• The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details: https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
    Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
    Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.

  • Today marks the 24th anniversary of 9/11. I pray that this nation does not forget the loss of lives from this horrible event. Yesterday conservative commentator Charlie Kirk was murdered, and I worry about what is to come. Please love one another and your family in these trying times - Spark

Your Most Recent Spyderco Acquisitions

I was mistaken. My SE Harpy is a G-2.

So, I placed what I considered a high bid for the PE G-2 Harpy on EB but was outbid by someone who wanted it more, which is fine with me because it wasn't "perfect" & I bid more than I really wanted to pay for it. anyway. 🤷‍♂️

As it stands, I've got an SE G-2 Merlin & a SE G-2 Harpy which is a match. So, it's all good. Gives me something else to hunt for in order to complete my Gen 1 Harpy/Merlin collection.:)

In the meantime, I scored a G10 PS Bob Terzuola to complete my Spyderco C15 collection and I also scored a Smallfly 2 off of The Exchange. Bought them both for less than what I bid for the PE Harpy.

I bought & sold a Smallfly 2 previously because I really didn't like it but I decided to buy it back in order to complete my Spyderco bali collection.

Pics to follow as soon as I received them.
 
Last edited:
Sal Glesser said:
Hey Sgt,

Do you know the story about how "Gin 2" or "G-2" came to be?

sal
Click to expand...

Hi, Sal:

I should just let you tell the story but I have read a few things which explain the origin of the use of G-2.

Feel free to fill in the gaps & correct any inaccuracies in what I've read about it.

My understanding is that GIN-1 & G-2 are exactly the same metallurgically but that, at a certain point in time & for certain reasons, you decided to rename GIN-1 as G-2.

This is what SpydieWiki says that you said on BF back in 2009:

"Gingami I is a steel that was made by Hitachi. When we first began making knives (1981), Gin I was the best available production knife steel. (and the most excpensive). ATS-34 was available, but still difficult to get and use in production. It's a very nice blend of alloys and produces a tough steel with very good edge holding and very good corrosion resistance. We've recently considered using the steel in low cost models. Hitachi is no longer making the steel at this time."

See: GIN-1/G-2

And this is what was said in a thread in the Spyderco Forum from back in 2015 regarding the switch from GIN-1 to G-2 in the marking of your blades:

"G2 was a name Spyderco came up with to use on blades made of GIN-1 when their Japanese maker [Hitachi] was afraid to offend another customer who had been led to believe they had an exclusive on that steel. G2 is not just "virtually the same as GIN-1, it is GIN-1."

See the 3rd post in this thread for the source of this quote: Old Spyders: GIN-1 Blade Steel Models

Is this statement correct?

If not what was the "real reason" why you started marking your GIN-1 blades G-2 & when did you start doing that?

FWIW, although GIN-1 is the same as G-2 metallurgically, these different markings make knives so marked distinct from each other in appearance & also denote them chronologically -- those marked GIN-1 being earlier in production than those marked G-2.

So, for better or worse, this is why I make the distinction between these markings on vintage Spydies in my collection.🤷
 
Last edited:
my package opening harpy next to the new model!

FiOaFj8.jpeg
 
Just received this Spyderco SmallFly2 to complete my collection of Spyderco balisongs.

J1FbGay.png



aNHATlB.png



I owned & sold a SmallFly2 before because I didn't like it but bought one back just to complete the collection. And, yes, I know there's a Cruwear varation of the SmallFly2 but I never was & still am not interested in including it in the collection.

So, here's a pic of my Spyderco balisong collection

e9GKkaL.png



From top to bottom they are (or should be) the:

1) Spyderfly VG10
2) Spyderfly 440C
3) Szabofly VG10
4) Szaboofly 154CM
5) Janisong S30V
6) SmallFly 1 154CM
7) SmallFly 2 S30V
 
Last edited:
sgt1372 said:
Hi, Sal:

I should just let you tell the story but I have read a few things which explain the origin of the use of G-2.

Feel free to fill in the gaps & correct any inaccuracies in what I've read about it.

My understanding is that GIN-1 & G-2 are exactly the same metallurgically but that, at a certain point in time & for certain reasons, you decided to rename GIN-1 as G-2.

This is what SpydieWiki says that you said on BF back in 2009:

"Gingami I is a steel that was made by Hitachi. When we first began making knives (1981), Gin I was the best available production knife steel. (and the most excpensive). ATS-34 was available, but still difficult to get and use in production. It's a very nice blend of alloys and produces a tough steel with very good edge holding and very good corrosion resistance. We've recently considered using the steel in low cost models. Hitachi is no longer making the steel at this time."

See: GIN-1/G-2

And this is what was said in a thread in the Spyderco Forum from back in 2015 regarding the switch from GIN-1 to G-2 in the marking of your blades:

"G2 was a name Spyderco came up with to use on blades made of GIN-1 when their Japanese maker [Hitachi] was afraid to offend another customer who had been led to believe they had an exclusive on that steel. G2 is not just "virtually the same as GIN-1, it is GIN-1."

See the 3rd post in this thread for the source of this quote: Old Spyders: GIN-1 Blade Steel Models

Is this statement correct?

If not what was the "real reason" why you started marking your GIN-1 blades G-2 & when did you start doing that?

FWIW, although GIN-1 is the same as G-2 metallurgically, these different markings make knives so marked distinct from each other in appearance & also denote them chronologically -- those marked GIN-1 being earlier in production than those marked G-2.

So, for better or worse, this is why I make the distinction between these markings on vintage Spydies in my collection.🤷
Click to expand...

You should have let Sal tell the story.
 
Quiet said:
Beautiful, and perfectly finished. I sometimes regret moving mine along, but at the time, I was in a declutter phase, and well, we all know how that goes.
Click to expand...
De-clutter phases are frequently followed by the re-clutter phase.
 
SharpBits said:
De-clutter phases are frequently followed by the re-clutter phase.
Click to expand...
Yes, yes they are. I'm essentially working to grab a few Spydercos that I've been waffling on, and have been glad that I've been able to grab them all at retail so far.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top