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Frame-lock/CF BG-42 Millie! excuse me, I have to go ummm, uhhh, comb my hair,,, or something! :jerkit:

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FRN Military lockback in M2, D2, A2, or some other carbon steel for under a yard.
 
After a recent camping trip I spoke to Vicky C. about moving the serrations further forward on something like a SALT. I found, which wasnt the first time, that serrations near the choil are less usefull than plain edge. When starting a fire it would have behooved me to have straight edge down there for close in precision work making fur kindeling. Later that evening it would have been beneficial to have the serrations out further near the tip of the blade to better cut my steak.

I find it very odd with all the innovation in the knife industry that I've never seen a combo edge the other way.

If it were laid out with a short 3-7 mm straight edge at the tip, 12-15 mm of spyder edge and then the rest plain edge you would increase the utility for things like bushcraft and camping. You could use the tip for drilling, slicing and cutting things like coupons. The serrated part would be out where you could get more leverage and would probably even be usable as a basic saw. The straight plain edge section would be closer to the hand where you had much more control for whittling, carving and detail work. It would be even better if the spyderedge portion sat on a small belly.
 
MEGALON said:
It would be great to see any spyderco made with M2 steel.
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MEGALON I was at the BLADE show in Atlanta Georgia a couple of months ago and I got to go to seminar put on by Crucible Powder Metallurgy who is the maker of S-30V and many other great blade steels on the market.

Their seminar was about their new tool/blade steel known as M-4. I was very impressed to hear what they had to say about it. I am looking very forward to the introduction of M-4 sometime this year. The guys from Crucible I got to talk to on the side told me that they are even more hyped about this steel than they were the S-30V when it broke onto the scene. I've never used a blade with M-2 but I got a feeling that M-4 will even be better.
 
I’ve been hyped about M-4 ever since I caught a glimpse of the performance charts from Crucible two years ago. Now that they have a CPM version it’s even better, the only trouble is that this stuff usually requires equipment to heat treat that most knife makers don’t have. Hopefully they are adapting. I think it’d go great on a Mini-Manix:D .
 
JD Spydo said:
<snip> I got to go to seminar put on by Crucible Powder Metallurgy who is the maker of S-30V and many other great blade steels on the market.
Their seminar was about their new tool/blade steel known as M-4. I was very impressed to hear what they had to say about it.
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After all the hype surrounding the introduction of S30V (which turned out to be a good stainless, but by no means the killer stainless it was supposed to be), I'm getting increasingly wary of such announcements. I'd very much prefer Spyderco to use a well-tried steel like M2 run at ~62-63 RC. Assuming the heat treatment is good it runs circles around all the stainless steels out there, and there won't be any nasty surprises with that steel.

Hans
 
Spyderco Civllian--with

liner lock
non-serrated blade
removable pocket clip
various mounting positions for clip
plastic handle
 
I would love to see Spyderco come out with the Para Military in a lock back. Nothing else need be changed. Just do that and to me its the perfect size, the perfect blade shape, the perfect lock and ready to go.

I would also love to see the Military in a frame lock vs the liner lock. I had one of those in the shop the other day for a low rider clip conversion to tip up and a Wave mod and its a really nice knife. I just don't like that lock. I did note while here that it did not look like it would be all that hard to redo that one side into a frame lock though. Something in a .125 thickness there would do the job. I would not mind doing that at all as I think it would be a winner for sure.

STR
 
My normal pocket knife is a really (boring to you guys I am sure) Spyderco Dragonfly SS. I really like it's thin profile to keep pocket bulge down. I would love it if the clip on it was almost at the dead end of the handle so it sits in my pocket just a touch lower.... just an idea. (I'm new take it easy on me!)
 
