spyder back in 1995 I pretty much had a similar opinion as you have now. But there have been some things over the years to not only change my mind but to actually look at knife designs from a completely different aspect all together. I used to look at knives with the pre-disposed idea>> WoW!! that blade looks cool!! Or man that blade looks so deadly from a tactical viewpoint>> or later on I got to thinking strictly along the lines of quality materials and detailed construction.

But when it came to me coming to really appreciate Spyderco knives the first thing that hit me after owning and using about 4 of them was the fact that all of the Spyders I first got in the mid 90s were extremely functional. And easy to utilize at that!!. I've had many of my very good friends I've had for years tell me how detestable and ugly the Spyder-Hole looks to them. But I pointed out to them that the Spyder-Hole actually makes it even easier to deploy than most "automatics" (switchblades") and it's 100% legal to boot ;)

But believe me I didn't arrive at that conclusion for quite some time so I do completely understand exactly the mind set you have at this time. There is an old saying that's been around for decades which states "Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder">> and that's true with just about everything you encounter in life. I've come to fully appreciate a functional, scientific, mechanically designed beauty that few people even try to see. Spyderco to me is "FUNCTION" through & through.

But on the other hand as time went on they have actually done some designs that truly are beautiful from a conventional viewpoint as well. Give them a chance "IronBut" and I think you'll come around and see them as functionally beautiful>> which they are ;)
 
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