When did you get bitten by Spyderco? aka become a Spydienut

1990: Spyderco Police. Wasn't too impressed with the slick stainless steel handle and it wasn't very lefty friendly, so sold it a couple of years later.

1999: Bought a Spyderco Native while in Tel-Aviv - Absolutely loved it, but lost it in 2003 in Europe.

2003: Picked up an Endura 3 in Prague. It is my favorite EDC to this day and the reason I love Spyderco knives.
 
In 1991 when I bought a fully serrated Endura from the Cutlery Shoppe catalog. Man those were beautiful catalogs.
 
I bought my first a week before Christmas, I now have close to 20 :/ somebody help me, please..... Then I found some some of the good Kershaw :confused:
 
I'm kind of curious how many people have bought spydies from brick and mortar stores. My first Native was purchased at a brick and mortar, and I picked up my persistence at SMKW, but none since then.
 
December 2005. I bought Kopa Cocobola and decided to collect entire set. Along with Kopas came about sixty other Spydercos. All of them look good, at least for me.
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hank_rearden said:
i would have wanted a more brutal thread title: "When did Spyderco knives change in your mind from ugly to gorgeous?"
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May be this is my twisted mind, but I never felt that Spyderco knives are ugly. Some of them, of cause are ugly, but I do not know a maker who doesn't make ugly knives, including WH.
 
none for me, most stores don't get the sprints, which is what I collect. I think If I walked in to Bass Pro Shop and asked if they had any knives in ZDP they would look at me funny.
 
Pretty much right after I met Sal and his staff at Blade a long time ago. The man impressed me so I knew the knives would. As years passed, I had friends who got involved with Sal and Spyderco on projects that reenforced what I already knew about the man and his company.

The people behind the knives are just as important to me as the knives.
 
I kinda hate to say this, but I used to think that Spyderco knives looked like crap :foot: Then I bought one. Boy was I wrong.
 
back around 92 at a gunshow here in raleigh. I'd seen ads for Spyderco's for years but didn't think the grip on all steel knives was my thing. They seemed more than I had at the time of raising a son, being married with car, and house payments. I finally saw an Endura FRN in "G-2", held it, opened it and closed it, felt how sharp it was, how ergonomic and decided I had to buy it. For around $35 I bought it which was pretty much my whole knife show budget. It was worth it. It's parked now but is still carryable. I wouldn't recommend using the frn clip though as it's kind of loose now.

Things keep getting better and better and I'll admit the last two years have been my favorite of all of them. Sal's Mule team is genius too. :)

Joe
 
It all started in March of last year when I was part of the EDCF Moonglow Manix 2 Run. It was all downhill from there. I remember how blown away I was with the fit and finish of the Manix 2. The Manix 2 is now probably my favorite Spyderco Folder...I have four of them now...plus umpteen others!
 
back in the 90's when i was just a boy who thought if it wasnt case or buck then it wasnt worth having. My dad got a serrated q for christmas and after he looked at it decided it was too small for his gorilla hands and gave it to me. the thing grew on me. it was so easy to carry and use. it finally broke even though it was still sharp to me (had no idea how to sharpen serrations back then) and i had to have another. but living on the farm no one had even heard of spyderco. I moved on and tied to forget how awesome that knife was. I got a benchmade(my only one), but i had to have full serrated goodness. Then at the hillsville va fleamarket i found a booth that had spydercos and case knives. I got a se salt1 bc it was the only fully serrated blade they had. Until I got on the forums I would make annual pilgrimages to that same booth. The best prices i have ever seen and they are always in the exact same spot in the VFW just down the row from all the old pocket knives.

I recently scored a smallfly which im infatuated with bc it merges my old love of spydercos with a rekindled love of balisongs. I just wish they would bring back the spyderfly. No that i think about it there a tons of spydercos that i wish they would bring back... least the starmate is coming
 
I've always been into knives since i was a kid, mostly Buck and Case knives, but i didn't really know about Spyderco until about 6 months ago (sadly). At that time I thot they where kind of ugly. I didn't really like the looks of the spydie hole, and wasn't a big fan of the blade shapes. But, i started watching reviews on a lot of Spyderco's on YouTube and that changed my whole perception.

I bought a persistence about 5 months ago, fell in love, and since then I've got a brown Delica 4, a digi cam PM2 with dlc coated blade, and i bought a few from the Byrd line as well. a Cara Cara 2 and a Byrd Robin 2. Only wish i was aware of Spyderco sooner.
 
Mine was about two years ago now. I believe it was a waved Endura. I had reservations towards Spyderco for the longest time, being that my first "good" knife was a Benchmade and that was all what I bought for a while. Now I've sold off all my Benchmades and I own a couple of Kershaws but largely its Spyderco I carry. The last 10 knives I've bought or traded for were Spyders (mostly sprints/dealer exclusives) and I don't see that stopping anytime soon.
 
I have always been interested in knives since I was a little guy - the local TG&Y had a big display of cheap imports that I used to salivate over when I was around 8 or 9. Fast forward. I don't know what it was that got me interested in what was out there as far as knives were concerned in 2006. Got to looking around on the internet and ended up in Bladeforums and kept seeing mention of Spydercos. I went to their website and pretty much went crazy. My wife got me a Caly 3 ZDP for my birthday that year and my wallet has been empty ever since. Between Knifeworks and the sales forum here, I have accumulated around 25. Most of them are sprints and discontinued models that I thought were going to be hard to pickup in the future. They all get gently used except for a couple that I purchased just because they were so out of the world cool (Ayoob). I have slowed down a bit recently as there are just so many sprints coming out. My budget cannot handle all of them, but I keep trying. It really doesn't help that i started perusing the custom makers sales forums either.
 
I bought a Tenacious in 2010 after reading a bit in this section of the forum. I love it, and now I have a M390CF Millie to go along with it. Awesome knives. Can't wait to add more. I love carbon fiber, but all the sprint millie's in different colors are going to be fun to try and collect. I am doing my best to not purchase a Para2, I don't want to have to try and keep up with those........:p
 
First bought one in 2011, a green Endura 4. Instant addiction. I now own around a dozen Spyderco's in less than a year. :eek::D
 
as a kid, i of course loved the classic shapes of the ka-bar, the buck, and the schrade. i found funny any knife whose spine went way above the center line of the handle. i remember those small boker knives. but seeing it merged with a folder, i realized it was genius: the blade width allowed a very narrow full-height V grind whose cutting edge was just below the lower side of the handle. it's a perfect slicer. normally, one has to put the edge almost half an inch below the lower side of the handle. for this, you will need a wider and oddly shaped handle to accomodate the extra blade width. and then, the other advantage is a sizable blade profile protuding above the handle when closed: perfect for an opening hole or a thumb stud.

that's why i think the spyders are among the most evolved folding knives around.
 
My first Spydie was a fully serrated Endura that I bought at the BX in '99. I carried a SAK and a Leatherman PST, and I bought the Endura since it looked cool and I wanted something different. I never carried it with the pocket clip, though. When I was removing it from the packaging, the zytel clip broke off when I pulled the cardboard off and the clip snapped off. Not a great first impression, but I'm on my fifth Endura, among two Delicas, three Mules, two Rescues, and Atlantic and Pacific Salt, one each.
 
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