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Forgot Spyderco had their own thread.
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Forgot Spyderco had their own thread.
I've loved pocket knives since I was 4 or 5 and got my first "tactical" knife in the early 90s - a Spyderco Endura from cutlery shoppe. I've probably bought over a hundred knives in the last 35 years from all the popular brands and other than swiss army knives, the ones that get carried the most are Spyderco lockbacks. I got into knives years before flicking was a thing, so the stiffness of a lockback doesn't bother me and it also helps keeps the blade closed much better than an axis or compression lock.
When my interests shift to guns or watches and I'm carrying a knife just as a useful tool I most often carry a Native 5 FRN variant. I don't even particularly like choils but I guess the knife just works for me.
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Mine is one of the more limited run of blackened POLICE models that were made back in the 90’s. I just did a google search and saw some of them (NIB) are going for $800+ (asking price) on eBay. Crazy. I think the protrusion is just the wear mark at the end of the swedge where it thickens out. I’ll try to post up some more pics later.
Edit: found this old spyderco forum thread:https://forum.spyderco.com/viewtopic.php?t=48163