Hi, I'm Eric Lester with Spyderco, I'm gonna go over some of the new knives that we're
revealing here at Shot Show.
Most of these knives will be coming out over the next couple of months and I'm excited
to bring them to you.
The first thing I'm gonna start with are a lot of products that we were showing last
year.
These might have come out in the mid-year that we were starting to advertise, but haven't
yet quite delivered, but they are soon on the horizon.
I have about a dozen knives here and we'll start to roll through it.
The first one is a Dmitry Sinkevich, it's called the Drunken.
This one we've kind of shown for about 6 months now, beautiful design, holds very well, this
comes in S90V, it comes with a beautiful grind that leaves a little bit of thickness here
at the top.
Has a nice custom hardware, 3D carbon fiber, it's got an excellent pattern on here that
kind of weaves through there.
Dmitry calls it his "Drunken pattern" and it's on both sides, so it has a nice 3D machining
with a beautiful pattern, customized clip, customized backspacer.
When you look on the inside, we even machined a web, it's got a stainless interface, it's
also an over-travel stop, so you're not gonna over bend your lock.
It's got ball bearings, so it's just absolutely beautiful in its action.
It's very thin in its carry, but with also a nice stock size for the blade.
In its carry and balance and beauty and manufacturing, it's a pleasure to get to work with Dmitry
on the Drunken.
And so, this is the Drunken, by Dmitry Sinkevich.
The next one, I'm just going all out beautiful here, this is a Peter Rassent, it's called
the Paysan.
It's got also custom hardware, it's got a nice thick stock S90V blade, again like the
Drunken, a beautiful piece.
It's got a tapered solid titanium handle, tapers down a little bit, and it's also three
dimensional machined.
Very unique lanyard at the back, It's got a stainless interface here for the titanium,
also a overtravel stop, so you're not gonna overbend it.
Again, it's got ball bearings, our phosphor bronze bearing system, just gonna give you
tremendous action, it's just a beauty to work with.
But in pure quality and design, we're excited to work with Peter Rassenti on it, he did
a fantastic job with this knife.
So this should be coming to the market soon.
One that we're getting ready to ship this week, this is designed by Kevin Smock, it's
called the Smock.
This comes with a compression lock, that's where that metal goes between the stop pin
and the blade.
But on this compression lock, it's a button release.
It's a nice addition to the compression lock, it also has a phosphor bronze ball bearing
system, has a nice front flipper here, so you don't have to have a big beak or something
sticking out of the knife, it just goes in and out of the pocket very nicely.
And, for that flipper, it just works magnificently.
It's got a nice strong tip, nice grind here, also the hole is accessible on both sides,
it's also reversibly clipped.
You know, it comes with G10 peel ply carbon fiber laminate, open construction.
This is a gorgeous knife to work with, and we're excited to work with Kevin on this one.
This should be shipping this week.
Now we're gonna get into some fixed blades, the first one I'm gonna show is designed by
Phil Wilson.
Phil Wilson's been making knives a long time, it's a beautiful knife.
When you think of a Phil Wilson, oftentimes you think it fits the hand well, it's perfectly
balanced, it has those nice full tangs, the bevel grinds are nice.
One of the things I love doing with a Phil Wilson knife is just feeling those thicknesses,
usually has a very thin edge, it's nice in its construction with nice lanyard here in
the back.
It's got a great heat treat, and so this is a knife that's a value coming in from overseas,
it's gonna MSRP for, I believe, about $65-70.
The quality is just gorgeous, and so, when you buy this, you're gonna feel like you're
getting a Phil Wilson, it's gonna cut like a Phil Wilson, but it's gonna be at an amazing
price.
Getting the option to carry a Phil Wilson at this price is something we're excited about.
The next one is designed by a forumite, a junky, a collector we've been working with
named Lance Clinton.
This is a knife that he developed...
Lance Clinton does professional fishing.
He's very good in his art, he goes out on a kayak and catches big fishes.
It's an amazing job that he does.
But through all of his artistry and his professionalism, he developed this knife for filleting, for
everyday use, for a do-all for the activities that he's looking for.
And it really is, it is a beautiful carry fixed blade.
