Spyderco's Un-orthadox designs

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One of the great attributes I love about Spyderco is their undaunting courage to manufacture and market knife designs that no other knife company would touch with a 50 foot pole. One prime example of that being the newer Jason Breeden design the C-111 Captain. When I first got that knife I just couldn't realize what that blade would be good for. Well surprise!! surprise!! that blade has all kinds of great uses for cutting chores. I even made a user out of the first one I got.

Also you can add to the list some very special "one of kind" designs like the genius KRIS by Ed Schempp and the Shabaria by the late Eduard Bradishansky. But take a close look at the many blades they have sold that most knife fans would surely refer to as "Un-orthadox designs.

Even when I got my first Dodo I couldn't imagine at first what I would possibly use that knife for. Now I have 2 Dodo USERS that I use constantly ( one at home and one in my main toolbox). So what do you all think about Spyderco's extremely unique, Not so COMMON blade designs. Which ones do you like and why? And what do some of you use them for?
 
Not sure I agree with you on the Captain. I reckon it is the FUGLIEST knife I have ever seen.

.........But each to their own I say.

Having said that, I also like the fact that Spyderco is willing to be adventurous and 95% of the time they get it spot on. I love most Spyderco knives.

My EDC is a Viele 2. IMHO, It and the original Viele have to be two of the best looking knives ever by Spyderco. I also love the Persians.

Come to think of it I also love the Chinook and the Manix and the Military and the Volpe and the Delica and the Kopas and and and and...........:D
 
I have had well over 30 different Spydies. Every one of them worked like a champ. I never thought some of the weirdest looking knives would work so well.

On the other hand, I really like how their knives look. I look at most other knife manufacturers and think "wow they all look so very similar". Spyderco's don't look similar to me.

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I had a Captain and while the ergonomics of it were great, i just couldn't get over the blade shape. But it is a great knife. Even ugly knives need love too!!!
 
minnesotashooter said:
I had a Captain and while the ergonomics of it were great, i just couldn't get over the blade shape. But it is a great knife. Even ugly knives need love too!!!
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But don't you come to a place to where "function" becomes more important than "looks". Because that's kind of the underlying jest of this thread. Albeit speaking for myself I find a lot of the strange, unorthodox blade designs of Spydercos actually kind of neat and interesting to look at.

Daring to be the first production knife company with some interesting and innovative designs is just part of Spyderco's resume. And it truly differentiates them from most production knife companies. Functional designs might be hard to understand until you do some cutting chores with them. That's how the Dodo became one of my all time favorite blade.

The Captain is a very functional knife that is capable of many cutting chores. I was truly surprised at how easy it cuts into just about any material. The blade shape actually gives it a huge amount of versatility.

Let's hear some reports on blades that surprised you with how good they would cut.
 
i recently picked up the odd looking lava. i didnt understand the knife till i held it. i really like it.
 
This has probably been mentioned before... but in looking at my everyday carry spydie, I always thought that if I slapped a big black hat on the blade, it would look like those Mad magazine spy vs spy characters...:rolleyes:
 
kaveman said:
This has probably been mentioned before... but in looking at my everyday carry spydie, I always thought that if I slapped a big black hat on the blade, it would look like those Mad magazine spy vs spy characters...:rolleyes:
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That is kind of in line of what I was thinking about. I was even thinking that some of these knives 20 years ago would have been perceived as being something out of a science fiction movie. I do think that a lot of Spyderco's knives are still ahead of their time in a lot of respects.

I don't care what kind of a cutting chore you have because Spyderco has a knife that will handle it. They actually dare to do what other companies are really afraid to do>> and that's to meet a demand for many various types of cutlery.

I would like to see them do some really innovative stuff in the hunting & fishing arenas. Since the discontinuation of the Impala and Catcherman there is truly a void in that area. But I would like to see something very non-conventional in those areas. The market is there for sure.
 
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