Who is in for a bigger, bolder Spyderco?

VanDro said:
..or some more fixed blades like the Forester (awesome at 9 1/2 inches in blade length). Small is nice for kids and city dwellers. What about the working man in the outdoors on the weekend.
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Well there's a 10 inch/flat ground/52100/Golden Made variation of the Rock Salt in the offing apparently.
 
I would like to see Spyderco come up with a slightly beefed up version of the Military. Make the blade a tad bigger, with wood inlays in the handle. Then have it sheathed in a nice quality leather belt pouch in a choice of natural tan brown, and a black one too for choice.
 
I'll wait for next gen G10 Police due out second half of the year.

Then I'll consider bigger or not bigger.
 
You can get around shoving something that big into your pocket. My 6" CS Voyager X2 will be riding on my belt shortly in a new Kydex folder sheath by Survival Sheath Systems here on the forums. Look 'em up. I do not think that it will take up much space at all, not like a fixed blade.

A 6" Chinook in an optional carbon steel like 5160 ,or something better than can take a whack (D2 is not too good with impacts on harder materials), would take a crazy sharp edge and use it to its full potential. The lockback on that thing is the toughest they make for chopping and harder use. Put it around $150-200 and wrap it in some thick ironwood or micarta.
 
CombatGrappler said:
Maybe we could get Karnak to look into the future and see if this will happen. Naw, leave him alone. I get the feeling that Spyderco probably won't be putting out anything bigger than the Manix or Chinook anytime soon. Geez, what would the price be on something 30% bigger? I just don't see that helping sales at all.

It would be cool to have such a beast, but I think that producing such a thing would be an "uncool" business decision. Although, if it wasn't made of a premium steel, and perhaps produced at the factory that makes the Tenacious.....that would certainly reduce the cost to a manageable level.
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Not necessarily what you would think. Remember that material costs are still the smaller portion of the cost of making a knife.
It would be more expensive, yes, but the cost of putting the knife together would be virtually the same. If anything most of the extra cost would go into grinding and polishing the larger blade.

HoB said:
Well, maybe one could start with the mega folder in the Byrd line, to see how it sells. But I am not sure if people that would buy a Mega folder would buy one from the Byrd line.
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I actually think this is a great idea. If you are going to produce an experimental knife, why not use the most economical means of doing it?
(That is, if tooling costs are any less in China than in the U.S.)

I guess the downside would be if the knife was so popular as a Byrd that it never moved on.

zenheretic said:
However, the problem with a folding knife bigger than the Manix is that it is very cumbersome to carry. Pants pockets are only so big. At some point a folding knife doesn't fit into a pocket and still be robust so it would have to go on a sheath, or other external carry device.
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I have a D'Allara in my pocket right now, just looking it over that knife could probably be three inches longer before running out of space.
Usually the width of the knife is more of a concern anyway, vertical space is plentiful, how a knife rubs your hand is what I worry about.
(The D'Allara is very smooth on the back and nice to carry IMO)
 
Joshua J. said:
The problem with fixed blades is, 1. they are prohibited in many areas. 2. they can be much more cumbersome to carry.

I think there is still place for a five to six inch workhorse folder in the knife world.
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In many areas that prohibit fixed blades they also prohibit locking blades. The thinking is that once a blade is locked it is the same as a fixed blade.
 
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