Swick on the way, now how about a Swick-bladed DODO?

peacefuljeffrey

peacefuljeffrey

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Okay, here's a short chronology:

- I don't get around here as much as I used to.
- In between visits, somehow, Spyderco came out with the Swick :) -- something for which I've been waiting a long time, because the S.P.O.T.'s blade displeased me by being recurved :thumbdn:
- I don't know how I had never even seen something foretelling of its release, but one day I was searching sites for neck knives and there was the Swick! :D
- I came back here recently and someone had said something about which sources had the Swick, and Sal himself said something about only 500 of them made... so I got nervous. :eek:
- So I went to Knifecenter last night and ordered one! :D

Now, I went over to my shelf last night and felt like I just had to fondle my Dodo for a bit... and found myself coming this close to deciding to grind down that annoying, nearly unsharpenable recurved blade into something straight and conventional.

That's why I'm asking now, Sal, how close might you be to reissuing the Dodo with either a Wharncliffe or maybe some other type of conventional blade? (I'm not actually crazy about completely straight Wharncliffes, but they're sure better than tight little recurves...

I'm lovin' the new stuff you've come out with, Sal. Totally. The fact that there's finally a non-riveted Delica and Endura?! EXCELLENT! (Those'll be mine soon, too.) Now I'm lookin' for the release of more ball-bearing locked knives. I looked at the D'Allara Drop-Point but I have to say I don't care for the flared hilt, and the tang looks really weak, like the blade isn't connected to the pivot by enough metal...

Well, that's all beside the point -- I just am saying thanks for the Swick, and please think about a Dodo with a non-recurved blade! :thumbup:


-Jeffrey
 
I've actually seen a reprofiled dodo with a wharncliffe before.

Come out with as many different versions as you can, it's great, but really, I love the reverse s hawkbill. It's highly specialized, but I learned to love it. Every time I EDC my dodo again I'm sad that if I screw this one up in a couple years, it's going to be fairly expensive to replace, and most people will never get to experience the Dodo.

However, since the blade shape turns so many people off to the dodo, if I were to redo it, it would be a gentle recurve drop point (not a reverse recurve). Not quite as extreme as a KO, but in the same vein.
 
Swick bladed Dodo would be awesome for the same reason the Swick is. I think we were all afraid to press for a Dodo variant until the Swick made it out.
 
Wharnie Dodo, Hawkbill Dodo, just about any variant on the Dodo would be perfectly fine to me.:D
 
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