This weekend I put my Spyderhawk to good use cutting through a piece of abandoned tangled fishing net at the beach. And after realising how good these serrations work, I definitely want them on my diving knife.
Being a spearfisher, and needing to brain fish, the Fish Hunter is the blade shape that I like the most.
But the seath itself does not seem well suited to add traps to be strapped to the inner side of the calf (which has always been my favorite carry method) nor is it suited to allow a bungee to be attached to the lanyard hole of the handle and then hooked over the further end of the seath (under tension) which actively prevents it from being pulled out (no matter how good or bad the rettention of the seath is).
It has been a long time since I lost a diving knife but.. it happens. And compared to other diving knives, Spyderco fixed blades are not cheap, at all.
Does Spyderco sell an aftermarket seath that is better suited for this carry method? Are the guys at Spyderco aware of any modifications made to the original seath to allow this?
My current diving knife is a semi-stainless blade (meant to be used as is, no handle slabs) that I slapped a set of DIY micarta slabs as a handle and made a kydex sheath for it. Not the pretiest, but works great. Problem is that, as cutting implement, is not worth much and also being semistainless, some rusting is happening under the handle slabs and they are half way unglued.... ugly as sin.
I could always try the same with the Fish Hunter but I don't want to reinvent the wheel.
Mikel
Being a spearfisher, and needing to brain fish, the Fish Hunter is the blade shape that I like the most.
But the seath itself does not seem well suited to add traps to be strapped to the inner side of the calf (which has always been my favorite carry method) nor is it suited to allow a bungee to be attached to the lanyard hole of the handle and then hooked over the further end of the seath (under tension) which actively prevents it from being pulled out (no matter how good or bad the rettention of the seath is).
It has been a long time since I lost a diving knife but.. it happens. And compared to other diving knives, Spyderco fixed blades are not cheap, at all.
Does Spyderco sell an aftermarket seath that is better suited for this carry method? Are the guys at Spyderco aware of any modifications made to the original seath to allow this?
My current diving knife is a semi-stainless blade (meant to be used as is, no handle slabs) that I slapped a set of DIY micarta slabs as a handle and made a kydex sheath for it. Not the pretiest, but works great. Problem is that, as cutting implement, is not worth much and also being semistainless, some rusting is happening under the handle slabs and they are half way unglued.... ugly as sin.
I could always try the same with the Fish Hunter but I don't want to reinvent the wheel.
Mikel