If I'm not mistaken I've done a low rider for one of those Dragonfly knives. As I recall though going from memory the low rider clip used two of the three original holes already in the knife and mounted fine for super low carry but it blocked the use of the lanyard completely. I have looked for that pic but have not found it. The closest one I have to show what it looked like would be one like this one here. It had wings on it and folded over so it made the knife virtually disappear in the pocket like this one here. Obviously this one is not a Spyderco but its about the same size knife as yours. The real beauty of the low rider on these smaller knives is that the clips can be made so thin and small to match up to the knife that for all practical purposes it looks like you are carrying a pencil or pen and not a knife sometimes.

STR
 
Nice! Well, blocking the lanyard hole doesn't affect me. You mentioned it used two of the three original holes. Does it require additional drilling or just one less hole? .....where can I get one of these :)
 
Well, it just uses two of the three existing holes.

Contact me privately and I'll tell you more. I just got up to come back to the computer to edit that post because I realized I should have said simply that a low rider for that knife can be arranged and to contact me private like and I'll tell you more. I can see now that I'm too late.

Technically I think the above post could be construed as conducting business which is prohibited. Its what I get for being up this late I guess.

Anyway, my bad there. Just email me at Lgtfutatcableone.net and we'll go from there.

Thanks

STR
 
LHD said:
After a recent camping trip I spoke to Vicky C. about moving the serrations further forward on something like a SALT. I found, which wasnt the first time, that serrations near the choil are less usefull than plain edge. When starting a fire it would have behooved me to have straight edge down there for close in precision work making fur kindeling. Later that evening it would have been beneficial to have the serrations out further near the tip of the blade to better cut my steak.

I find it very odd with all the innovation in the knife industry that I've never seen a combo edge the other way.

If it were laid out with a short 3-7 mm straight edge at the tip, 12-15 mm of spyder edge and then the rest plain edge you would increase the utility for things like bushcraft and camping. You could use the tip for drilling, slicing and cutting things like coupons. The serrated part would be out where you could get more leverage and would probably even be usable as a basic saw. The straight plain edge section would be closer to the hand where you had much more control for whittling, carving and detail work. It would be even better if the spyderedge portion sat on a small belly.
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I'd like to see this on my Pacific Salt as well! Not a big fan of combo edges the way most are made now.

Otherwise the new Caly looks to be perfect. At least with exchangeable scales. I'd be in the marked for foilage green G10, CF and maybe red micarta like that UKPK that STR did... :D

Sverre
 
A black G10(old school) linerless Rookie/SE with a VG10 blade and wire clip would be really something:cool: :thumbup: :thumbup:
 
Love the Police mods suggested earlier. I'd add a lanyard hole. I'm in the midst of having my "Dream Police" completed.


"The Dream Police..."--wasn't that a hit song back in the roaring eighties?
 
I'm with Brother J.D. Spydo. Lets get some CPM M4 out for us to try out. There are others for that matter but as he explained this should be quick, and sure compared to some. As long as it's on the right platform, and the heat treaters do their usual excellent job I'd bet on it's being a sure winner with a certain group of us here. I have 4 M2 knives and love them. M4 should be better but my vote would be in a medium to smallish slicer, not a large shock absorping chopper & digger. Give us acute angles almost like ZDP in a Navigator or R2 bladed laser. Joe L.
 
Ken Cox said:
This evening, as I tucked my Chinook II into my waistband for my evening bike ride to work, I thought about the "perfection" of this knife.



When I got my Chinook II, I did the same thing, except, I couldn't find anything about it that needed changing or improvement.



With that said, I declare the Spyderco Chinook II hollow-ground knife the perfect knife.


I see not one tiny little detail that I could change that could possibly improve this knife as a general field knife, light camp knife, and folding self-defense knife.

I consider it an act of collaborative genius.

If the reader has not held a Chinook II and studied it for an hour or so, he cannot possibly appreciate the absolute perfection of this knife, especially as a self-defense knife.

So, how could I modify this knife and make it better?
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Geez Ken, tell us how you REALLY feel.

I know how you could make the Chinook II better, make it a MANIX!:D
 
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