Cricket Pics!

[UK KEN]

Hello again!

Some photos of my crickets! Hope you like 'em. ;)

Ken

[Hannibal Lecter]

Quite an extensive collection of those handy little knives; all beautiful and quite functional.

My Cricket SS PE normally rides just inside my waistband as an EDC for utilitarian tasks; it has been one of the handiest knives I have added to my collection.

I especially like your laser-engraved one.

[spyderknut]

A most excellent collection!

[Damage1978]

Ken, Nice Collection.

Dan

[UK KEN]

Ken, Nice Collection.

Dan

Dan

Thank you and welcome to the Spydie family! It's good to see more "local people" here! ;)

Ken

[Damage1978]

Thank you and welcome to the Spydie family! It's good to see more "local people" here! ;)


Your welcome, I only just got my first 2 :spyder: 's recently and loved them both (PE Para-Military & Native III FRN, also have penknife on order) so had to visit here and learn more about them.

Dan

[antoine]

Waou ! Is it a G10 Cricket ?

Antoine

[antoine]

oups, sorry, I think that it's a light effect on a SS Cricket !!!

Antoine

[UK KEN]

Waou ! Is it a G10 Cricket ?

Antoine


First photo: From top to bottom, Carbon Fibre PE made and tuned by a forumite! SE Pink FRN. SE Tufram Aluminium. PE Black FRN. SE Spider engraved. SE Carbon Fibre. PE Jet and MOP. Left side PE SS. Right side PE Tufram Aluninium.

Ken :D

[Senate]

Cickets are the best of the little ones! My almite SE is my most carried spydie, +10 years :)

Ken, the ying yang comes from Al ?

[i.v]

cricket's are my favorite too :)
for now i only have 3 spydies (delica, native s30v & cricket) & the cricket is definately the one i carry most
great collection by the way!

[UK KEN]

Cickets are the best of the little ones! My tufram SE is my most carried spydie, +10 years :)

Ken, the ying yang comes from Al ?


Yes, indeed! That one has come down from North of the Border! As Alan said there are more available in Japanese stores and on eBay. They are my favourite of the smaller knives and there aren't many jobs that they can't cope with.

i.v

An excellent EDC, they are so light and people friendly!

Ken

[recoil]

I have an original Sante-Fe Yin-Yang Cricket from when they were made & sold by Spyderco (pictured)

Does anyone know when the design change came about or if the Japanese sold version is even made by SF? The newer ones seem very different.

Dave

[rycen]

Actually aren't the "Tuffram" Crickets actually Alimite?

[Jimmy_Dean]

got a lot of goodies there!
I love the cricket too and I'm green with envy
-Dean

[Ted]

Nice set! I assume you have the missing SE FRN on order? :D :p :)

Ted

[UK KEN]

Actually aren't the "Tuffram" Crickets actually Alimite?

I thought that it was the same thing :confused:

Ken

[UK KEN]

Nice set! I assume you have the missing SE FRN on order? :D :p :)

Ted

BEHAVE! :p ;) :)

[Senate]

I edited my post, it's Almite cricket! :)

After a little google search it looks like Tufram and Almite are the same thing, with the big difference that TUFRAM® is a proprietary process :)

[fret]

Cricket heaven. I like the ying yang the best and then the pink one. I think I'll do a ying yang with my FRN Cricket? Maybe pink and powder blue? Really a nice collection. (I really like them all.)

[Rob]

Ken, I am stunned again! What a nice collection!


PE Jet and MOP

Errr... it might sound a bit dumb, but what is "Jet"??? I know MOP, but never heard of Jet :confused:

Cheers, Rob

[The Deacon]

Actually aren't the "Tuffram" Crickets actually Alimite?
Ryan, nothing with Spyderco nomenclature ever seems to be easy, believe it or not, according to the '94 catalog, they're "anodized aluminum". :eek:

Ken, very good taste as always, nice collection of Crickets!

[rycen]

I think tuffram is on the civilians,police,worker,and copilot.Alimite was on the cricket and mouse.I think tuffram is more od greenish and alimite is more matte grey. edit relating to Paul's post:Where did alimite come from then? Also I really have to take a more close look at the Spyderco Story.

[Rob]

I think tuffram is more od greenish and alimite is more matte grey.

To contribute a bit to the confusion... :rolleyes: I have a Tuffram Worker which has a dark grey handle and I've seen a Tuffram Police in person which had a light grey handle. Not to forget the Almite Navigator with it's blueish or greenish handle. It seems that you can't tell the difference just from the colour and if my memory serves me right, the surface of the Almite coated handles was almost the same as on the Tuffram coated ones.

