Tenacious: A real Spyderco

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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While I totally agree and see where your coming from, I bet there are at least 20 items in your home right now made in China. I try to avoid it when possible but sometimes even the Chinese make a good product. This Tenacious is one heck of a knife. I carry it waaaay more than my Delica 4.
 
oguruma said:
What does that matter? The poster challenged us to show him an equal quality blade for the same price, so I listed several.
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Well duh. It's not a challenge if you're gonna show him knives made in China as well. The Tenacious being made there is what turns people off in this knife. So pointing to the RAT 1 is not improving anything. The "made in China or some other low-wage country" condition was implicit.
 
vickmacky said:
While I totally agree and see where your coming from, I bet there are at least 20 items in your home right now made in China. I try to avoid it when possible but sometimes even the Chinese make a good product. This Tenacious is one heck of a knife. I carry it waaaay more than my Delica 4.
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Very true! It isn't about whether China can made quality (they can) products, it is my desire to support American companies and American workers.
 
My new girlfriend loves my Tenacious...so much that it found a home in her pocket. She loves the darn thing, practices with it all the time since she liberated it from me. When she wakes up she looks for it and loves to use it in public every chance she gets. Feminine looking she says, hates my "tacticool" knives.
To get it back someday I think I need to find her a pink delica. He-he.
 
Re: the videos "proving" how dangerous/bad the Tenacious is--you seem to be implying lock failure, or some design flaw, which was NOT the case w/ either video.

In the first instance the knife was open in the bag he reached into. Some people like blades to be loose to enable easy flicking open, some people say lots of their knives com this way, personally I have never had this be true of any knife from ANY manufacturer. If you like the blade loose (or notice it's loose) then tighten it; this is really on the user.

The second instance the guy closed the knife on his thumb, he seemed to think there'd be a choil or bolster or something there to stop it, or maybe he just didn't get his thumb out of the way. To be honest I have always been worried about this with liner locks but this is inherent in the design--don't close the knife on your damned finger!

Neither vid seemed to suggest a problem with the design, and it seemed like both reviewers had pretty high marks for the product.

And re: burrs in the Spydie holes--perhaps yours were defective, but I believe Sal says he likes to leave the hole angles acute/not polished out because it provides better grip in opening--particularly for people w/ really calloused fingers--i.e. serious everyday knife users.
Of which I am NOT one, but still.
 
philwar said:
Well duh. It's not a challenge if you're gonna show him knives made in China as well. The Tenacious being made there is what turns people off in this knife. So pointing to the RAT 1 is not improving anything. The "made in China or some other low-wage country" condition was implicit.
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Most kershaws are made in USA.
 
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