Why is the LionSpy more expensive than Zero Tolerance 0560

Look at the value of the dollar against the euro. I purchased and item from Italy that had to be refunded because the Italy Poste won't ship a private individual a knife or some such. The day before the refund the Greeks announced their
new bailout plan and the Euro tanked. I waited hoping the currency would stabilize and ended up taking the refund back in dollars and lost out. The euro is predicted to drop further. By June the Italian made knives should be much cheaper as the Euro continues to lose value against the US dollar. In reality though prices have been set and companies will just see increased profits unless they agreed to pay manufacturers in some other currency. So the 0560 is an even better deal because US knife consumers are unlikely to see low prices due to a weak euro. ZT/Kershaw rocks!
 
Noctis3880 said:
Isn't this a limited edition knife vs a full production run anyways? Unless I heard wrong...
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It's not listed as a sprint, and I haven't heard anyone say its a limited run, but I would guess the quantities will not be large.
They call it a "Unique Collaboration". I assume the unique part is it's being made by Lion.

I still would have preferred an Elmax or M390 SR-1 rather than the LionSpy. All titanium handle was its original selling point, and I hate to break it to Sal, but the Spyderhole just does NOT work for every knife, particularly one that was pretty fat to begin with. The hole just makes it morbidly obese.
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If they made it all Ti, which would have been nice, it would just be an SR-1 with a hole in it :D. At least it is Elmax, and very nicely polished.

You know if its a Spydie its going to have a hole...even the fixed blades have them.:)

It works quite well on the LionSpy, but I'm not sure why its such a dang big hole. It's a good bit larger than any other Spydie I have or have seen. Someone referred to it as a toe hole, which is about right.

To me it seems to fit the lines of the knife better than the Vallotton did, and Butch said he did all he could to make that one look right.
 
I am not sure about the LionSpy, but it is 'different'. That toe-hole is huge. I A-B-C-ed the 560/561, LionSpy, and DPX HEST 2.0 last Friday & Saturday at a local shop. My return trip Saturday was to buy one of them, but I had the poor form of bringing one of my 0551s with me - and my CRK StarTac Umnumzaan. I left with what I came with - and nothing else. My wife secretly had the salesman put a 0561 back for me - the one knife of the quartet I liked the most. But I still couldn't see $269 + s/t, especially since my pair of smooth as glass 0551s were each <$200, so she later called him back and had him put it back in stock. Comparing them each to my 0551 or 'zaan was unfair, as each of the new knives were a bit more stiff to deploy/retract than any other new 'quality' knife I had ever tried. My most recent newbie, a Benchmade 275 Adamas, was far, far better, smoothness-wise, new in the box than any of the quartet of newbies. Fit and finish on the ZTs was better than the HEST - and marginally so compared with the LionSpy, which was uniform in it's sharper edge. None were 'CRK' quality, but that was no shocker. If I didn't already have a pair of 0551's, I'd be interested in the 0560/561. Naw, I'd just buy a 0551 - that dealer still has at least one left! YMMV.

Stainz

PS Italian made is a definite plus to me... nine Alfa Romeo's and a Fiat, although memories now, were fun!
 
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