**What are the new knives at Blade Show 2003?**

There are TONS of them! Many of these announcements have already been made on the various forums...Busse unveiled 15 new models (see the Busse forum), Allen Elishewitz unveiled several new models including some with flippers (!), Pat Crawford introduced a new folder, Surefire introduced a whole line of knives designed by Steve Ryan (yes, THE Steve Ryan works for Surefire!), Kit Carson unveiled a "mid tech" line of folders (though he prefers the term "collaboration), Chris Reeve introduced a 5" version of the Green Beret knife, Darrel Ralph unveiled his 7.125" Mad Maxx, and the list goes on and on...

RL
 
Spyderco's Paramilitary, Dodo, and (I hope) Spyderfly. There's more but I'm as anxious as you are to know. Personally, I don't want there to be too many new releases. I haven't gotten all the knives on my wishlist from last year yet:eek: . *sigh* the downside to being a knife nut:o .
 
Spyderco had the Dodo there, the ATR, Sal had the Spyderfly, there were a couple new versions of/or LTD Edition runs of older style knives that may come available including my favorite a rainbow anodized handle Police. The "Spyderfly" bali is very unique looking but has alot of thought in it, the Dodo is just plain awesome feeling in hand, the ATR is going to be one stout knife.

Benchmade had a 710 and 705 with black blades and a dark grey handle with what looked like G-10 inserts, very cool looking knives. The Benchmade limited edition bali with black blade black handles and G-10 inserts is very sweet.

Al Mar has a new knife coming out with G-10 slabs and one of the most unique looking handle blade designs I have seen a while, it felt very cool in the hand.

William Henry's new knives with the button locks are very nice, the button lock works very well, much better than matlock did and the button lock appears to be a very strong lock.

Ken Warner had a new version of the Blackjack Small that comes out in a month or so.

There is quite a bit more, not including costum makers stuff but I just got back from Blade and have so much running through my head that I saw and picked up it may take my poor brain a week to sort though it all.
 
The Spyderco Dodo was designed by Eric Glesser - the son of Sal - and it's the knife on the display poster in the photo of Sal and Eric Glesser at the Spyderco booth I took in the thtread at the Gallery(linked)

Blade Show 2003 - Photos Pt.1
(4th photo in second post in the thread, - or just the 8th photo down)
 
One Dodo coming up...


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RL
 
Go to the Gallery, there are some pictures from Blade already. Kershaw has a new Ken Onion, the Bump. Its a Ti handled framelock, 3.5" with speedsafe.
 
Spyderfly is still under wraps from what I understand, at least it was not on display. Now, hypothetically, if a person were to just happen to notice a Spyderco rep surrepititiously flipping a mysterious balisong and ask to see it, then that person may get a good look at it. Total speculation, of course :D ;) . Otherwise, it's pretty hush hush.

I can't believe no one's mentioned the Kershaws Bump! That was far and away one of the coolest knives I got my hands on there. The Becker neck knife was there, the 7" Maxx, the Aftermath and Dominator, all from Camillus. I also saw the new Extrema Ratio folder, it was a real tank. Cool though, and their representative was very friendly.
 
Err...I saw a little auto Benchmite from Benchmade which was neat...the new 7' MAXX...the Dodo and I saw a spyderco representative fliping around a Kerambit that was SS and had the spydie hole. Im not sure if thats new or old or what...but I didn't get teh chance to ask her about it.

I also saw an Emerson (not sure if its new or not) but its limited edition, only 100 made, and its VERY big. I can't remeber the name but it was VERY large. very, very girthy.

And btw, the 7' MAXX is basically a shortsword. (Im not kidding).
 
Originally posted by Fireshaker
Err...I saw a little auto Benchmite from Benchmade which was neat..
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I'm sorry, for a minute there I thought you'd typed "auto Benchmite". That would be CA legal, and TOO FREAKIN' COOL
 
Originally posted by Roadrunner
Spyderfly is still under wraps from what I understand, at least it was not on display. Now, hypothetically,
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I cant guess exactly what it will look like, but i'm imagining something non symmetrical in shape. It will probably turn the balisong industry on its head, and gibe BM a serious run for their money...
 
The Dodo has me more curious than any other design I've seen in a long time. I like reverse recurves, longer handles, and axis-like locks.
I'm really looking forward to handling one.
 
The paramilitary was there, I just saw it in the case though. The spyderco booth was hopping and I wandered off a few times before I got to play with much. swingshot, the spyderfly is definitely original. You'll never mistake it for anything but a spyderco.
 
Joe Talmadge

I think there is a auto benchmite coming out as a ltd run from one of the ditributors, way to much info there at blade for me to remember everything though
 
where can I view the surefire/ryan knives? someone pls post pictures or links?
 
My wife told me that men cannot measure between 6-10 inchs. So I made the gibbs 7.125. I had to prove that I could measure in between!
 
Originally posted by Joe Talmadge
I'm sorry, for a minute there I thought you'd typed "auto Benchmite". That would be CA legal, and TOO FREAKIN' COOL
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Yes. I said "AUTO Benchmite". The guy showed it to me and said it wasn't even on the market yet. It works just like the original benchmite, only when you press the levetator or w/e, the blade shoots out.

Neat little toy. :)
 
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