Strangest looking Spydercos picture thread!

Dadpool said:
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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That self closing mechanism sounds interesting. If anyone has pictures of one disassembled or a drawing explaining the mechanism I'd like to see them.


While we're in Szabo territory, here's the Szabofly.

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The way I understand it the spring loaded bent rod initiates a self close when it reaches the point at 6:30-7 o clock on the washer in last picture.

I think the two pins in the washer are there to attach it to the blade, and one is a stop pin.
 
sogflash said:
While we're in Szabo territory, here's the Szabofly.
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I have both versions (stain & black) of the Szabo Folder and I would love to grab a Szabofly, if I could find one for less than a zillion dollars, but FWIW none of them looks "strange" or weird to me because I "get" what the shape of the blade is about and how the swale in the spine of the blade is used but I can understand why others don't "get it."
 
sgt1372 said:
I have both versions (stain & black) of the Szabo Folder and I would love to grab a Szabofly, if I could find one for less than a zillion dollars, but FWIW none of them looks "strange" or weird to me because I "get" what the shape of the blade is about and how the swale in the spine of the blade is used but I can understand why others don't "get it."
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You mean you found one for a zillion dollars? I couldn't find one even that cheap. The other two bali's aren't cheap either, but not anywhere near the Szabofly, looks like my collection will stop with those two.
 
nephron said:
You mean you found one for a zillion dollars? I couldn't find one even that cheap. The other two bali's aren't cheap either, but not anywhere near the Szabofly, looks like my collection will stop with those two.
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I've seen a couple go for around $700 which is less than a "Zillion" but still far more that I'll pay for any knife, despite having the $ to pay the price, regardless of how much I'd like to own it.

You have to set "limits" somewhere. ;)
 
John_0917 said:
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.
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Picture time!

Tusk
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Jot Singh Khalsa

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Matriarch
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T-Mag
I agree that it's not a strange looking one, It's the most normal looking in this thread so far, but the magnetic slip joint action makes it interesting and strange in it's own way.
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Bi-Fold
This I have to say is both strange looking, and strange in how it works. This is what I was looking when making this thread.
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sogflash said:
Picture time!


T-Mag
I agree that it's not a strange looking one, It's the most normal looking in this thread so far, but the magnetic slip joint action makes it interesting and strange in it's own way.
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The T-Mag is the only slip joint I own. It is weird, but is probably the most fidgetable knife I have. The magnetic detent is really cool. It drives my wife up the wall though. Cuts great too.
 
Now that I think about it, all Spyderco Knives are strange looking, at least that is what I thought the first time I saw them. I mean who puts a big honking hole in the blade of the knife, I thought this was so dumb the first time I saw it. :eek:;):)
 
Anything designed by Ed Schempp is uniquely Spyderco IMO. The entire ethnic series for example.
 
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