Please help me pick my first mid grade/high end knife

[enki_ck]

I always liked the looks of the ZT knives, especialy the 550/551. That's one sweet blade.

[lovenhim]

interesting little knife

[asupernothing]

While I like the ZT blades, I have to agree that they are big knives. Also I am not so fond of sharpening recurve blades. If large, heavy duty folders are your thing its gonna be hard to beat the ZT (since the skirmish got disco'ed). I find myself preferring thinner blades, so even when I go for a large folder its usually an Benchmade Onslaught or Spyderco Military. The first mid grade knife I got was a Manix2 which has since been removed from the rotation. The next knife I got was a 940 which still gets carried nearly everyday, despite my having many others to choose from.

[Styerman]

If you don't want big , I would look at creatures like the Spyderco Sage , or the Spyderco /Perrin PPT .

If you want small , the Leafstorm is very nice . Al Mar , Moki , and Muscata make some very nice small/medium offerings .

Chris

[Heinz Doofenshmirtz]

If you don't want big , I would look at creatures like the Spyderco Sage , or the Spyderco /Perrin PPT .

If you want small , the Leafstorm is very nice . Al Mar , Moki , and Muscata make some very nice small/medium offerings .

Chris

+1 on the Sage CF!  I've been lusting for one for some time now.  I have literally not heard a single bad thing about the knife.  I copped out and got myself an Endura 4 and a Dragonfly 2 for about the same amount.  I'm still having a hard time justifying to myself the price for a single blade, even though I know it will be worth it...  Just hard to overcome years of being a cheap smurf! 

[CQC-7]

If you don't want big , I would look at creatures like the Spyderco Sage , or the Spyderco /Perrin PPT .

If you want small , the Leafstorm is very nice . Al Mar , Moki , and Muscata make some very nice small/medium offerings .

Chris

+1 on the Sage CF!  I've been lusting for one for some time now.  I have literally not heard a single bad thing about the knife.  I copped out and got myself an Endura 4 and a Dragonfly 2 for about the same amount.  I'm still having a hard time justifying to myself the price for a single blade, even though I know it will be worth it...  Just hard to overcome years of being a cheap smurf! 

I like the Sage and the Caly offerings but they are so similar to my UKPK that I cannot bring myself to buy one.  I have a large collection of folders and the Sage really does not fill any "gaps" so it is somthing that I'd like to have but I always ended up buying somthing else instead.  Now having said that, I'll probably end up owning one before the year ends.

 

[Heinz Doofenshmirtz]

If you don't want big , I would look at creatures like the Spyderco Sage , or the Spyderco /Perrin PPT .

If you want small , the Leafstorm is very nice . Al Mar , Moki , and Muscata make some very nice small/medium offerings .

Chris

+1 on the Sage CF!  I've been lusting for one for some time now.  I have literally not heard a single bad thing about the knife.  I copped out and got myself an Endura 4 and a Dragonfly 2 for about the same amount.  I'm still having a hard time justifying to myself the price for a single blade, even though I know it will be worth it...  Just hard to overcome years of being a cheap smurf! 

I like the Sage and the Caly offerings but they are so similar to my UKPK that I cannot bring myself to buy one.  I have a large collection of folders and the Sage really does not fill any "gaps" so it is somthing that I'd like to have but I always ended up buying somthing else instead.  Now having said that, I'll probably end up owning one before the year ends.

I regularly have to engage in extreme efforts of will-power NOT to buy one...  it might not fill any gaps in your 'needs' per-se.... but from what I've read about them, the just "ooze" high quality in every possible way...  not to mention, light, and quite spiffy looking IMO.  What's not to like about them?  S30V, CF scales, black spring wire deep carry clip that's reversible, and a OHO opening and closing blade because of the spyderhole and walker liner lock... 

Oh man... I'm doing it to myself again.... Ugh!

[Styerman]

I hear ya Bro. , Spyderco makes some very addictive stuff !

Chris

[lovenhim]

Here I am, back after a few days away, still looking at knives and trying to figure out what to get  LOL

[Heinz Doofenshmirtz]

Here I am, back after a few days away, still looking at knives and trying to figure out what to get  LOL

Try a Dragonfly 2.  They're inexpensive, have VG10 steel for the blade, have the nice wire clip, are very light, and cut like a laser... 

Where I work, hardly anyone else is a knife/MT person so I've always been hesitant to carry even something like a Delica in my pocket.  I have already inadvertently put someone off with my Tenacious.  The Dragonfly 2 I have now has not met with such responses at all...  the last time I used it to open the box a book I got was shipped in, the gal in the mail room who sorts all our mail into our boxes said it was "cute".   

Something smaller but still of good quality like a Dragonfly 2 would be very useful, and a good way to get a taste of a better quality knife without spending a too much money at first.  And, it just might be enough to meet your EDC needs.  It does for me, but YMMV of course.

[hig789]

I just bought a Spyderco Delica 4. It replaced a Benchmade D2 Nitrous Stryker that I have carried for 3 years  and was about half the price. I would gladly forfeit the assisted opening for the Spyder hole design. If you like the Tenacious my opinion would be stick with the Spyderco buy you can't go wrong with a Benchmade either. Go with whatever feels good in your hand.

[lovenhim]

I do like my Spyderco Tenacious.   

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To add a additional $.02 of opinion............I own several different Spydercos, lower end to their more "premium" stuff. I've always had a on and off thing with Spyderco as some of their designs do nothing for me and others really intrigue me. Off all the ones I own none have that "feel" you get from a real premium quality piece. This is not to say they aren't quality because Spyderco builds some excellent knives. But of what I have owned and handled over the years I've never had one in hand that had that custom "feel" to it like some others.

Granted this is just an opinion, and "feel" is very subjective. But I'm not so sure you are going to find anything in the Spyderco line that exudes that upper tier "feel" you might be looking for......a knife that while production run has a level of custom quality about it you can see and feel.

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