Salt folding knife - contest

[adurso]

I have 2 spydercos, one above water and one below, a fixed version would be great and a free one even better as my family keps stealing mine!

 

[trigfunctions]

Count Trigfunctions in. Those are some cool knives.

 

[evilbacon]

i think that it is a great idea to come to the consumer to see what they actually need. Most companies think they know what people need and/or want, and they just make a big mess of things. Good luck with the knife designs and show us pics when you finally figure out what it will look like.

Evil :bgmad:

 

[dleffert]

Count me in, too!

 

[El Orans]

Hey Sal,

there's no such thing as too much gear, especially if it doesn't rust... :thumbs_up

El Orans

 

[ReefGuy]

Count me in, please. One thing I didn't see, though, is a knife with a flat, blunt end (plenty of rounded ones) for digging. Did I miss one, or do you not make one?

 

[Doc]

I posted on another thread that I was seeking information on dive cutting tools. I thought that perhaps it was rude to ask for information without offering something in return.

Sal- put me on the list.

The last two Spyderco knives that I took diving were the "Dive Probe".

It was your basic Spyderco blade hinged on to a 8" and also a 10" (approx) bar that was marked with inches/millimeters.

Great thing until after the first dive. Each of them had instantaneous catastrophic failure of the spring steel bar that kept the blade in place. No kidding- first dive, just after rinsing and drying out in the sun. Your company made good on them immediately. Spring steel + NaCl = oxidation.

I carry a BK&T TacTool when "working" http://www.knifezone.ca/becker/tactool.htm but I am lucky enough to have one of the original (discontinued) hard chromed models. The current issue would have corrosion issues. Otherwise I always carry a little Spyderco. The Blackie Collins Zytel Knife with the Copper-Beryllium spring system is also handy for select applications. A folding knife is by deffinition a task loading object. You gotta open it. Secondly- it is much easier to access a well placed sheath knive that any folder no matter how cleverly stowed. For folders, I generally use a retracting device (Trident) and quick release clip, securing the device either on shoulder strap/ring or in accessable pouch. For most divers, a folder would be ill advised.

I have successfuly carried a Spyderco underwater for many years. It's a discontinued little folder with the intricately cut-out blade in the design of a spider and web. Brilliant handle and "spring" design with ambidextrious interchangability. That is a design! The model name I do not recall. It is perfect for a neck knife. I have used it under a ship to cut thru 1.5" braided line that had wound around the prop shaft in a high speed winching incident. Easy breezy... well- kind of! I also have the H&K version that was given to me with my Mk.23

I would enjoy doing a further T&E on anything made by Spyderco!

 

[Drewpy]

I have a spyderco on my keychain!
Nice work to get input!
Count me in "Drewpy"

 

[neil]

Count me in.

Neil

 

[Surly]

Sal! Nice to see you here. You're a busy man.

I own a Salt, a Gunting, an Ayoob, a rookie, three or four Delicas, half a dozen Enduras....you get the picture. Kudos on building a great product.

If I win, I promise to send my prize to my brother, who's stationed at North Island w/ the Navy. The boy could use a rust free knife!

PS: Pickle, pickle, pickle, por favor. ;-)