Suggestion for possible Chris Reeve-Spydie knife

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Sal:
Just an idea.

Maybe we can all bug Chris Reeve to design a frame-lock folder specifically as a collaboration with Spyderco, rather than a Spyderco 'Sebenza'. Perhaps it might be more agreeable to Chris, as the Sebenza is his bread and butter folder. In the meanwhile, Spyderco would still get a top-notch Chris Reeve custom design.

Jim
 
I'd buy one!

The Chris Reeve design offers fewer places for dirt to hide and fester, let along smutz up the works, than just about any other pocket knife. Perhaps this could be the ultimate folding picnic knife.

However, I suspect that a factory-Reeve collaboration, if it included most of the little details that he puts in the Sebenza to make it a knife people will willing buy for $300+, would have to sell for more than $200 street price to pay for itself.


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www.chaicutlery.com
 
Those in favor, tell the Reeves here
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I emailed Chris and Anne to ask for one. Maybe if enough people were willing to put up the money for a prototype run? Send them an email if you are willing to buy a prototype.
I asked for a Spyderco hole and a blade steel of CPM440V.

Danny
 
Chris and I go back a long way (Chris Reeve was the Spyderco South African Distributor before he relocated to the USA). I don't think trust is an issue. I "bug" him and Anne every time I see them. Perhaps you can help "bug" them.

We've made mention of this in the past, at this time, persistence in necessary. Perhaps if Chris gets 50 or a 100 requests for a Spyderco Reeve design, he might yield. But he is very stubborn (which accounts for his excellent quality.
sal
 
Now you guys are talking!!

(I wish I had the money to buy a Sebenza - maybe even with the sooo cool fly decoration. But I don't
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So Spyderco to the rescue! I would love to have a folding knife similar to Sebenza in a way that it would have a very classy titanium frame (not G-10 in this folder) and the blade shape and grind from the Sebenza. Could be fully flat ground also, but hollow grind only if it's very long as in Sebenza. Could that be done in CPM 440V? I love the Sebenza blade geometry!

The only thing wrong with the Sebenza blade is the fact that it doesn't have a hole in it. Need I say more?
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It could also have the rolling lock instead of the integral frame-lock, but I guess that would mean more places for dirt.

I'd love to see a Chris Reeve collaboration. Keep on bugging them Sal!

Harri.
 
Hey, Jedi -

You're just not gonna let go, are you...

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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes bleed the hand that uses it.
-Rabindranath Tagore

 
To keep it authentic you could also have it made in Reeve's shop to Reeves tolerances, with all the little touches like the radiusing on both liner edges and the perfectly prism-shaped thumb grooves... then it'd be worth 3-4 times what Spydie usually charges. But I'd be quite happy with the usual Spydie version at a Spydie price, thank you.

You gotta let it go, Jedi... folks are happy to pay. Are they idiots, or might they know something you don't?

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-Corduroy
(Why else would a bear want a pocket?)
 
James - Sorry for the rolling thing! Just poped in to my mind... the blade is what I'm ultimately interested in (next is the handle, the ergonomics of Sebenza aren't that good looking - haven't tried one ever though). Lock mechanism isn't that important. Besides I heard that the Sebenza wasn't that much better than some liner locks (read Military) whereas rolling lock was easily above all...
Benchmade has already done a copy of Sebanza, should Spyderco do one more (this time with the hole)? Or something else with similar qualities?

But really the blade is what I want, everything else is just so that I can use it
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Copfish - couldn't register with Knifeforums, so can't post anything there... Give our best regards to Chris there!

Harri
 
Oh yeah Corduroy,

You stopped me cold with "radiusing and thumb grooves." ...and I had the nerve to question why it cost over $325.

JK
 
God is in the details, my friend.

I know where you are coming from, really. There is more time spent on the Sebenza than is necessary for it to function effectively, and that time costs money. I have the same gripe with the SOCOM. But that is what takes each knife from "effective" to "virtually flawless." I agree that for working you might save a bundle and buy a Pinnacle, but for many there is more to a knife than just working. There is "cool factor," pride of ownership, and the sheer enjoyment of owning "the best." Think knives aren't status symbols? Think again.

I wouldn't necessarily call the Sebenza a knife "value," but it is certainly the height of production or semi-production, and that both costs money to make and demands money in the market. To its credit (and unlike the SOCOM) it really does offer a superior lock, better blade steel, and some of the best blade geometry when compared to other heavy-duty folders. $100-$200 worth? I don't know, what is it worth to you to carry the best?

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-Corduroy
(Why else would a bear want a pocket?)
 
Corduroy,

I understand you. The Sebenzas are quite beautiful, really. The most important thing about any knife of any price is if the person who owns it enjoys it.

JK
 
Well I'd like to see a collaboration like this too. But I think it'd be nice to stay with the BG42 steel and Reeve shape, with all the rest of the input from Spyderco. That way, most of us could afford it,
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I'm going to email the Reeves and add my hopes to the pile. Maybe one of us will be the "straw" to break the camel's back. It could happen.

[This message has been edited by Brian Lavin (edited 30 June 1999).]
 

If you'll recall CR used to make another folder w/a different lock. It came out around the time of the earliest Sebenzas. If memory serves the lock was inspired by the hub and fork of a BMW(?) motorcycle or something like that. Anyway the knife overall was smaller than the large Sebenza. It was an interesting knife though. Perhaps a revision of this would make a good collaboration.
 
I just received a reply from Anne. She said that while they are friends with Sal, they have no plans to do a collaboration and that Chris feels BG-42 is the equal of CPM440V.

Danny
 
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