:confused:

Cheers, Rob

[rycen]

To add even a little more confusion everything that I have that is "tuffram" feel like a thick coating and is smooth but not necessarily glossy. All of my alimite is a matte finish and doesn't really feel like anything is there more of just a color than a coating. I also have a navigator which is different frlom the other two. Who knows? :confused:

[Senate]

Like I said I think Almite and Tufram are the same thing, coating of polymer on Aluminium to provide hardness, wear and corrosion resistance.
see HERE (http://www.magnaplate.com/coatings/tufram.html)

and you can give it the colour you want...
Blue and Green LUM, White Mouse, Black Ayoob, Grey Herbst are all Almite but different colour :)

[UK KEN]

:eek: Well, that's cleared that up then! :eek:

:D Each visit to this site is a learning experience :D

Ken

First line of text........Red FRN :D

Second line of text....Grey Almite/Tuffram/Anodized :D

[UK KEN]

Ken, I am stunned again! What a nice collection!



Errr... it might sound a bit dumb, but what is "Jet"??? I know MOP, but never heard of Jet :confused:

Cheers, Rob

Rob

Here is all you will ever need to know about Jet :D

Jet is a semi-precious stone which, when polished, takes on an intense waxy lustre of the deepest opaque black - hence the use of the term 'jet-black'` in literature since the eleventh century. The rich black colour never fades, and the shine which can be achieved is such that polished jet was even used as mirrors in medieval times.

Jet comprises an unusually pure and hard form of fossilised wood - more specifically an ancient and relatively abundant species of monkey puzzle tree - which occurs as thin lens-shaped seams within a series of shale rocks (known as the upper lias) which were laid down in the early Jurassic era some 175-185 million years ago. After these ancient trees had died and fallen, they would in times of heavy rain and flood often be swept into swollen rivers. On their way downstream they would be tumbled and battered, with many of the trees being broken up and/or stripped of their branches.


Upon their eventual arrival at the sea, the by now water-logged timbers would rapidly sink into the black mud of the sea floor, where they would over subsequent millennia be overlaid with sediments comprised of sand, mud, and organic remains. It was the accumulated weight of both this sediment and the water overlying it which exerted the great pressure which, over millions of years and in chemically-complex conditions, resulted in the flattening and compressing of the wood into jet. It is at this point that a distinction needs to be drawn between 'hard' jet and 'soft' jet; the former being formed in saline and anaerobic conditions, and the latter being formed in more freshwater and aerobic conditions. Only 'hard' jet proper is suitable for working into jewellery and ornaments, and such finest quality jet occurs only in one specific and particularly tough and compacted layer of the upper lias shales known as jet-rock.

The ancient lias sea offered precisely the right conditions for the formation of jet, the area of this sea' today corresponds with the area of land encompassed by the North York Moors National Park. Jet not only occurs beneath much of the Park landscape itself, but - more importantly and accessibly - is also exposed in the cliffs lying to the north-west and south-east of the historic fishing town of Whitby in North Yorkshire. The jet can be found ex situ as small fractured and water-worn pieces, on beaches and trapped amongst foreshore rocks, or less frequently in situ as thin seams within the cliffs themselves. Also preserved in the Upper Lias shales are the fossilised remains of extinct sea-creatures such as ammonites and belemnites, which, if in close enough proximity, can leave attractive impressions on the underside of the jet itself.

Regards Ken

[i.v]

oh my, that is informative :D

[UK KEN]

oh my, that is informative :D

Thanks, Whitby is only an hour away from me. I have spend many hours on the beach looking for jet and fossils.

Ken :D

[Rob]

Here is all you will ever need to know about Jet :D

Thanks for your precise answer! After reading your description I now know how this stone is called in German! My dictionary didn't come up with anything useful :(

I didn't know that this stuff is used for knife handles aswell. I only knew it from jewelry. I learn something new every day :)

Cheers, Rob

[Shiden]

Nice collection! How many spydies do you have in total?

Shiden

[UK KEN]

Nice collection! How many spydies do you have in total?

Shiden

Shiden

202! :D I have at least one of each folder model (with the exception of 4) :mad: and quite a few variations of the earlier models and knives I particularly like.

Ken

[Mr Blonde]

nice pics as usual ken!

202 pieces? Wow, you must have quite the insurance deal! I could spend a whole week admiring such a collection! :D

Wouter

[UK KEN]

Wouter

Any time you are over here call in for a chat!

Ken :)

[Senate]

What are the 4 missing?

[UK KEN]

What are the 4 missing?

This is almost too painful.......25th Aniverssary Delica.......Walker CF.........Laguoile......and the Jess Horn Bone handle. Could use a "crying" icon right now!

Ken :(

[Shiden]

202! :D

That's quite a lot ;)

Shiden

[Senate]

This is almost too painful.......25th Aniverssary Delica.......Walker CF.........Laguoile......and the Jess Horn Bone handle. Could use a "crying" icon right now!

Ken :(

Well I can see why they're missing :)

[UK KEN]

Well I can see why they're missing :)


I always try to buy at what I consider to be fair/reasonable prices. The knives do appear on eBay now and then but I am always outbid as they sell for more that my budget can stretch to. :( The last 25th Delica going for $500!

If my funds were unlimited then I would be in a position to complete my collection.......but where's the fun in that? I am also aware that the longer I wait the higher price I will eventually have to pay, they are increasing in value at an alarming rate! :eek:

Please don’t get the idea that I’m not satisfied, I am very happy with my collection it would just be good to fill in the missing pieces.

The search continues ;)

KEN