It's got a full tang, again like a Phil Wilson, just gorgeously balanced.
It's got a 3D G10 here, and it's got some texture, you're not gonna be sliding around
on this.
it's got a great guard on the front, you're not gonna slide down on it.
It's got a full flat, comes with LC200N, it's extremely rust resistant steel, and you'll
see this is hardware-free, this isn't bolted together.
It's got blind pins on the inside, and then we adhered and fastened everything together,
so this handle's not gonna come off, it's permanently put on there, and it's all just
one beautiful gorgeous piece.
I have a sheath for this too, I like to show the sheath because this is a full lower Boltaron,
so it's a nice fold-over, it's gonna keep it nice and slim in the pocket.
It's got that G-clip you can fasten it all over the place for different types of carries.
When it drops in, nice and snug, it's not rattling around, it's protecting the edge,
good thumb push-off.
The sheath is also a very important part of this design, as with all fixed blades, and
we're proud to make this combination; this is in the U.S. facility, working with Lance
Clinton.
The next one I'm gonna show are a couple bowies.
A lot of these knives I was showing last year, but I like to continue to talk about them
because they're so pretty, but I have two bowies here, one is designed by Jim Ankerson
and Darrin Sanders, the other is an in-house design.
This one is called the Providence, this one's called the Respect, both gorgeous, both bowies,
but much different.
For one, the thicknesses, this comes with a heavy stock of material.
It's CPM-154, 7mm thick, got that full flat grind, that nice guard, 3D G10 handle, all
bolted together, nice hidden tang, nice hook at the back, the Respect is gonna bring a
lot to the table.
Also comes with a leather sheath, slides in, little strap that goes over it; so the sheath
is a beautiful sheath, I don't have one on me to show you, but the Respect is a USA-made
bowie, very proud that we're coming out with this one, and then the Ankerson, this one's
a thinner stock.
You're gonna see it's got that 4mm thick.
This is CPM M4, where this is CPM-154, so they're gonna cut differently, they're gonna
react differently.
You can with typically a little bit thinner knife and get a lot of toughness with this
CPM M4.
So, again, it's got a nice tall grind, it's thin, it's got a great tip, both of these
have great tips, it's got a nice flat top so you can get all over the top for different
holding, three-dimensional handle, bolt-together construction, a high polish, so it just feels
beautiful in the hand.
Hook in the back, lanyard, you know, this knife, for hours of use; both of these, just
beautiful pieces to carry and use.
So, fixed blade bowies, totally excited about those.
This is designed by a man named Paul Alexander, we call it the Parata.
This comes with a stop lock, so the stop pin is here, and as you open it, the lock rotates,
and then snaps into place.
Tremendously strong, so when you're using it, you'd have to break out the pin and everything
to break this lock, so gives you a lot of strength.
The other thing is it's open at all during use.
You've gotta lift the bar in order to unlock it.
So during use, you'll be able to crawl all over this knife, it's gonna do great, it's
got a nice tall bevel, there, it's got a lot of blade for handle reach.
When you pop it into your pocket with the wire clip, it's got a nice profile, so that
you're not scratching up your pocket, nice and thin, open construction.
You know, this is a new knife, nothing's ever been done quite like it, and so we're excited
for it, nice big belly, nice guards so you're not gonna slide on it, so, Paul Alexander
created a neat design here.
So these are all things we haven't yet delivered, but we started to show last year, and that's
one of the reasons we have the the new reveal program.
So now we have four items I'm gonna show you, these are all being revealed early this year,
and then all these are planned to deliver soon.
The first one is a wharncliffe Endura 4.
People know the Endura, I like to always talk about it, it's got the bidirectional texturing,
it's got the 4-way clip, it's got screw-together construction, it's got a sturdy back lock
with a great reputation, great self-close, snaps into place.
The Endura, the Delica, this family of knives are a great testament in time of performance.
They stand the test of time.
And so this one comes with a wharncliffe blade, one of the things you get with our wharncliffe,
we take a lot of pride in it, is that is a perfectly flat edge, and the edge angles are
perfect.
Nice crisp tip, you know, we want this flat, we want the edge angles perfect, we want that
tip crisp, and that's what makes a quality wharncliffe.
