These little Spydies can give you great advantage when traveling...

[Sergiusz Mitin]

 

[Mr Blonde]

that's a great picture sergiusz, what do you think of the meerkat?


Wouter

 

[Sergiusz Mitin]

This one or Navigator are “must have” items for everyone who can’t imagine himself or herself for a moment without knife in the pocket. Because it is legal everywhere, even in Switzerland. Don’t be surprised, please, one of the most (if not the most) rifle possessing nations in the world is banned to carry any one-hand opening knife with lockable blade longer than 2 inches.

It is very modestly looking piece and not scarring at all, for normal people at least. Of course, some paranoiac near metal detector might consider it as “deadly weapon” but I think you would be right at 100% calling him an idiot. The wire clip doesn’t look like knife clip and exposes nothing of the handle over pocket upper edge, one point more for peaceful appearance.

Neat little cutter, the handle is pretty comfortable for its size and provides good cutting leverage. And two pretty thick steel liners make the handle much stronger than someone could imagine. This is the knife what can much more than it looks to be able to do.
However I would like it to have fully flat ground blade as well as Temperance and Salsa.

The main minus – the Fantom lock is pretty lefty unfriendly, it is quite tricky to open it with left hand. Also it is somewhat onto heavy side, of course in relation to its dimensions. I think aluminum scales with single steel liner could make it noticeably lighter.

 

[tarsier]

Thanks for the pictures. I like these shots that show multiple knives at the same time. When I'm not able to find certain models to handle in person, it helps to see their relative sizes.

 

[BOK]

Thats a beautiful shot!

I also find the phantom lock a little tricky to open (and I'm a righty). Not as user friendly as some of the other locks.

 

[Sergiusz Mitin]

No problem, here are some Spydies what could give you great advantage traveling in wildernes.

 

[brownshoe]

The Mouse. It's a great one also. Try it, you'll like it. I feel it's a little classier than the other small Spyderco knives. It also doesn't have the triangular blade, which some find slightly ugly.

 

[Grover_Cephas]

Sergiusz,

That's a fantastic shot of the Spydie fixed blades. Spyderco needs this kind of perspective in their photos--it gives the knives a consistant scale. (The opposite is true of the arbitrarily-scaled white-background photos you generally see in catalogs--they make a Delica look pretty much the same as an Endura)

The only thing that'd improve your photo would be a more common model (like an Endura) to give a better idea of how big everything is.

Great pics, though--feel free to post bunches

 

[Sergiusz Mitin]

The only problem is that I do not have neither Endura nor Mouse. It’s impossible to have all knives although I certainly would like to have them all
OK, might my hand serve as measure to deliver some imagination about knife size? I’m a man with pretty average dimensions (178 cm x 78 kg) and with medium-sized hands.

 

[Celery]

Or you could put e.g. a matchbox next to the knife when you take the pictures, the size of the matchbox is pretty standard!

 

[Sal Glesser]

Great pics Serg, thanx much. Thanx also for the kind words.

sal

 

[Sergiusz Mitin]

Here is one bunch more:

Just for scale – the rope pictured is 1/2-inche thick...
The little Ti-Salsa cuts through doubly folded such rope like through butter!

 

[V-1]

Great pictures as usual. I usually travel w/ a Lil' Temperance and a Navigator. Few places they can't go.