Just snagged this drop point D'allara. Been looking for one for a while, not sure how many were made but certainly most of these had the rescue style blade.
If the rock lobster had looked like that, I'd have jumped all over it. Why, oh why, does spyderco insist on depriving us of sculpted scales [fondles PPT and rocks back and forth]?!
Don't forget the Zulu also.
Very cool! I spend hours admiring the thought process and design in Sal's knives .Hard call. This black PE slab sided Mariner isn't anything much to look at but it represents one of Spyderco's earliest experiments with coated blades and, according to Sal, there were only "a handful" of them made in PE.
This red bone Kiwi probably wouldn't get too many second looks either, but only about a dozen were made like this. The regular production version used glued, rather than pinned, scales and the lockbar pivot was not visible.
Then there's this jewel, prototype for a version of the Stretch which, unfortunately, was never produced, and definitely my most cherished knife.
If the rock lobster had looked like that, I'd have jumped all over it. Why, oh why, does spyderco insist on depriving us of sculpted scales [fondles PPT and rocks back and forth]?!