So, you know when it comes to this nice full-flat, tapered blade, and that perfect edge, we're
very proud of our wharncliffe.
This is the Endura 4 Wharncliffe, come in plain and serrated.
Then we have a new value folder, It's not new, it's the Efficient, but it's a variation
of another knife, except for it's in all black.
I know a lot of people have seen the Efficient, I like to continue to talk about it though,
cause it's a great knife.
It has a left hand or right hand open option, it has a clip that's reversible, when it's
in your pocket, the profile's just slim, it's got full liners.
It's got a backspacer here, so it's not the open construction, but it's gonna give you
weight and something for your palm there.
Some people like that little bit extra.
So if you're really using the knife, it gives you some nice weight to it.
It's got that full flat grind, that double distal taper, beautiful jimping, that liner
that locks up perfect.
Though it's a value folder, in a world of value folders we think it's one of the best
out there.
It's the Efficient, this will be coming out in black, 50/50, which is the serrated/plain
edge combo, various different combinations, but if you're looking for a good everyday
carry value folder, the Efficient is about as efficient as you can get.
The next ones, this one is a lightweight Para 3, this one's coming out of the U.S. facility.
We took a nice design of ours that's getting a good reputation for performance, the Para
3, and turned it into a nice lightweight package, reduced the cost a little bit.
We added a BD1N blade, it's got a compression lock, just like the classic, it's got a deep
pocket wire clip, bidirectional texturing, open back construction.
This is just a lightweight everyday carry piece made here in the U.S.
As some quick side notes, the detent on this: beautiful.
You know, you start getting into the world of ball detents, this has a little bit of
self-close, works great for the opening and closing, carrying in the pocket, then when
you open it, you hear that click.
That nice, secure lock.
This is what you want in a lightweight, it feels confident when you're using it, and
you should be confident.
It's gonna perform for you.
So this is the lightweight Para 3, excited to bring that to the market.
And then we have another design by Paul Alexander, this is called the Ikuchi, a lot like the
Smock, this uses a front-flipper type mechanism, you don't have something big protruding out
of your pocket when you're going in and out, you know, you don't have that beak or kicker,
and so it's rotated up towards the front, this uses a little bit of jimping, and you
can rotate it, see, I'm just kind of rotating it, or you could rotate it with your thumb,
and when you let it go it just shoots right out.
This also uses a compression lock, the compression lock works great for flippers, nice open construction,
phospher bronze ball bearing system, deep pocket clip, G10 peel-ply carbon fiber, it's
a new beauty in design, we're excited to work with Paul on this one, this one's called the
Ikuchi.
Now all of the knives I've reviewed should be hitting the market fairly soon, that's
why we're doing this new reveal program, you shouldn't have to wait too long.
And we're gonna be adding a new sharpener to our line, we do make some of the best sharpeners
out there, like the Sharpmaker or the 204MF, still classic, not going away, if it's not
one of the best it's certainly up there.
But this is going to be a little bit simpler, more of a countertop sharpener, it's gonna
come with these, what we call "cat's eye" ceramic stones, they're gonna have a tighter
radius for doing tight teeth, more like on a kitchen knife, or the smaller serrations,
even though it'll still do a bigger serration, it still has that tight radius to get in and
out of each tooth.
This is gonna do a kitchen knife very well, so with this sharpener you're gonna have a
nice guard here, if you're new to sharpening, you can feel nice and secure with this guard,
it's gonna give you a good feeling, and just like our regular sharpener you go from heel
to tip, all the way down it, tremendously easy to use, high quality ceramic stones,
it's a good quality piece.
And then, you can also get some CBN stones that go with it if you really need to hog
out a lot of material, these cut quick, they can hog it out.
And then when you are done, if you do want, you can still slide these stones away so it's
a smaller package.
Though it's not intended to be a field sharpener as much as our Sharpmaker, it's a addition
to a countertop, gives you a little more length of the stones for a bigger blade.
It's just a new addition to our sharpening line, that already seems to be a pretty good
line.
And so, I hope the Gauntlet finds a way for you.
Thank you very much for checking out some of our product, we're excited about it, and
I hope you are too.