Why do people hate Spyderco?

I bought my first Spyderco in 1987. There were three to choose from, all with similar Seki builds, stainless scales with brass liners, a big Military, a wicked cool curved Harpy and a very useful and very portable CoPilot. They were in a little shop called Sharp Stuff owned by Sam, a place that doesn’t even exist anymore. Old Sam had every kind of blade imaginable, even very hard to get stuff in all manner of cases of wood and glass. He hid treasures in drawers and would take them out one at a time, holding and passing them like they were valuable relics, which they were. So on that fortuitous day almost 39 years ago I was introduced to the finest makes of folding knives in the world. For the younger members this was before the internet.

Mine have travelled with me all over the United States, deep into Mexico and up into the stunning forests of Canada, backpacking on foot, traveling by trains, buses planes and boats. I have lived on whatever I could procure in mercados and small out of the way stores and my sharp tool never let me down. Oh, and I am one who doesn’t much care for thumb studs.

These days the ingenious Chaparral is with me always. We do a lot of wilderness hiking in desert, canyon and mountains. It is right on the edge of weight that I’ll allow but you know where that weight went, into super tolerances and build with a cutting edge the same length as the ubiquitous 91mm SAK, a famous traveler’s knife, and about the same width spine. The steel however is far, far more advanced. They’ll have to pry this one from my cold, dead hands. Just one traveler’s opinion.

Then and now, you’ve come a long way baby.

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The True North said:
Is calling a strawman argument a strawman argument, a logical fallacy?
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Since you asked. No. A sweeping generalization applies a claim universally without evidence, like claiming "nobody is hating on Spyderco", and is a logical fallacy, which you felt the need to call out (on a post from years ago made by a member who hasn't been back since 2023). You wanted to call out a logical fallacy, so did stillshot2. And you asked "so what?". That's so what.

The True North said:
Anyway, merry Christmas friends! Maybe you give and receive many Spydercos.
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Merry Christmas, and likewise!
 
David Mary said:
Since you asked. No. A sweeping generalization applies a claim universally without evidence, like claiming "nobody is hating on Spyderco", and is a logical fallacy, which you felt the need to call out (on a post from years ago made by a member who hasn't been back since 2023). You wanted to call out a logical fallacy, so did stillshot2. And you asked "so what?". That's so what.



Merry Christmas, and likewise!
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Yeah unfortunately I didn't notice it was a necro.
 
Never had a bad Spyderco - current and previous EDC down at least a dozen years. As mentioned, the HQ visit a great experience. Probably won't get the chance again, Colorado has changed.
 
I only have one, I don’t hate it. But the design language of spyderco is a little hard for me. Even fixed blades get the hole much of the time.
 
Yes Spyderco needs to incorporate bug sweeper check points from now on.
 
Sal Glesser said:
Hi Danke,

We have a hard enough time keeping the Chinese counterfeiters from taking pictures.

sal
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I was actually thinking about this sort of thing an hour ago. I had my Lil' Native apart for mods and dropped a part. It didn't matter that I was using a mat. I just did something dumb it bounced off the table. I was instantly filled with dread given the carpet and an unruly pile of stuff my kids had left next to the table. I found it pretty quickly but still. I was taunted by the ghost of the knowledge that Spyderco won't ship internal parts.

Sure, I understand the reason. It could almost make sense to me, if it was years ago. Nowadays though? Look, the bad guys are gonna do what the bad guys are gonna do and they've got the technology to do it. They'll figure it out regardless of steps like not shipping internal parts or not allowing pictures at shows. The former is totally ineffective so long as they can get one and take it apart themselves, destructively or otherwise. The latter might possibly delay the counterfeiters (who presumably would need to see the internals but I suppose they could guess) but it won't stop them. At what point are you just trying to bail out the ocean? Meanwhile, these policies make life less good for the good people who want to enjoy Spyderco.

Much like trying to control certain other things (discussion in the political subforum), the policies aren't very effective at doing what they are intended to do but are very effective in complicating things for the people we don't need to worry about.
 
CQI is the reason they give for not shipping certain parts. Spec changes make it difficult to supply the correct version of the part.

Car makers can do it with thousands of parts, but not knife makers. 🤷🏻‍♂️I suppose it’s because the law makes the car makers keep parts for so many years.
 
Danke42 said:
It costs way way less to keep using older parts than to tool up and make something new and then stock and distribute it. They're just looking at the bottom dollar.
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If you’ve seen official parts lists, there are numerous changes in many parts over the run of automobile models. They do CQI as well.
 
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