Battle Pickle or Tactical Cuke or... The Spyderco Bombshell

[Lodd]

If you are a lefty, thumb opening will most definitely be an issue with a Spydiechef. It should Spydie flick like a dream, but regular thumb opening will likely suck.

I just got it and it turns out it's the other way around. It's a bit too stiff to flick, but I can get my thumb in there okay even with the lockbar in the way. It must be because I'm so good with my fingers. (Ladies, are you reading this? *Fingerguns*! )

Edit: nevermind, I was doing it wrong. I can flick it now.

 

[WuFluFighting]

At first, I was interested in this knife, but the more I learned about it, the more I hate it. It's thick, it's expensive and it doesn't even have a sharpening choil.

I just bought a spydiechef with hopes I can get my dainty left thumb inside the spyderhole properly. (If not, I'll return it). I was looking to get into spyderco's a bit more. I have a native 5 in fluted titanium which honestly underwhelmed me a lot. But this knife is killing all interest I had in the brand. What terrible business practices.

Wtf is this flash batch racket? It's capitalism at it's worst, that's what it is. Spyderco finally makes a knife that looks like it fills the hand nicely. Finally a knife I might be interested in. A knife that really adds something to the existing line-up. And then spyderco f***s everyone over by aritificially limiting availability and inflating prices. This is a scummy business tactic.

Oh, and there is another thing. Why isn't the clip reversible? There is literally no reason for this. This could have been a wonderful ambidextrous knife.

Spyderco, if you're reading this, I hope you guys have nothing but bad luck until you guys start behaving like respectable human beings. You shan't be receiving any more of my money until you do. Shame on you!

Well thats a rather extreme rant over a product nobody is forcing upon you. How are they scummy? If they made a million and they sold poorly then they're stuck with them. Small batch in the beginning is just sound buisness.

 

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Dillinator

 

[Lodd]

Well thats a rather extreme rant over a product nobody is forcing upon you. How are they scummy? If they made a million and they sold poorly then they're stuck with them. Small batch in the beginning is just sound buisness.

I may have been in a bad mood. But I still stand by my post. A flash batch means they won't ever produce the knife again. They will destroy the tooling required, or some such nonsense. That artificially limits availability and artificially increases prices. It also stimulates the worst practices of certain people buying the knives and then immediately turning around and selling them for even more. This is bad for most regular customers interested in the knife. Spyderco knows this and still does it just to make a quick profit. It's not a fair and decent way to do business with them. So, yes, I feel justified in calling it 'scummy'.