Strangest looking Spydercos picture thread!

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Spyderco makes a lot of different knives. When I was new to knives all Spydercos looked strange. Over time my view of them has changed and quite a few Spydercos are visually pleasing to me.

Some of their current and past offerings are still so strange that there's no way for me to look at them and think "that looks perfectly normal".

I'd like to make a thread showing some of the more obscure Spydercos out there, past or present. not in a mocking way. I love how they take risks by putting out some strange looking cutting tools.

Let me start with the cutest looking knife recently revealed, the Pochi!

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I think some of the Spyderco Dialex knives are among the strangest looking.

Opinions will, of course, differ but the Adventura tops the list for me:

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Next would be the Battlestation:

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Then there is the Tighe Stick, which I own as a curiosity and "art" piece but as a knife to use/carry, it's pretty ridiculous:

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And then there's the Spyker (the Spyderco/Kershaw Onion collaboration) which is another curiosity/art piece that I bought because I'm a fan of both Spyderco and Ken Onion designed knives:

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I'd also add the Canis to the list of knives that (probably only) I think looks strange because I really don't understand why that "weight-saving mid-blade swedge" that just makes the knife look weird to me:

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That said, someone should start a "most beautiful/attractive" Spyderco knife thread too because I've got a lot of qualifying candidates for such a list as well. :)
 
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Some of your pictures didn't show in my browser, so I took the liberty to change them for my own viewing pleasure.

sgt1372 said:
I think some of the Spyderco Dialex knives are among the strangest looking.

Opinions will, of course, differ but the Adventura tops the list for me:
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Next would be the Battlestation:

C168GP-1400591481.jpg


Then there is the Tighe Stick, which I own as a curiosity and "art" piece but as a knife to use/carry, it's pretty ridiculous:
C198TIP_Both.png


KLC13666.jpg


And then there's the Spyker (the Spyderco/Kershaw Onion collaboration) which is another curiosity/art piece that I bought because I'm a fan of both Spyderco and Ken Onion designed knives:

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e1r93b4y.jpg


I'd also add the Canis to the list of knives that (probably only) I think looks strange because I really don't understand why that "weight-saving mid-blade swedge" that just makes the knife look weird to me is even necessary:

C248CFP_Both.png


That said, someone should start a "most beautiful/attractive" Spyderco knife thread too because I've got a lot of qualifying candidates for such a list as well. :)
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Tusk, Khalasa, and Matriarch wave come to mind.

Not the strangest looking but strangest design has to go to either the TMag or the Bifold.
 
I don't own this one anymore, but the Szabo is an odd duck. Its design is tightly focused on its intended use; it's not a "generalist" knife. I also love that Spyderco implemented a locking and detent mechanism for this knife (comp lock with a pin running through the leaf, "active" spring detent) which, AFAIK, they've never used on another knife. It's odd inside and out. :thumbsup:

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