Votes for the best looking spydie produced

[Mancer]

What do you guys reckon is the most luverly looking Spyderco produced to date?



My vote goes for the Civilian, as ugly/wicked as she looks, shes a real beut.



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[Tom Percy]

Of all the Spydies that I've seen, I still like the looks of the Calypso, with the Chinese Folder a close 2nd.

[CalypsoKid]

My vote is for the Harpy in SS. This knife has the same hawkbill blade wickedness look as the Civilian/Matriarch but a better balanced appearance, IMHO, and looks are the thing we are voting about right?

~CK

[CalypsoKid]

Make that 2 votes for the Harpy in SS, a fine looking blade.

~CK

[chinook]

The Viele is slender, sleek, smooth and sensual. It feels as good in the dark as it looks in the light. A true beauty.


Disguised as a responsible adult

[Philip357]

Shabaria (plain) !

[gadfly]

The Starmate gets my vote as the prettiest Spyderco knife.

While the G-10 handle material may not be able to compete with some more colorful or highly buffed materials, the lines of the blade and overall knife more than make up that minor shortcoming.

Further, the G-10's strength and lightness and to the functional design of the knife.

I will agree that while niether the Civilian nor the Spyderench look good they have beauty of their own.


One way or the other, you pay for your tools!

[charlie]

1st - Bob Lum Chinese Folder
2nd - Bob Terzuola Starmate
3rd - Howard Viele C42
In my opinion the most beautiful Spyderco knives in the order above and I am pleased to own one of each.

[J D Wijbenga]

My vote goes to the ss Police it is, to me, a classical beauty with lots of carracter! Especialy in plain edge format. Modern art at its finest.

[Tightwad]

Oh buddy!! THE sleekest, smoothest most elegant knife by far is the large micarta plain blade calypso.
Without climbing back on my soapbox this knife has it all for elegance. The next would be the chinese
followed by the SS police and then the military. Oddly enough these four represent four very diverse
design goals with all four being a success for their intended purpose.

[PsychGrad]

My vote goes for the almite slotted navigator. I love this little knife.

Clay

[yog]

Although the PE-SS-Delica is damn fine looking blade and will be my EDC for some time to come (mainly for size), I would have to say that the PE-SS-Police has just a touch more class.

[toothed]

Whoa, wait a minute! To properly conduct a beauty contest certain categories must first be setup. For example, &quot;Sexiest,&quot; &quot;Most Elegant,&quot; &quot;Most Ruggedly Handsome,&quot; etc. Also, shouldn't there be size classes? (i.e., large, medium, small, and tiny. <img src="wink.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle>

[chambers]

bob lum followed by the viele

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[vampyrewolf]

While, if we are giving character to them
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Sexiest: Civ(CF)
Best Fit: full sized Wegner
Rugged: Chinook
Sleek: Calypso(micarta)
Dressiest: Dragonfly(SS)
Cutest: Mouse

We all start with 10 fingers. Those with Spydies have 9 to spare, Still need a thumb. Good thing I still have 8 to spare...

[Shmackey]

1: Lum Chinese

2: Blue Delica. It's a sleeper. Check it out.

[Clay Kesting]

I think it's only fair to have separate catagories for custom collaborations and in-house designs:

Collabotarions: Close between the Viele and the Lum Chinese Folder with the Lum winning by a whisker.

In-house: I would have said the micarta Calypso Jr until a week ago when I got my carbon fibre Dragonfly, but the latter now gets my vote. The Dragonfly design is extremely elegant and the CF is just the finishing touch needed to make it exceptional.

Clay

Don't worry that the world might end tomorrow, in Australia it's tomorrow already.

[gabo]

Native
Starmate

[ftkinney]

my vote for beutifully designed would be the bob lum chineese folder with the bob lum tanto titinum and a titium wegner bieng my seconds but i have never seen the autum folder in person but on the screen it looks very beutifully designed.

FTK

[tina b]

I don't own one, but I think the calypso Jr. is a very nice looking knife. But my number one vote goes to my cricket, for not looking like all the other knives I see. <img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle>

[Sword and Shield]

Chinook. I ask a lot of knives, and I always want a knife that will march through the gates of Hell and back, while looking good throughout.

There's just something about the overall knife I really like. I can't say what exactly it is, but the whole knife just screams &quot;Big, sharp, tough!&quot;

However, I did have a question about CPM S60V steel. I know that 3V is a high carbon steel that rusts fairly quick, but how does S60V stack up? Is it as good as ATS-55, or will it require more care?

Keepin' it real...real sharp, that is.

[The Stare]

For outright design elegance, I'd have to choose the Lum Chinese.

But, speaking of inlaid models, either Knife Outlet or Knife Center has a Delica done by Santa Fe Stoneworks that will knock your eyes out. The inlay is MOP, part of it in a spider web configuration. There is also a silver spider emplem inlaid. Gorgeous!

That Wegner titanium Dennis was posting about looked awfully fine to me also.

Stare

[SharpeML]

I love my Aluminum Cricket. <img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle>
But Lum Chinese is a close second! <img src="wink.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle>

Malcolm

[dePaul]

1. C27P Jess Horn
2. &quot;R&quot;

[col132]

Native II

[lsstaipei]

In-house designs:Calypso
Collaborations:Wegner

[Zoro]

Large Caylpso A true Classic..very sleek.

[stu]

I like the titanium-handled Bob Lum tanto followed closely by the Mouse and the SS PE Police.

[Jazzman]

Until two days ago I would have probably said the Toad. Now it is the Wegner mouse. I tied a Reeve style lanyard for a better grip. Awesome knife.
Matt

[Alan2112]

The Calypso Jr., that's the main reason I got one. The old Jesse Horn model with the bone handles, the prettiest yet. RKBA!

[sam the man..]

Production - Endura and Military
Custom Collaboration - Bill Moran's FB1 And FB2

Sam

have spydies will travel

[V-1]

Without a doubt the Calypso Jr (micarta or lgwt). Open or closed it has the nicest lines of any Spydie, heck any production knife in my book. A true classic design. If a person is going to go through life w/ only one pocket knife this would be my suggestion.

[Tightwad]

Sal, with all the postive post in this thread about the calypso line ,along with other positive comments
in other posts lately, consider a sprint run of the large &amp; small calypso in ivory , burgandy, yellow or
blue micarta handles. All would really be beautiful to behold (and own). Oh my!! Such elegance...

[Joe Talmadge]

The no-longer-produced high-end Walker (what was that, like $350?) was definitely the best looking spyderco I've ever seen. It had Walker's typical well-done and balanced design style, married to good-looking materials. Beyond that, the knife I really like is the Viele. Viele has developed a nice little style, and it translated wonderfully into the Spyderco collaboration. Viele has a more recent collaboration, I think with CRKT, that I feel doesn't succeed anywhere near as well, aesthetically.

For me, the in-house designs are incredibly well-designed knives from a performance perspective, and in fact my favorite knives from Spyderco are all in-house designs. But aesthetically, they lack the lines and flow of many of the collaborations. Best looking in-house would be the Calypso for me, which actually does approach the sleeker custom styles.