Simple Man
05-13-2002, 12:00 AM
I officially got bit by the Spydie bug this weekend, actually, he bit quite a while back, but he sunk his teeth to the bone Saturday.
I was running around some of the sporting goods/gun stores in the area and after the third one or so I asked if there were any other places that sold Spyderco knives in the area. The salesman told me about a small shop about 15 minutes away in another town that was strictly a knife/hatchet?!? shop. So I run over there, it is a small shop maybe 15' wide by 100' long and has a decent selection. The first case had some older, flea market/antique stuff, next had a large selection of Benchmade knives with some others scattered in, a few high end knives and then in about the last 3' of that case was the Spydercos. He had about 20 Spydies, all of them older but new-in-box. Then I started looking at the prices $20-$35 dollars. At this point I'm thinking, that the heck is this guy running here? It turns out that he has been there for quite a while and just can't make it, he is closing up shop. I ended up with:
1 AUS-8 PE FRN Endura, plastic clip
1 AUS-8 SE FRN Delica, plastic clip
1 Q, HK cutout, ? steel
Get this......for only $60 total
The ends of the boxes show different months of 1997, I assume that this is when they were born. This adds to my PS FRN Jess Horn and PE FRN Walker.
Some of the Spydies I had to leave for another included; ($20-$35 range, all in NIB condition)
-another Q HK cutout
-Almite(I think) Copilot
-SS Mariner (maybe used)
-Older Blackhawk
-Small Progrip?
-(2) Snap-its
-several others I did not recognize, looked like '97 vintage, the rest were smaller than a Delica (I end up hurting myself opening knives much smaller than that).
If anybody in interested in this shop it is in extreme Southern Illinois, e-mail me for more information.
Edited by - ROM831 on 5/13/2002 10:25:20 AM
I was running around some of the sporting goods/gun stores in the area and after the third one or so I asked if there were any other places that sold Spyderco knives in the area. The salesman told me about a small shop about 15 minutes away in another town that was strictly a knife/hatchet?!? shop. So I run over there, it is a small shop maybe 15' wide by 100' long and has a decent selection. The first case had some older, flea market/antique stuff, next had a large selection of Benchmade knives with some others scattered in, a few high end knives and then in about the last 3' of that case was the Spydercos. He had about 20 Spydies, all of them older but new-in-box. Then I started looking at the prices $20-$35 dollars. At this point I'm thinking, that the heck is this guy running here? It turns out that he has been there for quite a while and just can't make it, he is closing up shop. I ended up with:
1 AUS-8 PE FRN Endura, plastic clip
1 AUS-8 SE FRN Delica, plastic clip
1 Q, HK cutout, ? steel
Get this......for only $60 total
The ends of the boxes show different months of 1997, I assume that this is when they were born. This adds to my PS FRN Jess Horn and PE FRN Walker.
Some of the Spydies I had to leave for another included; ($20-$35 range, all in NIB condition)
-another Q HK cutout
-Almite(I think) Copilot
-SS Mariner (maybe used)
-Older Blackhawk
-Small Progrip?
-(2) Snap-its
-several others I did not recognize, looked like '97 vintage, the rest were smaller than a Delica (I end up hurting myself opening knives much smaller than that).
If anybody in interested in this shop it is in extreme Southern Illinois, e-mail me for more information.
Edited by - ROM831 on 5/13/2002 10:25:20 AM