Well, well, well – the newest Spyderco Product Reveal has arrived just in time for Blade Show. The new stuff, as usual, is an incredibly diverse spread of line expansions, new models, and mouth-watering Sprint Runs.
Shaman Lightweight
This might be the most tempting new model for anybody interested in a pure user knife. The popular, hard-use Shaman is inducted into the Lightweight series, with black textured FRN scales (housing a Compression Lock) and a CTS-BD1 blade. It’s almost half an ounce lighter than the standard model at 4.8 oz.
Manix 2 XL Salt
Continuing the theme of popular models jumping into new series, we have the Salt incarnation of the beefy Manix 2 XL, with MagnaCut blade and a top-to-bottom black color palette.
Chaparral Red Fatcarbon
While other models make dramatic transitions, the Chaparral is content merely to expand the number of pretty materials it is available in. To wit, this latest iteration, with a rich red/black Fatcarbon carbon fiber making it look quite dressy indeed.
Cobol
The Cobol is a knife that could only come from the mind of Paul Alexander, a designer who found the perfect collaborator in the always adventurous Spyderco. The Cobol is a large non-locking knife with a wicked-looking 3.63-inch tanto blade and an all-titanium handle construction.
Metropolitan
Also non-locking, but cut from entirely different cloth when it comes to the aesthetic, is the new Metropolitan. It has a 2.43-inch blade and a comfy handle that evokes its close relative, the UK Penknife.
Abalone Bug
Don’t forget about the Bug, the littlest knife in Spyderco’s entire lineup. The team in Golden clearly haven’t, because they bumped up both handle and blade materials, with 12C27N blade steel and real abalone inlays.
Sprint Run: Starmate
Fun fact: Bob Terzuola was the first ever outside designer to make a knife with Spyderco – and now that model, the Starmate, is returning for a brief time. It even comes with a swanky modern blade steel to celebrate: CPM-20CV.
Sprint Run: Damasteel Moran
Bill Moran is another legend getting the star treatment this Reveal, with a special version of the Moran fixed blade with its upswept blade made from Dense Twist pattern Damasteel.
SPY27 Sprint Run Family
Three of Spyderco’s quirkiest offerings are returning with the company’s proprietary stainless steel formulation, SPY27. The Meerkat, with the scale release back lock mechanism, is joined by Ed Schempp’s perfectly symmetrical Balance folder and the Dyad Jr., a twin-blade lockback with one serrated and one plain-edge blade.
Three Little Guys Get Sprinted
The MicroJimbo, a scaled-down version of the popular Michael Janich folder, will be dropping in S90V and carbon fiber scales for something that’s both dressier and tougher than the standard version; meanwhile, the Lil’ Native, in both lock back and Compression Lock flavors, gets ready for work with brown G-10 scales and CPM-15V steel.
MagnaMax Mule
Last but certainly not least, the latest Mule Team fixed blade will be made from MagnaMax, the latest steel from Larrin Thomas, metallurgist and creator of CPM-MagnaCut, the steel that has basically defined the last few years of enthusiast production knives. When this drops it will probably go quick.
Knife in Featured Image: Spyderco Cobol
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