what improvements to your favorite knife?

1. Large Spyderco Wegner in BG42 steel, MBC-strong lock (double steel liners, or compression lock)

2. Spyderco Chinook: nothing - it is perfect.

3. Spyderco Delica FRN in MBS-26 steel - for light and medium duties (sea environment, fish cleaning, food preparing, work at the boat, not really for serious diving).

4. Spyderco Wegner Jr. maybe another steel liner and the BG42 steel. Would be (for me) better than MB705 or small Sebenza. Tim, Sal?

Franco
 
I would clone my MT LCC and shrink one down to the same size as the Lightfoot custom version. Then I would actually carry and use the thing as opposed to just playing with it and using it to impress my friends.

My beloved Chinook would be more perfect if the blade did not rub the liner during thumb opening.

If Spyderco were to re-issue the Calypso Jr. Micarta with a VG-10 blade I would buy two more. As it stands now I'm about to bite the bullet and settle for the VG-10 FRN model and retire my Micarta Jr. from regular carry. :(

Paul.
 
I'm probably going to be getting the kraton inserts on my Microtech SE replaced with traction tape to greatly improve the grip.
 
My Kershaw DoubleCross is great in all respects except one: I dislike cherry wood handles! How about some walnut, pecan, bone, etc. Anything that isn't red!(it's a lovely knife, regardless).
 
I know I previously said that "there's nothing I don't like about my Webner Jr." Well, I've lived with it for a while and here's what I'd like to change on it: deep ride pocket clip, rougher texture on the G-10, perhaps VG-10 or BG-42 blade.
Lenny
 
Make the new Axis AFCK without the BT2 crap, make it with the round hole instead of the oval hole, put thumb grooves on the spine(if there isn't already). Id also like to see it with mabye VG-10 as an option(not that I don't like D2). And make it so you can have either tip up or tip down. I don't really have a preferance, but some people do.

did I mention that I don't like BT2:barf: :barf:

Jeff
 
Originally posted by jefroman
Make the new Axis AFCK without the BT2 crap, make it with the round hole instead of the oval hole, put thumb grooves on the spine(if there isn't already). Id also like to see it with mabye VG-10 as an option(not that I don't like D2). And make it so you can have either tip up or tip down. I don't really have a preferance, but some people do.

did I mention that I don't like BT2:barf: :barf:

Jeff
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I feel the same way. A real shame to come so close to folder perfection and then mess it up with BT2 :barf:
 
Okay, I'll preface this by saying that the CRKT Neck-Peck is not my "favorite knife," but I do carry it in a neck sheath every day (it's great for kayaking) and my one dislike for it is that it DOES NOT STAY SHARP. I am quite a good sharpener, using my Profile set, and I can get every other knife hair-shaving sharp, including my neck peck, but it seems that just sitting in that sheath for days on end does ... SOMETHING to the blade. I don't know what the steel is, but the knife is made in Taiwan and is not very expensive, not even for a little stick like it is, and I suspect that some not-very-good steel was used in its manufacture. I am quite disappointed in the knife because of this, though I keep it on my neck because I also keep a razor-sharp Delica straight-edge in my pocket. The Neck-Peck is therefore a last-ditch knife, and the one I don't leave at the waterside (I'd never take a Delica into the ocean!).
I would also ditch the chisel grind on the Neck-Peck and go for a regular bevel. I HATE chisel grind, but there is a paucity of decent, light, small neck-knives suitable for kayaking and snorkeling, that one wouldn't mind getting salty, sandy, or wet.
 
I love the look of the Centofante clipit -- the blade shape is beautiful -- but I adore simplicity above almost all else, and the lock mechanism with that little slide-doohicky that sticks out from one of the scales is a no-go for me. It's actually kept me from buying that knife. If Spyderco made that knife with a simple lock, even if it was just the typical one like on the Delica (what do you call that design again?), I'd pick one up. It sucks when you like something a lot except one bad feature makes it no good.
 
Make the native in flat ground VG-10!!!
Big please with sugar on top... do it in flat ground VG-10....

Wouldn't be a bad idea to do all knives in flat ground VG-10, but especially the native would combine great ergonomics with a perfect blade (flat ground VG-10, you know?)

Well as you can see, I like flat ground VG-10 and I think we should all think about making using and buying more flat ground VG-10 in our knives. Using more flat ground VG-10 could make this world a better place...

Seb

p.s.: use more flat ground VG-10
 
The only thing that I would do to my favorite knife(Terzuola ATCF) would be to have the carry clip repositioned for tip-down carry. Eventhough I caary the knife in a knife pouch for EDC, I would still like for when I don't use the pouch:)

Dan Huff
 
Spyderco large Wegner:
1. decrease height of the big hump where the hole is (install a thumb stud or disk...oops, sacrilege)
2. do it in S30V at Rc60-61
3. invert clip for tip-down carry and so the curvature of the knife matches the curvature of my front right jeans pocket!

BM 710:
1. very slightly deeper recess for index finger
2. S30V

Spyderco Starmate:
1. S30V
2. leave it unlined! that's what makes it light and strong for it's weight, gives it some uniqueness.

AFCK:
1. S30V
2. lose the "skull crusher pommel" and make the knife with a better blade-to-handle ratio like the 710.
3. grind so it has a stouter tip

Chris Reeve Project I:
1. 3V at Rc60-61
2. Offer a big Project I w/ 9" blade

Sebbie:
1. S30V ;)
2. offer flat ground as a routine option

Spyderco Military:
1. S30V (hmmm ... detect any patterns here yet?)
2. distal grind is fine, but needs to be moderated so you end up with a stouter tip
3. shorten handle, improve blade-to-handle ratio
4. get rid of wasted space near choil, improve blade-to-handle ratio

MT SOCOM:
1. revamp the handle so user has something to hang onto on a draw stroke! Hell, the thing tapers so that it wants to leave your hand on a draw stroke...opposite of what you want
2. S30V or 420V/90V

MT LCC:
1. S30V or 420V/90V
 
Originally posted by OwenM
nothing major...of course, our favorites are going to be the ones with the least wrong with them:p
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True ... good point. I wasn't even tempted to "redesign" all the stuff I don't own because I didn't like it well enough to buy.

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And now, I put a big fat grin on my big round head (see at left), gaze into my crystal ball... and I make a bold and Carnac-like prediction:

Crucible's CPM S30V will outshine (but not obsolete) all of the following steels over the next year+ :
1. ATS-34 / 154CM
2. VG-10
3. D2
4. BG-42
5. CPM 440V/S60V

That doesn't mean you won't continue to see the above steels on a bunch of knives, especially production pieces. Just that they'll lose their various claims to having staked out a performance niche. All of this, of course, IMHO.

INFI, CPM 3V, CPM S90V, and CPM 10V will retain their performance niches.
 
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