What did we do to deserve these blunt tips?

I like the current Delica/Endura 4s. In a way the tip on them makes sense as those 2 knives will be bought by a lot of non knife aficionados. While I don't pry with my knives, I have used my Delica 4 to wedge out some heavy duty staples at my old job.

At my current job I carry a Caly 3 since it's an office environment. Toughest cutting job I have faced so far is envelopes. Also got bored & cut out stick people made from Post-it notes.

Spyderco still has pointy knives, just those that like it on the Delica/Endura are not in luck. Part of the reason Tom Krein is doing a brisk job in re-profiling knives right now.
 
FWIW, the point on the Leafstorm would be hard to snap.
A bigger Leafstorm would be cool. :cool:
 
The tip on my early Police model broke shortly after I bought it. It was my fault and I paid Spyderco to regrind it. I bought an Endura 4 G10 recently and I couldn't be happier.
 
Gotta agree. Blunt tips suck. If you gave me an E4/D4, I'd just sell it off and buy something pointier. Mules are about the bluntest thing I've bought from Spyderco in a while.

But ... If the high volume knives have thick tips, who cares? They pay for the cool stuff. No one makes me buy knives I don't want. Fewer pointy tips from Spyderco saves me big money, since I can easily resist buying anything that's not pointy. Win-win.

Gordon
 
The new points on the standard type
delica and enduras are great. When a customer
would bring in the older pointier type knives
with damaged tips the easy and best fix was to simply
grind the spine and drop the tip down a bit. The knives
now already have this drop at the tip. How else
would anyone here fix a damaged tip on a hawkbill
type knife? Would you grind the edge until you had
fixed the point? You wouldn't unless you wanted to
screw the knife up. What Spyderco is delivering is a more
durable and easier serviced knife in my opinion. There are
still quite a few very pointy models in the line if a needle point
is what you're after.
 
In the end, it comes down to what is going to make sales work. I actually bought my endura 4 BEFORE the full flat grind comes out because I wanted a heavier duty profile on the blade of my EDC knife. Much as I like full flat grind and even hollow grinds I think the current blade is perfect for a do-whatever knife. I couldn't be happier with it. Now I just need my chinook, spyderhawk, Ti millie.... omg what have I gotten myself into...
 
I like the pointier tips on the E3, native etc but I was sure glad I had the E4 the other day. I gave my E4 to a co-worker to take up on our two-man lift to cut back a loose air line. I didn't want to give it up, especially since I gave him a nice knife some time back. He left it in his truck. I was pissed at the whole situation and had a bad feeling as I handed the knife over.

Well, I must be prescient because he dropped it from about 20 feet up. I watched tumble down, hit stainless plating halfway down and land on it's tip on a brick floor. I picked it up and was surprised to see only about 1/32 of the tip gone. About a minute on the spine with a belt sander and it's good as new.
 
I don't find much use for needle tips. That is basically what you are describing. A needle tip in my opinion is in the specialized category and shouldn't be considered a feature that defines a quality knife.

I like the new tips on the endura. Spyderco is one of the few companies that has the courage to use a good reinforced tip on a quality knife. I don't see too much of it and it is a feature I like.

My take on this is, for a quality knife made out of a high carbon stainless with good edge retention made at an affordable price a needle tip, unless I have a specific need for it, (and I don't) is more of a burden than an asset since it's delicate and very prone to snapping.

On a cheap $5.00 blade with low carbon stainless that has bad edge retention and can't cut well a needle tip might not be much of a problem since it would tougher and bend rather than snap.

Some of you people want it all. I find the new enduras to be very well designed. They do not have blunt tips by any means just because they are not super thin needle tips does not mean they are blunt and I personally like them that way. Now a compromise I may be willing to accept, one that I would not like but would accept, is if the tip was ground a little thinner, again I like the current tips period, a little thinner I would overlook but don't put a needle point on it, that would be a mistake.

The endura, delica, and other work type spydercos are made to be tough working blades for the average person.

My 2 cents.
 
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