Today I Started Loving You Again...

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Bugout Bill

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...My Spyderco Tenacious that is.

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The Tenacious had been kicked out of my EDC rotation for a while now, but I have recently begun to take a renewed interest in it. It had been the redheaded stepchild of my knives, due to the fact that the blade had gotten a little chipped and scratched up, as well as a gritty action. But over the last month or so, I've managed to fix it up and turn into a very nice EDC knife. I took the knife apart and polished the washers and pivot area, making it absolutely buttery smooth. I also polished the blade up, giving it a nice highly polished satin finish. I found the shiny pocket clip to be somewhat annoying, so I made it a little more low observable by heating it over the stove. The final modification I made was adding the ghetto wave, probably one of the most useful additions to the knife. It seems a little mall ninja, but I find waving the knife open to be a very convenient feature.

Anyway, it feels kind of weird choosing a $30 dollar knife over one of my Benchmade or ZTs, but I am really liking the Tenacious.
 
I took mine apart just this afternoon as well, cleaned it up, lubed it, slapped it back together, and I've done just the same thing, fallen in love with it. Now that it's smooth enough to perform that pretty awesome middle-finger flick, I've just been going nuts opening it, driving my mom absolutely NUTS.
 
Nothing at all wrong with liking a Tenacious. 8CR13MOV is more than serviceable, and can take an incredibly sharp edge. The fit and finish is excellent, for an outsourced knife, AFAIC. The imported Chinese Spydercos, as well as the Chinese Kershaws are grand knives for the money.
 
whetrock said:
Nothing at all wrong with liking a Tenacious. 8CR13MOV is more than serviceable, and can take an incredibly sharp edge. The fit and finish is excellent, for an outsourced knife, AFAIC. The imported Chinese Spydercos, as well as the Chinese Kershaws are grand knives for the money.
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The 8cr13Mov on the Tenacious actually holds a pretty respectable edge, probably due to edge geometry though. I've done some very informal and non-scientific edge retention tests, and the Tenacious has held up way better than my other 8cr knives.
 
The Tenacious is as smooth as Tennessee whiskey and and sweet as strawberry wine...

especially for the price!


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Make the tenacious in the USA, give it the nice G10 and s30v and it's easily a $100 blade. Or more.
The design is perfect, and I can't complain about the FnF. Thats my goto gift knife.
 
Moxy said:
Make the tenacious in the USA, give it the nice G10 and s30v and it's easily a $100 blade. Or more.
The design is perfect, and I can't complain about the FnF. Thats my goto gift knife.
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I don't think that the G10 was that bad on the Tenacious. Not the grippiest in the world, but better than alot of FRN handles out there.
 
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