Spydercos for "hard use"

[Starfish]

After all the talk about the inappropriateness of liner locks for "hard use" knives, I just wanted to come over here and find out what Spyderknives the Spydienuts would consider "hard use" knives and why?

 

[tortoise]

Spyderco has a rating scale themselves, based on lock strength, that they use (mostly in-house) to rate "duty level" of knives.
As for liner-locks, I'm not crazy for them, but I'll stack my military up against ANY folder for "hard" use.

 

[glockman99]

Chinook?

 

[Starfish]

Spyderco has a rating scale themselves, based on lock strength, that they use (mostly in-house) to rate "duty level" of knives.

I know that you said it was mostly in-house, but where could I find more information on the rating scale, and the ratings of various Spyderknives?

 

[Bugs3x]

I've been wondering why that list is in-house and not available. Might save a few injuries if people knew their knife was light duty rated before they attempted to pry up a manhole cover with it.

If I recall correctly, the few knives that are in the MBC category -- which I'm not sure the meaning of -- are all heavy use/duty. I think I remember Sal saying that the Wegner is Medium or Medium Heavy, something like that. I beleive the Military is in the MBC group.

He may have posted on the Spyderco home forum, but General posted in the general forum -- I think -- tonite that he had some serious problems with the lock on his Starmate. Hopefully it is an abnormality, but to be safe Starmate owners might want to check the solidity of their locks. General said it wouldn't even stand the pressure from one finger on the spine, let alone a whack. Apparently, he got angry, whacked it around 40 times, and got it to set in reasonably well. Have heard of others setting after a few whacks. Maybe that's what it takes when a knife fails the whack test, is to do it 30-40x real hard.

 

[SIFU1A]

for whatecer its worth all my spydeies, including my large centofante, will pass the wack test - and the centofante is a very delicate looking lite knife, i thought if any wouldnt pass it would be that one - the ones i have include a centofante,gunting,delica,matriarch, and LUM ti tanto - so no probs w/mine for whatecver its worth......

i think all spydies will stand up to hard USE, and even SOME abuse...imho they are the #1 production knife around, and imho that includes emerson and microtech, 2 higher end co's - just as good a knife and a better selection imho..."emerson the best hard use knife in the world" my a$$


sifu

 

[dePaul]

the Chinook! Beats them all.

 

[callahwj]

Originally posted by Bugs3x

I beleive the Military is in the MBC group.

The MBC knives are: Gunting, Chinook, Masaad Ayoob Folder, Temperance.
Janich's "Yojimbo" is a future MBC knife. Although syderco makes many knives suited for Martial Blade Craft, the specific series listed above has to meet the lock strength requirement. Please note, I think the military is a fine defensive folder and it has a great lock, one of the best executed production liner locks, I just wanted to clarify that it wasn't technically an MBC blade.

 

[tortoise]

Starfish

Just ask Sal, either here or over at the Spyderco forum. I'm sure he'd tell ya'. A search over there may even turn up the info you're looking for.