Three favorite Spydies...

Manix 2. I've always personally preferred it to the PM2, and I'm especially fond of my Cru-Wear CF version.

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Dragonfly, particularly the full SE version. I daily carry one in my back pocket and it goes unnoticed until needed, and proves quite handy when it is.

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Pacific Salt. My kayaking / beach knife for many years. It could be replaced at some point by another Salt knife, but any Spyderco list should include a Salt knife for me.

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1. Slysz Bowie
2. Paysan
3. Advocate

4. Tie between the rest of my remaining Spydies...PM2/Shaman/embassy/Nirvana/chef
 
Right now, the 3 I'm most likely to have on me are the Manbug Salt (keys,) and either a UKPK (an frn or the HH red g10) or the gray g10 Baby Horn sprint.

Other favorites include:
Pm2
Millie
Manix 2
PITS
Chaparral
Caly 3.5
Caly Jr
Urban
Jess Horn white micarta
 
Yimes said:
In no particular order

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That Micarta GB looks fantastic!

Ajack60 said:
Native Chief
Military
Police

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Very nice knives. Of course, as a tinkerer, I always have to make them mine, as far as grind, ergos, and aesthetics, so my pic would look a little different:

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Honestly, I don't use the Millie or the Police very much at all, but the chief is always clipped to my around-the-house trackpants as my in home edc.

But are these my three favourite? Not exactly. I am going to go on the assumption that by "these three seem to attract me the most" you mean they are the most likely to be picked up, carried and used by you when you are out and about in the world. For me, that would be my Spyderco Resiliences, these three in particular:
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There is a lot to be said for a "$60 knife" that touts one of, if not the, most solid liner locks a knife can have (all of my Resilience inspire even more confidence than the Millie for me), has customized blade and handle profiles, regrinds to under .007" behind the edge (allowing even "mere 8Cr13MoV" to rival the cutting performance and longevity of more expensive higher alloy steels), more fully skeletonized liners, chamfered scale edges, more rounded thumb ramps, radiused spines, and (once they finally arrive) deep carry pocket clips. I already lost a "Resilitary" at work that I had put a couple hours of work into modding, and attached a deep carry clip to, and while I was disappointed, it was more easily replaceable than if I had lost my Millie or Police 4. And the knife itself was the same weight as, and had equal if, not better, deployment and performance than either of those two at a fraction of the cost.
 
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David Mary said:
That Micarta GB looks fantastic!



Very nice knives. Of course, as a tinkerer, I always have to make them mine, as far as grind, ergos, and aesthetics, so my pic would look a little different:

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Honestly, I don't use the Millie or the Police very much at all, but the chief is always clipped to my around-the-house trackpants as my in home edc.

But are these my three favourite? Not exactly. I am going to go on the assumption that by "these three seem to attract me the most" you mean they are the most likely to be picked up, carried and used by you when you are out and about in the world. For me, that would be my Spyderco Resiliences, these three in particular:
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There is a lot to be said for a "$60 knife" that touts one of, if not the, most solid liner locks a knife can have (all of my Resilience inspire even more confidence than the Millie for me), has customized blade and handle profiles, regrinds to under .007" behind the edge (allowing even "mere 8Cr13MoV" to rival the cutting performance and longevity of more expensive higher alloy steels), more fully skeletonized liners, chamfered scale edges, more rounded thumb ramps, radiused spines, and (once they finally arrive) deep carry pocket clips. I already lost a "Resilitary" at work that I had put a couple hours of work into modding, and attached a deep carry clip to, and while I was disappointed, it was more easily replaceable than if I had lost my Millie or Police 4. And the knife itself was the same weight as, and had equal if, not better, deployment and performance than either of those two at a fraction of the cost.
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Absolutely love what you did with the bottom Resilience.
 
This is easy for me.
I only own two Spyderco knives.

Clip-it rescue
D’Allara 3

I guess you could add in my daughter’s purple Endura 4. I have become quite attached to that knife.
 
GB2
Military
Manix cruwear and smooth g10

Stretch should be in there somewhere...
 
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Fantastic! How did you decide on the differences between your two categories? Especially curious about your thoughts on GB vs Millie.
 
David Mary said:
Fantastic! How did you decide on the differences between your two categories? Especially curious about your thoughts on GB vs Millie.
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Favorites were more from the heart.
If I could only have 3, more from the brain.
I love all those knives.
All my spyderco for that matter.
My collection is pretty refined at this point.
I love both the gb2 and the military.
The milli is big and slicey.
The gb2 just a great all around’r.
Plus I love the look of the gb2.
Milli is great with gloves on.
For how big the milli is, I find it carries much smaller.

You could ask me the same question tomorrow and I may have a different answer.

:)
 
Hi, I'm Kris. This is my first post here.
I summarized your picks and below are presented your aggregated preferences :)
I gave 5 points for 1st place, 4 points for 2nd etc.
I have PM2 and Manix2 and I think they're pretty good :)


PM 2 => 105
Manix 2 => 75
Millitary => 51
Delica => 39
Native 5 => 38
Gayle Bradley 2 => 37
Para 3 => 29
Dragonfly => 28
Endura => 28
Spydiechef => 25
Gayle Bradley 1 => 21
Yojimbo 2 => 20
Shaman => 16
Domino => 15
Native 5 lw => 13
Stretch => 13
Advocate => 12
Chaparral => 12
Para 3 lw => 12
Southard => 11
 
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