Spyderco Yamahide Paring Knife???

[PSU]

I just came across this auction (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330183736086) for an interesting Spyderco paring knife. Printed on the blade is Spyderco-Yamahide Seki-Japan. Unlike the conventional Spyderco paring knife with a black handle & plain blade, this one has a pink handle and a serrated blade. I don't recall ever seeing a Spydie with such a fine serration pattern. It reminds me of the serrations on cheap kitchen knives, which are a PITA to sharpen.

I have never seen or hear of this particular knife. It must have been a Japanese-only model. Does anyone have any info about this rare bird? I bet the pink fanatics are salivating at the pics :D

Here are a couple of pics from the auction...

[PSU]

and one more pic...

[Blackhair]

What the?! :confused: :eek:

[The Deacon]

Either brand spanking new addition to the lineup - or a Japanese market item. If I had to guess, I'd pick Door #2.

Edited to add: There's a Japanese company named Yamahide that sells seaweed products, perhaps it was an exclusive for them, like the Pirka was for Mont-Bell.

[Bruceter]

That's pretty cool!
I would second the notion that it is a Japanese market item.
To bad he wants so much for it, it would look cool next to some of my other colored handled kitchen knives.

Bruceter

[sal]

One of the first Spyderco paring knives. Haven't made them for many years.

sal

[Caly E]

wow what a cool knife!!!!! ;)

[jeffinsgf]

Just found this thread after finding the same knife in the back, back, back of a kitchen drawer. It was a widely sold knife by Spyderco in the late '80s.

When I first became familiar with Spyderdco, Sal had several guys on the road demonstrating the SharpMaker at fairs, home shows and The Woodworking Shows (where I also demonstrated). At the home shows and fairs some of the guys (Mike Foley, in particular) used to do amazing fruit art demonstrations using the Spyderco culinary line, and that little pink handled paring knife was one of their favorite tools.

They used to sell a three knife set with a blue handled serrated general purpose knife, the pink handled serrated paring knife and a beautifully made big Japanese style Santuoko with a purple handle, all in a wedge shaped maple knife block. I thought I'd lost the little paring knife, but it resurfaced today. The other two we've used in our kitchen daily for close to 25 years.

[Donut]

Welcome to the forums. :)

This thread is almost 3 years old and back to life.

[jeffinsgf]

Yeah, sorry about that. It sometimes annoys me on some other forums where I'm a regular, but I got excited when I found my old friend and wanted to share.

[Donut]

It's no biggie. It's just my job to tell you. :p

(I kid. :D)

[Hector Castro]

Donut,

Be nice to the new people! J/K

Jeff,

Welcome to this great forum. No big deal bringing old threads back to life here. We all do it. It is a regular practice here. We are all nostalgic about spyderco knives, especially the old ones.

J

[jackburton9807]

Then I'll chime in as well; what happened to kitchen knives? My 2 are the best kitchen knives I've had for years, they are not exactly serrated anymore, mostly just wavy.

Jeff

[jeffinsgf]

Jack,

I know what you mean. If I had known they were going to drop them, I would have bought several of the 6" serrated knife (MBS-26 -- I think). For the last ten years I've been painstakingly careful in sharpening without doing more damage to the serrations.

It's still the best serrated kitchen knife I've ever owned or used.