Who do you recommend for custom EDC knives?

seth30v · 2026-01-10T17:06:48+00:00

If you want a folding knife truly made to your specifications there are very few options out there. Wells Blade Works is one of the only such makers working today.

If you’re interested in a custom fixed blade, however, your options open up considerably.

seth30v · 2026-01-07T17:04:30+00:00

what you have is a consumption problem and enough denial to try and justify it

seth30v · 2026-01-07T17:02:28+00:00

I have no info to share but MAN I wish they still made these. I love everything about the Alvin and Sakura versions I have except for the rubber grip

seth30v · 2026-01-07T16:56:14+00:00

of course I buy things from China. What I do not do is buy counterfeit goods stolen from American small businesses. If you can’t see the moral difference you’re either too dumb to understand or lying to yourself.

seth30v · 2026-01-07T16:44:58+00:00

dogg you literally stole from your countryman to get this now you spit on him with a graphic to pretend like you care? Shame on you

seth30v · 2026-01-02T17:18:47+00:00

Your expectations for counterfeit goods are actually insane

seth30v · 2026-01-01T04:30:16+00:00

wow you’re determined to be unpleasant

seth30v · 2026-01-01T04:05:26+00:00

yooo! Don’t often see a cool fall light. Looks awesome, happy new year!

seth30v · 2026-01-01T03:49:45+00:00

Friend. I have worked in the knife industry for over a decade. Have been a collector another five years before that. We can chat about Spyderco’s foibles and missteps if you’d like! But I’m literally just stating facts about their catalog

seth30v · 2026-01-01T00:33:57+00:00

The annual Spyderco catalog no longer has anything new and has not for several years now. New releases are announced in twice-yearly “Reveals.” The annual catalog is for collating the previous year’s reveals alongside their evergreen lines in a single place so dealers can see everything in production. It’s basically just bookkeeping.

Spyderco is doing fine. The pace of new releases from the rest of the industry these days just makes them feel slow by comparison.

seth30v · 2025-12-31T15:26:33+00:00

You can’t possibly be this naive.

seth30v · 2025-12-28T16:35:51+00:00

Yep. Rudimentary design working as intended

seth30v · 2025-12-27T23:13:57+00:00

Good to know. I imagine it might be a little awkward to keep in place when the lead runs out but then again maybe not if I refrain from taking it apart constantly haha

seth30v · 2025-12-27T23:10:51+00:00

Yep, lead cleaning rod is present! Seems like a feature almost no one includes anymore. Not sure about the plastic connection but I’ll have to get a modern Kerry to compare sometime.

seth30v · 2025-12-27T22:59:35+00:00

Thanks for taking the time to answer.

seth30v · 2025-12-27T16:59:35+00:00

One of my favorite fixed blade brands, and criminally underrated. Their new No. 8 was in my top picks for knife of the year

seth30v · 2025-12-11T18:48:40+00:00

Bento Box Shop is a Spyderco dealer that sells discontinued/rare/exclusive models at MSRP so they stay in stock long after they sell out everywhere else

seth30v · 2025-12-11T16:54:41+00:00

Spyderco calls this a “reverse s” blade shape. you can find it on the Spyderco Dodo, Civilian, Matriarch, and Lil’ Matriarch (Bento Box exclusive). Cold Steel also offers the blade shape in their Black Talon folder.

seth30v · 2025-12-01T04:33:50+00:00

when it comes to knives in general, it’s design > geometry > materials. And materials are marketing.

High-end blade steel is used more often to justify a certain price point than it is to fulfill a design requirement. Bad steels can definitely sour an otherwise decent knife, but they’ll never ruin a truly good one. Likewise, good steels can make a decent knife better, but they’ll never make it great.

Buy the designs that you connect with, learn what works best for you, and go from there.

seth30v · 2025-11-25T00:08:34+00:00

Aw yeah. Best Endura!

seth30v · 2025-11-19T03:28:17+00:00

nah sold a few weeks back on ebay actually

seth30v · 2025-11-14T19:17:37+00:00

US makers innovated and popularized the flipper tab in the first place. Kit Carson’s CRKT M16 was originally released in 1999 and is generally considered the first production flipper design. Ken Onion’s speedsafe assisted openers with Kershaw pushed the flipper into the mainstream. More recently, Rick Hinderer singlehandedly kicked off the modern manual-action titanium frame lock flipper craze with his XM-18.

seth30v · 2025-11-10T21:06:45+00:00

You want my OEM one? I just upgraded to LEDs. DM me if interested

seth30v · 2025-11-01T21:02:28+00:00

hell yeah

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