Tenacious: A real Spyderco

I prefer to not buy Chinese made products when possible. With knives there are plenty of alternatives. The Chinese government is not a friend of the United States.

The Spyderco Tenacious appears to be a well made knife and certainly has features common to Spyderco knives so I would say that it is a real Spyderco.

I'm just sorry that production of the Tenacious model is in China instead of here or Japan.
 
After being mainly a traditional kind of guy, I suddenly have several "folders"....I'm convinced I have to give this Tenacious a look-see.

I thought the Rat-1 was a good knife for the $$...and it is, but I need to try this one out.

What do you mean China is not our friend??? They haven't bombed us, and they've loaned us a LOT of money!!!:D
 
Fredde90210 said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLvRNpi-vxw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq19p8Uv9P4


Two experienced knife reviewers cut themselves.:confused:
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Yeah, I stand by my original statement that I haven't seen anything that would make me doubt a Tenacious. The first video happened because he was driving and everyone knows you should give any sharp tool your full attention lest you risk a cut. Yes, it opened in a bag but I would never blindly reach into a bag that had any knife in it.

The second video could happen with any knife that you are not used to operating with one hand like many of us can attest to.
 
Fredde90210 said:
Real logical nutnfancy "cuts of his thumb"...I must buy that knife. I have also handeld that knife and was really near to hurt myself bad. Coincidence??? Perhaps but I´m not taking any more chances with the Tenacious.
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You make it sound like the Tenacious is possesed :D
 
To me, the Tenacious never had the Spyderco 'feel'. The G10 feels different, the lockup is not as confident as other Spyderco liner locks (at least to me) and the quality of construction is not as precise as the other Spyderco branded knives. It is like the edges have been radius-ed too much. No sir, to me that dog won't hunt.

As was mentioned earlier, the G10 Cara Cara could have made it into the 'Spyderco' ranks with much more conviction, me thinks.
 
I have one that gets light-med use. I like the knife and know more than a few guys who carry the Tenacious with pride as if it were a high-end blade. It serves its purpose and looks pretty slick too. :thumbup::thumbup:
 
jekostas said:
Yet the three Spydercos I've bought this year all have burrs on the inside of the thumbhole that weren't finished out, and they were all Seki-City made knives. How's that any better than a visible grind pattern?
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*shrug* I have had no such problem with that on my Spydies (Sage 1, Native 3, Native 4, Manix 2), but that could be another example of poor F&F I suppose.
 
As to the "China isn't a friend of the USA" talk, I'm Chinese (Singapore citizen) and I have no problem buying USA-made knives :D or Chinese-made, as long as the quality is good. I'd rather get a Tenacious than a similarly priced USA-made knife with worse materials, build quality, etc. And I'm sure they do exist (Because I've seen them).

The Tenacious isn't my style, but I appreciate the flat grind and the edge that's so close to the handle (that got two knife reviewers off-guard). I think if you close a knife on your own hand because you didn't know where the edge ended...it's your own stupid fault. Seriously.
 
wongKI said:
I think if you close a knife on your own hand because you didn't know where the edge ended...it's your own stupid fault. Seriously.
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I think Nutnfancy cut his hand because the blade didn't stay in the handle and when we went to reach for it, the blade was exposed and sliced his hand.
 
I handled a Tenacious and it was probably also first production.
I did not like the fit&finish.
The knife store did have a couple of spyderco's and i compared with a rescue.
The tenacious did not have the fit and finish that i had with other spyderco knives. And quality was not equal to the rescue knife.

Also the price over here is/was high. Think about 50-55 euro. Thats about 72 dollar:eek:. So for this price i would buy something else. A "cheap" knife like Opinel is 10 euro.

On the other hand there are many lovers and if i read the replies the fit & finish has become better i would give it a try:thumbup:.
Especially for the Usa price of 30 dollar. Thats about 23 euro:).
That would be a bargain for sure but not for the Eu price over here (72 dollar:()
 
Easyrider said:
I prefer to not buy Chinese made products when possible. With knives there are plenty of alternatives. The Chinese government is not a friend of the United States.
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That is a rather broad statement. The American government seems pretty keen on strong economic ties with the China. (Regardless of who is in the White House.)

Also, I’m not aware of any recent statements made by China that are particularly hostile to the USA.

I guess that is why most people focus on the quality of Chinese made knives rather than the political implications.

Here is a quote by George W. Bush in 2000:

Congress must now decide whether the US will gain the benefits of China’s more open economy.
The stakes are high, on all sides. For businesses, workers and farmers across our country, it will mean much lower trade barriers and enormous opportunities for US exports. …For the people of China, it holds out the hope of more open contact with the world of freedom.

… I am here to urge all members of Congress, both Republicans & Democrats, to join together in making China a normal trading partner of the United States.
 
China has our balls in a deathgrip with all the money we've borrowed. Trillions. Get over it and be less narrow minded and worry more about the actual quality of the product and not where it was made :p
 
Getting back to knife talk......if it says Sypderco...that's good enough for me....
 
Easyrider said:
I prefer to not buy Chinese made products when possible. With knives there are plenty of alternatives. The Chinese government is not a friend of the United States.

The Spyderco Tenacious appears to be a well made knife and certainly has features common to Spyderco knives so I would say that it is a real Spyderco.

I'm just sorry that production of the Tenacious model is in China instead of here or Japan.
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Very well said, my feelings exactly. I wil not buy anything made in China if there is an alternative. If I have to pay more, so be it.
 
This forum isn't the place for political discussions. But FYI I buy American when I can, wether it's made in China or Denmark.

For the rest of you. Stop the anti Chinese crap. Don't forget who built the railroads.

I own a persistence, and it is in every way just as high quality as any other Spyderco I have owned or handled. Moreover, I prefer the look better than my Sage series knives, and the blade steel is higher quality than I am able to find in similarly priced knives by Spyderco's competitors.

Show me an equal quality knife, for the same price.

It doesn't exist.

-Freq
 
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