What did we do to deserve these blunt tips?

I have a "S" with a very blunt tip.
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amen74 said:
You heard correct. We need a second chance for splinter-picker tips. :D
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Why? So Sal can see a few thousand more broken tips?

Personally, I hate the "reinforced" tips they are using these days. One reason is the curve at the tip disrupts the smooth lines of the blade, which annoys me. Another reason is it just seems like it enables those who never learned the difference between a knife and a screwdriver or crowbar. I think another reason, especially on the Police III, is it just doesn't appear to be enough reinforcement to accomplish anything, so why destroy the esthetics for such a small benefit?

I guess Spyderco is doing what they must to minimize the number of damaged knives they have to repair. I just keep grinding mine to points.
 
Have you ever seen a Benchmade/Boguszewski 640 Mini-Spike? It's like a C50 Centofante II with anorexia. It makes the J.D. Smith look robust by comparison. I carried one and used it for work for eight years without ever losing a tip. One little slip? Yeah, right.

It isn't a crowbar. It isn't a screwdriver. It's a knife. Use it for a knife and you don't need to worry about the tip.
 
My Endura and Delica are the thickest, and about how I like a tip.
I don't consider my caly3, millie, para, mini manix, or sageII to have a thick tip at all. I wish the Millie tip was a bit thicker.
 
Farmer Brown said:
It's great for picking olives out of a drink, but with one accidental slip...
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My JD Smith went everywhere with me this summer, and was my folding blade for a number of backpacking trips. (A Temperance2 was my fixed blade.) It cleaned fish, did food prep, cut cordage, whittled some, opened mail...and yes picked splinters.

But through all that I just used it as a knife...not a screwdriver.

I had a martini with three olives in honor of this thread.

now if you want pointy...see if they'll do a sprint run of the Mosquito. :D

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Hate blunt tips, E4, etc. Pretty much over it though. There's lots of nice knives out there. Got a Military and a Sage Ti instead of the various current Enduras. Will pick up a Pacific Salt and fix the tip sometime.
 
yablanowitz said:
Why? So Sal can see a few thousand more broken tips?

I guess Spyderco is doing what they must to minimize the number of damaged knives they have to repair. I just keep grinding mine to points.
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No, that wouldn't be a good thing at all. I know what the reason is for the thicker tips. I just like older Spyderco models more than some of the current editions.

Are you crazy? The last thing Sal needs to worry about is a bunch of ELU's destroying the tips of their knives and wanting a replacement. That's not me, I use knives for their intended purpose. :)
 
The Rookie G10 is a great blade with a very fine tip if anyone is interested. 3" blade and very thin handle too. It's 2.2oz :)
 
65535 said:
It goes both ways, any grinding be it pointy-ing or rounding will remove blade length and in the latter it will give it a slightly larger belly radius.
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If you grind along the spine to make a more acute tip, the blade doesn't generally actually lose any length, unless maybe it's being done to restore a broken tip. Nor does the edge get any more belly, unless for whatever reason you grind from the edge side rather than the spine side.
 
I am not really a fan of blunted tips. While I really dont mind the blade shape of my salt 1, I am also probably going to get a delica 4 because I prefer a little more of a point on my blades.

My para is probably my favorite all around folder, but I really wish the tip was thicker. Not blunted, I really do like the point, just wish it had a little more meat to it. I did accidentally drop my para on ceramic tile from about 3 feet off the ground. The very tip snapped off. While it really was not a problem to sharpen out, would like to avoid that.
 
I think it's a great trend. When I finished grinding the serrations off my edc I ground off the point to make it more of a sheepsfoot. It is a little bit too pointed, but I didn't want to reduce the length too much. I figure that as the front corner of the blade wears down I can grind off more of the end to keep the corner sharp.
 
I like them both. It would be nice to have a choice in the Delica and Endura line but you can find the older splinter pickers all the time on ebay. I have both and enjoy the blunt and the pointy tips. The JD Smith is super pointy. I find that I have different knives for different jobs. The para is another super pointy knife.

Speaking on pointy they have there drawback too. I dropped my car keys in the parking lot at work yesterday and snatched them up without paying much attention. Felt this stabbing pain and realized when I dropped the keys, the blade on the keycom partially deployed and I managed to jab it into the end of my finger.

I drove 27 miles to the house and that thing was still bleeding when I pulled up in front of the house. Those damn keycoms and have one hell of a pointy tip. Youch.
 
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